rumba
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- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
I guess my next phone is going to run NixOS.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 weeks ago:
Ahh so they'll use this to eliminate bots and multi-account trolls right?
right??????!!?!?
- Comment on Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, have at it, the barrier to entry on taking some payments and distributing it to people is so high that no one else can possibly get in that market...
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 3 weeks ago:
IMO, Nokia's bread and butter was the hardware and the simplicity. The phone apps were just Java.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 3 weeks ago:
You might not need 50 amps now. But that line is a 1 time cost and maybe you'll want to weld one day.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 3 weeks ago:
Not where I was going for that, more like museum pieces. He's really done a bunch of shit we absolutely should NOT have allowed. A president, releasing a phone, while in office for a grift. Our great grandkids (hopefully) will be walking through the Smithsonian going what the FUCK was going on in the 20's, and one of these e-waste POS will be sitting there staring back at them.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 3 weeks ago:
heh fair, gender bias for me.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 3 weeks ago:
Youtubers going for content.
Conceptually, it'll make one f of a collectors item one day there's no way enough will sell to make them common.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 3 weeks ago:
Debts are gone AND now he can sell the user data with impunity! No NO, that was that OTHER GUY
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 3 weeks ago:
"Honey, We got a letter from the HOA, they've revoked our pool privileges, you wouldn't know anything about that you'd you?"
[insert Krumbobulous Michael here I go killing again meme]
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 3 weeks ago:
Competitors severely penalized in 3...2...
The great wireless firewall of America.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 3 weeks ago:
I bet the did it internally for April fools and it's just getting out to the public.
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 3 weeks ago:
My #$%^ HOA only socializes through FB groups. Been trying to drum up interest in a defederated Frendica or something, but can't get any traction :( I've unliked all the stuff and unfollowed everything else, but I can't GTFO of it any further without being unable to deal with my neighbors civilly
- Comment on Microsoft Tests Removing Its Name From Bing Search Box 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the link. God we do this all the time at work. I didn't know it had a name.
Everyone wants to contribute. Big things are scary and have the attention of the most senior staff. When a small thing hits the table, everyone has input and isn't afraid of looking stupid or getting called out when they feel ways about, say, the look of a company directory.
When big issues are on the table, they wait for the subject matter experts to chime in and contribute little for fear of getting getting called out for being trivial.
Always felt like there was middle ground there that was never tread.