Notices by Super Genius Stuff (mdm@mcnamarii.town), page 9

@kepstin @nolan Plus, since it's the cloud, any thrashing is happening to _their_ hardware, not yours. 😆

That could be a oversimplification about how it works, but I like to think of it that way.

@Elizafox What does enbymisia mean? I googled it, I looked it up on urbandictionary, I looked it up on wikipedia, nothing. I am flabberghasted that this is a word that even Google can't explain for me, and am thus curious as hell.

Watching one of my favorite underrated SF movies: Elysium. It's got all the things a lover of dystopic SF could ask for in a work of fiction:

▪️ Hacked-together technology being used by a rebellion
▪️ Human exoskeletons
▪️ Smart bullets
▪️ AI guard droids
▪️ Personal EM defense shields
▪️ Direct-brain information transfer
▪️ Orbital space colonies inhabited by an elite class of ageless capitalists
▪️ A very long Matt Damon cameo

@srol As much as it makes total sense, it's still so weird having one's body just "move" on its own, not because it needs to, but just because it's used to doing so.

@srol Weird... It's that whole muscle-memory thing. Same thing happened to me when I uninstalled Facebook.

@nolan Hey -- people who learn visually love videos. :) It's not for me (it frustrates me when I'm trying to research some bit of code and the tutorial or solution is in video form), but I'm not a snob about their existence.

If it can help someone learn, I'm glad that video is now an option for people.

@nolan I had to laugh at the part about the sunglasses manufacturer who, because of all the unpaid advertising, was dealing with unwanted "low quality advertising."

Like you said, advertising on Instagram is now so cheap and ubiquitous that it's not only worthless -- it actually could be hurting your brand!

@nolan I'm fine with people being okay with selling out. (You gotta eat.) I am somehow not fine with a future where people want to _look_ like they're selling out, even if they're not.

@prophet_goddess @nightpool @er1n That's because they really, really don't want you to actually use this.

This way, they can just say "the AI hasn't learned your preferences yet" instead of the more obvious "the AI would REALLY like you to use the ranked feed, because this is how we make money"

@nolan @anthracite

omg
wtf
bbq

What the hell are they teaching kids in CS classes these days?

@staticsafe Feels good -- doesn't it? It's like spring cleaning.

@nolan This is why, on my iPhone, I went into Safari settings and toggled "javascript" to "off." News sites load FAST. :p

Anything that doesn't load, I don't visit. Honestly, 95% of sites work all right; usually just a few images don't seem to load, but that's it.

@srol Yeah; in the US you have to cross the equivalent of four separate State governments in that time -- might as well not bother. Lot easier to build this kind of thing in the boundaries of one government.

@MJBlacke Your mom knows Youtube, Skype, etc, are all "in the cloud," right? 😆

I wouldn't even mention "the cloud." Just use the term "websites."

Windows 10 is basically becoming a cloud OS these days, so there's no getting away from it, unless you want to let you mom use a full linux desktop.

And please, please, please, don't let your mom use a linux desktop.

@MJBlacke It should be. All Chromebooks have full USB flash drive support. Though, on your Mom's current computer, I'd recommend getting her photos in the cloud using Google Photos -- that way her existing photos would be available already on her Chromebook.

@MJBlacke Oh yeah -- without getting too into the technical details about how it works, but virus and security issues aren't really a thing in the Chromebook world. They simply don't happen.

You'll find a lot of "tech folks" who will poopoo the idea of a Chromebook, but that's because they're made for regular folks like your mom, and school kids.

@MJBlacke A Chromebook is just a laptop that runs nothing but a browser (Chrome, in this case). If your mom can already do things in a web browser, then a Chromebook is easy.

Plus, no viruses or security issues to ever worry about.

And because they're not running Windows, you can usually get one, much, much cheaper.

@MJBlacke If it won't be used for anything other than youtube, email, skype, and chess, try a Chromebook! You can even get ones that use Android apps now, including Skype.

@ghost_bird @theoutrider Around the same time, the afterlife presented in Sartre's _No Exit_ always seemed very bureaucratic to me. I wonder if one influenced the other slightly?