bashinator (u/bashinator)

bashinator commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan

Astronaut3315 · 3 months ago

I bought a Sony OLED a couple years ago. I was able to set it up in “dumb” mode and all the default apps could be manually removed. It acts like a monitor and shows nothing but our Apple TV at powerup.

The home screen’s just a nice static background with a settings app and nothing else. I never see it unless I press the appropriate button, but it’s nice to know there isn’t an onslaught of junk waiting for me if I do.

YMMV but other brands with Google TV may have similar “dumb” capabilities.

bashinator · 3 months ago

Until you get a mandatory software update.

bashinator commented on ./watch dotslashwatch.com/... · Posted by u/shrx

jsheard · 5 months ago

I disagree with Wikipedia's definition covering any design where the guts are visible from either side, in my experience "skeleton" always refers specifically to the dial being hollowed out or transparent. When the dial is opaque but the rear is transparent it's usually called an "exhibition caseback" instead.

bashinator · 5 months ago

Agreed, and also most skeleton watches have the actual movement routed out to remove much of the material from bridges and plates, to expose as much gearing as possible.

bashinator commented on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3 arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/kozika

deadbabe · 8 months ago

TV was one hell of a propaganda engine.

bashinator · 8 months ago

Not personalized. Imagine TV that can be exactly tuned to every individual viewers' taste.

bashinator commented on Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice pcgamer.com/gaming-indust... · Posted by u/riffraff

bellgrove · 8 months ago

Having worked there in the past, Ubisoft is awful. When I was there previously there was an aggressive push for UPlay (now Ubisoft Connect) integration into all products. Then there were the bullshots for promos/E3/etc. There were often clashes with leadership who would fight against creativity / novel ideas in favour of cookie-cutter mechanics that would not add anything to the experience - certainly there was a mentality of, let's just copy what was recently successful.

I'm blown away that series like AC, FarCry are still big sellers. These games are vapid and designed to be a time sink.

bashinator · 8 months ago

I'll never buy an Ubisoft game again. Instant dealbreaker to see that studio on the Steam store page; I've deleted a $3 sale game from my cart when I realized that it was Ubisoft. No game is worth giving money to a company that hates its customers so much.

bashinator commented on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3 arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/kozika

deadbabe · 8 months ago

Every generation has their “I miss the time before ‘thing I don’t like’ became a thing”.

In our case, it’s just generative AI.

bashinator · 8 months ago

Has every generation also seen the rise of massively-multiuser automated personalized propaganda engines?

bashinator commented on They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard kevinboone.me/dx7.html... · Posted by u/ingve

bashinator · a year ago

DX7 is a great example of how new technologies can ruin a previously-great user experience. Going from cables and knobs and an "everything is visible at once" UX on analogs to a small LCD panel with data entry buttons was a huge regression.

bashinator commented on AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS github.com/nikitabobko/Ae... · Posted by u/loughnane

speedgoose · 2 years ago

You can get the positions of every windows, the position of the mouse pointer, and you can focus windows.

bashinator · 2 years ago

This is really cool, I'm gonna try and implement it!

bashinator commented on AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS github.com/nikitabobko/Ae... · Posted by u/loughnane

speedgoose · 2 years ago

Looks like Hammerspoon and some lua should do:

https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.mouse.html

https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.window.html

bashinator · 2 years ago

Not seeing a way to get the window currently under the mouse pointer, but this is pretty interesting - thanks!

bashinator commented on The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data link.springer.com/article... · Posted by u/tokai

michaelt · 2 years ago

I think there are qualitative differences that arise from incremental, quantitative changes in privacy.

Sure, in the 1970s the cops could follow you around any time you were out in public. But they needed 6+ cops to provide round-the-clock surveillance, with an annual cost in the high six figures.

So the average citizen's privacy was protected not by law or high-minded ideals about privacy, but by simple numbers. There weren't enough cops to follow even 0.1% of the population.

But in the modern age of smartphones and license plate recognition and credit reference agencies? I think there's a strong argument to be made that we need new laws and new rights to reflect the new reality, where tracking people around the clock is several orders of magnitude cheaper.

bashinator · 2 years ago

Any sufficiently quantitative change becomes a qualitative change.

bashinator commented on AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS github.com/nikitabobko/Ae... · Posted by u/loughnane

lelandfe · 2 years ago

It's also a bummer because Terminal.app has the functionality out of the box: https://macos-defaults.com/mouse/focusfollowsmouse.html

bashinator · 2 years ago

It can be implemented within apps, but not across apps afaict.

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