Powderhorn
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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 Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores 3 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on The death of web development education 5 days 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.
- Comment on Where are typefaces being designed? 6 days ago:
Interesting data. I’m about 20 years removed from running in foundry circles (loosely … a few would show up to SND conferences; they were fun to talk with), and oddly, The Hague being a hotbed of typography training is news to me.
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- One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Centerwww.gadgetreview.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms 1 week ago:
Just to have a bit of fun, I sent that link to ChatGPT to see what their take would be. After the requisite throat-clearing absolving itself while agreeing it’s an inappropriate use case, I got down to brass tacks:
Following election news is admittedly a pain in the ass, especially in an environment where empirical facts now often take a back seat the the letter after a candidate’s name, and shouting nonsense is often the core of a campaign. Take the Texas Senate race as an example: If you only watch Fox News, James Talarico is a radical godless communist whose main goal is to turn all kids trans before they even make it to high school, and the campaign ads in between will confirm the narrative, when the reality is Talarico is a Presbyterian seminary student who may know a bit more about Christianity than most voters who claim to be staunch Christians. Evangelicals hate when you point out the basis of the faith is loving each other.
And this, I shit you not, was the beginning of the response:
Following an election properly is a research problem with a continuously changing corpus. You have to keep updating the set of facts you’re working from, distinguish primary evidence from somebody’s characterization of it, and notice when something that seemed peripheral becomes important.
And the Talarico example is almost comically good for demonstrating why “relevance” isn’t a neutral filtering operation.
There is a real, documented religious story here. Talarico attends Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and is training to become a Presbyterian minister; the Texas Tribune has reported extensively on how his theology informs his politics. His central theological argument really does involve the Christian obligation to love one’s neighbour and the idea that political action is, in part, about how we treat other people.
At the same time, he has said things such as “God is nonbinary” in a legislative speech, and Republican opponents have seized on that as evidence of his supposedly radical theology. The underlying statement exists; what it means theologically is a separate question.
Well, that’s an unexpected response, not least of which because I’ve been following the race pretty closely, and I’ve not seen this quote before, which I point out.
Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian who has explicitly made Christianity central to his political identity; he completed a master’s degree in theological studies and has described his politics through Jesus’ commandments to love God and one’s neighbor.
And “God is nonbinary” is absolutely a real Talarico quotation. But it came from a 2021 Texas House speech about a bill concerning transgender athletes, where he was making a theological argument about biblical descriptions of God. He has subsequently explained that he was deliberately being provocative and meant that God cannot be confined to human categories.
So, I ask why the hell a quote from an unrelated situation from five years ago would come in response to a question about a candidate in 2026, and it admits there’s a fair amount of sources in current conservative circles presenting it as both current and relevant, so that’s what it went with.
Great when you already know enough to question; propaganda otherwise.
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- Comment on World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months 1 week ago:
EGS is essentially using fracking techniques to make deep, hot rock more porous to turn water into steam more efficiently. In this case, they likely have former O&G people on staff for whom waiting 23 months from first drill to production is actually glacial.
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- Comment on Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that jackass move is how I found Beehaw! But the reality is, many old. users didn’t use apps in the first place. So while that was a clusterfuck, it wasn’t surgically targeted at the very people who produce the content that makes Reddit valuable. Cutting off access to old. will be the final straw for me, and I’m going to guess I’m not alone. I don’t want some cartoonish, ad-laden approximation of Reddit.
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Only a rube actually pays for pianos. Not paying is called being smart.
- Comment on Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users 2 weeks ago:
Wow. Pay to get more ads. That’s certainly a take. I guess people really like their stickers?
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- Flock Safety CEO's Home Marked 'Public Toilet' After It Was Blurred on Street Viewwww.techtimes.co.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots: A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now. 3 weeks ago:
Has it not occurred to you that writers know both HTML and Markdown? This is the em-dash complaint on steroids. “My god, they’re formatting correctly” is less an indication on its own of LLM use than the low standards people now expect from writing. “We need errors or it isn’t real!”
There used to be people who fixed that for a living. We called them editors.
- Comment on Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee 3 weeks ago:
I mean, at a certain point, you have to go with the angle of the current story. I know this is going to be a hell of a stretch, but that’s sort of like expecting any car review of a new Ford to include the founder’s anti-Semitism.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 18 comments