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.
- The OnlyFans inheritance: how its owner’s death could reshape the porn money-making machinewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 21 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Solar is winning the energy race - The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside 1 day ago:
According to the US EIA as of 2022, the average annual amount of electricity sold to a U.S. residential electric-utility customer was 10,791 kilowatt-hours (kWh), or an average of about 899 kWh per month.
You think using 2.2% of that is excessive?
- Comment on Solar is winning the energy race - The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside 1 day ago:
Howdy, fellow Texan. Yeah, even we have realized fossil fuels are kinda a stupid way to power things. It doesn’t help that ERCOT is a shitshow.
- Comment on Solar is winning the energy race - The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside 1 day ago:
I paid ~$800 for 1.2kW of solar panels on my van in 2023. The 600Ah of LFP was an additional $1,700. I’ve not paid a power bill in 2.5 years. How anyone could choose to not go solar baffles me. I was paying $3/kWh through the city-owned utility. Nominally, it was somewhere around 15 cents, but after all the fees that Austin charges, despite using only 20kWh/month, my bill was $60 at minimum.
The city has now raised rates five times since I went off-grid, so a straight $60 times 30 months undersells the ROI. It would now be $75-80, and $80 times 30 months means I’ll have broken even by May.
Less than three years, and when the power goes out in town, I’m unaware of it unless I run into a complaint on Reddit.
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- Comment on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says 2 days ago:
Look, I think all the shit being ascribed to LLMs is absurd. As I’ve already said “shit.” “bullshit” feels redundant.
Going completely off the reservation, real people can harm you far more then LLMs. Admitting you fell for that is basically like saying you thought a stripper loved you.
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- Comment on Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds 3 days ago:
Is she an African or European swallow?
- Comment on Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds 3 days ago:
I stayed on Win2K for years after XP came out. It was rock-solid and didn’t attempt to tell me how to organize my files. This threw me into the unique position when programs started dropping support for the aging OS of opting for Vista. I couldn’t countenance the cartoonish XP interface, but I also needed a functioning OS.
- Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 3 days ago:
Consider what the media feeds the masses, and it becomes far less confusing. Not everyone checks out TechDirt.
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- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 4 days ago:
As an editor, I’m not going to point out the egregious error here.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 4 days ago:
I fail to understand how this is different from the status quo. Like, pure slop is ruled out, but it should have been in the first place.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
Hey. Tone it down. If you want to play here, you play by our rules.
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case 4 days ago:
But, but … clutches pearls that would be socialism. We can’t expect our benevolent overlords to pay for crimes in a manner that would affect them. We reserve that for Jean Valjean.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
I mean, seriously … you expect fucking Linux users to not immediately find a workaround?
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 5 days ago:
Well, it’s not so much about parties but rather “donors” … which is to say, lobbyists who give not one whit whether there’s an R or D after the name if they can get what they want.
- Comment on From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega 5 days ago:
One of the designers I worked with my first year at the college paper went on to design the packaging for Zip and Jaz drives. It paid well enough that he was able to afford to buy a condo in San Diego in his early 20s.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 5 days ago:
From your instance, I’m guessing you have limited knowledge of the American political system. I don’t mean this as an insult; I couldn’t tell you a damn thing about CDU/CSU policies (AfD, of course, is easy to parse). The Democratic Party is just as captured as the Nazi one. It’s all corporate money, so the real difference between red states and blue states is politicians in blue states at least pretend to care for the working class.
- Comment on Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it 5 days ago:
There are also those who slam people for having negative opinions of AI. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI group, called public criticism of the tech “mind-blowing,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says the negativity is hurting society, and Nadella has pleaded to move the conversation beyond “AI slop.”
Then stop serving us AI slop. Y’all get paid way too much to claim that your products aren’t what they are.
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 5 days ago:
Hmm … so are we, possibly, in a bubble?
- Comment on Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive 5 days ago:
“Sign up for Microsoft 365, or you’ll never see your grandma again.”
- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 5 days ago:
That’s the whole point of patents! If it’s obvious and you get to it first, and you can lawyer up, you can prevent others from doing the obvious.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 5 days ago:
I’m relatively certain that the junta would prefer all of us headless.
Ubuntu not required.
- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 43 comments