mingus88

8 ms·

1.
by mingus88 4d ago
I’m anti surveillance but I don’t get this take. Every uber driver I’ve been ive been in has an inside dashcam to protect themselves and their property. I would do the same thing if I were them. Waymo has every right to monitor their proper
2.
by mingus88 5d ago
I have a few yubikeys and it’s a manual process to sync a new key last time I tried I keep all my TOTP keys on an encrypted usb drive in a safe. When I lose a key, I manually add all the TOTP accounts onto the new key from my safe Passkeys
3.
by mingus88 7d ago
Twitter was best when I followed comedians, record labels and venues. (And I should note I left in 2017 when even the funny people couldn’t get a grip on what was happening online) This is what short form posting was meant for. Jokes and qu
4.
by mingus88 7d ago
I have no doubts this device will be in demand and sell a ton of units But what are we even doing? $2000 for a device to watch videos on, to replace the $1200 device you watched videos on last year. I guess I’m lamenting the fact that none
5.
by mingus88 7d ago
France has a storied history of resisting efforts to impose non-western, extremist beliefs on them You could start with Charlie Hebdo for an idea of how it might be received if a religious extremist group wanted to fuss over hiding French w
6.
by mingus88 7d ago
I can see why they would say that. I can’t see any reason why the tower management would sideline half of their staff without someone asking them to.
7.
by mingus88 8d ago
I read they’ll find xfinitywifi or any open access point and do it without your consent
8.
by mingus88 8d ago
This should be an accessibility complaint under the ADA. That should be a big money settlement. There are numerous disabilities that would cause someone to not have a smartphone capable of running an app. Hell, even addiction to social medi
9.
by mingus88 14d ago
Yeah they need to stay in the car. It’s a hard habit to break because we have lived our entire lives bringing the groceries in and unloading. We actually just get paper bags and reuse them for our recycling items. The paper bag goes into th
10.
by mingus88 14d ago
Right, if we have a limited resource of something valuable, should we just use it up once and throw out the product entirely? If plastic is so efficient, why wouldn’t we make reusable bags out of it instead of cotton? Why is the argument to
11.
by mingus88 15d ago
I don’t know you, but most people I work with for some reason keep so many tabs open, the tab bar is squeezed so you can barely see a favicon Probably due to my age, I religiously close every tab after I read it. If that gets more than a do
12.
by mingus88 15d ago
Because The implied answer is no, it doesn’t support goodreads; that functionality is supported by Overdrive I thought that was obvious but here you are, since you need that spelled out. Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Overdrive is for public
13.
by mingus88 15d ago
Gotta love how political posts critical of the tech right get flagged immediately yet 90s hip hop cold cases stand
14.
by mingus88 16d ago
Kobo integrates with Libby/Overdrive which I prefer anyway. I maintain lists and progress with my public library subscription
15.
by mingus88 17d ago
If there’s an ad free YouTube app on the App Store, that’s your bet. It’s still a walled garden. Personally I don’t watch enough YouTube to bother with that. I pretty much just close the app if they force me to watch more than 5s of an ad.
16.
by mingus88 19d ago
All the streaming apps are on the appleTV. Even plex/jellyfin/emby Unless you are trying to pass through lossless audio the AppleTV 4k is one of the best streamers you can buy right now
17.
by mingus88 20d ago
There is a vast divide between knowledge workers and creatives when it comes to LLMs The general populace sees mostly the creative’s view. The results are poor and it comes at the expense of ripping off IP and providing bad copies of it. Th
18.
by mingus88 21d ago
It makes sense. It goes father than that. LLMs generate probability-based tokens. What is the most likely next word? Humor goes against what we expect. A punchline works because you don’t see it coming. It’s not funny if you’ve heard that o
19.
by mingus88 22d ago
You’ve moved the goalposts. You can always say “oh well these judges don’t have the experience to catch this type of AI. The fact that you have to insert this qualifier, to ensure you always have a way to discredit the test, pretty much s
20.
by mingus88 23d ago
I’m not sure it’s a regression really If you look at a graph of the world population it’s seems clear to me that freely available common resources are just going to continue to get overused and ruined as we continue to add people to the equ
21.
by mingus88 26d ago
In this case, the authorities are claiming they were looking for CSAM. So wiping the phone hindered a valid investigation. They can say anything they want. They hold all the power. This will never change until enough people take matters int
22.
by mingus88 27d ago
In 2026 when every other article is LLM output, I don’t mind the occasional edgelord rant
23.
by mingus88 28d ago
I don’t think that’s going to get us very far. As a society we either loudly reject this or we tacitly accept it If Snowden wasn’t enough to cause heads to roll with a generation outrage then flock is small beans in comparison and we are st
24.
by mingus88 1mo ago
I worked at a place almost exactly like this article. No surprise, it was one of the many startups that came out of the “PayPal mafia” in the 2010s When the culture demands you spend every evening in the office, the actual work output is of
25.
by mingus88 1mo ago
I am an adult but I am also a human I would expect a layoff with the same level of care as onboarding. If that’s done 900 people at a time over Zoom, cool. We all know we’re part of a herd. It just sucks and is completely unnecessary to tre
26.
by mingus88 1mo ago
Most US sites are giving the cookie bag to US users. It may simply be easier for leadership to say add the widget than it is to say we won’t accept traffic from the EU or risk the consequences It feels similar to how CA environmental regs b
27.
by mingus88 1mo ago
“Get me there as fast as possible. Hey! I never said you should speed!” This is literally the bad genie / monkey’s paw plot. Give a powerful entity a goal and act shocked when it gets there in ways that aren’t in your best interest.
28.
by mingus88 1mo ago
I block numbers at that point. I don’t get how anyone would decide to open up after repeated attempts on their number.
29.
by mingus88 1mo ago
Oh, it saved money for someone all right
30.
by mingus88 1mo ago
The fact that an AI work was selected says more about the judges than anything else I’m not an AI hater; I use it every day now at work. But the output is obviously not human expression. You can tell. That’s fine for what I use it for. For

More ›