Powderhorn
Freelance journalist, burner, raver and vandweller.
I read news so you don’t have to (but you still should).
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Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's woundsEnglish
8·19 hours agoIs she an African or European swallow?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's woundsEnglish
5·21 hours agoI stayed on Win2K for years after XP came out. It was rock-solid and didn’t attempt to tell me how to organize my files. This threw me into the unique position when programs started dropping support for the aging OS of opting for Vista. I couldn’t countenance the cartoonish XP interface, but I also needed a functioning OS.
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Technology@beehaw.org•US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in AmericaEnglish
2·21 hours agoConsider what the media feeds the masses, and it becomes far less confusing. Not everyone checks out TechDirt.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptionsEnglish
11·2 days agoAs an editor, I’m not going to point out the egregious error here.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptionsEnglish
15·2 days agoI fail to understand how this is different from the status quo. Like, pure slop is ruled out, but it should have been in the first place.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB fieldEnglish
1·2 days agoHey. Tone it down. If you want to play here, you play by our rules.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation caseEnglish
2·2 days agoBut, but … clutches pearls that would be socialism. We can’t expect our benevolent overlords to pay for crimes in a manner that would affect them. We reserve that for Jean Valjean.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB fieldEnglish
2·2 days agoI mean, seriously … you expect fucking Linux users to not immediately find a workaround?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB fieldEnglish
4·2 days agoWell, it’s not so much about parties but rather “donors” … which is to say, lobbyists who give not one whit whether there’s an R or D after the name if they can get what they want.
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Technology@beehaw.org•From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of IomegaEnglish
8·3 days agoOne of the designers I worked with my first year at the college paper went on to design the packaging for Zip and Jaz drives. It paid well enough that he was able to afford to buy a condo in San Diego in his early 20s.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB fieldEnglish
13·3 days agoFrom your instance, I’m guessing you have limited knowledge of the American political system. I don’t mean this as an insult; I couldn’t tell you a damn thing about CDU/CSU policies (AfD, of course, is easy to parse). The Democratic Party is just as captured as the Nazi one. It’s all corporate money, so the real difference between red states and blue states is politicians in blue states at least pretend to care for the working class.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses itEnglish
271·3 days agoThere are also those who slam people for having negative opinions of AI. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI group, called public criticism of the tech “mind-blowing,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says the negativity is hurting society, and Nadella has pleaded to move the conversation beyond “AI slop.”
Then stop serving us AI slop. Y’all get paid way too much to claim that your products aren’t what they are.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters SoraEnglish
10·3 days agoHmm … so are we, possibly, in a bubble?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters SoraEnglish
4·3 days agoI’d make a vet appointment if anything impressed a cat.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDriveEnglish
4·3 days ago“Sign up for Microsoft 365, or you’ll never see your grandma again.”
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Technology@beehaw.org•Google Just Patented The End Of Your WebsiteEnglish
4·3 days agoThat’s the whole point of patents! If it’s obvious and you get to it first, and you can lawyer up, you can prevent others from doing the obvious.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB fieldEnglish
6·3 days agoI’m relatively certain that the junta would prefer all of us headless.
Ubuntu not required.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Google Just Patented The End Of Your WebsiteEnglish
5·4 days agoYou’d be surprised how few websites actually require third-party JS. I’ve been using NoScript for years, and I’ll allow the first-party JS to read something, but the other 15 domains can go fuck themselves if I can’t read the article without totally opening up my computer to trackers.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Google Just Patented The End Of Your WebsiteEnglish
4·4 days agoSo, Tor with fewer steps.



















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