captainastronaut
@captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 2 days ago:
Lack of a cute animal mascot.
- Comment on Is there a good selfhosted service that can download and rehost tiktok links from a web ui? 3 days ago:
I would be the most concerned about the music. The MPAA exists solely to sue consumers and seems to have no other real purpose. Probably best to scrub the soundtracks.
- Comment on Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 3 days ago:
WTF is a “crime city” in your mind? It’s a low income city (avg $51k compared to US avg $79k). Does poor = criminal now?
- Comment on Meta touts 'superintelligence' for all as it splurges on AI 4 days ago:
To be fair, if everyone spent more time looking at cat memes instead of listening to billionaires talk about their big stupid ideas, we’d be in much better shape as a species.
- Comment on Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity 1 week ago:
Is Google solely responsible for earthquake notifications? For a system they describe as a safety net it’s pretty concerning it’s being relied on so much.
- Comment on Twitter in EU and UK 1 week ago:
May it wither and die. I would post my ID on the bathroom wall at Heathrow before I would submit it to what remains of Twitter.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 week ago:
Very low and yes. They work great for IoT, as long as it’s not mission critical stuff as messages can get dropped or arrive out of order sometimes. But for something like monitoring a remote sensor station that’s within the Lora range, without needing a cellular plan, yes.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
Thorium.
- Comment on Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential | Proton 1 week ago:
I like the logo. That cat looks appropriately suspicious.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 2 weeks ago:
“Bluesky punishing users who don’t use a VPN” FTFY
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 2 weeks ago:
Because it will only fix it for AI and not for the inefficient meat puppets.
- Comment on Fullstack Engineer - Waifus (for people looking for job) 2 weeks ago:
It would be a terrible shame if someone used their own AI to spam this form with applicants.
- Comment on Health-impaired world leaders raise nuclear war fears 2 weeks ago:
Without reading the article I’m assuming this is about how our world leaders are all mentally ill.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 2 weeks ago:
Agreed it definitely depends on what you buy. I inherited a stereo amp from my uncle who always buys really nice gear. I have had it repaired or been able to repair it anytime a component failed and it is now 30 years old. But it was built to last that long not to be disposed of in five.
Right to repair is not just for nerds and tinkerers. We all deserve repairable products.
- Comment on A lawsuit against Tesla and its driver-assistance technology goes to trial in Florida 2 weeks ago:
Anytime I get one as an Uber I try to play stupid like I can’t figure out the door handles. Slam the doors, pull the emergency door release (if there is one), push against the motorized door close mechanism. Ask if there’s a shade for the glass roof. Anything to remind the driver that it’s not a good car, especially as a taxi.
- Comment on What are the ramifications of letting an old domain that was used for email go back into the market? 2 weeks ago:
I would at least wait several years before you sell it. Make sure you have thoroughly unhooked yourself from that domain. Keep an email box open there to collect any legit messages
- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 3 weeks ago:
Do we get to pick who goes out? I have some ideas…
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 3 weeks ago:
Oh good it’s voice controlled. Because that technology works amazingly all the time.
- Comment on Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent 4 weeks ago:
Well we know it isn’t fashion tips
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 4 weeks ago:
Right? Wouldn’t the insurance costs outweigh how cheap the land is?
- Comment on Hosting a Web server on a RPi Model B 4 weeks ago:
I would love to see a return to curated link collections. Each person’s hobbies and expertise represented in links to the places they contribute, the repositories they are part of, the resources they depend on, and the information sources they consider reliable.
If you added some very basic support for verifying and following links that change, and something to prevent unauthorized AI bot scraping, and shipped it in a docker container that would run on small hardware like this, maybe an alternative grassroots internet could re-emerge.
- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 4 weeks ago:
They don’t though. The people who can afford a traffic lawyer or know how the system works just get them dismissed. It’s just another tax on those with the least resources.
- Comment on Digital Freedoms Enshrined: Building Unbreakable Constitutional Safeguards for Human Rights in the Age of Surveillance and Algorithms 4 weeks ago:
If you had asked me during the Obama administration I would have said this a chance of becoming law. Today I give it 0.002%.
- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 4 weeks ago:
Speed cameras don’t increase safety. Just ticket revenue.
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 4 weeks ago:
My pin is still 1077. The price of a cheese pizza and a large soda at Pannucci’s.
- Comment on EV tax credits might end even sooner than House bill proposed 4 weeks ago:
Who’s able to buy a new car in this economy anyway?
- Comment on Trump’s tax bill seeks to prevent AI regulations. Experts fear a heavy toll on the planet 5 weeks ago:
The risks of unregulated AI are very high.
- Comment on 🚨 NEW: UK police are being told to hide their work with Palantir. 5 weeks ago:
I would think it’s just standard at this point with Palantir that you don’t want anyone to know what you are doing with them. It’s like saying you partnered with Darth Maul on your CRM database. No matter how innocuous the project it reeks of evil.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 5 weeks ago:
If it’s just so you personally can access it away from home, use tailscale. Less risky than running a publicly exposed server.
- Comment on How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data 5 weeks ago:
How do we pin this post to the top of the internet?