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by denismi 1y ago
> The latest Daikin indoor units have a built-in WiFi module which only allows control through their cloud infrastructure. Which ones? My Alira X from a couple of years ago is currently talking directly to Home Assistant over WiFi. For a
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by denismi 1y ago
> The AI Free tier gives you unlimited code completion and access to local AI models Looking forward to giving this a try. Work provides me with tooling and requires that I stick to approved AI tools, and my hobby-coding alone is just no
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by denismi 2y ago
> The only viable business model for a web browser, the one that literally all major browsers use, is to accept money from a search engine (Google, specifically) to be make them the default. Even Kagi makes its own Orion web browser, for
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by denismi 2y ago
Yes. Since the 'Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018' which I was directly quoting from, and explicitly prohibits systemic backdoors. That blog's own reference points this out:
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by denismi 2y ago
Australian law explicitly prohibits requests that have someone "implement or build a systemic weaknesses, or a systemic vulnerability, into a form of electronic protection" - including any request to "implement or build a new
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by denismi 2y ago
This happens on my Gmail all the time. Frankly, if somebody else uses my address for a service and I'm receiving anything other than email verification from that service, I'm reporting it as spam on both Gmail and Fastmail because
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by denismi 2y ago
> If they shipped vertical tabs I'd probably switch back to Firefox. about:config, sidebar.revamp = true, sidebar.verticalTabs = true It's getting there.
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by denismi 2y ago
Do you honestly feel tricked that a gameplay mechanic which transparently asks you to record 50-100MB videos of a point-of-interest and upload it to their servers in exchange for an (often paid/premium) in-game reward was a form of d
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by denismi 2y ago
Without Android what's even the point? If all I have is laptop and desktop, I probably just run scheduled rsyncs or a systemd timer something.
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by denismi 2y ago
They've seemed very focused on their AI assistant recently, so I'm happy to see a useful new search feature. Happy to see that custom bangs work (eg a discourse forum I visit), but eventually I'd like to specify how far along
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by denismi 2y ago
Ten years ago when Siri/Google/Alexa were launching, I really wouldn't have expected that 2024 voice assistants would be mere egg timers, and frustrating ones at that - requiring considered phrasing and regular repeating&#x2F
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by denismi 2y ago
> TV ... supported [itself] just fine using zero tracking on the advertising they ran ... by hijacking our audio-visual attention with deliberately obnoxious ad content for a third of each hour of our down-time. > newspapers and magaz
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by denismi 2y ago
The laws of Australia do trump the laws of mathematics in that context though? If the government forces Google to push out a version of FacebookMessenger.apk to the Play Store account belonging to janetlovescats93@gmail.com, which uploads h
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by denismi 2y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this might be just about the best Killed By Google ever? Google Fit is a health data service offered by Google, with all of the health data stored under your Google account on Google's servers. Its API is also
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by denismi 3y ago
I am still on the 1 November 2023 security update on my AU S22 Ultra.
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by denismi 3y ago
So we tested this in Australia. We shut our borders suddenly and unexpectedly for two years, going from a long-run rate of over 1% net immigration to negative overnight. Meanwhile, we kept development approval and construction going largely
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by denismi 3y ago
Doesn't that mean that buying the newest Fairphone in 2023 gets you 0 years of Android updates and 3 years of security updates? Compared to 4 years of each with a midrange Galaxy A?
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by denismi 4y ago
0900-1800 CET is 1900-0400 AEDT. How would that work?
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by denismi 4y ago
I lost a Yubikey, so I revoked the subkeys on it. Github didn't let me update the existing pubkey, so I had to remove and re-enter it. Now all things signed by the revoked key, despite being before the revoke date, come up as unverifie
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by denismi 4y ago
The posting snippets of text as images, which then get zoomed and cropped despite taking up enough screen real estate to be legible in full, is a wonderful advancement of the shiternet. In 1979 someone apparently wrote: > nts to work &gt
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by denismi 4y ago
If you mean NSW, the new planning minister has recently caved in to developers and decided to keep killing the environment: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/minister-bows-to-develop...
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by denismi 4y ago
How so? I just logged in on Linux/Firefox with username+password+SMS-2FA?
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by denismi 4y ago
Was he fired? I thought he quit after Tsipras sold out the Greek people?
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by denismi 4y ago
Honestly I would find "Best," confusing, and I don't think I've ever seen it before. What is it supposed to mean? "All the best"? "Best wishes"? Why not just say that? Depending on the rest of the con
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by denismi 5y ago
Yep, Nautilus is "unusable" without the compact view. Idiotic hyperbole like this is where I stop reading. How can I take anything beyond that seriously?
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by denismi 5y ago
It's so obviously tabs that it isn't even worth discussing.
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by denismi 5y ago
Deleted emails are kept for one week so that accidentally-deleted items can be restored: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/restoredeleted.html
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by denismi 6y ago
> I’m not even sure why a smart faucet would be appealing to any consumer Very quickly off the top of my head I could imagine: - measuring out the appropriate volume for the teapot and delivering at the ideal brewing temperature for the
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by denismi 6y ago
Isn't that like saying "it's not owned by Google, it's owned by Alphabet"?
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by denismi 6y ago
The legislation was subsequently amended to include ABC: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/abc-sbs-included-in-... (Hopefully YC doesn't have to pay for this link one day)

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