Nelson Minar

Full stack homosexual.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nelson
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2025-08-22 21:12:05 UTC

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respectfully, that big green button will just capture all the "I hate all AI and reflexively disable it" sentiment and won't actually measure whether the features are worth a damn. I agree they should have a clear opt-out but what is AI isn't even clear is it? Do you want browser spell correction? URL autocomplete?

2025-08-17 03:04:11 UTC

I bought a cheap fitness tracker watch. And it has all these incredibly abusive upsells. Here they are offering me a discount because they like how I am sleeping. This is so unethical. How did anyone do this?
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2025-08-05 13:46:26 UTC

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you know, you could expand this last post into a whole article and it'd be fascinating.

2025-06-27 15:29:03 UTC

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it's remarkable how much cruft MacOS has accumulated over the years. At this point it might be easier to get a clean Windows machine than a Mac :-(

2025-05-06 23:01:15 UTC

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it's a crowded city and there's a little ambiguity. The car only encroaches a foot into my driveway so they convince themselves I can just go around. But that's incredibly dangerous and difficult. I just stand by my property rights now.

2025-05-06 22:24:43 UTC

Third car towed for blocking my driveway this year. They always knock on the door and ask where their car is and then get upset. They never once apologize for blocking my access to my house.

2025-04-16 21:25:41 UTC

Google is now outright spamming me, sending me an ad about Google Analytics with the footer "You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Analytics product or account." Here's a screenshot of the "important changes"
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2025-03-23 19:55:52 UTC

I keep thinking about the Florida couple who chose to wear these outfits while bicycle touring in Vietnam.
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2025-03-02 04:25:55 UTC

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Kampong Prasat turned out to be more of a new normal village (built along a road along the river) and not much left floating. Was a good introduction to what ordinary village life looks like. A lot of fishing, also small scale rice farming.
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2025-02-28 10:00:01 UTC

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Made it to our cabin on the Mekong River cruise for the next week.
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2025-02-28 05:47:12 UTC

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Then a visit to the [National Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Cambodia ) with beautiful art but also a reminder of how much has been destroyed or stolen.
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2025-02-27 05:31:52 UTC

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Highlight of the trip so far was last night, a [Street Food Tour of Phnom Penh](https://urbanforage.co/product/phnom-penh-food-tour/ ). Tuktuk tour of seven different casual food places, sidewalk restaurants and old grandmas making coconut desserts on the side of the road. Super fun and delicious!
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2025-02-24 05:06:24 UTC

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And finally the big event, Angkor Wat. There are zillions of much better photos you can find of the place, but these are mine. Also so glad to see it in person, understand how it fits together. The temple complex is mind-bogglingly huge.
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2025-01-26 14:17:13 UTC

I installed the experimental Arc browser on my desktop a few months ago and then forgot about it. I haven't used it for a long time. Today I learned it's spying on my computer's location in the background all the time.

2025-01-17 16:12:31 UTC

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2024-12-18 00:29:47 UTC

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I was postmaster@ and news@ for awhile at my college. It was not as glamorous as it sounds.

2024-11-28 19:42:56 UTC

This doesn't match my mood this year but in honor of *Queer* coming out in theaters, here's William S. Burroughs reading his Thanksgiving Prayer. Just the thing if you are feeling cynical about the American Dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE

2024-10-15 05:31:24 UTC

Thinking about middle-aged white dudes who are sort of successful and then become terrible people. Slide to the right wing, start being angry and bitter.