To pull up 2017 posts where things have dramatically changed since then.

It’s not really fair to post this while the Russian datacenter is down.

Man, I do miss Thai Orchid from that neighborhood.

I haven’t found Thai nearly as good anywhere in the Midwest.

Schools are more secure than airports. It’s not just theatre.

She got away with a lot because people did recognize that she belonged there and she was unarmed. And she still got lucky.

Someone’s telling you tales, kid.

Who feeds you this bullshit?

It’s not terrible. I would do the same as you before reading this post, and maybe I would after. I do think they have a point, though.

Mostly I’d watch it to see if it’s being used or not.

Maybe Jellyfin could come out with an option to make things semi-anonymous. You’d be able to just click it off, but it wouldn’t show you details unless you explicitly asked for them.

On the other hand, I’m very aware that if I were to use someone’s Plex that their “payment” would be the satisfaction of seeing their service used. I wouldn’t mind the stats they collect, but the fact that they collect them would be at the forefront of my mind.

They also didn’t tell the hospital when they brought her in.

You’ll profit early though. Usually people don’t leave when they see high prices. They just pay it once and are much more reluctant to ever return.

Isn’t that why people stopped using archive.is and co?

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You let people record, generally. At least for the hostile interaction part.

Her response wasn’t perfect, but it was pretty decent for being on the spot. Easy to pick on things with hindsight.

That’s a fair point. It might not be the device I carry 24/7, but it sure would be nice to use as a display panel in my house.

I should look for alternative software that will let me just display a webpage.

Phones just recently got better about this. They’re all 7+ years now, which is enough specifically for phones. Maybe not for other things.

“Porn” is not a slur. You should be able to tell the difference.

Either way it’s important to convey that this article is old and it didn’t happen a second time.

This makes it sound current.

It’d start out as more jokes, of course. And then over time you’d have to wonder more and more whether any particular joke was serious.

1995-2005 was all about Chatrooms (AOL, IRC, AIM) and early social media. 2015-2026 is all about Chatrooms and social media being taken over by corporate interests, state actors, and political public opinion manipulation all posing as the AOL, IRC, AIM era.

And names. How many years before we start having Betty, Wilma, Frances, and Edith again?

… I think you misread.