kentbrew

kentbrew, 8 months ago to chrome

Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

#chrome #privacy #enshittification

kentbrew, 1 year ago to ai

So I've landed in Nextdoor's "Assistant" experiment, which will offer to completely rewrite your post. It is just amazingly creepy having this thing come up without warning.

https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/Introducing-Assistant

#ai #chatgpt #nextdoor

kentbrew, 6 months ago to coffee

First roast of our homegrown coffee for 2023. 60g green beans on the left; 55g roasted on the right. 3 minutes in the air popper; first crack at 1:45 or so; trying for a medium roast. Next we give it 72 hours to develop; tasting Thursday! #coffee #farming #kauai

kentbrew, 7 months ago to twitter

“A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X, though traffic from the platform was small already and accounted for just under two percent of traffic before the posting stopped.“ #twitter #npr https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

kentbrew, 7 months ago to Netflix

Pouring one out for Netflix DVDs. Netflix does not get a lot of credit for it, but: they were instrumental in helping the USPS figure out how to get a DVD through a sorting machine without breaking it. Everybody's mail arrives faster because of Netflix.

#dvd #netflix

https://dvd.netflix.com/ThanksForWatching

kentbrew, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Datapoint: Jack Smith also SOUNDS like Coach Beard. Brendan Hunt should definitely play him in the movie. #uspol #indictment #jacksmith

kentbrew, 11 months ago to random

Over the weekend we finished the upper pasture. About 1100 feet of fence, all held together with tiny fiddly bits of metal. Naturally the goats would prefer to eat the stuff on the other side. #kauai #farming #goats

kentbrew, 5 months ago to random

"Tangara stands out as an unusual device that combines a classic iPod-like design with open source software and an open hardware platform (which means you can build your own or customize the design). It’s expected to go up for preorder through a Crowd Supply crowdfunding campaign soon for $249." #music #opensource

https://liliputing.com/tangara-is-an-open-source-ipod-inspired-portable-music-player-crowdfunding-soon/

kentbrew, 11 months ago to random

Notably absent tonight: Elon Musk’s advice for rescuing the crew of the Titan. #titan

kentbrew, 1 year ago to random

Macadamia nuts are coming along nicely! There's a flower to the left and a cluster of nearly-ready fruit on the right.

#kauai #farming

kentbrew, 10 months ago to webdev

Speaking as someone who used to hand-whittle SVGs with a text editor: this is brilliant. #nerd #webdev #svg https://www.nan.fyi/svg-paths

kentbrew, 25 days ago to woodworking

Work in progress: a set of three olive utensils. This is all very hard scrap wood that's been hanging around for a year so there are definitely power tools involved. Last step is my favorite: a very close rubdown with cabinet scrapers, which leave a super-smooth tool-finished piece that can be oiled without any sanding at all because the scraper cuts the fibers instead of tearing them. #woodworking #carving #spoons #wip

kentbrew, 17 days ago to Eurovision

#Eurovision is also the Olympics for stagehands. https://www.wsj.com/video/50-seconds-of-madness-behind-the-scenes-at-eurovision-2024/1A6C3665-4864-4630-94B0-F7282D342083

kentbrew, 9 months ago to random

Oh, good grief: "At 1:31, De Oliveira dove through the bushes to meet Nauta on an adjacent property — presumably one without cameras — snuck back through the brambles for another visit to the IT office, and then, like a Homer Simpson gif come to life, crossed back through the bushes to report to Nauta."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-superseding-indictment-crimes-explained

#uspol

kentbrew, 10 months ago to twitter

Joke's on us: "Linda Yaccarino" is actually a large language model. #twitter

kentbrew, 1 year ago to random

Research shows that crows and other corvids know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds according to STAT. This is considered a cornerstone of self-awareness and shared by just a handful of animal species besides humans.

#corvids #crows

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a34165311/crows-are-self-aware-like-humans/

kentbrew, 9 months ago to cooking

Pro tip: if your home-made pizza came out with the crust a little raw, pan-fry the leftovers in butter! #cooking #pizza #hacking

kentbrew, 9 months ago to random

Well, okay, because the hashtag is trending:

There Will Be Blood was a horrible grinding slog. I remember being in the theater and thinking (at least three times) "Wow, I'm tired of this movie. Okay now this HAS to be the end of this movie. COME ON, END OF MOVIE! END OF MOVIE!" and then "oh, no, it's still going...."

#unpopularmovieopinions

kentbrew, 9 months ago to random

In the last few days I've received three clear warnings that Google is tightening up some things I depend on:

1. a note to every Gmail account I own reminding me that they will delete it if I'm not using it. Seems reasonable.

#enshittification

kentbrew, 10 months ago to VegetableGardening

Morning bounty: cannonball papaya, sunrise papaya, Hass avocado, mammee apple, and a teeeny tiny sugarloaf pineapple. #farming #kauai #fruit

kentbrew, 7 months ago to trustandsafety

Trust & safety is not nearly as easy as you think it is.

"You will be tasked with growing the Trust & Safety team at a social media startup and navigating a series of difficult dilemmas. Get ready to make tough moderation decisions, shape platform policies, and invest in your team as the company scales from small startup to IPO."

#TrustAndSafety #gaming

https://trustandsafety.fun/

kentbrew, 1 year ago to ai

Messing around with Alpaca 13B on Dalai LLaMA and when I ask anything deeper than "please describe the taste of a papaya," the output strongly resembles the BS you'd get from a high school student who hadn't done the reading. (Hint: Heinlein didn't write "The Marching Morons." Kornbluth did.)

#ai #hacking

kentbrew, 2 months ago to random

Now slowly grinding through Login Hell on a new Roku Express. X streaming services times Y different login UIs times Z different hard-to-guess passwords equals SO MUCH SWEARING.

Why can't I just go to a big login portal on my laptop and do them all at once? How has the state of this art not advanced one tiny bit since we were building login for PS3 at Netflix in 2009?

kentbrew, 3 days ago to ai

Starting to get sick of this stuff, Brave. I should not be trying to figure how to turn this off, because it should never have turned on without asking me first. #enshittification #ai

kentbrew, 4 months ago to random

For a long time I was the only front-end developer in the house who ran Windows, because 95% of the browsing population ran Windows.

#MyFirstMac was a 2009 Macbook, because you absolutely positively could not get a Windows laptop without Vista onboard. Bought it right after leaving Netflix; ran Windows on it through Parallels for a couple of years until Pinterest, which was an all-Mac shop.

That Macbook was a near-perfect machine. And you could open it up and fix it when it broke.