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.
- Submitted 8 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 12 comments
- Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orderswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 8 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News 14 hours ago:
There are several examples of successful independent journalism ventures.
The point the story is making is the situation for journalists striking out on their own is that work ends up being way more on the back end, such that the reporting itself is a fraction of the time as cultivating the site and keeping subscribers happy with your interaction level, lest they bolt.
What legacy media provided was a premade audience, legal cover and no pay reduction with each lost subscriber. Slim offerings, to be sure, but we’re really learning as we go that as shitty as working conditions were, you could be doing all of that and having to moonlight in marketing.
- Comment on Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows 15 hours ago:
Perhaps the thinking goes that because of the company name, they are entitled to the full annual discharge of the Amazon basin.
- Comment on Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News 16 hours ago:
That’s an interesting – if wildly incorrect – summary.
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- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 1 day ago:
I might make an exception for publishers of religious texts. Seems solid otherwise.
- Comment on AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership 2 days ago:
No doubt being built to compute how much energy we’re wasting on LLMs.
- Comment on Cooperative indie darling RV There Yet cruises past 1.3 million sales [Eurogamer] 2 days ago:
I don’t do multiplayer, but I fucking bow down to this pun. Though I’m now wincing at the idea of kids in the cargo area.
- How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Valuewww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports 2 days ago:
And accounting, having no idea what the going price of maotai is and what the markup might be in a service setting, just goes “yeah, that seems reasonable.” The perfect crime.
- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 2 days ago:
Oh, shit … that’s fucking hilarious. Oops!
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- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 2 days ago:
The five-year contract with government technology middleman Carahsoft Technology, made public in September, provides Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) licenses for a product called Zignal Labs, a social media monitoring platform used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon.
Surely, Palantir fits in here somewhere …
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- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 3 days ago:
It’s entirely possible they’ve also murdered criminals …
- Comment on Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny 4 days ago:
The first comment here took me back to the dorms:
I’m excited about the upcoming Carmageddon mode. 3 points for a granny, 6 points for a mom and stroller, 10 points for a cop!
Meh, I want a Cunning Stunt bonus, or it’s not really worth it. (NB: Do not attempt to say this phrase multiple times in front of freshmen women. It only takes one slip, and you’re on a shitlist.)
- Comment on This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen 4 days ago:
“If you have to ask …”
- Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document showswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 4 days ago:
And then he went to bed, leaving it to his serfs.
- Comment on This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen 4 days ago:
“But we have free sodas!”
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 4 days ago:
More “we made your bed, and you don’t own it.”
- Comment on Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [YT | 25'13"] 4 days ago:
Given that time is more of a human construct than a natural, measurable thing, I don’t know what reasonable options would look like. We very quickly run into relativity!
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 4 days ago:
I look for “boring” in most products. Excitement is for experiences, not furniture.
- Comment on Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [YT | 25'13"] 4 days ago:
I don’t think there’s much way around seconds for terrestrial timekeeping. Defining the second by a round number of caesium oscillations causes issues with timekeeping on any larger scale. Defining distance is wildly different from deciding to ignore the Earth’s rotation and its role in defining days.
- Comment on Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble? [YT | 25'13"] 4 days ago:
I’m well aware that the U.S. has been on metric since the 19th century. My point is the base unit should be sensible. 1/299,792,458 of a second is not that. If the argument is “yeah, but that’s what we’re used to,” then what was the point of the metric system in the first place? Nine significant digits in a denominator suggests a systematic issue, not sensible science.
We’ve secretly replaced your arbitrary base unit with Folger’s Crystals. Let’s see if they notice. Tell me why that definition makes more sense than an inch being three barleycorns.
- Comment on Sora users trick platform into creating racist celeb videos 4 days ago:
