JohnFen

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by JohnFen 3mo ago
If it's the "-" on the keypad, I call it "minus". If it's the key on the main keyboard, I call it "dash". I do it a little differently for the character (versus the key). That's probably more imp
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I love Duff's Device. I used it to great effect back in the day, and still use it from time to time in my personal projects, just for old time's sake,
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> All grammar and spelling checkers use neural networks, so even just the red underlines in Word are AI. Those aren't generative AI, which is what the author is talking about. It's unfortunate that people are calling generative
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
How does the first sale doctrine require these horrific companies to destroy the books? As near as I can tell, there is no legal pressure for them to do that. They're destroying them because that's how their scanning machinery wor
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
At work, we use IDEs as much as ever. At home, I stopped using IDEs over a decade ago. But I also don't do any Javascript programming, either at work or at home. That might matter.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> Skip the theater built for a national audience. Go find the room small enough that showing up still means something. This is terrible advice. Yes, voting is problematic as the essay describes. But not nearly as problematic as the alter
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Still works for me, even in incognito. Also, I've never had a Reddit account, so there's no chance of some sneaky automatic login or something. Someone a little while ago suggested that perhaps they're incrementally rolling t
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
It's not just YC. It's the whole SV culture.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
For your purposes, I think all you need is a web server log analyzer. Back in the day, I used Webalyzer to do this. I haven't done any sort of analytics since then, so I don't know what's the best one now. A web search turns
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
What is an AI employee? A fiction. genAI is a tool, not a person. It can't be an employee any more than the office copy machine can be an employee.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> Wouldn't that change if "everyone" did it? No. It would just make the situation totally intolerable.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I don't think anyone's saying that wearing such glasses isn't useful or valuable. The problem is when they're used to include unconsenting others in the data collection. It's massively antisocial. And it makes a bad
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
My point is that his worldview could not be more obvious to me, just from hearing what he says, seeing what other messages he approves of, and seeing what he does. If you have a different opinion, that's fair. I'm expressing mine.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Yes indeed! Fortunately, I've already talked about these things with my friends and family, and they care about and respect me enough to keep images of me out of these services. I just need to be sure they know to exclude me from this
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I'd say about 75% of the new tech I pick up is just for intellectual curiosity. About 20% to stay abreast of current trends, about 5% because it's needed for my day job.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Damn it. I guess I have to contact my friends who use Windows to warn them and to be sure that no photo that includes me is exposed to this system.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
His rhetoric is pretty clear-cut and unambiguous. > you’re gonna have to explain the diversity of the workforce of their companies Why? That has nothing to do with whether or not he's racist. But if you want an answer, he would take
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> The moment you write an identifier to someone’s device, you own a pile of questions about consent, retention, and deletion, and your users own a banner. We wanted the default to be the mode where those questions do not exist, because t
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I know this doesn't address the point of the article, but the "good soap" analogy fails for me because I hate the "good soaps" in most high-end hotels. They're too oily. I always use the stuff I brought instead
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> nobody really cares about security cameras in public spaces or all the cameras modern cars can come with, nevermind dash cams. Oh, people care. They just feel helpless about it all.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> Meta smart glasses in particular are known for their LED. The LED is neither obvious enough nor reliable enough and by the time you see it, you've already been recorded.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Weird, there's no paywall when I go to the site. In any case, here's a paragraph that gives you the reason: "Here’s my hypothesis, stated plainly: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis—a pioneer of AI as we understand it today—d
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> problems where there is insufficient information coupled with limited ability to gather more, or where some of the information you think you know is incorrect, or where you are misinterpreting the information you have, etc. What? These
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> People should consider the fact that they likely haven't thought about this nearly as much as us. There are good reasons for why we designed this feature the way we did and it's working as intended in the real world. Wow, cou
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I'm convinced that Altman doesn't know how people are. Humans enjoy being busy, yes, but when they're doing something they really enjoy. Most of the time, that's not what they're doing for a living. I swear that eve
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It's accessible for me.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
It wasn't all that long ago that the only realistic way to have a useful electric car was to build one yourself. I know three people who did just that. It seems reasonable, given the advances in motor, battery, and solar tech, that a r
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> I think the more indistinguishable these types of devices get from regular glasses the more people will be upset by their existence. My fear is that these spy glasses will actually become indistinguishable from corrective glasses. I do
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
The EPA has become worse than worthless. It's overtly doing what it can to ensure environmental harms rather than environmental protection.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> A few years ago a device with similar capabilities would have been the coolest gadget ever Not at DEF CON, no.

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