Corbin Davenport
@corbin.io
Software developer, writer at @spacebar.news, news editor at howtogeek.com, podcast guy at @techtalesshow.com. Formerly XDA, PC Gamer, Android Police. (he/him)
Website: https://corbin.io
Mastodon: https://toot.community/@corbin
Website: https://corbin.io
Mastodon: https://toot.community/@corbin
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November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My article about avoiding Brave Browser is making the rounds again, so I guess I'll join the fun and share it too!
I appreciate everyone sharing it over the last two years to win their arguments. Making an updated and expanded version is on the to-do list.
I appreciate everyone sharing it over the last two years to win their arguments. Making an updated and expanded version is on the to-do list.
Stop using Brave Browser
Seriously.
www.spacebar.news
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My article about avoiding Brave Browser is making the rounds again, so I guess I'll join the fun and share it too!
I appreciate everyone sharing it over the last two years to win their arguments. Making an updated and expanded version is on the to-do list.
I appreciate everyone sharing it over the last two years to win their arguments. Making an updated and expanded version is on the to-do list.
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There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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in my own experience only, as LLMs get “better,” all I am seeing is the production of texts that are just as wrong as they ever were, in ways that are just as fatally bad, but which now appear more consistently plausible to someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
in my own experience only, as LLMs get “better,” all I am seeing is the production of texts that are just as wrong as they ever were, in ways that are just as fatally bad, but which now appear more consistently plausible to someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about
You’re telling me that a trans coded this video?
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
You’re telling me that a trans coded this video?
I reviewed the Razer Kiyo V2 X webcam! Razer removed the built-in ring light from the original model, so this is just an expensive 1440p camera that only really works with Windows.
Razer's 1440p Kiyo webcam is missing the feature I wanted the most
Better than the webcam in your drawer, but not $100 better.
www.howtogeek.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I reviewed the Razer Kiyo V2 X webcam! Razer removed the built-in ring light from the original model, so this is just an expensive 1440p camera that only really works with Windows.
🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🎵 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎵
My browser extension for showing link previews, Peek, is now 10 years old! 🎂
To celebrate, Peek v6.1 is rolling out now with a design refresh, support for Apple Music and Apple Podcasts links, plus other improvements and bug fixes.
Download: github.com/corbindavenp...
To celebrate, Peek v6.1 is rolling out now with a design refresh, support for Apple Music and Apple Podcasts links, plus other improvements and bug fixes.
Download: github.com/corbindavenp...
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My browser extension for showing link previews, Peek, is now 10 years old! 🎂
To celebrate, Peek v6.1 is rolling out now with a design refresh, support for Apple Music and Apple Podcasts links, plus other improvements and bug fixes.
Download: github.com/corbindavenp...
To celebrate, Peek v6.1 is rolling out now with a design refresh, support for Apple Music and Apple Podcasts links, plus other improvements and bug fixes.
Download: github.com/corbindavenp...
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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The way Dominic West delivers this "The fuck did I do?" Kills me everytime.
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The way Dominic West delivers this "The fuck did I do?" Kills me everytime.
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my wife lied to me keanu reaves isn’t even in this john wicked movie
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
my wife lied to me keanu reaves isn’t even in this john wicked movie
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Durham high school students demonstrate at CCB Plaza downtown in opposition of this week’s federal immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina
Photo credit: Will Michaels
Photo credit: Will Michaels
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Durham high school students demonstrate at CCB Plaza downtown in opposition of this week’s federal immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina
Photo credit: Will Michaels
Photo credit: Will Michaels
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They made Ted
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
They made Ted
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I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.
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I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
Google wants Android to be the next big PC operating system, but I think it's just going to be ChromeOS again. #android #linux
Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?
Google says Android-powered laptops are coming in 2026. Will they actually matter, though?
www.spacebar.news
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I want to know what possesses people to upload movie clips to YouTube with motion smoothing added.
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I want to know what possesses people to upload movie clips to YouTube with motion smoothing added.
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It's the weekend, baby
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's the weekend, baby
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November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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