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Cake day: October 19th, 2024

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  • Tried to restart my fairly new Pixel phone a couple days ago by holding down the power button, but instead of showing the Power menu it prompted me to ask the Digital Assistant something. Excuse me? I don’t remember enabling that. Every other phone I’ve ever had, holding down the power button has always been the way to power down or restart. I had to search Settings to find how to configure the power button to control the power. Or course maybe I could have asked the Digital Assistant - but fuck that.





  • Great question! If it’s only a few GB I wouldn’t bother with tape. There are other options like

    • Google Photos - I’ve been using it for 10+ years without filling up the free 10 or 15 GB, whatever it is.
    • Burning a bunch of DVDs, repeat every 5 years.
    • Get a couple cheap hard drives then replace 1 of them every 3-5 years so one is always fairly new.


  • People who naievely pipe AI output directly to end users are ignoring the fundamental principle that writers need editors. AI isn’t at fault any more than a junior copywriter would be at fault for screwing up. In both cases their job is to produce rough copy which an editor is supposed to make a pass over. The problem lies with the management decision to remove the human editor from the process.

    Mediocre managers have always looked for magic bullets to fix problems they aren’t smart enough to handle. They’ll bring in consultants who give a seminar and leave a set of binders behind, and say do everything this way now, believing the sales pitch that said it would revolutionize the whole department. These same talentless managers are embracing AI with the same false hopes and implementing it just as clumsily.