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bhhaskin··on Bluesky Reaches 10M Accounts
Mastodon is the way, and it federates with Threads.
bhhaskin··on Utah law restricting youth social media use blocked by judge
That doesn't mean they are wrong lol
bhhaskin··on After a decade of free Alexa, Amazon now wants you to pay
We only use Alexa to turn the lights on and off, set the thermostat temperature and tell us the weather. No way would we pay for that.
bhhaskin··on DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
They need to go after the landlords as well. If they just go after RealPage there is nothing stopping landlords from doing it again with different software.
bhhaskin··on Microsoft's Windows Recall feature is coming back in October
Microsoft is slowly making the transition from Windows being a OS to Windows being an Ad platform.
bhhaskin··on Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
If your site or service only has social logins then it's a hard no from me.
bhhaskin··on US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements
That's not what right to work is at all.

What you are describing is "at will" employment.

Right to work means that you have a right to choose whether or not to be in a union. It effectively makes "union shops" illegal.

Unions don't like it because it makes them less effective.

bhhaskin··on Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing (2020)
I know someone who is working on a general LLM to bring back dead languages. They have had great success using old biblical manuscripts and the LLM picks up on the syntax and grammar.
bhhaskin··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
I don't want AI on my phone, so will pass on this one.
bhhaskin··on I Got a Sleep Study in My 30s. It Probably Saved My Life
You can't get a CPAP without a prescription (at least in the US).
bhhaskin··on Starting Hospice
Thank you for sharing these.
bhhaskin··on Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F
Odd that you felt you had complete privacy. I would imagine you are monitored six ways to Sunday.
bhhaskin··on Ask HN: Should I use React for a personal portfolio?
Nextjs is the way.
bhhaskin··on Pocket Z project hopes to rekindle pocket PC form factor with a RPi Zero 2W
They solve very different problems. Smartphones are pretty much use geared towards consuming content. They are awful at creating anything meaningful.
bhhaskin··on Adobe Swears It's Not Training Its A.I. On Your Photoshops
This. Actions speak louder than words and right now the actions are a free license to do whatever they want with your work.
bhhaskin··on China makes historic landing on far side of the moon
And here we are scrubbing starliner again :/
bhhaskin··on Farmers must kill 4.2M chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm
Isn't that how cows got infected with bird flu?
bhhaskin··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
But where it will get murky is people sound like other people. Most voices are hardly unique. It will be interesting to see where this lands.
bhhaskin··on Chrome DevTools now uses Gemini to help with JavaScript Errors in the console
I have always worried that Chrome was gulping as much data from users as possible and sending it back to Google. This reinforces that feeling.
bhhaskin··on Google opens up its smart home to everyone and will make Google TVs home hubs
Fool me once Google.... You have completely lost my trust as a brand and company.
bhhaskin··on Starbucks shares sink 8% as same-store sales fall, quarterly results miss
I think it's more that a lot of people are starting to make choices because everything is getting outrageously expensive.
bhhaskin··on Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]
They can do everything (and more) than what was in the video. Sure it they can't compose a email, but at least they will give you accurate information.
bhhaskin··on Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]
Google and Apple already have the same if not better functionality via Google assistant and Siri. The AI pin thingy is totally just a gimmick product to get funding. Just like all the other "wearables" companies out there. And teenage engineering just likes weird quirky products.
bhhaskin··on Data breach at Kaiser Permanente affects 13.4M people
By that logic you could in theory use a VOIP number to call...
bhhaskin··on Start Your Own ISP
Lots of people are mentioning starlink. But there is a hard cap to how many subscribers can be in a given zone. Which means that although it is cheap right now, there is a hard cap for supply. That's the main reason the marine and RV packages/plans cost more.
bhhaskin··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
It has more to do with land. Land is cheap and easy to acquire out there. Where as anywhere in CA it is expensive. And more so if they find out you need the land to build high speed rail.
bhhaskin··on No one buys books
Honestly it is likely more ecological than ebooks after you factor in everything. Think about how many e-readers are sitting in the bottom of a landfill somewhere. Screens, batteries, plastic shells. The energy to not only power the device but all of the infrastructure for transmitting and storing the book.
bhhaskin··on A 100-year-old railway Mexico hopes will rival the Panama Canal (2023)
Insurance companies aren't going to want to touch that with a 10 foot pole.
bhhaskin··on Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
I don't use an ad blocker at work because I have had it affect my work and lose time trying to figure out why something isn't working right.
bhhaskin··on Mark Zuckerberg: Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, Bioweapons [video]
Well that was fun. If you ask it how to make gunpowder it will refuse. But if you ask what do you get if you mix sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter it will happily tell you the ratios.

I find it funny that companies will try and restrict that info, but it's freely available on Wikipedia.

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