Onno (VK6FLAB)

Incidents like this are a perfect excuse for the bean counters and marketing experts to chime in and recommend that the firmware be updated specifically to block third party ink or toner.

There’s no downside, the world is already trash talking your company, even if you didn’t do anything wrong, but while it’s happening, you get to sell a shitload more ink and toner.

Now you can consider yourself an “Award Winning Author”.

For the lack multiple upvotes, here’s a “silver” coin.

Might have to consider some Oscar generic awards ceremony worthy credits before long, mind you, finding the name of the obstetrician who birthed me is going to be a challenge.

I also noticed a distinct lack of family genealogy in your signature, if it wasn’t for our primordial ooze ancestors, neither of us would be here today.

This is going to require “some” research.

Hmm … I wonder if embedded YouTube iframes work … purely for bandwidth testing purposes of course.

I just discovered another missing attribute from my signature:

Hi mom!

So … adding a pronoun to every single email on the planet kills one person?

Can we nominate that person … there’s a few that come to mind.

On a more serious note, the article is crapping on about pronouns and land acknowledgements as if they’re what’s killing people.

Here’s a thought, what about AI, or what about the biggest carbon emitting companies, 57 account for 80% of emissions?

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/

This article is nothing to do with killing people, it’s everything to do with killing pronouns and eliminating land acknowledgements.

Look for any common condition using any search engine and discover just how misinformed the global population really is.

I am an ICT professional with over 40 years experience and in my own field it’s often obvious how a technical response sounds right but is in reality absolute bollocks.

I know from lived medical experience that the same is true for medicine. However, being outside my own field it’s much harder to detect, even with quotes and citations.

Ooh … there’s going to be a lot of fun had with this… I wonder if you can use blink tags and animated gifs … strictly for educational purposes … I’ll be right back …

Block and Report … it’s similar to Like and Subscribe … but different.

I think that this is the result of a KPI.

At some point there was a fight inside Google between engineering and marketing about how to proceed with product development. Engineers wanted a better product, marketing wanted more eyeballs.

As a result, search became about “engagement”, or “Moar clicks is betterer”.

Seen in this light, your triggering of the assistant four times increased your use and thus your engagement. An engineer would point out that this is not a valid metric, but Google is now run by the marketing and accounting departments, not by engineers.

Another aspect that I only recently became aware of is that in order to get promoted, you need to make a global impact. This is why shit is changing for no particular reason or benefit and has been for a decade or so.

Wonderful idea. Love that you’ve figured out how to pay for it right off the bat.

Several suggestions:

• Add Australia as a country
• Add System76 as a supplier
• Add Operating System as a filter
• Add a way to highlight differences
• Add a way to export the data into a spreadsheet

The boundary of where to host what, is not fixed. You cannot host the internet at home. Where people sit on the spectrum varies depending on skill, resources and need.

I highlighted several options that provide a solution for someone with limited skills and resources.

You could host a CALDAV server or a next cloud at home and use the suggestions I provided, or you could use those hosted by someone else.

My answer was to provide ideas, not a how-to guide, answering, in my opinion, exactly what OP was looking for.

That it doesn’t match your idea about solving the problem tells you that there are many ways to solve software problems. My suggestions had a low barrier to entry.

What’s your recommendation for OP?

Google Sheets will be a simple solution you can do for free.

The app “Track & Graph” is another.

I have been logging all my medical events using Tasker and a Google Calendar. Analysis is manual using graphviz.

I sadly suspect that this is the type of voter who will continue to blame anyone and everyone else for the problems they triggered themselves.

Cognitive dissonance has well and truly set in.

I think fundamentally this is the underlying issue with the current situation in the USA. I’m not sure what fixing it looks like.

This isn’t something that started in November last year, it’s been brewing for decades, perhaps even longer, it’s that right now it’s burst out like an infected boil and become visible for the whole planet to see. It’s why I used triggered, not caused. I think it’s much, much deeper than the latest election.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of people left who don’t think like this, but they are losing ground fast as their democracy is demolished bit by bit by the billionaires.

Organising, protesting and actively fighting this appears to be where it’s now at.