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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • This is a pretty uninformed take, and maybe entirely influenced by the intentional marketing/PR image they crafted, but I get the impression that Anthropocene was more of a “building a practical tool with this technology, and iterating on that practicality” and less “this will be digital god” sort of company. Maybe ther value wouldn’t crater as much since they’ve been selling as a reasonably practical corporate tool than a magical profit box?





  • Shits fucked, and you’re right to press us (Americans) on taking action. but that 2/5 figure is not a very true look at our demographics. 1. There’s a huge contingent of non-voting americans; Some because they’re negligent, but plenty of others are children, disenfranchised through bullshit voting laws, non-citizens who contribute greatly but nevertheless can’t vote, or prisoners who have done their time but aren’t allowed to vote anymore. 2. Identifying parties from polls has always been suspect. 80% of people still willing to identify as republican in a poll support trump, but surely that self-selection bias is massively skewing those results. Would those farmers in the leopards ate my face community still say they’re republican in a poll? probably most, but not all who actually did vote republican.



  • I really am interested in a folding phone, but i’m not comfortable with paying apple any new money if i can avoid it. I’ve completed my data migration off of iCloud and into self-hosted solutions, but i’m continuing to pay for iCloud until i’m confident i won’t somehow have issues with nextcloud and immich.

    When my iPhone 14 Pro eventually fails to meet my needs, I’m planning on getting a Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, not because Google is any better, I don’t want to be giving them money either, but it is compatible with GrapheneOS.




  • I have significant problems with AI, particularly around reckless implementation in tasks it is simply incapable of providing real value (most of them), but I struggle to find these kinds of articles as anything but the journalism version of the same lazy application.

    Blaming AI for a mental health issue is like blaming alcohol for making someone an asshole. They were an asshole before they got drunk, it just became more obvious while drunk. Same thing here, AI is not causing psychosis, it’s just revealing it in a place that we’re not used to seeing stuff like this come from: a computer.

    This article isn’t likely using AI to write it, but the application of AI as the subject matter and tying this person’s crisis to the use of AI seems lazy at best, negligent at worst.





  • I found ente to be a bit of a pain self-hosted. Setting the storage amount to pretend to be paid was weird, and the iOS app crashed a ton. Switched to Immich and found that to be a lot more stable; though syncing from iCloud from iOS was again a pain, I was able to use icloudpd to import photos directly to the storage location on my server. It’s not encrypted like ente is, so that’s something I need to solve locally.


  • I worked at a knock-off Apple Store in the PNW from 2009 to 2013 and I told this same line to MANY people. The thing about being an “Apple Specialist” is that we sold more than Apple did, including “aftermarket” RAM modules to do that upgrade on-site for customers, saving those customer money AND netting us more profit than if we had sold them the Apple SKU with more RAM. When Apple closed this loophole it was not just at the expense of end-users, but their channel partners too.