mimikatz
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4 months ago
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on: I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
My nest to Google Home got "updated". I just to ask hey google what is the thermostat set to and it would tell me 70-whatever degrees. Now after the update it tells me it is set to cool. Not that helpful, I have to ask, hey google what temperature is the thermostat set to, which is longer and I find annoying specific
mimikatz
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5 months ago
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on: Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over
Let nurses do more, let them write some prescriptions, let them open up a shop that puts casts on people with broken bones and minor things which they mostly do anyways.
mimikatz
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1 year ago
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on: Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google
Thanks to all the people here pointing out how bloated, overly broad and useless this is. I went to read it thinking I would pick up something applicable and it was written in such a overwrought humanless style that I gave up learning nothing and thought the problem was me. I am glad to learn I am not alone.
mimikatz
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1 year ago
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on: AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature
Yes, this is a clear example of how regulation was harming people (not all regulation is bad, but some of it is, usually the kind that gets between safe things and users)
mimikatz
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1 year ago
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on: Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns
It isn't there are large real world implications and difference in what each does and what risk it exposes to the end user.
mimikatz
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1 year ago
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on: Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals
mimikatz
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1 year ago
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on: Caltech restores standardized test requirement for undergraduate admission
It is just those are objective measures and lead to minority groups being discriminated against (notably Asians) having data to prove it.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
Executives aren't able to time their sales of stock to events and they shouldn't be able to as it would lead to more manipulation. It is likely the sale of stock was planned ahead of the layoff announcement timing.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
The time value money math seems pretty light here. The win condition is that you have a single person using up a table.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
This is actually the best chance Microsoft has to bring Edge back from the dead and make people support using it.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – it isn't working
It also forces them to get clean and give them another shot at sobriety.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – it isn't working
We need to not treat all drugs the same. Heroin, Fentanyl, Meth are absolutely destructive forces and possession should force people into rehab or jail (their choice). Weed, acid, maybe coke should just be tickets and you can't do it/carry it around publically, openly sell it, etc.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy
Sure you could. it is better to just make a better product people prefer.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: U.S. Deficit, Pegged at $1.7T, Effectively Doubled in 2023
You can run a moderate amount of deficit without anything bad happening, and governments can do it indefinitely. HOWEVER, the amount you can run is not unlimited and can collapse the system if it gets too high. So you should be very careful with how much debt you are actually carrying and how much you add to it. Also you need to be careful because the amount it costs to carry your debt can fluctuate.
The same is somewhat true for corporations as well.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: Ad-free Facebook, Instagram access planned for $14 per month in Europe
I actually feel the same way. Facebook actually has relevant ads to local events (some of which I am even interested in). As opposed to Google which is trying to drive my purchasing behavior. or Twitter which is borderline useless. It is really the local part the others I missing and where value is provided.
I wonder if that is an ease of use facebook thing for small marketers, better location data, or lower ad costs making it more worthwhile
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: California needs real math education, not gimmicks
More and more I get the feeling California doesn't care about the homelessness, undocumented immigrants, and Medicare. There are just a ton of grifters who make a lot of noise on the topics, but don't push for policies that would actually improve things. Or push for them in a way that is just more red tape that hinders actual results. Education is in the same bucket. Lots of noise from lots of people with bad ideas or bad implementations of ok ideas.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: US public debt projected to reach 181% of economic activity in 30 years
Just because they don't care now doesn't mean they won't in the future and like you said it is a potential disaster if they do. Because it will come at the worst time because that is when these things happen. I think a reasonable amount of debt is healthy and fine, but people want to spend and think that the bill doesn't ever come due. Sometimes inflation eats it and it was good that you spent the money, sometimes your face will get ripped off and you need to be careful.
mimikatz
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2 years ago
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on: Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst
Because the people in my life who aren't as technical as me and I support will be taken advantage. Sideloading would make their lives noticeably worse as scammers, hackers, and thieves trick them into doing dangerous things. Not giving them the options makes their phone a safer place, which is why people want it applied to others.
Smart tech users do lose out in the trade off, but it is a trade off.
mimikatz
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3 years ago
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on: Farmers Can’t Keep Hogging the Water in Parched Southwest
That's exactly how you would fix it, the interests who control things don't want to pay market price. People in general hate paying what something costs when they have been paying the subsidized rate.
mimikatz
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3 years ago
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on: Silicon Valley Learns to Love Socialism for the Rich
Tech companies should understand the risks with banks the same way banks need to understand tech risks. If a bank got ransomwared because they left the password to their webserver root/root no one in tech would ask "what did they do wrong?".
