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baudpunk commented on CDC data are disappearing   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/doener
baudpunk · a year ago
LLMs have already been trained on all of that data, so it's probably an empty gesture.
baudpunk commented on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230   github.com/xairy/lights-o... · Posted by u/xairy
baudpunk · a year ago
I got a webcam with a built in cover, so that's not an issue for me. Microphones are creepy, however.
baudpunk commented on My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally   old.reddit.com/r/Experien... · Posted by u/Mainsail
baudpunk · a year ago
Also had this concern sometime ago, and then did 2 minutes of research before no longer having this concern.
baudpunk commented on M4 Mac mini's efficiency   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/marinesebastian
smm11 · a year ago
I just sold an M1 Mini and grabbed a Beelink. It's wonderful being able to run whatever OS/distro I want on the Beelink, and it's plenty strong enough for whatever. I love this adoration for Apple, primarily for my investment accounts, but in a cloud world I have no idea why there's such a demand for the M4.
baudpunk · a year ago
I also have a Beelink, but it skeeves me out a bit. It's probably going to drive me more towards Apple M{X} for my next home server. Even though I know those parts are also made in China, I trust Apple's sourcing more. Bee-link's stuff is so affordable that it makes me wonder why that is.

The globe continuously inching towards war makes me quite paranoid, unfortunately.

baudpunk commented on Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI   techcrunch.com/2024/11/04... · Posted by u/impish9208
baudpunk · a year ago
Huh. Pretty sure I saw the Perplexity CEO at Github Universe being introduced as a new partner. This stains both brands for me, unfortunately.
baudpunk commented on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
leoapagano · a year ago
Pardon—what does Wu Tang have to do with Dropbox?
baudpunk commented on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
protonprivacy · a year ago
Can you share more about your experience, which platform you were using and what features you were looking for so that we can share it with the team?
baudpunk · a year ago
Proton Drive through Proton Unlimited. I have my e-mail setup through Proton already, so the plan was going to be to consolidate, and use Proton for cloud storage as well. I have since downgraded back to Mail Plus. The reason being a pretty bad experience with Drive.

I honestly don't remember the fine-grained details, sorry, but it had something to do with waking up one morning to my remaining storage being consumed by every file in Drive being duplicated, with a title "(overwritten 21h4m)" or something like that appended to each one.

I can't remember what caused it, but what I do remember is that there was no way to remediate it through the Drive app itself. Meaning, if I wanted to return my drive back to its original state, I would be burning my own time to write the script to do it, or I would be burning my own time to research some other solution. I couldn't believe the feature was shipped in that state.

In my opinion, if there exists a feature that leads to all of my files being duplicated, then it shouldn't be released unless there has been thorough testing against that feature's ability to remediate the fubarred status that it has enacted to "protect" my files. In this case, I think the feature was version history.

So the three conclusions I could come to were that there was little to no testing, inexperienced engineers, or a project manager that isn't managing the project particularly well. In any case, I don't want to feel like I'm beta testing features with my most important files, so I went back to Dropbox and its more mature app. Haven't looked back since.

baudpunk commented on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
racl101 · a year ago
Anecdotal: I know a lot of people who use Dropbox, I don't know even one person who pays it. They pay for iCloud, probably cause it makes the iPhone experience even more convenient, but not Dropbox. I also don't pay for it.
baudpunk · a year ago
Yeah, that makes sense. If I wasn't a PC user, I'd probably be utilizing iCloud as well.
baudpunk commented on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
seandoe · a year ago
cream
baudpunk · a year ago
This guy Wu Tangs
baudpunk commented on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction   blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
baudpunk · a year ago
Kind of surprising to me, because I think I've tried every large competitor in the space, and have found there to be a gulf between the Dropbox UX and everyone else. I'm more than willing to pay their premium price. I was hoping Proton Drive would compete, but I felt like I was beta testing an inferior product.

I guess Wu Tang was right.

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