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A Jack of All Trades, and a master of at least one or two. Professional opinion-haver. Drummer, cocktail enthusiast, lover of history, tech-nerd, Information Policy wonk. College football is my vice. Boosts are probably endorsements, but you should never assume, just in case.

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andybaio, to random
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"Consent Mode is off by default" should be the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings

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@karabaic Conceivably yes, the user could be liable for recording someone without consent in a multi-person consent state. But Limitless would likely be no more liable than Sony would be for making a tape recorder used to record someone without their consent in the same situation.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Guess I forgot how good "Legion" is.

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@hotdogsladies TIL he’s Abraham Lincoln in “Manhunt” on Apple TV+. Did not recognize him at all!

But also agree. He’s great.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Ca. mid-1990s:

Those three weird glyphs on the cover of "Ghost in the Machine" are LED 'drawings' that represent the members of the band. Squinting helps, because…

(L-R) Andy Summers, Sting, Stewart Copeland.

I've always revered this record, and it took me well over a decade to realize this insanely obvious thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Machine_(album)#Artwork_and_titling#Artwork_and_titling)

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@hotdogsladies I’ve “known” this trivia for a while but never could actually see it myself until you advised squinting. I feel silly.

masukomi, to random
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Dear internet:

What are these?
I found them in our basement.

The thing on the right claims to be a "professional hole punch", but the end is designed to be very dull. I'm guessing this is related to PEX tubing because of where I found it, but why would that need punching?

I have absolutely no idea what the thing on the left is.

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@masukomi Thing on the left might be a cutter? It has the different sizes for the pipes. Is there a sharp edge on the interior of the thing?

atomicpoet, to random
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Karen Carpenter was a way better drummer than John Bonham, and this drum solo is proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVBtjaHxR7Y

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@atomicpoet Very much in the style of Buddy Rich and Louis Bellson. Love it. She was excellent.

Holberg, to random
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Have you heard the good news about our lord and savior Gin?

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@Holberg Balsphemy! The one true god Rum will smite you!

jamesthomson, to random
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Well this is fun! I finally got my Apple Vision Pro in Glasgow, but it turns out it's not actually my Apple Vision Pro.

It's in the right box, but it's a 256GB model, not a 512GB, and the serial number of the device doesn't match my order. I have to assume that the store in San Francisco mixed up devices when they were packing them. And somebody in SF got a free upgrade to a 512GB one.

I suspect they would say “just bring it back”, but that's kinda hard now that I'm 5,000 miles away. Fuck.

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@jamesthomson I know you’re satisfied with the solution but did they ask you if that was acceptable or did they just do it and inform you?

Former Apple Retail here and I’m curious because of the training they drilled into me.

GottaLaff, to random
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Emptywheel:

Kavanaugh now making shit up to rebut the claim there has never been an insurrection like this since the Civil War.

Concerning.

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@Wileymiller @GottaLaff I mean, as Texas has proved, Colorado can just ignore SCOTUS with 0 repercussions.

ElleGray, to random
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tv and movies from my youth lead me to believe there would be a lot more muppets around to help me with things

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@ElleGray We were promised Muppets and Jet Packs and all we got was this stupid internet.

gruber, to random
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Whenever I log into LinkedIn I feel like I’m under attack.

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@gruber LinkedIn is one of the major websites that I consider actively user hostile. Reddit, Xitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Google search results, and Quora (as much as Quora can be considered “major”).

joesteel, to random
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It is adorable that if you add a new contact in macOS that it has a field for instant messenger that defaults to Jabber. The Halcyon days of XMPP.

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@joesteel I would say Contacts desperately needs an update (so many little issues and things it should be able to do given modern computer capabilities) but I don’t want Apple’s design team touching it and turning it into the next “Settings” app.

film_girl, to random
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What annoys me most about the current Mac repair I'm having to do for my mom is that I'm literally having to do it. Like, look, she should be better at backup -- this is true -- however -- I cannot trust the Apple Store to do a backup and I don't know if I can trust Best Buy these days either. So it literally has to be me, even though what I'm doing any PC tech should be able to do. But I absolutely do not trust the Apple Store for anything data related.

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@film_girl It’s a liability thing. Apple absolutely won’t touch your data, backup, recover, etc. When you drop it off you sign a piece of paper agreeing that they’re not liable for data loss. If you need to do recovery they send you to a Data Doctors type place.

Not to mention the headlines Apple Stores were found to be accidentally keeping copies of customer backups or something like that. Lawsuits galore!

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@film_girl I agree with you and arguably they shouldn’t even need to offer in-store backup because it’s automatically backed up in the background to say I don’t know iCloud (seriously my iPad is 2TB and my iPhone is 1TB. I think they can handle my 1TB MacBook Pro backing up like my iPhone does).

Best Buy’s are authorized Apple service providers so maybe they offer a backup before service solution?

stg, to random
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Why does the tech press report on every single M*sk tweet, random missive during an interview, and public masturbatory comment? Maybe just make an article entitled:

“Here’s all the stupid shit M*sk said he wants to do, which probably won’t come true but maybe it will.”

Just update it every time with a link to the stupid tweet+screenshot. Not everything needs 500 words to explain “M*sk said something ridiculous again.”

dangillmor, to random
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Truly loathe travel sites -- an airline in this case -- where the price goes up significantly in the middle of the search. It's damn close to bait and switch.

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@dangillmor Was this on an aggregator site (Expedia/Kayak etc) or an airline’s specific site?

thomasfuchs, to random
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✅ Exhaustive list of things at "AI" generated text has made better:

❌ Non-exhaustive list of things that "AI" generated text has made worse:

  • Search results
  • Scientific studies
  • How-to articles and repair instructions
  • Cooking recipes
  • Information on poisonous plants and mushrooms
  • Information about disease symptoms
  • News
  • Marketing copy
  • Customer support replies
  • Product descriptions in online stores
  • Bugs and data corruption through subtly wrong generated code
  • Ripping off authors
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@thomasfuchs @lisamelton Agree with the rest of the list, and I’m very very very much an AI pessimist, but I’m going to quibble a bit with Customer Support replies. What is being used currently is a dressed up form of “if -> then” statements practically hard coded into the support flows. I’m not really kidding. I’ve set up several of these systems from different companies.

Context recognition and understanding is going to be massive when it’s properly applied to customer support. BUT you can’t just replace humans; the best approach is to use AI to collect context and provide information to the person on the other end fixing the problem, suggest documented solutions/FAQs, etc.

That being said, having worked in support for so long, the vast majority of support inquiries could have been google searches.

film_girl, to random
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Well, egg on my face as I never expected to see this. I still think RCS is largely useless and that this is just a ploy to avoid the EU sanctioning them, but I suppose it’s good for the dwindling number of SMS-only people. I def don’t expect Apple to go out of their way to support anything more than bare minimum. https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/

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@BenRiceM I think once Facebook* starts inserting ads into Whatsapp, we might see more RCS adoption outside of the US, though with this move from Apple I think Facebook* will delay that so as to hold onto marketshare.

*I won't call them the other name.

stg, to random
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@ivory Unsure if it’s a bug or limitation on Widgets functionality, but muted hashtags show up in home screen widgets.

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@ivory Thanks! Keep up the amazing work!

pixel, to random
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I just heard the term “Hillbilly ISIS” and I lost it.

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@pixel “Y’all-Qaeda” remains my favorite. Hillbilly ISIS is right up there though.

sdw, to random
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Happy 22nd birthday, iPod! To celebrate, I finally bought the iPod product I always lusted after when it came out.

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@sdw omg was this one new in box?! I’m so jealous.

marcoarment, to random
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Netflix has raised prices more frequently in the last few years than I've found a great new show on Netflix.

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@marcoarment The ONE Netflix show that came out recently(ish) that kept me on was “The Diplomat”. Very well written and acted.

paul, to random
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I regret to vent that Mail.app in Sonoma is still terribly buggy.

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@paul Mail.app is so broken but I use it still because of the authentication code auto-fill feature. That’s really the only thing keeping me.

stg, to random
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LinkedIn wants me to train their AI for free.

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@darren SHINY THINGS

dgar, to random
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Username: admin
Password: admin

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@dgar @mathewi That’s why my router login password is “password”.

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