Wanna play “don’t trust the client”?
You should be able to make that uncheckable through the dev tools
ETA: assuming browser.
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This brings to mind the eternal “sign up for special offers and news” box at checkout, where they will completely ignore the box and send you junk email forever no matter what you do. I actually tried to call a company out on this recently by taking a screenshot of the unchecked box and sending it to them once the junk mail started rolling in, but they claimed that their “give your friends 10% off by referring them!” email is “related to my account” and therefore not marketing. Fuckers.
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I’ve set up a burner account to use when buying things online or when getting something irl requires an email address. It has worked pretty well.
Junk mail? I forgot where I got the original idea, but I’ll stuff junk mail from one company into the SASE from another company and drop it in the mail (sans PII).
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Return it opened.
EDIT: cancel that – it would be the wrong person opening it and spoil their day.
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Does anyone know of a search engine which will yield relevant results, won’t yield spurious results that don’t even include the search terms, and won’t get clogged with word-frequency lists?
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Good question! I’d like suggestions too!
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I’m still using DuckDuckGo.com, and although it’s not immune to enshitificaion (ads are growing and they’ve introduced a new AI chat function🙄) the search function itself seems pretty good.
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To be fair, paid version makes very shitty user unfriendly decisions if you save locally, like disabling autosave.
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I have a copy of office XP tu run the last good version of Publisher. The newer version uses the ribbon interface and makes the whole app quite unusable (I blame that for the descent of usage, God knows we need an easy to use DTP app), and the only good feature they added was easing the use of fonts with ligatures and alternate charsets (you could use ligatures with publisher XP but only automatically, and the only way to fine-tune was to search for the character in the “insert char” dialog)
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I haven’t used Publisher in a very long time, so I don’t know if this is a good recommendation, but Scribus is what I have used for this type of work in the past. It’s Free, Open Source, and entirely local. The UI is definitely oriented more towards Pro PDF/Print and is less friendly, but I’m led to believe that there are significant changes in the 1.7.x series that may help there.
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Yeah, I have used scribus. Is more potent in some aspects yet it struggles with something as simple as making a table. I did not use publisher in the past because it was great… i used it because it was, as I said to a friend, “The PHP of Desktop Publishing”: meant to do quick and dirty jobs that superficially look professional 
I mostly used to do TTRPG character sheets. I moved on to make them directly on LibreOffice Writer but while functional they are missing the whimsy of my old charsheets, and a part can be explained by my lack of time, but also because assembling them in Publisher took me just only a bit more than it takes me to type them in Writer now.
Case in point. Here’s an Age of Sail themed Fate Accelerated Charsheet I made circa 2009:
An here’s a recent (pandemic time) one. The game was about iron age chinese warriors battling monsters:
I mean, I probably could do the above with scribus. Uses no tables. But it took me about 15 minutes between deciding the layout, the font and assembling it. I’m going to guess that is not going to be that easy with scribus, even knowing the layout and the font.
To be fair, this is not a problem with scribus. It is a problem with every desktop publishing package that was not publisher (or some old dtp software in the late 90’s to early 00’s era). They are all trying to copy the workflow of professional packages… and maybe, just maybe, they should not.
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Well, on the plus side, it seems the USA’s airline industry won’t survive another few years of Trump and Musk anyway. Having safe, functional plane travel is something only grown-up countries can do.
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The “2 bags free” is why, more often than not, we’d fly on Southwest. I never booked early enough to snag (for example) a $49 fare, & I could take or leave the open seating policy, so their bag policy was what set them apart from other airlines (moreso after Covid).
Passengers with Rapid Rewards credit cards will receive a credit for one checked bag
They don’t specify, thus far, whether that applies to everyone on an itinerary that was purchased with that credit card, or only for the passenger who has the credit card. The person who paid w/ that credit card may not even be on the itinerary.
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I just saw the article elsewhere and ran over here to post it 
glad someone got to it first. All i can say is that this sucks, though in a slightly selfish note i have to say that i’m relieved that i booked my flight through Southwest a couple of weeks ago when bags were still free. Though moving forward i can’t see myself flying with them again.
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Talking about AI summarization, fix in the site
ETA: I sure as heck couldn’t find it. Don’t know if it’s because it’s a free account or if it hasn’t rolled out everywhere.
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I think it’s only there in Zoom Workplace (business licensing model) so far. Zoom Personal doesn’t have it, as far as I understand. At least, not yet.
It was there in my Zoom Workplace account but it looks like our site admins turned off everything and outright disabled some of the more egregious ones so you couldn’t turn them on if you wanted to.
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Hmmm… I wonder if it da help me with Atelier Ryza. 
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Privacy-preserving feature of Echo is being severely diluted. If you haven’t binned your Echo yet, now’s the time.
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amazon
Dear Echo Customer,
We are reaching out to let you know that the Alexa feature ‘Do Not Send Voice
Recordings’ that you enabled on your supported Echo device(s) will no longer be
available beginning March 28th, 2025. This feature allowed compatible Echo devices
to process the audio of Alexa requests locally on device. As we continue to expand
Alexa’s capabilities with generative Al features that rely on the processing power of
Amazon’s secure cloud, we have decided to no longer support this feature.
If you do not take action, your Alexa Settings will automatically be updated to ‘Don’t
save recordings.’ This means that, starting on March 28th, your voice recordings will
be sent to and processed in the cloud, and they will be deleted after Alexa processes
your requests. Any previously saved voice recordings will also be deleted. If your
voice recordings setting is updated to ‘Don’t save recordings,’ voice ID will not work
and you will not be able to create a voice ID for individual users to access more
personalized features. If you do not want to set your voice recordings setting to ‘Don’t
save recordings,’ please follow these steps before March 28th:
- Open the Alexa App on your Mobile Phone
- Go to Settings > Device Settings and select the device where this feature is
enabled - Select ‘Do Not Send Voice Recordings’ from the menu
- Disable the setting
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