@lanodan This is a good perspective! I honestly could have cascaded in so many directions for this piece but wanted to give something actionable for the average person...
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 01:03:22 JST Justin Pot -
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 00:02:24 JST Justin Pot If you want the files on your computer to be readable in thirty years you need to convert them to open formats. I talked to an actual archivist about why: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-properly-archive-your-digital-files/?ref=jhpMastodon
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 23:35:53 JST Justin Pot Con artists make $26 billion a year by sending weird emails to your work email. Here's how to spot them. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-spot-business-email-compromise-scam/?ref=jhpMastodon
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 06:57:19 JST Justin Pot Wikipedia moves fast
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 05:41:27 JST Justin Pot Cancel your online subscriptions and get a library card instead. https://www.popsci.com/diy/free-services-public-library/
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 02:51:59 JST Justin Pot @Gargron It’s not a bad idea! I might add something like that going forward.
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 02:50:50 JST Justin Pot I don’t want to put tracking data in my links on Mastodon because fuck tracking but also my articles do so well here and I bet editors would be interested to know how much traffic comes from this social network they’re ignoring. Not sure what to do about that.
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 01:03:36 JST Justin Pot In honor of Reddit's upcoming IPO here's how to delete your account and all of your posts https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-delete-your-reddit-account
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 02:13:46 JST Justin Pot The most important article I've ever written: how to get the classic Word Art back in Microsoft Office. You're welcome.
https://www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-get-the-retro-wordart-back-in-microsoft-word/
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 14:40:44 JST Justin Pot One of the nice thing about freelancing is I don't have a boss but in a sick way I kind of miss the drama. Let me live vicariously through you: what dumb things are your bosses making you do this week?
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 03:53:40 JST Justin Pot @neil why is there so much talk about piss
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2023 08:02:01 JST Justin Pot Hey! Here's an article I wrote last year that I'm re-posting now for no particular reason. https://www.wired.com/story/best-substack-alternatives/
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 03:14:15 JST Justin Pot Guess it’s rolling out then… https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C01zSWjp37H
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 08:10:54 JST Justin Pot @Oggie Somewhat related: Bezos personally intervening to get more seasons of The Expanse, a show that’s heavy on the theme of “if a for profit company tries to get you to go to space don’t do it”
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 02:29:35 JST Justin Pot Yesterday The Atlantic published my article about how CAPTCHAs are only going to become more and more annoying. Today strangers are sending me their CAPTCHA horror stories. I brought this on my self. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/captcha-test-security-robot-ai/675931/
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 04:04:17 JST Justin Pot "Grok" being the name for an AI chatbot is just the latest example of tech bros not understanding science fiction. In "Strangers In a Strange Land", the famous 1950's novel the term comes from, to "grok" something is to understand it on a deep level. AI chatbots, as we all know by now, do not grok—they bullshit.
I'm really tired of sci-fi terms being used by people who read the books and got nothing from them beyond “lol this word sounds cool”. (See also: “metaverse”.)
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 00:18:00 JST Justin Pot The cool thing about the age of AI is every freemium app is locking the AI features behind the paywall so it's pretty easy to just ignore it
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 03:44:01 JST Justin Pot Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, added a migration feature for grabbing your images. I tried it out and wrote a guide: https://www.wired.com/story/migrate-move-instagram-to-pixelfed-no-tracking-fediverse/
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 06:41:42 JST Justin Pot I'm trying to figure out how the rise of remote work is affecting long-distance relationships. Does anyone know of any data on that?
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Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 00:53:17 JST Justin Pot @forteller Better get involved in the editing process
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