AlecSadler
@AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
I’m sorry your joke didn’t land, I, for one, snorted air out my nostrils quite handily.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 1 week ago:
I guess that makes some sense, I loathe Jira but I think it’s largely because everywhere I’ve worked that uses Jira has poorly customized it and just ruined the experience.
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 1 week ago:
There is absolutely zero chance a windows handheld gaming device succeeds, what the actual fuck are they thinking, lol.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 1 week ago:
You might be joking but I honestly think that’s the case. It’s wild to me. I’ve worked for Fortune 500 companies using SNOW and everybody hated it and regularly voiced complaints and issues and yet the company refused to change. Started doing shit like releasing more training docs on how to use it or doing brown bag lunches on SNOW effectiveness.
But ultimately none of that mattered, it is just inherently garbage.
- Comment on Sunsetting the Ghostery Private Browser 1 week ago:
I didn’t even know this existed and I use Ghostery.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 1 week ago:
the fuck does service now even need AI for?
I hate any company I work for that uses ServiceNow. And now it’s getting worse??
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 1 week ago:
Definitely not OK. But it exists and I don’t think people realize it goes beyond tracking clicks to taking actual screenshots that can be stitched together practically as a video. It sucks.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 week ago:
Can’t wait for the robo taxis to get vandalized.
Barring that, can’t wait until they fail miserably.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 1 week ago:
Yup. Worked briefly for a company that would “snapshot” the browser view quite often, enough where if an issue arose we could somewhat replay the user’s interactions to try and repro the issue.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 1 week ago:
Oh, no, I think based on other articles the horse died of other causes. But the consensus amongst people I know is that this was just fucked up animal torture on some level.
Like, I’m fine if the horse was also fine and seemed into skydiving. I just have zero evidence of that.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 1 week ago:
Someone please feel free to enlighten me, but my horse riding friends say this is pretty fucked up and not something the horse would ever get used to.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
Ah, okay, thanks for the info! I’ve never used Duolingo so I genuinely don’t know.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
In another thread someone told me you can buy gems or something to keep your streak going.
That would’ve made me uninstall long before his comments.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 2 weeks ago:
Every time I go to SO I have to deal with CloudFlare checks or captchas. I’m not genuinely not sure why, but it has kept me from clicking SO links from search engines first. Not even using a VPN. Kind of odd.
- Comment on Papa I'm scared 2 weeks ago:
Technically he wants to be a real boy? Doesn’t seem as horror as I first thought.
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 2 weeks ago:
Ohhhhh. Okay, yeah, so I worked for a data aggregation company for a time and there was absolutely an odd (personally identified) correlation between lead exposure areas of the US and heavily red voting.
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 2 weeks ago:
I’m super curious why you’re asking.
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 2 weeks ago:
If we kill them it helps.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off 3% of workforce in biggest round of cuts since 2023 - report 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t Amazon layoff 3-6% every year as a minimum?
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
Well, I’m not white so I may also get deported to El Salvador.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
If we survive this, I absolutely plan to shame them into non-existence.
- Comment on It would be wrong to kill Elon musk and Donald Trump, but it would absolutely make the world a better place. Killing is wrong. But the world would be better without them. 4 weeks ago:
I want Trump forced to live in a clear enclosure in a highly trafficked area so that everyone can point and laugh every fucking day, but in a way that he can hear them but they can’t hear him.
Make him suffer until he fucking dies.
- Comment on How much longer until we're just the States of America? 4 weeks ago:
Negative years ago.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
I agree with you that Copilot and Gemini are the worst, but why’d you keep going, lol. Jesus dude.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
Of all the LLMs I’ve used for productivity assistance, Copilot is hands down, far and above, the worst. As far as I know, it’s leveraging ChatGPT APIs (correct me if I’m wrong), and even ChatGPT is better than Copilot (not by much).
Claude has really reigned supreme for my use cases, but I know that’s anecdotal.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 month ago:
Well, I deleted my account so that won’t work. But that’s crazy if that’s true (not doubting you).
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 month ago:
Guess I’ll cancel my free trial.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 month ago:
This. I have to go out of my way to even see my wife’s posts (well, before I deleted Facebook).
2/3rds of my feed are ads.
This metric is bullshit because they fucked up the waters.
- Comment on Do you understand how many people 350 million is? How did this worm ridden ball sack float to the top? 1 month ago:
Except his ancestor was a Democrat.
- Comment on Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans 1 month ago:
Damn, you just reminded me I need taco holders.