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danielnazer

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Senior IP & Product Counsel at Mozilla. Personal account. All toots by my pet duck.

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kennwhite, to random

I'm so old I remember when Google said their mission was to organize the world's information.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

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Google search over the years:

1998-2016: Decent quality web search.

2016-2024: Mediocre web search dominated by SEO garbage and sponsored links.

2024-___: Whatever this is.

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@jtlg @luis_in_brief oh yeah, that did the rounds. I'm always pretty skeptical of narratives like that -- fwiw, feel like bigger institutional factors tend to dominate over hero/villain stories.

Plus I kinda suspect that a big part of the decline is just some version of the second law of thermodynamics ... perhaps the story could just as easily be told in the form: isn't it amazing Google held back the dam as long as it did.

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This one from Ben Collins over on the bird hell site.

It's just stunning to me how quickly these features are being rolled out.

luis_in_brief, to random
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I have found it very hard to explain to non-SFans that (1) Waymos are really, really common here and (2) I’ve never once seen them violate a traffic law, whereas I can’t leave my house without seeing human drivers speed, run stop signs, make illegal turns, etc.
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@luis_in_brief as someone with a healthy dose of skepticism of tech hype I confess that riding in a Waymo is pretty amazing.

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I wrote a fairly mundane post on Reddit that led to me getting an AI-prompted message with suicide prevention resources.

I was completely mystified but then I realized it was probably because I included the phrase: "I find it hard to manage" (in a context like "I find it hard to manage the crabgrass in my garden ... ").

This is the future isn't it? AI pestering us with context-free misunderstood nonsense. I guess I should just count myself lucky that the AI didn't institutionalize me.

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The FTC should go after health care providers, on fraudulent advertising grounds, whose websites say they offer urgent care but don’t. It’s maddeningly frustrating to need medical care, look at google results, and then do dial after dial just to hear that “oh, yeah, we’ll get back to you Monday”.

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@luis_in_brief the US in general is terrible for any health care that falls between being rolled into the ER with five bullet holes and, whatever, sure, it can wait a month.

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    danielnazer,
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    @lzg i once spend an embarrassing long while trying to figure out what a light shinning through some foliage was before realizing it was the goddamn moon

    danielnazer, to random
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    That the burpee exercise was invented by a man named Royal H. Burpee is one of those facts that is 100% true but sounds 100% made up.

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    The real effective altruism was the felonies we committed along the way.

    luis_in_brief, to random
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    Is there anything to do with old CDs? They’re just scrap at this point, right?

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    @roslof @luis_in_brief beat me to it. I still listen to both CDs (and the less rare these days vinyl). Even listened to cassettes until my old CRV gave up the ghost

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    Strong, strong work from Judge Breyer dismissing Musk's lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate. May his lawsuit against Media Matters find a similar fate.

    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24512126-order-on-center-for-countering-digital-hate-suit-suit

    Animated gif with Jack Nicholson nodding and raising his eyebrows.

    danielnazer, to random
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    "Circle back" may be insipid business speak, but at least is is not as bad as "revert."

    If you use "revert" to mean reply, I ask you to revert to your previous practice of using "reply" to mean reply.

    danielnazer, to random
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    Every time I see "Liquid Death" water I feel personally insulted.

    I read every can to say "Yes, you humans, especially male humans, really are stupid enough that, even though drinkable water comes out of the faucet, we can sell a ton of expensive water in a can just by giving it an idiotic name."

    https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/liquid-death-became-billion-dollar-beverage-brand-rcna143037

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    I would really love to have footage of the marketing meeting that led to this.

    No satire could ever hope to compete.

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    I look forward to this Munich Agreement leading to a long period of democratic peace and stability. https://apnews.com/article/ai-generated-election-deepfakes-munich-accord-meta-google-microsoft-tiktok-x-c40924ffc68c94fac74fa994c520fc06

    mcc, to random
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    Are there any Australians reading this and could you let me know whether "spruiked" is Aussie slang or just an amazing misspelling of… something

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    @mcc a friend of mine worked as a "spruiker" during university: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/business/grow-business/promote-business/Pages/spruiking-touting.aspx

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    I can't comment on the factors that led folks to make this choice but holy crap does it suck to see Open Collective dissolving.

    I imagine many projects, perhaps hundreds, will struggle to navigate this and end up in a really awkward legal and financial limbo.

    https://opencollective.com/foundation/updates/announcement-we-are-dissolving-open-collective-foundation-at-the-end-of-this-year

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    So! Are there any smart fire alarms that aren’t awful? Just had a false negative from my Nest.

    A few months after we moved in we had a lint fire, so I put a Nest in the laundry room.

    3ish years later, just had another lint fire, with enough smoke that my upstairs neighbor (shares an airwell) ran downstairs frantically; we didn’t smell it because the door was closed, concentrating the smell in the small laundry room with the silent Nest.

    Just ran a Nest test and it says it is fine.

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    @luis_in_brief one of the many small annoyances about moving to the US from Australia was that many smoke alarms here seem to be set to ‘someone thinks about smoke’ sensitivity. (Especially on a college campus.)

    Someone toasts a bagel a little too long? Evacuate 14 floors of apartments! So I’m stunned to hear of one that’s not sensitive enough.

    danielnazer, to random
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    Is there some amount the Democratic Party would accept in exchange for never emailing me or texting me again?

    danielnazer, to random
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    Don't use country code top-level domains for your community or business (unless you want to be at the mercy of some random government).

    https://mastodon.social/@josephcox@infosec.exchange/111919754786586871

    danielnazer, to random
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    May eternal shame fall upon the lawyer and law firm that filed this garbage defamation suit against Forbes and @cfarivar.

    The article at issue very clearly falls within the "fair report" privilege which protects reporting on official proceedings (such as explaining the allegations in a complaint filed in court).

    This new suit is nothing but harassment through frivolous litigation.

    https://www.scribd.com/document/704736845/GIBF-v-Farivar-Complaint

    danielnazer, to random
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    I was searching my house (unsuccessfully) for my external CD drive and instead stumbled upon a very different relic.

    danielnazer, to random
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    TFW when you open The Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation for the first time in nearly a year.

    danielnazer, to random
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    As part of becoming a US citizen I had to learn all the states.

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