Slashdot Mirror


User: HalAtWork

HalAtWork's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,029
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,029

  1. Why isn't this just an app for your phone? on The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Personally I just have my camera snap 10 pics in a row when I push the button and I get pretty good shots. Not really that hard and doesn't warrant buying a special device.

    Also not sure why this isn't just a phone app.

  2. Allergan not Allergen on US Congress Investigates Patent 'Gifts' That Evade Inter Partes Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The name of the company in the summary is not Allergen, but Allergan.

  3. No checks and balances at Equifax? on Former Equifax CEO Blames Breach On One Individual Who Failed To Deploy Patch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How could a single person be responsible for this, with nobody assigned to verify? No redundancy or assistance whatsoever? For something so important?

    They need to find out who is responsible for setting things up so stupidly.

  4. Not just forgetting to patch but also allowing entrance via default admin/admin login/password, perhaps allowing attackers to discover other credentials and attack vectors to exploit elsewhere.

  5. So use Mycroft on Meet The Next Major Operating System: Amazon's Alexa (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Mycroft.ai lets you host your own speech-to-text server and do everything locally if you want.

  6. They just want Linux tools and Windows tools to coexist. That way programs will be written that use both together in the same environment, making some new situations where Linux/OSS solutions will now depend on proprietary Windows tools and MS services.

  7. Opening themselves up to trouble on Governments Turn Tables By Suing Public Records Requesters (apnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this keeps happening they risk being in contempt of the court by filing frivolous lawsuits against legitimate actors.

  8. Contradictory on Apple: iPhones Are Too 'Complex' To Allow Unauthorized Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "You don't need to repair this. When you do, we want the repair to be fairly priced and accessible to you,"

    First sentence is contradictory with the next sentence. That next sentence is exactly why people want to look at alternatives to Apple.

  9. Re:It's intermingled on PC Gaming Is Back in Focus at Tokyo Game Show (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This exactly! Thank you! They were basically consoles disguised as productivity machines.

  10. Personally I'll stick with consoles on PC Gaming Is Back in Focus at Tokyo Game Show (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing beats a plug and play experience when you want to relax. Things screw up on PC and I never know if a given game is going to work. On console, I can buy a game on release and be guaranteed that I can finish it, and still be able to run all my old games as well without issue.

    I've had driver updates break old games, break new games, your GPU choice can screw you over, and a whole bunch of other crap I don't want to even think about. I've been down that road.

    I'll use PCs to emulate console games and enhance them with 3D support, high definition, etc, but I won't rely on it for enjoyment because I want a guaranteed-to-work system. Got kids and a job and no time to mess around.

  11. It's intermingled on PC Gaming Is Back in Focus at Tokyo Game Show (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The first PCs were essentially consoles after all!

  12. Good reason to disable network for all apps and services you don't explicitly trust.

  13. Use all encryption methods from all countries on top of each other. That way no one entity can unwrap the whole thing. Only the person with all 190+ keys.

  14. What comes next? Pulling the rug out. on What Comes After User-Friendly Design? (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 2

    After user friendly UI design comes the Flat UI that starts removing visual cues and functionality

  15. Oh I don't think we just ascribed the power. I think the offensiveness came to fruition through the way it's been actually used in practice.

  16. There are no doubt too many people who don't do justice to the word. Not everyone agrees that it should be used in each case, it depends on the individual doesn't it? Just because it is used by some doesn't mean everyone is always happy about it.

    But generally hip hop represents the reality of those individuals, or perhaps with the advent of more pop/club rap, a persona. It does not often try to represent an entire race.

    Whether things are OK or not very on the individual. Trying to determine if something is overall OK or not in this broad a sense is kind of reductive and ultimately pointless.

    But when it's used as if the context and associations don't exist, and people start arguing they shouldn't be considered even though it resonates strongly with certain individuals, it seems very dismissive.

  17. Not quite on the same level on PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    N*gger isn't a swear word it's a demeaning and dehumanizing word.

    Curse words like fuck allude to sex, n*gger is designed to erase anything distinct about someone and reduce them to a preconceived construct designed to abstract the target instead of dealing directly with the individual on common terms.

    Perhaps words can change meaning over time but there are many people alive who have had negative experiences involving that word being used as I described above, and to hear someone who you are supposed to enjoy drop that word takes a lot of the enjoyment out for certain people.

  18. And FWIW I'm not crying about it, I'm just not going to spend my time browsing his content when I'm trying to be entertained. People are bringing up context, this is a guy who wants to build a community? Those aren't community building words. That's not what I would want to show my friends, that's not how I'd want to reach out to people. I'm not crying, just not watching or endorsing. Not letting my kids watch.

    Only reason I commented is it seems like some people can't fathom anyone justifying such a viewpoint so I offered a perspective, that is all.

  19. Like I said, it's moronic to go "oh boo hoo" to the entire audience of the most popular YouTube star when that includes people in all types of situations, so!me of which understandably react poorly to the word, whether it is some memory or trauma or death. Definitely not everyone, but enough that we should be sensitive to others, for the same reason we don't throw around words like spic or chink or kike or rape or whatever else that has no constructive element. There's no reason to expect that a chunk of people in a general audience won't get upset about words like that. Not like he's even adult only, not that it makes it much easier to take when you're watching something to relax coming from someone who depends on the audience getting an affinity for their particular personality.

  20. You're right on PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes. Black people are completely soft and have it cushy growing up, they should all harden up. Those stories about dad getting called that on the daily while still having to go to the same place to work to raise his kids is bullshit, who cares when someone we thought was a friend at school shows up the summer after and won't have anything to do with you and calling you that for no reason.

    We should all just sit back and take it when people throw that around for fun and repress all of our memories and feelings, or be able to work through them at the drop of a hat for some random dude.

  21. Feel free to list on Amazon app store or let users download an APK, Google isn't preventing them from getting on Android, they are just stopping them from listing on Play store which is only one option for Android.

  22. Re:I don't buy synthetic fibers on We're Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When you're sitting on them all day or wearing tight clothes or sleeping in them, I imagine the dust-sized pieces can easily do so, not to mention the chemicals they are treated with such as flame retardants, Teflon, formaldehyde... And when all these are absorbed through the skin it bypasses the liver

  23. I don't buy synthetic fibers on We're Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only is it dangerous for the environment but also for your body. These microfibers get lodged in your skin and absorbed, increasing risk of cancer. Stopped using them and never have used any on my son. Sucks because sometimes we have to make our own clothes but whatever. Worth it.

  24. Just use the cable and charger that ship with your phone

  25. Snap seems like a bad idea on Linux.com Raves About New Snap-Centric 'Nitrux' Distro (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it just bring monolithic apps bundled with libraries that can't be individually updated except by the person building the snap package? Sounds like a security risk. Is that the case or am I misunderstanding?