naxxfish @naxxfish@mastodon.technology

If the point of Mechanical Turk is that it's a service that provides humans pretending to be a machine, then is the MTurk sandbox machines pretending to be humans pretending to be machines?

Happy Cloud computing - it's all fucked! :D https://youtu.be/3sn63_vsLNs

Incidentally, the choon I'm listening to on my DT770's on a Monday morning at 3AM is https://open.spotify.com/track/1yv3aBLO9rgyEHmAR7jI1M

Dear Apple hardware engineers of old. Thank you for building a half decent headphone amp into the MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015). Insomniac Chris appriciates this decision.

Looking a MTurk and found someone trying to get workers to transcribe invoices with an effective hourly rate of $0.35 per hour. This is actually ridiculous.

The story ends with a fresh new installation of macOS, a Backblaze subscription, two user accounts ("no, look, I know you're married but you're not 'one person' - do you share an email address? phone number? passport? driving license?"), LastPass for both users with browser extension, and their master passwords written down somewhere safe.

Turns out, before this happened, they were logging in using the Guest account to log in on a daily basis (for some reason). Which meant as soon as they logged off, macOS dutifully deleted all of their files from the Mac. Like their weekly take spreadsheet. Which weren't backed up anywhere.

We are now reinstalling macOS .... >_<

Parent: "Can you give me the details for the social media account you set up for my business?" "Sure, just log into facebook...", "I don't know my password", "OK... lets log you into Lastpass", "I forgot the password to it", "Right... lets do Screen Share", "I can't log into my computer", "...<silent facepalm>... OK lets reset your password with your iCloud account","I can't log into that either"

If you have an app with VIP flags on users, try not to creep on them and watch their usage, then email them about it later. Its a bit... unsetting :)

Aahhh, I am going to miss being in a cable area :(

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I'm at a fireworks / laser show. During the laser show, everyone is looking the wrong way at a bunch of dots on the trees instead of the tubes of light over their heads.

For the avoidance of doubt, Daylight Savings Time (or British Summertime, specifically) is a stupid idea in the 21st century. If your work requires daylight, wake up earlier, and stop making me build systems that need to handle 1AM happening twice in the same day once a year. I dread to think how much money is wasted every year on engineering systems that can handle a physical dimension changing representation for 6 months.

And one person would need to have two separate thirds from different nuggets. Who's got time for that ?!

20 nuggets split across 3 boxes ? who the hell wants 6 and two thirds of a chicken nugget ???

Tell you what, playing "Guess Who" in 2019 is hard.

The Only Way is Ethics - my journey into learning how to not kill people or the planet by wearing clothes https://naxxfish.net/2019/03/10/the-only-way-is-ethics/

"Dear AI overlords, permit me to dull my misery in a social context" "OK, here's some money" https://ifttt.com/applets/BYtzTR7u-when-you-say-i-m-off-to-the-pub-withdraw-from-a-monzo-pot?term=monzo