Notices by @kmicu@mastodon.social (kmicu@mastodon.social), page 20

@mulander [jokin’] I have: add ‘127.0.0.1 reddit.com’ and ‘127.0.0.1 hackernews.com’ to /etc/hosts. Works like a charm 🤭

@technomancy wait a minute, corporations as AIs…

“I used to find it odd that these hypothetical AIs were supposed to be smart enough to solve problems that no human could, yet they were incapable of doing something most every adult has done: taking a step back and asking whether their current course of action is really a good idea. Then I realized that we are already surrounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lack of insight, we just call them corporations.”

― https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

@thufir @pho4cexa same here. Though I have minimal requirements and I really enjoyed purging Google from my phone (and life).

I also recommend following:

Install a ‘recovery image’ for your phone (e.g. https://twrp.me/Devices/) and create a NANDroid backup (with a copy on an external drive). Play with whatever ROM you like. If you do not like it, go back and restore your backup.

That way you can safely experiment and at any time go back to the latest working system.

@arunisaac I use a hook to automatically apply ‘eww-readable’ function.

(add-hook 'eww-after-render-hook #'eww-readable)

I prefer this turned on by default. Maybe it could help.

@arunisaac you can wait, nothing game changing in there. Only small incremental improvements.

@arunisaac I recommend a version from the latest (pretest) Emacs; Lars still actively pushes improvements to Eww
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-26.0.90.tar.xz

@arunisaac I have had in mind those mentioned by you. (I use Eww 99% of the time.)

@mkwadee “We, in Western culture, are so clean and dandy. Those pesky third world countries are so poor and dirty. Ah yes, BTW, we send our garbage to them.” 🤦