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 Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 8 hours ago:
The irony that my van is actually appreciating.
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 2 days ago:
While true, that’s another topic of discussion.
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 2 days ago:
Wait till people find out much of it runs north-south through New Mexico, which is part of the U.S., hence having to specify that fact on their license plates, and despite fans of the Terminator franchise having seen the gorge bridge just out of Taos. The bridge over the Rio Grande just south of Colorado.
You want to get me going on rivers? Colorado’s my starting point, How the hell do we have two of those?
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 6 days ago:
Realistically, Reddit has been useless for porn for quite some time.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 1 week ago:
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 1 week ago:
I don’t think there’s enough understanding domestically about what has happened to our standing globally. We’re not being made great again, we’re being made a toxic brand that others are trying to cut ties with. But hey, tariffs will fix that, right?
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 1 week ago:
Remember when porn subs were people just having fun and posting instead of this endless stream of monetization efforts? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 1 week ago:
I arrived here in June 2023 as part of the interest in alternatives after the API changes were announced. We saw a spike in applications, so I expect that could happen again, though we’re not a major of an instance as we were back then. Lemmy.world will likely take the brunt of the influx, and as we’re not federated with them, the impact should be minimal.
I’m still on Reddit for niche communities, but I use it very differently from 20 months ago. I’ve grown to enjoy a collective of self-selecting people who want something better than what Reddit offers, which is less and less by the month.
- Comment on What We're Fighting For 1 week ago:
This line stands out:
You might argue that one cannot simply write these stories again and again, to which I say “skill issue.”
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified 1 week ago:
Gotta love a single point of failure where that point itself sounded the alarm.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 week ago:
The camera likely provides a rear view on OnlyFans.
- Comment on How OnlyFans modeling led to this high-tech set of handlebars 1 week ago:
Yeah, the clickbait hed suggested something far less actually interesting. This is a decent tale of using modern society to bootstrap a product. Wasn’t expecting the Porsche/BMW connection.
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 week ago:
I was fine with it when it was wavy text to digitise old works. This shit is just asinine and a time sink.
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 week ago:
“I see no trucks, only lorries.” Being on a VPN has been getting worse and worse with CAPTCHAs, almost like I’m being punished for telling my ISP they have no right to sell the details of my internet use since I’m paying them.
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 week ago:
It’s a lot easier to determine the intent of this hed with the quote being closed somewhere. Just after “service” would have been my guess, but it’s a disservice to remove that and leave people dangling.
My larger issue is that when I’m faced with traffic lights – or god forbid, motorcycles – this is performative nonsense wherein I’m supposed to guess percentage coverage on a given square without having been provided parameters.
At this point, CAPTCHAs feel designed to make sure you can never get through the first time, thus needing to continue training image models several times before I can just fucking do what I originally came to the site for.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified 2 weeks ago:
Just making sure you’re clean.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified 2 weeks ago:
The worst people always have the best health coverage.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified 2 weeks ago:
Leopard, is that you?
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified 2 weeks ago:
The ones cheering it on are even less aware that it’s eventually coming for them.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified 2 weeks ago:
Well, at least the terror in the U.S. is confined to the government’s computing experts.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
This is generally referred to as 50Gpbs. It’s impressive, but there’s no need to use inappropriate scales.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
If I’m going to stand in line in the sun for a three-minute ride, there damn better be some good skiing from the top of the lift.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
For the most part, r/futurology is pretty tightly modded. I’m also in r/energy, which seems to be more of a self-policing affair; bullshit is immediately called out and downvoted.
But essentially, Reddit ceased being the front page of the internet years ago, and now it’s where I go after I’ve read all my RSS feeds, Beehaw, The Guardian and NPR. Looks like we might be losing that last one.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
I think we’re seeing the death of scale in social media. Ten years ago, the most heavily trafficked subreddits were where you wanted to be. Now, I’m only in niche communities that have yet to be replicated in the Fediverse. Unless you unsubscribe from anything remotely popular, Reddit has been a firehose of bullshit for several years.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a reason I already live in a van with 1200W of solar on the roof. I want no part of this.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
Hey! I designed some of those '90s newspapers!
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
How anyone uses the web without NoScript baffles me, but people still use Chrome, too, so I don’t think I’m in the mainstream in terms of my internet use,
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll give them this: They certainly stayed on brand.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
One might argue that OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention. Clippy feels quaint. Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?
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