Notices by Justin Pot (jhpot@mastodon.social), page 2

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

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/

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?

@neil why is there so much talk about piss

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/

Guess it’s rolling out then… https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C01zSWjp37H

@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”

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/

"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”.)

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

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/

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?

@forteller Better get involved in the editing process

still the best wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_ducks

Thinking of deleting your Reddit account? Download your data while you still can. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-download-your-reddit-data/

@doot Canadian living in the states here. We don't exist in the minds of Americans. I blend in perfectly. No one suspects anything. We have infiltrated on behalf of the commonwealth and awaiting commands.

You worry about AI because it’s dystopian and creepy. I worry about it because it’s going to make the marketers emailing me even more annoying. We are not the same.

It is so wild that people here actually read the articles you link to and respond to points 3/4 of the way through it. Years of being on Twitter led me to believe people only ever read and reacted to headlines. You are all great.

My latest for WIRED: The Mastodon features Elon Musk should steal but won't because he hates you

https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-features-that-twitter-should-steal-but-wont/

Posting this here tonight for you all. Will post on Twitter tomorrow. We'll see if I have a Twitter account still on Tuesday. #TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration

WIRED just published my beginner's guide to Mastodon! Thank you to the 100+ people who responded to my request for tips and advice for understanding the culture here. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/