drwho

@drwho@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this just a personal website with a links page?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask Amazon why they picked a name that was the same as a small publishing company that had been around for years and sued them into a smoking crater in the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody have a VPN link into HK? It’d be easy to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It still strikes me as odd that anybody ever trusted a mega.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Them’s who has the gold, makes the rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For non-profits (like 501©(3)'s) that’s not unusual. Non-profits are more like specialized tools for the board of directors than like companies.

  Source: First ten years of my career were at non-profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanking? No. That would be impolitic.

  Quietly using? They’d be foolish not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think yinz missed the sarcasm in the comment you’re replying to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Parasocial relationships are weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t know what Cory does all day. We know he has a family, I think he has a kid, that means that he has responsibilities that don’t involve blogging. For all we know, at the end of the day he curls up with a dead tree book and unplugs to relax. He might not be as online as his overall style might make him appear and we don’t know what all circles of people he runs with, so it’s entirely possible that he just heard about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s because people are taking their frustrations out on whatever seems to make people think something might be on the upswing. Even better, because you can’t necessarily see who upvoted nobody can call them on it.

  It’s like the folks who go to see a movie and gush about how awesome it was when you’re sitting around shooting the shit, but the moment they get on the Net they trash it in as many ways as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much the entire Internet these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s taken him this long to kick the tires and develop an opinion from daily use. There’s nothing wrong with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like we can do anything about it. Customers can’t control what a business does with the money they pay. Writing and calling don’t work. The best any one person can do is cancel their service, but they’re in the minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. government blasts Microsoft for lax security measures in report on Chinese hacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. The publication date aside (2 April), DHS is not known for its sense of humor in any context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If folks haven’t yet, what’s it going to take?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it difficult to disagree with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is what the twenty-first century might be selecting for. They’re the only ones that seem like they’re doing okay right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Our smart securicams don’t trust you” is the new “You’re not a good culture fit.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty in Big Tech to be cynical about, whether you work for them or not. Ars can get away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I didn’t write it for them. I wrote it for folks who don’t necessarily have a lot of money but want something useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As with many things, the golden rule applies. They who have the gold, make the rules.