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 nooki is a small, comfy corner of the internet built on AT Protocol. Share posts, stories, and ideas while keeping full control of your data 5 hours ago:
I’m a bit too spent to really kick the tires on yet another site, but there is a journalism community on there now.
- Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokesarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 14 hours ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 38 comments
- Comment on Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. 1 day ago:
To part a fool from their money.
- Comment on Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed 1 day ago:
I would love to fail upward like this at some point. Sadly, I may be too old.
- Comment on Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed 1 day ago:
Why do I hear this in a Dukat voice?
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- Comment on OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit 2 days ago:
That’s a Roomba that just rolls around, right?
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- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 days ago:
The best link in this story has to be to the Erfurt Latrine Disaster. Talk about a shitshow.
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 5 days ago:
Effective editing requires, at the very least, a lot of practice and fuckups (hopefully at your school paper, though I had a few gems professionally). And this is when your goal is to get things right while improving skills and understanding.
The Venn diagram of what editors do and “waaahhh, I don’t like anything telling me my beliefs are unhinged” requires separate pieces of paper and likely leasing the LHC for a bit.
- Comment on A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. 5 days ago:
Given a bit more time to think about it, I think this could actually get tattoo artists more money – with a few tweaks, of course.
The major one: Temporary ink – try before you buy. Put your pitchforks away … this is obviously a product being marketed to people who want to be edgy but actually going and getting a tattoo is scawy.
I could see a shop buying one of these for the artists to share essentially as proofs. Charge like $20 for the machine one; apply it as a credit if they decide they want the real thing. Cuts down on buyer’s remorse and “it didn’t turn out how I expected.” Yeah, skin moves.
- Comment on On trillion-dollar tech firms, gold and the evaporating dollar 6 days ago:
Meh, I just like banging numbers together and making graphics of the results if a topic catches my interest. If we set the baseline for inflation at 1965, no company has ever hit $500 billion (I chose '65 because that’s the year the U.S. stopped using silver in coinage).
Also, this is a wildly inappropriate use case for logarithmic scaling, so why not give that a try?
- Comment on A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. 6 days ago:
Not sure who the target demo is here. If you want to get a tattoo at home, you learn how to use a gun, spend whatever the equivalent of $15 in 2010 and some ink is, and go that route. (Source: Ex-wife did most of her own tattoos; pretty certain I did the second most on her; and she did the 1.5 on my body – one remains incomplete a decade later.)
Everyone appreciates nice, sharp ink once it’s healed, but this just looks … like not a real tattoo. I didn’t get around to the pricing, as the site was so horrifically overloaded with animations and videos that it brought my computer to my knees. I guess if you’re planning on a lot of tattoos, it could be cost-effective, but no doubt the ink is proprietary and at any rate, tattooing alone is like drinking alone.
Fine in moderation, but if you plan to be doing so many that you’re buying a machine, maybe rope your friends into splitting the cost and do tattoo parties?
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- Comment on Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine 1 week ago:
Behind the fig leaf, the argument was never “China’s surveilling our kids!” but rather “China’s getting data about kids that rightfully belongs to the U.S., to slice and dice how we see fit. This evil must be stopped!”
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 1 week ago:
Even without the huge ag lobbying boards doing their things, the sheer healthiness of eggs has, I swear, swung back and forth at least four times since the '80s. Like a Miller Lite “tastes great” “less filling” mudfight in the middle of a club.
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 1 week ago:
I had to look up whether they were still around. They were a slightly nerdier SkyMall for when you were on the ground, so I expected not. Apparently they’re now one of those sites where there’s always a coupon and you’d be an idiot to pay full price.
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 1 week ago:
I’m not seeing any reports it aired. Just generated and posted by Trump for whatever nefarious reason. I’d buy “This is why it’s OK we’re cutting back on Medicare and Medicaid.” Magic
beansbeds. - Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 1 week ago:
I have as much interest in a MyPillow as a Vance MySofa. And for the same reason.
- Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Diseasewww.yahoo.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 19 comments
- Comment on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost like solid journalism improves the world. It’s still shit overall, but the coverage effected change.
- Comment on Google, Meta and Vodafone want help from smartphone-makers 2 weeks ago:
“Serving up all this propaganda is getting expensive.”
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- Comment on Pro-Trump app built to expose Charlie Kirk’s critics ends up exposing its own users in massive data leak 2 weeks ago:
Anger rarely translates to hardened network security.
- Comment on LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles 2 weeks ago:
Is “synergy” back in fashion now? It seemed to go away for at least a decade.
First off, you’re forgetting the baseline for critical thinking in the states these days. The site is essentially too big to fail. We’re stuck with it while.
- Comment on Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir 2 weeks ago:
No matter how bad you think it is, it’s always worse.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 weeks ago:
First time reading an opinion piece? This isn’t a review.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 weeks ago:
Just after we’ve nailed fusion.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 weeks ago:
Easily the most comfortable phone to hold that I’ve owned was the Nokia I got in 1998 (my first cell, in college). It was heavy, the battery life was shit and it still had an antenna, but the grip was nice.
I don’t see anyone in public who doesn’t keep their phone in a case now, so the actual thickness of a naked phone is irrelevant to the final experience day to day.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I don’t know who the target demo is that looks at an iPhone and says “cool, but it’s just too thick.”
