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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Have also been out of the loop too but went through the know your meme’s page.

  Pirate Software made a video a year ago criticizing the initiative on a very surface level and has continued to do so in streams. Guy who created/sponsored/however-that-works the initiative posted a counter-argument video talking about what the initiative would actually do. Pirate Software did the ol’ Internet Doubledown and in general was kind of an ass and kind of revealed some ignorance. Cue Drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lifeguards take breaks every ~20 minutes, not just to look down or zone out, to get up and move around. And again, are in an extremely controlled environment looking for a very small number of specific problems.

  Elon is making programmers sleep at their desks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lifeguards have very short periods of diligence before they take mandatory breaks. Train conductors operate on grade separated infrastructure. Security Guards do not have to take split second action or die.

  Putting a warm body in a mind-numbing situation and requiring split second response to a life or death situation at a random time is a recipe for failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Duck Season is pretty fun too FWIW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Expecting people to be able to behave like machines is generally the attitude that leads to crash investigations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Incognito mode (Chrome) and Private mode (Safari/Firefox) and InPrivate Browsing (Edge/IE) have had disclaimers/explanations for years, Chrome just expanded the disclaimer after settling the suit. Unfortunately for them the judge didn’t know how the internet works any better than the plaintiffs. Winding back the odometer on a car doesn’t mean toll roads don’t know you drove there, it just means “you” have no record of it.

  Opera / Vivaldi offer an integrated VPN, but they’re about the only ones other than stuff like the Tor Browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, been kicking myself since I found out it was all gone a few weeks ago. Don’t know why I didn’t make a ‘just in case’ backup / export.

  Still infuriating they can just go “oops all gone”. It came through the roll-out fine, I remember looking stuff up in February. As far as I can tell it was a later unrelated glitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google also accidentally deleted a random amount of user’s timeline data if you didn’t immediately catch it and restore from back up last March before the affected backups were overwritten. If you didn’t keep a close enough watch on your timeline to know that that happened, everything before ~Feb 2025 is gone now.

  Ask me how I know. Yes I kept up on permissions. Yes I had backups on. No I didn’t have a new device. I even have dozens of available gigabytes of paid storage on Google One.

  I’m sure it will only get more stable due to maps and timeline being revenue generators that encourage investment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Popularized definitely, he was working off an at the time recent pop history book about Tesla.

  Tesla’s been the subject of a lot of weird counter-cultural co-opting since his death. Kinda like Che but for electricity instead of marxism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that there are examples of actually wasted money, but just putting it out there that planning is fucking important. There have been several high profile projects, like Texas high speed rail, where planning was the hard part and the project got canceled as they were ready to break ground because “there was no progress”. Queue Republicans “the government does nothing” after they stopped anything from happening. Infrastructure cannot operate on election cycle timelines.

  Digging in the ground and integrating with existing infrastructure isn’t just a plug and play operation. Leases and liens need to be sorted out. Estimates of current and future demand needs to be sorted out so you don’t install useless networks. Fibre isn’t that heavy, but “can the existing conduits under bridges support it and/or do they have room to without a complete replacement” isn’t a trivial question for backbone lines.

  Winging it just causes more problems as you find things you didn’t anticipate and cause delays while having to continue paying contracts so work can resume once the delay is cleared. If you don’t, the contractor is on to their next job and unavailable for an effectively random amount of time.

  It could be done faster, but it would cost more. Because planning is really important to keep multi-million/billion dollar projects accountable and on track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. But they’re not driving syncro-less transmissions. They’re driving tricked out sports cars in a straight line and somehow having about 14 gear changes in a 6 speed manual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And what I mean is that prior to the mid 1900s the etymology didn’t exist to cause that confusion of terms. Neither Babbage’s machines nor prior adding engines were called computers or calculators. They were ‘machines’ or ‘engines’.

  Babbage’s machines were novel in that they could do multiple types of operations, but ‘mechanical calculators’ and counting machines were ~200 years old. Other aids like abacus’ are obviously far older. They were not novel enough to cause confusion in anyone with even passing interest.

  But there will always be people who just assume ‘magic’, and/or “it works like I want it to”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Computer” meaning a mechanical/electro-mechanical/electrical machine wasn’t used until around after WWII.

  Babbag’s difference/analytical engines weren’t confusing because people called them a computer, they didn’t.

  "On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

  • Charles Babbage

  If you give any computer, human or machine, random numbers, it will not give you “correct answers”.

  It’s possible Babbage lacked the social skills to detect sarcasm. We also have several high profile cases of people just trusting LLMs to file legal briefs and official government ‘studies’ because the LLM “said it was real”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think because it’s language.

  There’s a famous quote from Charles Babbage when he presented his difference engine (gear based calculator) and someone asking “if you put in the wrong figures, will the correct ones be output” and Babbage not understanding how someone can so thoroughly misunderstand that the machine is, just a machine.

  People are people, the main thing that’s changed since the Cuneiform copper customer complaint is our materials science and networking ability. Most of things people interact with every day, most people just assume work like it appears to on the surface.

  And nothing other than a person can do math problems or talk back to you. So people assume that means intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what config files are for. It would be a nightmare to hardcode weight and balance and have to recompile the HUD every time you change the loadout or refuel the plane.

  Most code, algorithms, etc are not any more sensitive than the concept of desks and file cabinets. No, guidance programs for missiles probably shouldn’t be put on GitHub, but there’s a reason RSA and other encryption algorithms were open sourced. It’s better to have more eyes looking for inefficiencies, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities than to just assume it’s good because no-one on the team responsible is smart/engaged enough to find them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of functionality can be decoupled from anything that needs to be classified. A HUD is a HUD and no one should be hard coding in performance characteristics of the F-35 into it for example. I’ve also worked on government projects and holy crap does the code quality vary wildly, even before you get into “it’s still working so deal with the problems, it doesn’t have the budget for updates”.

  Using ‘off the shelf’ parts/code can save significant time and money. There’s a reason subs use xbox controllers. Government websites and data interfaces at the very least should have the audit-ability that open source provides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory yes, but not a lot of people are uploading their family photo albums AFAIK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be interesting to have some kind of global archive. Even if descendants don’t care “now” has the potential to be the beginning of the best documented era in history. Historians would kill for photographs by random average people from any other time.

  A lot of people thought that that’s what the Internet would be, but that’s obviously not the case. And I know the “right to be forgotten” is a thing, and deservedly so, but at some point you’re throwing out the wine with the amphora.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of that’s cultural momentum right? Like I don’t know how many Pickles it takes to make a Peck of Pickles despite hours singing about it as a kid. There’s not a lot of reason sans-nostalgia to read an analog clock or drive a manual car. (I love my manual, they’re not getting any less niche with EVs on the way.)

  And everyone’s going to learn something the first time, some time. But it is just nuts that for some people that is apparently after getting a job with a Bachelor’s, somehow. So much time, money, and energy was spent in the 90s/00s having computer classes in schools and now so much of it has been cut because the people in charge are so out of touch that watching youtube on a device designed to be easily usable is indistinguishable from “technical skills”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a me problem but kept having problems with that docker on unraid, it’s just in the community apps ‘store’. The vm seemed to just crash randomly.

  I switched over to their B2 storage and just use rclone to an encrypted bucket and it’s ~<$5/mo which I’m good with. Biggest cost is if I let it run too often and it spends a bunch of their compute time listing files to see if it needs to update them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Joan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The show Bones had a lot of weirdness, but I did appreciate that they consistently (at least the first few seasons when I was watching) stripped the bones down and even had a bug guy to do it efficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If my family hired an actor to impersonate me at my killer’s trial and give a prepared speech about how I felt about the situation it would be thrown out of court.

  If my family hired a cartoonist or movie studio to create a moving scene with my face recreated by digital artists and a professional voice actor to talk about my forgiveness for my death, it would be thrown out of court.

  That they used a generative program to do it and the Judge allowed the video to influence the sentence as if it were a statement by the deceased is deeply troubling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was averaging ~1-2% blocked using the firebog and a few other lists, added hagezi’s ‘pro plus’ list last month and it’s up to 39% blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a trmnl and it’s pricey but works pretty good. I’ve mostly been using a few out-of-the-box plugins for it.

  There is a selfhosted/offline version of the server you can run for it, so it can be ‘offline’ in theory. I keep meaning to mess with it more but haven’t put the time aside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even have to show the gold. Just say you saw it and it’s now in that tent over there. No you can’t go in. This is what was written on it though. Oh it’s in a language only I can read. Don’t worry, I’ll translate. Give me your wife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Building from source is always going to come with complications. That’s why most people don’t do it. A docker compose file that ‘just’ downloads the stable release from a repo and starts running is dramatically more simple than cross-referencing all your services to make sure there are no dependency conflicts.

  There’s an added layer of complexity under the hood to simplify the common use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can install key and screen loggers if you want. Could even setup offsite backup and rclone it all wherever you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome! Hopefully AirBnB doesn’t donate a million dollars to Trump for an exemption.

  I do kind of wish these things required some kind of disclosure instead of letting them pretend they’re super consumer friendly and don’t need any of that demonic regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re footnote section is doing a lot of work.

  1 In some countries and regions taxes are included in the total price displayed. The total price including taxes is always displayed prior to checkout.

  They also either don’t know how notations work, or the AI they’re using to generate this doesn’t because it has a separate footnote with that same sentence later on.

  I would be thoroughly unsurprised if some EU or other regulation came into effect that they have to do this, and now they’re taking credit for being consumer friendly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encryption Is Not a Crime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mathematically worse.