Powderhorn
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org
Editor and tech enthusiast
At some point, I have to admit neither is true. Let’s see …
Wage slave and vandweller.
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- Comment on How the Tech World Turned Evil 2 weeks ago:
There are still plenty of counterculture people in tech. They just don’t run the show. (Source: burner community)
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 2 weeks ago:
I’d say something, but it’s pretty much all been covered. They’re now too big to fail, so we just have to put up with whatever they serve up next.
I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over the hardware I fucking purchased. Search is fucking worthless; I’ve not used that in ages. DDG gets the job done without a screen and a half of ads and sponsored content.
Who the fuck puts up with this shit?
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Also, as I have nearly run out of fucks to give: Fuck. And now I’m out of them again.
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- Comment on Hands-on with ChatGPT's powerful new image engine 2 weeks ago:
Both had “I’m a junior designer” vibes about them. If you saw the first few pages I designed in college, those were far worse. Of course, we didn’t have the luxury of CMYK, let alone just coughing up RGB shit. I’m used to seeing execrable design.
- Comment on Hands-on with ChatGPT's powerful new image engine 2 weeks ago:
Would it have if you’d not been told it was ahead of time, though?
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I’ve been out of the design game for six years at this point. Given that I did broadsheet design and wince at most everything for both art and typographical choices, it wasn’t really the sort of thing that stood out to me. There is a lot of bad design being happily gobbled up … hell, I didn’t look at rave flyers in the '90s and think “this is great design,” but rather “how the hell did they have the budget for C2S in CMYK with spot fluorescent and a top coat?”
- Comment on The EU requires phone makers to fit 'readily removable' batteries from next year — but there may be a notable exception 2 weeks ago:
The debates that led to these regulations seem tedious as hell. I miss being able to just pop in a new battery (I used to always have a spare, because batteries sucked a decade ago, but this said, I don’t miss the IP rating on dust and water that meant using a phone was risky in a light drizzle.
- Comment on Hands-on with ChatGPT's powerful new image engine 2 weeks ago:
OK. What are the clues?
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I spent two decades as a newspaper writer, editor and designer. Try again.
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- Comment on Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears 2 weeks ago:
As usual, we’re not getting the whole story. There’s plenty of stuff the company doesn’t make public … “national security” and so forth.
- Comment on Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears 2 weeks ago:
At a casino enjoying a martini?
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- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for writing this for me. This seems implausible without other failures happening in concert.
- Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claimswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
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- Comment on Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job 3 weeks ago:
I’m seeing this “theme” way too much of late. It feels like there’s a targeted scheme here. The shit isn’t magic, but it’s better to blame that on Gen Z than the tools themselves.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 3 weeks ago:
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
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- Comment on Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo - 9to5Mac 3 weeks ago:
This is an idiotic counter to the Neo. Microsoft is in a position it’s not faced before: Macs are cheaper than PCs. Offering a year of “free services” doesn’t change the fact that Surfaces start at more than twice what Apple has on offer.
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 3 weeks ago:
Shh! Can’t you see this is a library?