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.
- Comment on 10 States With Data Centers on the Ballot All Voted to Ban Them 1 day ago:
This isn’t particularly surprising. In Temple, Texas, data centers are a thing, and people are like “I would like to have cheap electricity and water. Who the fuck are these folks?”
- Comment on Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota 3 days ago:
It’s actually a bit more absurd than that. The Hopi reservation, which is completely surrounded by the Navajo Nation, does not observe DST. But the rest of the state is on MST year-round.
- Comment on Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again 3 days ago:
With giant blocks of ice, of course!
- Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... againwww.theregister.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogotawww.theregister.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
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- Comment on Mint Mobile is running a deal currently on a 50GB mobile/1TB gateway phone and internet plan: $45/month for 12 months ($540 upfront) 1 week ago:
My music collection is on my phone. If I’m not on Wi-Fi, I’m generally listening to music, so no data needed. Basically, it’s just notifications while I’m out and about. I certainly don’t care to watch videos on my phone! I can send that tab to my computer and watch when I get home.
- Comment on Mint Mobile is running a deal currently on a 50GB mobile/1TB gateway phone and internet plan: $45/month for 12 months ($540 upfront) 1 week ago:
Some people are pretty much always on Wi-Fi and never stream anything on a phone. I struggle to use 500MB/month of cellular data, so the $15/month plan is overkill by far.
I’m not “obsessed” with Mint; it’s just been reliable service for a decade for the same price (data went from 2GB to 6GB in that time). The cheapest broadband around here is $100/month, so this would be less than half the price and includes phone service. With inflation being how it is, I figured I’d point out something that could save people money.
- Comment on Mint Mobile is running a deal currently on a 50GB mobile/1TB gateway phone and internet plan: $45/month for 12 months ($540 upfront) 1 week ago:
It’s a really long con, then.
- Mint Mobile is running a deal currently on a 50GB mobile/1TB gateway phone and internet plan: $45/month for 12 months ($540 upfront)www.mintmobile.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 7 comments
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- Comment on Outrage after Meta suspends No Kings Instagram account during protests 2 weeks ago:
No Kings is also on Bluesky, though they have fewer than 500 followers, somehow.
- Comment on Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees 2 weeks ago:
Meta and Google seem totally fine with other people creating things while they get all the profit. “Reach” means very little sans traffic.
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- Comment on Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores 3 weeks ago:
Fixed. The UPI story is better anyway.
- Comment on Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles 3 weeks ago:
One of them died from the brain injury, so it counts.
- Comment on Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles 3 weeks ago:
As of today, “the one that kills people” can soberly be rejoined with “which one?”
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- Comment on Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles 3 weeks ago:
On a cloud-free day with ideal sun angles, that’s a theoretical max of 60MWh/day. Just to be conservative, let’s go with half that on average over the year. That’s ~11TWh/year. Yeah, that should handle a couple of large amusement parks.
- Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings 3 weeks ago:
All the files I deal with are CS6 files. Can’t speak to CC compatibility, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they made intentional breaking changes to file formats. This is Adobe we’re talking about, after all. Any inconvenience they can profit from will be seized.
- Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings 3 weeks ago:
I do so little image manipulation these days that it’s sort of a nonissue. I tried the GIMP years ago, and the interface was too much to bother trying to learn. PS works fine for my extant files.
- Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings 3 weeks ago:
If on Windows, add these two lines to the hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc):
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com 127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
- Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings 3 weeks ago:
I still have CS6 for those rare occasions that I need to open an InDesign file or a PSD. I was not going to get on board with a subscription, and CS6 still works fine.
- Meta's Muse Is Building Dossiers on Your Friends and Family, Even If They Never Signed Up, Internal Files Revealwww.ibtimes.co.uk ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on The death of web development education 3 weeks ago:
A lot of excellent points here. Sadly, it all sounds a bit too familiar, especially:
I don’t enjoy my field any more because the field is gone. Assuming that there’s still something there is a mistake. That feeling you have isn’t a frustration with changes to your chosen field. It’s nostalgia for a field that disappeared overnight.