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by masto 3y ago
I wish they had stayed under the radar. I paid $120 for Beeper back in 2022 because it provided one thing that was absolutely game-changing for me: the ability to access Apple Messages through the web. I use an iPhone, as do the vast majori
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by masto 3y ago
I just discovered rclone last week. I have a nice multifunction color laser printer with a scanner, and I want to use it to scan to the cloud without having to use my computer, but it's one model before they introduced that feature. It
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by masto 3y ago
You are correct, I did opt in. I'm not particularly concerned about the security of this data or this breach. But in the context of all this finger-pointing, I thought it was important to point out that 23andme saying "it's y
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by masto 3y ago
Like torturing a puppy for entertainment. I had to stop reading.
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by masto 3y ago
You're welcome to your own opinion about what you think is a bad idea, but I don't share it. I won't call you paranoid if you don't call me stupid.
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by masto 3y ago
It shares some information that you optionally choose to share (genealogical data like where your ancestors are from, family names, etc., and which segments of DNA match). One thing reading Hacker News has made clear is that people have wil
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by masto 3y ago
I do not reuse passwords, and from what I understand, my account was not accessed directly. The message they sent me was: "After further review, we have identified your DNA Relatives profile as one that was impacted in this incident. S
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by masto 3y ago
It's rather more than a tech demo already. https://youtu.be/P6sw4EKegp4?si=Yafm5a-ufCGizumy
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by masto 3y ago
He's clearly operating at all levels. As an aside, it's funny (not ha-ha funny) watching these things sweep through in waves; they're basically fashion. For a while, we needed to "put the structure in place to be able to
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by masto 3y ago
I guess it's irony to use an AI translator to come up with the title of an article about how AI is taking our jerbs.
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by masto 3y ago
I think it's already over. Fixing the destruction generative AI has wrought upon the Internet would be like unscrambling an egg. I'm an optimist when it comes to technology, but I also believe that being able to know what's r
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by masto 3y ago
Two out of three ain't bad? But yeah, you're right, it's really in the "countertop smart oven" category, but I saw a thread about toasters and I wanted to share what to me is kind of a funny example of early 21st ce
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by masto 3y ago
I was mildly exaggerating for comic effect, but not kidding. I bought it, I set it up, I filmed it. We still use it every day, and I will be sad when it breaks because they are no more. https://youtu.be/JTvJSRPIo90?si=mjCLaw
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by masto 3y ago
They don't all have nothing that isn't required. My toaster runs Android, has a touch screen, WiFi and an app, and a camera for the AI to identify what you put in it and so you can watch a live stream of your toast or play back re
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by masto 3y ago
In answer to the question, no, I did not forget to mention that I did anything "weird". It was apt-get upgrade. I'm not going to have an argument about my personal experience. You can find plenty of others in the comments who
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by masto 3y ago
Everyone does something with their time. The neighbor is always taking his motorcycle apart and putting it back together. Aunt Liz paints. I sit on the couch and stare at the TV. I'm sure if your thing is writing assembly tutorials, yo
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by masto 3y ago
Your experience differs from mine. If I only count major incidents, I've had at least two occasions where a Linux operating system update completely hosed my system. One was a Rackspace VPS I never managed to recover, I had to use thei
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by masto 3y ago
I love all the anecdotes here. The mid-90s were a time of the creation, explosive growth, and decline and fall of the Internet Service Provider industry. Like many other people here, apparently, it was a big part of my life. I worked at thr
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by masto 3y ago
The world "founders" live in is so foreign to me, I barely understand the words. It's useful to read this stuff once in a while, though, as a reminder that when a mega tech company with billions in profits lays off tens of th
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by masto 3y ago
And other than being stressed and annoyed and having to fuss with a bunch of extra stuff to use the Internet, this makes your life better how?
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by masto 3y ago
I'm glad someone got it. If you want to follow me on Mastodon, BTW, you can find me at @masto@masto.masto.com.
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by masto 3y ago
I haven't driven a gasoline car in over 5 years, so similarly I don't want to have to try to remember how to work one, and I'd rather just rent an EV for familiarity. As more and more people have electric cars, it makes sense
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by masto 3y ago
None of the features grab me. It feels more like the output of a 3-day corporate summit to build a product roadmap than anything that actually addresses my core frustrations with how calendars work. "What if.. hear me out on this, guys
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by masto 3y ago
Not to mention people abbreviate it as "masto", which just sounds stupid.
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by masto 3y ago
I have a pet peeve when people use the phrase "begging the question" when they really mean "raising the question". Begging the question is kind of technical and it's sometimes hard to think of examples. You have pro
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by masto 3y ago
I appreciate that objective viewpoint and backing it up with data. If Consumer Reports presented it that way, I wouldn't have an issue with their reporting. A person can read that and have a much better understanding of the potential r
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by masto 3y ago
The highest amount in their list was 54 micrograms per serving. Most of them were under 5 µg. They seem to have just bundled everything together instead of listing specific amounts of specific chemicals, and chose to put the numbers in &quo
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by masto 3y ago
The reason EV owners keep pushing back against this argument is that the experience of owning one often (obviously not always) leads to a massive recalibration of what you thought you cared about. Road trips was something that was I was wor
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by masto 3y ago
It was interesting seeing this from the other side as well. I have what I thought was an obsolete motorized awning with an obscure failure. I couldn't find anything about it so when I managed to fix it, I decided on a lark to grab my p
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by masto 3y ago
Please don't unleash AI comment bot spam on Hacker News.

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