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willnewman | 7 years ago | on: Yes, You Should Walk Your Cat

It's likely they're referring to the effect outdoor cats have on bird populations. They're credited with the the extinction of 63 species: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056110/

willnewman | 7 years ago | on: JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works

Oh I did this too a few years ago. Except I used gifs instead of jpegs, and then wrote a Ruby wrapper for backing up files to Flickr. Blog post about it here: https://namwen.svbtle.com/hoardr

willnewman | 8 years ago | on: Dumber phone

I adhere to a lot of these rules myself and have recently noticed peers doing the same.

Another I'd add that really makes the phone boring is putting it in grayscale mode. On iOS: Settings > General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Color Filters > Grayscale. Then you can set the Accessibility Shortcut to Color Filters, and when you triple click the home button your phone goes grayscale.

I don't have it on 24/7, but do enable it any time I feel myself getting sucked in too frequently.

willnewman | 8 years ago | on: Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says

That could have been the original intent, and they may still use that argument, but if so it needs to be squared up with the fact that they relentlessly try and entice drivers to keep driving longer and farther. See: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/ub...

willnewman | 8 years ago | on: Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security

Find My iPhone has a feature called Activation Lock which matches up with what you're describing: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201365

The phone won't do anything until the person who turned on the lock turns it off again.