beejjorgensen
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- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 day ago:
Apparently if they get flagged as underage when they aren’t.
Yet another example of how requiring ID is a shit idea.
- Comment on Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing? 1 week ago:
Usenet is having a small revival now that Google got out. The spam is gone.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
I couldn’t get Netflix to play at high resolution on my old Roku because of some DRM crap. And I was a legit customer! Once again, piracy would have provided a superior experience.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
I have a Kobo and it does OK. Nothing special.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
I will never, ever purchase a book I can’t remove the DRM from.
And there are people out there who are absolutely fanatical about book preservation. They will photograph every single page and run it through OCR and recreate an ebook just so it gets preserved. DRM is absolutely pointless and stupid.
- Comment on TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal 1 week ago:
It’s not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it’s far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement 2 weeks ago:
Keep the donations coming. IA is worth a million times more to humanity than all of these publishers combined.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 2 weeks ago:
Hero. There’s only one gas station I use that has ads and I’ll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.
- Comment on AI in Education: Doomed? 4 weeks ago:
I have seen no evidence that we as a species in general will be able to harness LLMs for good.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
Way back in the day I was making $500 a month with AdSense ads on my sites. And then one month I started making $250 a month. I hadn’t changed anything. It’s a risky thing to rely on.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 month ago:
My buddy graduated and took a gap year. That year happened to be the dot com crash. So he kept backpacking for another year then started looking for work. 😁
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 month ago:
This isn’t the first time this has happened, though.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 1 month ago:
If I wanted to raise superhumans, I’d simply not give them smartphones until they turned 18.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 month ago:
Additionally, I’m not paying that evil company a dime. All the people I follow on YT get way more money from me on Patreon.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 1 month ago:
“He is an halibut.” --Monty Python 😁
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 2 months ago:
Will AI finally replace CEOs?
- Comment on The story of Rogue - Spillhistorie.no (2024) 2 months ago:
I just installed the original about a month ago to try it again. I hadn’t played it since the early 90s on a VT220 attached to a MicroVAX II.
Didn’t make it past the first level. 😅
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 2 months ago:
I don’t trust the people making the national citizenship list to be honest about it.
- Comment on The End of Publishing as We Know It 3 months ago:
Lol… I wanted “DRM”. But it’s been a long day.
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 3 months ago:
No way rich people are using this shit on their own kids.
- Comment on The End of Publishing as We Know It 3 months ago:
I often wonder about the stuff I write, what becomes of it. It’s a little disheartening since I love crafting it for best effect… But especially with computer books for beginners, people prefer to ask AI for the answers instead of studying.
I also just bought 6 sci-fi books from an author I’d never heard of for cheap. I love supporting indy authors, the price was right, and they sold their books directly from the website, no middlemen and no DEI. Perfect.
But was the author real? I actually did a bunch of research to find out their history and all that before pulling the trigger. I really don’t want to read AI stories. But I can see a future where the vast majority don’t care. Imagine an endless episode of Survivor or a soap opera, completely generated 24x7 forever. You know that shit would be massive.
And there might only be a fringe that seeks human-generated content for the humanity of it.
- Comment on Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator 3 months ago:
I didn’t play that one, but I did play the c64 game… www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHVCk_jKdM
Not quite as spectacular. 😅
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 3 months ago:
I’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 3 months ago:
Vim because it’s ubiquitous, starts up instantly, works when ssh’d into a server, and doesn’t get in my way with lots of busy interface. Also modal editors are the only way to go, IMHO. 🙂
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 3 months ago:
I used to pay Google for things back when they were pretty awesome. Haven’t paid them a dime for years now.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai is vibe coding. 'It feels so delightful to be a coder.' 3 months ago:
I’ve been messing around with vibe-painting, myself. Damn it feels good to be an artist.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 3 months ago:
I’m trying to think of something more fucked up, but I’m struggling, here.
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 months ago:
This guy’s argument is that he’s a 10xer because he’s using AI effectively, i.e. just proofreading its output and deleting the comments. (Also, why hire juniors when you can get the same work for $20/mo?)
I think this is a losing strategy unless all senior devs never retire and are immortal. (Or unless GAI happens in which case the world economy will collapse and who cares about strategy.)
It looks like what’s happening is that way fewer companies are willing to invest in juniors now, leading to falling enrollment in university, leading to a shortage of seniors, leading to very high dev pay, leading to increased enrollment. Eventually.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 4 months ago:
Or a process to challenge them?
😂😂😂😔
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 4 months ago:
“I see you have extensive database experience. Can you elaborate on the white genocide?”