PlunderBunny

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by PlunderBunny 6mo ago
Yeah, I thought Cook would stay on until the end of the Trump-admin in order to keep ‘swallowing the dead rats’ so that the next CEO would have a clean plate.
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by PlunderBunny 6mo ago
Even if he did have a Mac with the continuity feature enabled, I suppose the lock-screen won’t accept a paste from the clipboard of a Mac. (If it did, he could enter the correct passcode in any text editor on his Mac, copy it to the clipboa
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
I remember when the hard drive on my PowerMac 7200/90 started to fail (I was told that some of the ball bearings the platter rotated on were broken [0]). When the drive detected a 'wobble' on the platter, the entire computer
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
I recall there used to be a problem if you edited a (win)form in Visual Studio on a computer that didn't have the DPI set to 100% - did they fix that? The work around was 'simply' to switch to 100% DPI scaling before opening
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
Lighthouse can sometimes find RSS feeds for pages that don’t show an RSS button on the page: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
Please consider using the Donate link at the bottom of the article to support good, independent investigative journalism!
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
Edit: I’m wrong - ignore this please. Bumblebees don’t sting, but they can bite, as I discovered after many years of picking them up when I saw them on the ground in a vulnerable spot.
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
In the early 1980s I read an Usbourne (sp?) introduction to programming book for kids that had a picture of a robot walking through a brick wall while following its programming to ‘take a letter to the letterbox’. At this rate, it looks lik
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
There was a time when leather tanners used to collect the urine from bars - I guess the tanners paid for it.
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by PlunderBunny 7mo ago
"Disce Pati" (Learn Suffering)
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
Polymarket and Kalshi have just been declared gambling under New Zealand law, and therefore 'investing' in them is now illegal for New Zealanders. Both companies have been ordered to stop providing services to New Zealanders [0] 0
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
If a weather app had access to your photos in real time (I know - stay with me here) it could deduce the local weather from what it can see in the sky in your photos, essentially crowd sourcing real-time weather updates with no effort from
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
Even leaky water pipes kill people - just google Legionnaires disease.
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
I don’t know about other countries, but in New Zealand there’s already recycling of leftover bits of drywall (we call it ‘gib board’ after a brand name). All the big building companies will accept leftover bits of gib board, but small bits
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
1Blocker for iOS and macOS (and other fruit devices?) has comment blocking. Sites can be whitelisted if you deem the comments to be of high enough quality.
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
Yeah, but isn't the voice recognition (as opposed to voice comprehension) separate from the supposedly LLM powered bit of Siri? I want better voice comprehension too, but I don't think that moving to a LLM powered Siri will solve
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
(Edit: Didn't see your last paragraph before writing the response below) I think there is a distinction between Siri misunderstanding what was said (which you can see/hear), and Siri understanding what you said but hallucinating a
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
Unless I misunderstand your reply, I think we're agreeing.
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
Given the way current LLMs hallucinate, and given that Apple (presumably) won’t accept this behaviour in Siri, I’m skeptical that existing technology (or existing technology scaled up) can ever create the Siri Apple and its customers want.
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by PlunderBunny 8mo ago
I remember being told that many of the spelling/grammar mistakes in (English) menus for ethnic restaurants were deliberate to make the (English native speaking) customers feel superior. (Also not saying I believe this at all, just rela
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by PlunderBunny 9mo ago
We had a 2010 Ford Transit van (diesel) and after 189000km, we sold it because the parts were becoming too hard to source (disclaimer: in New Zealand).
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by PlunderBunny 9mo ago
But it’s not “hundreds of thousands of dollars” is it? It’s meme-coins that are supposedly worth that much. Is there a to getting any significant amount of (real) money out of them?
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by PlunderBunny 9mo ago
I paid for Numbers way back when it was a paid app. I have simple needs, and I much preferred the smooth inertial scrolling compared to running Excel in a VM (which was what I was doing before).
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by PlunderBunny 9mo ago
Not judging your reply, but my understanding of the meaning of the word ‘trigger happy’ is that the shooter is too hasty in deciding to fire, and has nothing to do with their skill or accuracy.
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by PlunderBunny 9mo ago
My partner (an architect) does something similar, plus - when she holds her arm out straight - the distance from the tips of her fingers to the opposite shoulder blade is almost exactly a meter.
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by PlunderBunny 9mo ago
Also check out this guy's postings on Bluesky [0] - some comedy gold there: "my cathedral-seeing eyes finally came in the mail, really excited to try these puppies out. oh holy shit" 0. https://bsky.app/profil
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
In a text field that accepts a URL, press and hold the full-stop to show a list of common domains, plus the local country domain and the local variant for .com
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
Perhaps for the same reason that conspiracy theorists need to ‘one-up’ each other - it’s a signal that you’re part of the group.
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
What about the interior? There’s no one thing you can point to in a car interior and say “that’s no good after X years” but we’ve all seen the interior of old cars. The batteries in modern EVs will last the lifetime of the vehicle [0] but w
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by PlunderBunny 10mo ago
Here in New Zealand we’ve just started road-side testing for drug-driving [0] 0. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581951/first-day-of-road...

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