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mspencer712

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  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?

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  • Also, the development and evolution of these open technologies relies on human interest and attention, and that attention can be diminished, even starved, by free, closed offerings.

    Evil plan step 1: make a free closed alternative and make it better than everything else. Discord for chat, Facebook for forums and chat/email, etc.

    Step 2: wait a few years, or a decade or more. The world will largely forget how to use the open alternatives. Instant messengers, forums, chat services, just give them a decade to die out. Privately hosted communities, either move to Facebook, pay for commercial anti-spam support, spend massive volunteer hours, or drown in spam.

    Step 3: monetize your now-captive audience. What else are they going to use? Tools and apps from the 2000s?

  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?

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  • What? Did I turn it off and on again? I’m a very smart technology person, of course my big brain already thought of that. I develop software for a living. It couldn’t be that simple or I wouldn’t be calling you.

    . . .

    Turning it off and on again worked. My shame is immense and I have wasted everybody’s time.

    (And that is how I learned to embrace my own idiocy and do the recommended, simple troubleshooting tasks without questioning them.)

  • Why does everyone hate Microsoft for adding LLMs into Windows and spying on users, but not Apple?

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  • So I’m curious . . . what reference am I missing that helps me understand what menu settings cause exactly which pieces of personal data to be shared with which Apple services? I want to RTFM, and while I appreciate people wanting to be helpful, comment replies are not themselves documentation.

    (I switched from Android to ios in 2020 and haven’t really figured out details beyond turning icloud sync off for specific apps. I’d like to add more devices and learn to trust that sync method but I don’t understand where crypto is used and how the keys are handled.)

  • Chinese #MeToo journalist jailed for five years

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  • I still miss Naomi Wu’s tech videos.

  • 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement

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  • Plagiarism should be part of the conversation here. Credit and context both matter.

  • Raspberry Pi is now a public company

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  • How much stock ownership remains with the nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation? And will that be enough to hold off shareholder complaints that they aren’t being evil enough?

  • GOP governor says June is about understanding & accepting homophobes

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  • God that sounds awful in headline form.

    Pride month is absolutely not an excuse to say “current homophobes will never get better, so they all need to blah blah”. Their current behavior is intolerable, but through continued exposure and humanizing influences, the people can be reached. It’ll go from hatred to extreme discomfort to mild discomfort to … something more normal.

    Unfortunately I’m a crappy communicator and I can’t figure out a way to reduce that to a headline without making it some kind of division-promoting reductionist garbage. Sigh.

  • ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down

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  • They probably got the sound file from the Visual C++ 4.2 CD’s samples folder. That’s where ICQ got it from.

  • Hunter Biden is set to go on trial on June 3 on federal firearms charges

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  • I think crucially it has the potential to show moderate voters that President Biden is not one to abuse the legal system for his own personal gain. If the outcome is supported by evidence and precedent, obviously some won’t be convinced by even that. But some will be.

  • Ukraine war: what we know about the secret deal that could have ended the conflict in April 2022

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  • Giving up land to an invader was ever acceptable? LOL

  • Senior dev be like...

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  • Agreed. Use your experience to shape the direction your teammates are moving in. Be an architect, and let them handle your light work.

  • Aaargh....my eyes......my eyes......

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  • Ugh, this makes me want to “slash slash slash.”

  • Medicare will cover Wegovy to reduce heart disease risk

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  • I’m not sure I follow. Why would a needle be reused? That’s never ok to do.

    The pictured injector is single use. The weird workaround would never be ok’d by any doctor, and even if it was, a clean needle would be used to withdraw and administer medicine from the hypothetical medicine ampule for each dose. I’m not qualified to measure loose liquid medicine, and she’s on the second highest dose anyway.

    A better design would be more like the pen used by the original senaglutide medication this is related to, ozempic. Screw on a disposable pen needle, dial your dosage on the twisty knob on the other end, inject, dispose of needle. But instead they deliberately designed this thing, with a latching device that starts squirting medicine with no way to stop it. If the user is not familiar with needles and jerks away, the needle comes back out but medicine is still squirting.

    It’s a good medicine, except supply issues are making it difficult. My wife’s refill at the hospital pharmacy has been pending since end of February. It’s a weekly injection but her last dose was 15 days ago as of this morning.

  • Medicare will cover Wegovy to reduce heart disease risk

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  • My wife is on Wegovy. That injector pictured above is a special kind of perverse design. There’s a plastic donut-shaped trigger the needle has to pass through. Once the trigger starts the flow of medicine, it cannot be stopped. No way to, for example, pay for a higher dosage and use a little at a time, if you were prescribed the 0.25 mg starter dose but only 1 and 1.7 are in stock anywhere. (Without, say, milking the pen like a poisonous snake and using a needle and syringe.)

  • "I see you're a music fan. What do you like to listen to?" "I don't understand the question."

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  • Could be a MUSIC/SP reference. (No I don’t remember how to use it either. I had a letter-letter-number-number %nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu email in college though.)

  • IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute

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  • Yeah a bit. IBM QRadar is alright. I’m confident there’s something real (and real expensive) underneath the buzzword salad in that article.

  • Reddit signs content licensing deal with AI company ahead of IPO, Bloomberg reports

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  • I think the most important thing we can do is shout about this from the rafters, so every potential IPO investor can hear. Most of the subject matter experts have fled. The best data is available for free elsewhere. (And none of us are too happy about having our collective knowledge shared without attribution or appreciation by an AI, but that’s not the point. Money is the point here.)

  • Protesters throw soup at Mona Lisa in Paris

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  • Or one of those laser “pointers” with crazy high power, 1 watt or higher?

  • HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges - ""Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription.""

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  • Even old HP printers aren’t safe. I have a two-generations-back HP Color LaserJet I got from a tech recycler for $300. (MFP M477fdw) It can be optionally configured to enforce or not enforce genuine toner. I can get a four-pack of CYMK high-capacity cartridges for $70-80 on Amazon. Prints wonderfully, toner is cheap, so I’m in the clear, right? Safe from this BS?

    Turns out that wear items (intermediate transfer belt, for example) within the printer have chips with versioned firmware. And the printer will throw error codes if different firmware versions within the printer aren’t mutually compatible.

    I’m sure the moment they believe they can get away with it, replacement ITB assemblies, fixers, document scanners, etc will include a shrink wrap license and firmware that requires you to update everything else to match - and the matching firmware will make official toner no longer optional.

    Definitely Fuck HP. The moment any of that comes to pass and disables my own printer I’m re-recycling this printer and buying another brand immediately.