Category: Technical Labour

Sugru, a versatile rubbery glue, rescues any number of products you’d otherwise throw in the trash can.

Originally shared by Stephen Shankland

Sugru, a versatile rubbery glue, rescues any number of products you’d otherwise throw in the trash can. It’s a fix for modern-day living — and it’s good for home improvement, crafts, and lots more. In the last week, I’ve used it to repair a zipper pull and earbud wires, install a toilet paper holder without buying a diamond bit to drill through marble, and brace a spring-loaded shower curtain rod that kept falling down.

https://www.cnet.com/news/sugru-moldable-glue-life-hack-for-almost-anything/

More reasons why we can’t have nice things.

More reasons why we can’t have nice things.

Using machine learning to undetectably game recommendation systems as well as potential AI-based counter measures.

Using Yelp reviews as an example platform, we show how a two phased review generation and customization attack can produce reviews that are indistinguishable by state-of-the-art statistical detectors. We conduct a survey-based user study to show these reviews not only evade human detection, but also score high on “usefulness” metrics by users.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08151.pdf

This is true but I can only vouch for stock Android.

This is true but I can only vouch for stock Android.

I’ve been using an iPhone for nearly six months now and I can say that iOS as a mobile OS is less useful in every way. There are literally fewer things you can do with your phone and some of the things that you can do—such as sharing across apps—is much worse and stupider than on Android.

The only counterexamples I’ve seen are with heavily skinned Androids such as Samsungs which interpose themselves too much or disable perfectly useful Android features.

Originally shared by Glenn Murray

Watching a low-tech person use an iPhone. All the things that repeatedly fail, frustrate and confuse them are intrinsically iOS problems. Then I pick up my Android and do those same things in a heartbeat, and they’re impressed by my tech skills. But suggest they get an Android and, “No, I like my iPhone because it’s so easy to use. It just works. I know how to do everything I need to.”