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LegitShady

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LegitShady··on A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
its not about missing the notifications, its about not needing to worry about it.
LegitShady··on GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house
self driving makes total sense if its the sci-fi like dream of being able to read the news or a novel in the drivers seat while your car safely takes you to your destination.

But if I have to maintain a hand on the steering wheel and monitor the car I may as well be driving.

LegitShady··on Show HN: DIY 80€ 3D Printer Basement Ventilation
its not just losing money - it will drop the air temps around your printer and that will do weird things to your print. all of these "direct vent" solutions are in warm areas or summer only. Its -2 f / -19c outside right now. I can't direct vent anything. Vapor from inside will turn to ice outside wherever I'm venting. It can't be done half assed.
LegitShady··on SF tech CEO's billboards are 'dystopian.' That's how he wants it
these guys all see themselves as the future rich elite of the dystopia, they don't understand that they get get revolutionaried when the warlords come and can't stand competition.
LegitShady··on SF tech CEO's billboards are 'dystopian.' That's how he wants it
just another ai customer service bot with ads meant to shock you.

this guy is competing against a trillion other identical and replaceable firms and he needs recognition so he's making annoying and insulting ads. congrats, you're an edgelord.

LegitShady··on Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage
sandwich artists, as imagined by a computer
LegitShady··on Insects rely on sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide reproduction
Distressed plants say "feed me, Seymour" and moths hate it.
LegitShady··on The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
I dont think LLM + TTS generated podcasts even make sense. The whole reason for long form content and podcasts is that people dislike fake and impersonal content.

I think there are a few niche users who just want to listen to the news as an audio book but the whole idea of an LLM generated podcast totally misunderstands why people want a podcast over the normal corporate drivel media.

LegitShady··on Toshiba stuffs an entire PC into a dot matrix printer – Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500
dot matrix printers use impact printing - it physically strikes the paper to push an inky ribbon against the paper, like an old school typewriter ribbon.

for areas where carbon copies are required a laser or inkjet printer won't replace a dot matrix printer because they can't activate the carbon layer by physically touching it - you'd have print the form again and sign each one, or something similar.

LegitShady··on The Onion buys Infowars
potentially hilarious. can't wait to see what they launch.
LegitShady··on Signal: Online MIDI Editor
It seems like I have to select the note in the piano roll to adjust the velocity, instead of selecting and adjusting in the velocity area, which is annoying.
LegitShady··on Signal: Online MIDI Editor
at its heart its a piano roll, pretty much all DAWs have them somewhere.
LegitShady··on New Mac Mini with M4
its for headphones
LegitShady··on Cabbies Say Cost to Move to Wheelchair-Accessible Cars Is Too High
Now do the same for uber.
LegitShady··on Stark et al. vs. Patreon, Inc. Class Action Settlement
You could always sue them yourself. no need to become part of the class action.
LegitShady··on NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews
we really want to know who is behind big pelican
LegitShady··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
print off the form, get it notarized, sprinkle it with essence of rose, put your signature, thumbprint, and a skin sample to prove your identity, sing songs to the machine god to empower its cancellation abilities, send through registered mail to an address antarctica, and follow up with form 2 and a similar process within one month.
LegitShady··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
I asked about cancellation policies before joining and when I found out about the mail in cancellation policy I literally laughed in their faces and walked out. It's obvious abuse.
LegitShady··on PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores
option 2 - delete your paypal account, you dont need it.
LegitShady··on PayPal (USA) will automatically share data about you to participating stores
you know what works better? delete your paypal account and dont use them as a service. I did this years ago and in fact have never missed not having one of these accounts. and since I'm not using paypal they're not sharing info on my to stores when i shop, whether my local laws allow it or not.
LegitShady··on Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server
cloud features are the enemy of consumers
LegitShady··on End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
Its the kiss of death for google drive support, and eventually when many apps don't support using google drive people who are on it will switch to other cloud storage providers.
LegitShady··on End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit
I think its totally reasonable. If google wants to make drive functionality expensive and annoying for devs to include, then devs are going to drop support.

I appreciate that this seems to be some additional security for drive access which is ostensibly a good thing but it doesn't seem like the review is very useful or catches any bad actors or errors.

LegitShady··on The End of Private Libraries?
It's a personal judgement. What you find quality and what I find quality is likely very different, so asking them to justify that their books are quality seems to be some sort of pedantic attack.
LegitShady··on CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017)
I wouldn't count anything under 40 MPA as "high strength concrete" at all. Thats where high strength concrete starts for me. High strength concrete mixes can go up to 180-200 MPA although thats some crazy specialty stuff for very niche uses.

25 mpa concrete is "i'm doing my driveway" concrete or "I bought a bag at home depot" concrete not high strength concrete.

LegitShady··on The End of Private Libraries?
it doesn't really matter, does it? its whatever they consider quality. You would use your own definition if you wanted to do the same. I collect certain kinds of art books, and fantasy novels. If you liked something else, like computer science academic books, you could collect those. It's up to your own definition and style.
LegitShady··on NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
it is the perfect milquetoast personality. It's like don lemon but without the interesting bits of don lemon. It has no draw or interest.

Podcasts are only somewhat about things. The most important part is that they're by people, and the people is what draws people in. These ai podcasts are not by people, and when you listen to more than one you start to see the patterns and void where a personality is.

LegitShady··on NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
All podcasts compete for peopled time and attention.
LegitShady··on Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
I was looking at getting a TV and they all have garbage "smart" features I don't want. Someone told me to get a sceptre tv without any of that but I can't find them in my country and their actual panels don't seem that great.

So all thats left is looking for commercial panels but a lot of those have built in content management systems now too.

LegitShady··on DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says
when the government regulates it. until then it will continue to the end of time.
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