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by avian 1y ago
Discussed on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173455
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by avian 1y ago
Storage Box with Borg backup can be setup to work almost identically to tarsnap. The only real security feature missing is write-only access to the repository (Borg backup in theory supports it, but in practice it's impossible to use i
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by avian 1y ago
I've been using tarsnap for years and am in the process of migrating away from it. Things that are not cozy: 1) There's no way to monitor your monthly spend per host/credit left on the account/etc. apart of logging into
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by avian 1y ago
In Our Time has been my favorite podcast to listen. It made me appreciate how well moderated a discussion among experts can be and how poorly most moderators on other radio programs or conference panels do their jobs. My complaint with In O
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by avian 1y ago
I have the same experience. My assumption is that if the website serves me the "click all the traffic lights" thing it's already determined that I'm a bot and no amount of clicking the traffic lights will convince it oth
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by avian 1y ago
I looked up some pictures of this lefty-handed curl and I suddenly feel immense gratitude towards the people from my childhood that taught me how to use my left hand to write in a practical and comfortable manner.
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by avian 1y ago
As a counter example, I'm left handed and write hundreds of pages per year in a left-to-right language and don't have issues with smudging lines with my palm. Maybe the inks I use dry fast enough (Parker Quink or Pelikan 4001) or
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by avian 1y ago
> One lasts generations Multiple Parker Vectors I had typically lasted a few years of use each before the plastic windings between the pen head and the holder wore out or broke. My Pilot Metropolitan did the same just a few months back.
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by avian 1y ago
> If I take a small piece of matter and shake it for a long time, then don't all its electrons and protons emit electromagnetic radiation and lose energy? Yes, they do. But it's only a very very tiny amount. You're shaking
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by avian 2y ago
From the paper linked in the post: > [...] boiled coffee was poured through a two-layer polyester/acrylic sock (an occasional household recommendation as potential substitution for a paper filter) No kidding. I thought the sock was
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by avian 2y ago
As an electronics engineer I have no idea what the author is talking about here and was about to post the same question.
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by avian 2y ago
I was wondering where the odd 88x31 size came from. According to this [1] it's basically because at one point GeoCities used a GIF of this size and then everyone copied it. [1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions&#x2
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by avian 2y ago
All I get is "Error 405 [country] users must use proxy." I wonder what that's about. GDPR?
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by avian 2y ago
As a small mail server admin I see this less about security of messages originating from me and more about the possibility of spammers sending DKIM-authenticated mail as coming from me (and resulting in shadow bans at gmail, etc. which is a
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by avian 2y ago
LLMs/generative AI is a significant change to what we had to deal before. Both in terms of volume and accessibility to the common fuckwit (to borrow the term from another thread) and in terms of moderator time per interaction (because
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by avian 2y ago
> Generative AI can be used for copyright infringement - just like any creator technology could be. And yet, all generative AI services are pretty confident that copyright infringement is not something you should worry about when using t
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by avian 2y ago
The section on regurgitation is three whole statements and basically boils down to "the model refuses when asked to regurgitate training data". This doesn't inspire confidence that the model isn't spitting out literal co
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by avian 2y ago
Any recent news on the GPIO issue on RP2350? Will they ship updated silicon at some point? https://hackaday.com/2024/09/04/the-worsening-raspberry-pi-r... So far it seems the message from Raspberry Pi is &quo
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by avian 3y ago
I guess this is the study? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02644... As far as I understand, they used the 42 day window to associate the side-effect with the vaccine. Have there be
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by avian 3y ago
Yes. It works fine in Linux. Don't get one if you are printing infrequently. You will just have dried up/clogged heads all the time.
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by avian 3y ago
You're getting downvoted, but I think low text density contributes to the low quality of conversation. I've commonly witnessed conversations that were going around in circles, with people just tuning in and re-asking questions tha
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by avian 3y ago
> it encourages more conversation that are visible to more people since everything people say is not going to be trivially searchable for all time by anyone. It also encourages more people to be assholes in my experience. I'm sure t
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by avian 3y ago
Most other languages (at least the ones I know) are already hugely polluted by useless content that was (badly) machine translated from English. Such spam sites are now a majority of search results for me when I use Duckduckgo or Google.
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by avian 3y ago
You are both right. Supply was allocated to businesses, but there was not enough for every business, so quite many of them could not buy Raspberry Pis for their products. Then again, everyone was having major supply issues. Yes, you could p
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by avian 3y ago
These are cool and definitely a much more interesting hack than just sticking a company logo in the middle of the code in Photoshop. But I've never seen one of these in the wild.
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by avian 3y ago
> 99% of the QR codes you encounter don't have any missing bits I see a lot of cutesy QR codes out there that include a logo in the center. These are basically intentionally damaged and depend on error correction to recover the miss
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by avian 3y ago
It's step 1) of the scenario outlined in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541
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by avian 3y ago
Correct. Parent commenter seems to be asking questions they already know the answer to. Those are the wrong kind of questions. They should only ask the questions about things they don't know anything about. ChatGPT gets those right eve
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The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked(twitter.com)
212 points by avian 3y ago|296 comments
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by avian 3y ago
ChatGPT 4.0 will make all forms of coffee holders obsolete in 6 months anyway.

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