SturgeonsLaw (u/SturgeonsLaw)

SturgeonsLaw commented on Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines waxy.org/2025/08/will-smi... · Posted by u/jay_kyburz

layer8 · 18 hours ago

> I feel, as a place for tech startups, we should realise this. If you plan to market to the public, just drop the nuance. You'll save, be more competitive, and win.

Do you really want this to be the world we live in? It's just hurting the people who do care about nuance.

SturgeonsLaw · 17 hours ago

It's already the world we live in

SturgeonsLaw commented on Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Volundr

paulddraper · 4 days ago

Who carries a separate work cell phone?

SturgeonsLaw · 4 days ago

No only do I have a separate work phone, but my personal phone has two SIM cards (one physical and one eSIM), one of those numbers is my general spam number that I give to businesses and acquaintances, and the other is my actual personal phone number that only the people close to me in real life get. I have a widget on the home screen that can disable/enable the spam SIM card at will.

Makes it real easy to control how available I am to different groups of people.

SturgeonsLaw commented on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated] cnn.com/2025/08/12/busine... · Posted by u/mastry

dotancohen · 13 days ago

Kodak _invented_ digital photography.

SturgeonsLaw · 13 days ago

And then shelved it, fearing that it would cannibalise their film sales

SturgeonsLaw commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man

kergonath · 15 days ago

For the life of me I cannot comprehend why they cannot let us choose the decimal separator independently from the locale. Or for fuck’s sake, just be smart about it. My desktop is for boring administrative tasks, of course I want it in my language. No, I don’t want to manually change settings in Word for every fucking document I create because ~none of them will be in English. But then why do I have to search-and-replace . with , or click 12 times through an inane bullshit wizard just to paste some data in Excel?

SturgeonsLaw · 14 days ago

Respecting regional settings is so inconsistent among Office applications. The desktop ones usually get it, but online is a crapshoot. Whenever there's a date like 3/4/25 I get the play the fun guessing game of whether that's March or April.

For Project Online, the most reliable way I found to fix it was to manually edit the URL to replace en-US with en-AU, then bookmark that.

SturgeonsLaw commented on How to Not Build the Torment Nexus buttondown.com/monteiro/a... · Posted by u/p3_1080

SturgeonsLaw · 19 days ago

>But surely the real problem is a systemic one and you can’t blame the workers for participating. After all, they are just trying to feed themselves and get healthcare. And, that is correct, of course. What’s also correct is that systems are powered by people. They rely on the labor of people to function

That statement is pivotal and one which people really need to be called out on when they use it as a crutch.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game"... Motherfucker there's only a game because of the players!

SturgeonsLaw commented on Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist github.com/berbyte/sinkzo... · Posted by u/dominis

doodlebugging · 20 days ago

I see it has a Windows installer. I might have to try that on my old Win7 Pro system.

I will likely move on to Win10 now that it is ending support later this year so I might try there too. Windows support is best consumed in small chunks so once they deep-six Win10 it will be ready for consumption since the only "updates" it is likely to get are those strictly related to protecting it from malware.

Years ago there was a software firewall called SyGate that allowed a user to block everything and then set allow rules as they needed so that the only applications that could get out were those explicitly allowed by the user. The internet was young and there were fewer bad actors so it was way ahead of its time on the consumer side. You could install the free version or pay for a premium version. It was bought out in the late 90's I think by Norton or one of those other big units (Symantec?) who used all the good parts in their own "improved" firewalls, for a lot of money though.

I like this idea of blocking everything except the things you know you need.

SturgeonsLaw · 20 days ago

While we're throwing out recommendations for Windows software firewalls, I've previously used and liked Portmaster. Nice UI and its open source

https://safing.io/portmaster/

SturgeonsLaw commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

jjice · 21 days ago

I've heard similar for gambling, and as one of the sister comments said, things like video games. I'm so curious to understand _why_ that effect is there, but I've heard this so many times now that I do believe that it exists in some capacity. Such an interesting world we're opening up here.

SturgeonsLaw · 21 days ago

I wouldn't speculate on the cause of action, however all those activities are linked by activation of the dopaminergic reward circuit, so semaglutides might have some broad based anti-addiction properties by moderating dopamine activity.

SturgeonsLaw commented on A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California journalism.berkeley.edu/p... · Posted by u/Improvement

bitlax · 21 days ago

It literally does and it's good for the meth heads.

SturgeonsLaw · 21 days ago

Yeah, nothing improves their prospects quite like adding a criminal record onto their drug addiction

SturgeonsLaw commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan

siscia · 24 days ago

Also, do you have a better way to spend that money?

SturgeonsLaw · 24 days ago

If it were me, yeah, park it in bonds and live off the interest on a tropical beach. Spend my days spearfishing and drinking beers with the locals. Have no concerns except how even my tan is (and tbh I don't see myself caring too much about that).

I'd forget the word shareholder even exists.

SturgeonsLaw commented on Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/andrew_lastmile

nunez · 25 days ago

Misinformed take IMO.

M-series chips are insanely cool (literally and figuratively) and have no competition even five years in. Same with the W-series SoCs on watches.

Are there any third-party haptic vibration motors yet?

Shoot, even their trackpads, which already stood alone, have gotten _better_ over the years.

Nobody else will have their own vertically-integrated modem out in production. This will make budget iPhones (maybe all iPhones) so much cheaper once they show Qualcomm the door.

That's before the advances they've made in software, like their camera processing pipeline (which only gets better; their video stack still has no equal) and differential privacy.

Oh, yeah, and the Vision Pro, which basically everyone who has tried it has said that it is the most advanced technology they've ever used.

Almost all of this happened under Cook's tenure.

Apple is still in the business of building insanely cool shit.

SturgeonsLaw · 25 days ago

Vertically-integrated modems are not cool. I mean, they are to me and likely other geeks, but to the general public? Their eyes would glaze over.

Cool is the kind of thing people envy. It's the kind of product that gets namedropped in a music video.