bsharper

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by bsharper 5mo ago
There is a choice, but almost nobody uses it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
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by bsharper 6mo ago
There are some difference in client wifi interfaces (STA) and access point wifi interfaces (APs, like you'd find on a good router). For example, some wifi interfaces don't have promiscuous mode, or can't scan while maintainin
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by bsharper 7mo ago
You mean you DON'T want to see every utility installed via snap listed as a mount point? /s
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by bsharper 8mo ago
There is a Jackbox game called "Talking Points" that's like this: the players come up with random ideas for presentations, your "assistant" (one of the other players) picks what's on each slide while you presen
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by bsharper 8mo ago
You only need $25-30. It'll be locked to a carrier, but that doesn't matter and is perhaps preferable (no monthly fee for a subsidized device) if you are able to use wifi. There's an ETA prime video which explores using a 202
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by bsharper 8mo ago
You can have a multiuser system but that doesn't solve this particular issue. If they log in to what you claim to be your primary account and see browser history that shows you went to msn.com 3 months ago, they aren't going to be
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by bsharper 8mo ago
Miguel de Icaza is kind of a legend, I know him most from his work on Mono and Gnome. Whatever he works on today will likely be part of a stack you work on in a few years (at least that's my experience).
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by bsharper 2y ago
I end up using a combination of scp, LocalSend, magic wormhole and sharedrop.io. Occasionally `python -m http.server` in a pinch for local downloads. It's unfortunate that this xkcd comic is still as relevant as it was in 2011: https:
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by bsharper 2y ago
The user can change anything they want, but a process launched by your user doesn't inherit every user access by default. You (the user) can give a process full disk access, or just access to your documents, or just access to your cont
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by bsharper 2y ago
Not specifically related to your point, but government provided weather APIs might not be a thing in the US in the future: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-pro...
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by bsharper 2y ago
It's funny when you look at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_artificial_intelli... The original bump-and-turn Roomba is listed for 2002.
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by bsharper 2y ago
It's also how Google generally brands consumer-facing products, which is just Google + Noun. Most of their non-enterprise products tend to have unambiguous names (Google Search, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Translate).
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by bsharper 2y ago
I've found EasyOCR to work much better at pulling text out of irregular or unknown images. Requires more resources than tesseract but gets much better results in my projects.
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by bsharper 2y ago
Amazon used AOSP to create tons of their products. Even if most Android devices have the Play Store, there are successful variants that don't. And I'd even include Meta's Quest line here: every headset since the Go has the ab
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by bsharper 3y ago
Check out ollama: https://ollama.ai/ It's easy to get running and doesn't require you to manually download models.
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by bsharper 10y ago
I just use JS scripts, because if node is not installed you aren't getting very far anyway. Actions like "copy this file", "clear this subdirectory", and "pull these files over the network" are easy to wri