captainastronaut
@captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
- Comment on Alphabet Workers Union Statement on YouTube Offering Voluntary Exit Packages 6 days ago:
“This week, our employer has been prominent in the headlines as Alphabet stock reached a record high. We, the workers who generate those profits, deserve to feel secure in our employment. While we celebrate the fact that our organizing is working, with our demand to offer voluntary buyouts before mandatory layoffs becoming a new company standard, we know that the fight is far from over. “
Apparently, Google has agreed to offer a VEP rather than issue more layoffs?
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 1 week ago:
If the US becomes a democracy again, we might really have to worry about that! /s
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 1 week ago:
This seems like surveillance disguised as a mostly useless feature. If you are in the office and logging into a video call, you’re probably using the hardware in a conference room and not your own laptop. That hardware will already display the room you are calling from to everyone on the call.
The only reason for this feature is to tattle on people who aren’t where they say they are.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 1 week ago:
Not for the average spineless middle manager. This puts the data in their hands without having to get any approval from anyone in IT
- Comment on Internet upload speeds on self-hosted Jellyfin/Plex Servers? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe switching some of them onto a cheap seed box replica would be better? They have high in/out allowances.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 4 weeks ago:
Right! Living in a city grows your disdain for all of humanity. But not any particular race.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 5 weeks ago:
Building an iOS app is faster and simpler than building a web app. The developer also said he took advantage of some privacy features in the iOS development kit that made it easy to keep people anonymous.
- Comment on Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs 5 weeks ago:
That dude definitely looks like he has asked you at a party if you had any coke or E
- Comment on U.S. public power sector weighs risks and rewards of data center customers 5 weeks ago:
You should. There aren’t enough lifeboats for everyone and they don’t even view you as a passenger. More like cattle. So they aren’t saving one for you.
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if someone is trying to cast shade on TMobile as an ISP who is monitoring content and violating consumer rights? Unless it’s a precursor to a follow-up extortion campaign for these customers, it seems like by itself it does more potential damage to TMobile then to the consumers.
- Comment on Meta greenlights Facebook, Instagram ads based on your AI chats 5 weeks ago:
Cool, so since I have never talked to that bullshit does that mean I won’t get any ads?
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 5 weeks ago:
Fuck this fucking pedo fucker.
- Comment on A tool to assess the “digital maturity” of science organizations 1 month ago:
But what we really need is a tool for assessing the science maturity of digital organizations
- Comment on where to move for cheap VPS? 1 month ago:
I really like Orange Host. Good service and reliable and based in Iceland. www.orangehost.com/web-hosting
- Comment on Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues 1 month ago:
“Plagued” … “though the scope of the problem remains unclear.”
A few people on Reddit complained. Reddit at this point exists largely to amplify and echo complaints. I don’t think this is news yet.
- Comment on World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life 1 month ago:
Can we just not, ok science? We can’t even get people to take the vaccines we create.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 1 month ago:
Sam Altman is working on that, just needs another $20B
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I agree and I thought more people would be frustrated enough to leave Reddit. But there are enough of us here now that there is an alternative to Reddit that is viable. Hopefully that becomes common knowledge and they realize leaving Reddit doesn’t mean not having a community, so they feel encouraged to switch.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Hulu, is everything OK at home?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Track down the advertisers on your local ABC affiliate stations and cancel them!
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 month ago:
Anyone who fell into the trap of buying a fridge with a screen in it kind of deserves this.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
This headline could be amended to be more accurate as “experts in a given field not swayed by marketing that does not respect their expertise”. I’m sure there are bullshit claims on fertilizers that landscapers laugh at. I’m sure automotive engineers aren’t impressed by most features in a new car brochure. Trying to market a software solution to software engineers with bullshit claims it’s just a bad marketing strategy.
If you want to sell software with bullshit claims, market it to the executives!
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
Ahem…. Star Wars.
- Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession 1 month ago:
Oh good. A population empowered by the ultimate “yes and” affirmation machine to believe all their opinions are perfect and they don’t need to compromise with each other.
- Comment on ChatGPT Building Age Detection Tools 1 month ago:
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- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 month ago:
No way. Life is way better with smart phones. Tap to pay, maps, always having a camera, always having my notes, working as a mobile hotspot, controlling my home security system. 25 other things.
This stuff used to be so much harder. I’m not going back.
I will freely admit there are some dangerous addictive and invasive aspects to it also. I’m ruthless about what apps I will grant permissions to. And I don’t browse the App Store getting tempted by their promises.
I think the appeal of our phones not having to be a computer and not needing all the same rigor and paranoia and extra steps of a computer was really exciting. But it hasn’t turned out to be true. So now I treat it like a computer and approach everything with that level of skepticism. And also treat it like the gateway to capitalism that it is and I am skeptical of anything that’s trying to take my data or money. I think with the right attitude it’s a net positive device in my life
- Comment on Best Fediverse platforms to do it all right this time 1 month ago:
Yeah same, I mostly just check the inbox for fun things my friends have sent. I’m not ready to give that part up yet
- Comment on Today marks the beginning of His Majesty's fourth year on the throne. May His Majesty have many many more! God save the King! 1 month ago:
Warm? That’s not an adjective that has ever been attached to Charles.
- Comment on Best Fediverse platforms to do it all right this time 1 month ago:
Pixelfed is good and has some great artists and photographers already there. The mobile app was pretty rough a few months ago but it’s getting better quickly.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 months ago:
It’s cloud storage and terrestrial storage. And it’s multi cloud. It’s the ultimate cloud hybrid!