shmoobadge

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by shmoobadge 3mo ago
Ok, how about the google photos archive from the hotel next door with 1000s of pictures of passports taken on the shared unlocked $100 android phone that sits on the front desk? Not millions I grant you, but again, there doesn't seem
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by shmoobadge 3mo ago
Much as passports are very important for proving identity etc, people who travel have had their passport scanned, photographed or photocopied by pretty much every hotel they've stayed in. I'm not sure the shoebox in the backroom
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by shmoobadge 1y ago
There was a cartoon floating around a few weeks ago wherein the sender of an email used an AI to pad out his 3 points into flowing paragraphs, whereupon the receiver used her AI to summarise it ... down to 3 points. The value add in that sc
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by shmoobadge 2y ago
"Elbows up" isn't rude, so is suitable for fora, and for one country whose sovereignty has been directly threatened by the country where Microsoft is based, captures that attitude perfectly.
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by shmoobadge 2y ago
I ditched MS office last year (for libreoffice) when MS updated their terms to allow them to hoover up all my content, even that stored only on my computer, to train their AI. Subscription costs (which I'd bought a version several year
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by shmoobadge 2y ago
Nothing new here. For years Mac updates would turn and leave on bluetooth, and ios updates routinely turn game centre on, and less so recently imessage and facetime. I don't know if its malice or sloppiness, but it is tiresome. I&#x2
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by shmoobadge 4y ago
Stopped paying for Slack, still use the free version. Had free integrations, don't use any more. The WTF of Huddles and threads, and the complete lack of working notifications mean we can't trust integrations or complicated featu