Hello, my name is Paul, and my job is to drop screws into hard-to-reach places.
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I found out recently about a pair of commercially available speakers that bear an uncanny resemblance to one of my most popular designs. sites.google.com/site/undefi…
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May 30
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned at all WRT the Datacenter building frenzy is: "What about all the e-waste it will generate?" I worked over a decade in IT, and most servers are EOL within a 7-10 years.
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May 3
All your ai generated flyers and posters look like booty cheeks and I am exploding you with my mind
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Apr 27
This is why any time you search for something now you get 60 shitty landing pages with that exact same stock layout. And they've all been bumped to the front pages using bot traffic. You can't find an actual, good, user-tested app anymore without going thru 15 pages of this first
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Google is cutting open the goose that lays golden eggs, trying to get the eggs inside.
Apr 22
This is what's happening to YouTube. This is one of my most popular videos. It's how to fix a UEFI bootloader. As you can see the traffic has been cut in half over the last 6 months.
But if you Google how to fix a UEFI bootloader, Gemini will give you my exact step by step process. Even the commands it cites are copied directly from my video.
I got no royalty payments and don't even get a link to the original video. I simply lost the traffic and Google is able to provide more value from stolen content.
AI is going to destroy the content industry on the internet and when it's gone, there will be nothing left to train the AI. Since AI can't come up with anything original it relies on stolen content and it can't steal what doesn't exist if it puts creators out of business.
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This kicks ass
Apr 20
Starting in 2027, smartphones sold in the European Union will be required to have user-replaceable batteries designed for greater durability and more charging cycles.
Manufacturers must also provide spare parts and repair manuals for at least 10 years after a model is released.
This is real pressure against planned obsolescence. It should mean phones that actually last longer, cheaper fixes, and a lot less electronic waste piling up. About time.
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Apr 20
You ever drive an old Benz and think to yourself, damn, I wish I had a giant screen stretched across the whole dash instead of this beautiful leather and mahogany wood?
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Apr 10
I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said
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Apr 10
'Mr tape' a Latvian reel-to-reel dj filmed around 1991
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writing an e-mail and getting a prompt from AI "this sentence could be more concise"
no. i am verbose. i am loquacious. i am long-winded and often redundant even. you machine, do not tell me how to form my words
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This Sunday night has me nostalgic for Adult Swim in the early 2000s. The cultural loss from not having Appointment Television anymore saddens me.
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Microsoft: Puts Copilot into every Office app under the sun
Also Microsoft: Don't you DARE use this for work
Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers tells users not to rely on it for important advice tomshardware.com/tech-indust…
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You’ve clearly never seen a successful man in a Taurus
The intentionally loud car thing is inexplicable to me, and extremely annoying. Never, not once, has a woman heard that as an aphrodisiac
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Apr 2
He was right. The cult of personality around Jobs paved the way for the disastrous misreading of Musk.
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Mar 24
the orchestra could overpower the conductor if they really wanted to. it’s fear that holds them back
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Just found this setting and turned it on, and my blood pressure dropped 20%
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In accessibility settings in windows, you can set the scrollbars to stay visible
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