Nerd That Talks Good

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Author, Speaker, Message Consultant, That Guy With the Glasses. 
I help founders and other smart people tell their stories even better. It pays to be a NERD who TALKS good.
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Nerd That Talks Good3d ago

"You seem to be handling everything really well, despite *gestures broadly* the state of things."

"Thanks. I discovered the 24-hour Bob Ross channel on Roku."

Nerd That Talks GoodMay 10
@Binder Inflammable means the same thing as vertebrate?
Show threadNerd That Talks GoodMay 8

@mainframed767 @JetSm00th This is why I installed solar and built a shed office.

I’ll maintain my own data center, thankyouverymuch! 🤓

Show threadNerd That Talks GoodMay 6

@mainframed767 I JUST saw a story about a company proposing deploying “fractional data centers” into residential areas to take advantage of electrical grid surplus. 🥹

Like, hands off, that’s mine!!

Show threadNerd That Talks GoodMay 6
@jack_daniel It’s enough to say “DNS exists.”
Show threadNerd That Talks GoodMay 6
@EricAlper I published my first book last year. Hasn’t been a huge success (yet), but it was a long time coming.
Show threadNerd That Talks GoodMay 5
@DoctorDeathray And toes!!
Nerd That Talks GoodMay 5
AI6YR BenMay 5

"...Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it."

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

😡

#ai #climatemergency #bloatware

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!
Show threadNerd That Talks GoodApr 26

@theresnotime I make a list.

Aaaaaaaand, I’m spent.

Nerd That Talks GoodApr 19
hazel Mar 29
i've said it before and i'll say it again, choosing readable fonts and ensuring proper contrast is accessibility 101. i find it really annoying when i, an able-sighted person, find hard to read text on a poster or a piece of text because the designer thought it'd be a good idea to put text-colored spots on the background or use an atrocious font. i cant expect someone with dyslexia or with impaired sight to be able to decipher stuff i cant even make sense of.

especially if this is about a queer friendly or punk context. we still fail to think about the disabled.