I watch dogs (primarily overnight--most for 3-7 days but some 1 day and some >7d) via Rover. I make around $1500/month (pre-1099) and after their ~20% cut (of which most people give back to me in tips).

I WFH so the largely passive income is nice. I wouldn't have found as many people w/o a platform to do the heavy lifting for me in finding new dogs.

I am not advocating that we need to have these sorts of things in the market, but it does make for nice extra cash. YMMV.

Agreed. For kicks I asked ChatGPT:

Apparently the reports of the horrible casualties are all wrong and fake news! I love the idea of getting a text summary of bloated, ad-infested YouTube videos, but Jesus....

Yup. It's past comical how much bullshit nonsense (no doubt most of it AI slop these days) gets put before a recipe on most sites. I've started going to AllRecipes by default most of the time, just because it doesn't do that.

The Firefox extension Jump to Recipe automatically clicks a "Jump to Recipe" link on the page if one exists. It works pretty well for me.

Agree and disagree. While I share an affection for the simpler hardware and instruction set and do see value in being able to fully understand the whole thing end to end, the simplicity and limitation also gives rise to complexity in the search for performance and capability.

You can "understand" the assembly code (or even machine code), but when a program is using esoteric or questionable techniques to eek every last clock cycle of performance out of these chips, you can end up with code that requires a larger breadth of knowledge - everything from binary math hacks (fast inverse square root) to processor quirks (16-bit loads in four clocks vs 8-bit in one) to undocumented ISA "features" like abusing obcodes with flag side effects that end up being faster than the operation you're really interested in.

Some people enjoy this kind of hacking (using the word in the best possible way) but it definitely requires an additional, different, and sometimes very broad mastery of the systems. I think this is both good and bad (but mostly bad once longjmp gets involved...).

Astonishing. You're proposing MOVING TO A DIFFERENT PLANET that cannot support literally ANY FORM OF LIFE without a massive support infrastructure instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, moving away from burning fossil fuels, and making a few other relatively simple changes to keep the earth habitable for human civilization.

This sort of stupidity would be unbelievable if it wasn't parroted so often by clueless and/or paid-for oligarch mouthpieces.

I'm certainly guilty of this, though I also use bookmarks. For me, an unloaded tab is much more "in your face" than a bookmark hidden away in a menu. I tend to use my list of tabs (about 30) as a todo list and bookmarks as "this might be useful again in the future".

This may sound weird, but I think the biggest problem with bookmarks is finding them again. Whether you try to organize them into 1000 folders (IMO a lost cause) or use the Gmail approach of just search everything (also a lost cause, because not enough metadata is associated with the bookmark), even if you know you bookmarked something in the past, unless you remember the title of the page you probably aren't going to find it again.

I'd really like to see a better system for keeping track of pages. Personally, I set Firefox to never, ever, forget my browser history, so I can search it going back years. That's helped me dig up a lot of old stuff that I couldn't quite remember where I found something.

Great, so now there will be useless AI generated video slop next to the useless photoshopped product images - and I'm certain Amazon will heavily promote these trash AI videos to try and justify the expense. 90% of product videos on Amazon are already completely useless for learning anything about a product and this will just bring that up to 99%. Guess it's time to make a uBlock filter to hide all videos on Amazon.

I'm actually surprised they didn't go for AI-gen product photos first. Think of the thousands of man-hours that could be saved by having a computer create all those shitty counterfeit product photos.

The problem is you cannot donate to Firefox directly - only to the Mozilla Foundation. If they let people vote with their (donation) dollars, it would be much more clear to them where people want them to expend their efforts.

As an optional (or even promoted) extension, Pocket was a great idea. Integrating it into the browser was pretty dumb. Fakespot as a website is pretty cool and I used it a number of times over the years. Mozilla buying it was incredibly stupid.

If I knew my donation had been wasted on either of these, I'd be pissed enough to never donate again.

Agreed that 4000 is a bonkers number and definitely a "you" problem and not an issue with the browser.

However I do tend to find myself with ~50 tabs open (thank god for vertical tabs) because I find it much easier to use open tabs instead of bookmarks as a reminder or to-do list since the tabs are a constant visible reminder. This is especially true for work where I have multiple projects/topics in-flight. Most of them are unloaded so they don't really use any resources.

I wish there was something between bookmarks and tabs to fill this use case. I've tried some addons like Reading List to handle it, but it didn't really work for me. A tab group might work since it's also easily seen (acting as a reminder) and accessible (easily acted on).

I admit this probably says more about my organization and discipline, but I've used tabs this way for over a decade.

My god, what is it like to go through life this stupid? Are you aware of it, or blissfully ignorant? Do you sometimes get a glimpse and wonder what's wrong, like a parrot occasionally seeing themselves in a mirror and being unsure if it's another bird or not?

I imagine being the putty in the soft, warm, sweaty hands of conservative pundits must be comforting though. Any time you start to become unsure of what to think, you can rely on being told exactly what to believe, even if it's directly contradictory to what you were told the night before.

Ignorance truly is strength.

What is it with that? I thought I was just unlucky when the two different physical therapy offices around here I've been to were both showing Fox news constantly on ceiling-mounted TVs. I've never had to bite my tongue harder than when the staff or therapist starts talking about culture war bullshit or asking me "So are you doing okay in this terrible Biden economy?"

Also, jesus, Fox News daytime ads are really something else. It (almost) makes me pity the poor fucks stuck home watching that shit every day.

I've used Firefox Beta exclusively on my Android phone for several years and just don't see this. Yes, there's the rare occasion that a site doesn't work correctly because, as you say, it was created with only Chrome in mind, but that's hardly Firefox's fault.

There's room for improvement and change seems to come slower to Firefox on mobile, but I think it does a very good job. And the fact that you can use addons with it, including ad-blockers, is a huge boon.

You're being snarky (I think) but that's actually worryingly accurate.

Before WW2, there was a general understanding that war was a good way to deal with excess or unwanted population - especially from the lower economic class - as well as the mounting social malaise caused by inequality, poverty, and internal sectarianism. After total war and atomic bombs scared us straight, the last 80 years or so of unprecedented peacetime are something of an experiment to see if we can come up with alternative ways of dealing with these problems.

Finding something meaningful for people to do with their lives (especially younger men) is a genuine challenge. College used to be an easy early option for large numbers of them, while (I think) also smoothing some of the edges off and preparing both men and women for adulthood, but that option has become less alluring due to the increasingly obscene money required and distrust in higher education as a reliable means to a reliable future. Something else will need to take its place.

Personally I think it's tragic that the US didn't see this coming almost 20 years ago after the 2008 meltdown and start programs for creating new non-profit community vocational schools across the country. The rewards of government investments in such publicly-supported schools would vastly outstrip the costs -- the country will *always* need mechanics, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc, and these should be reliable, financially stable jobs -- supporting new adults as well as being a potential social safety net for older people who find themselves out of work and without other options.

When people vote for and elect an incompetent narcissist with delusions of despotic authoritarianism, they don't get to be surprised by anything on your list. You might argue that you didn't expect those things, but if you put a stupid person who intentionally surrounds themselves with other stupid people into power, any expectations you had are invalidated. Unless you expected "stupid things", in which case I guess you got exactly what you were looking for.

Hah! Won't lie - hearing "The thing happened two score and seven years ago" on the news would be pretty great. Certainly better than "almost five decades".