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UK to Allow "Plug in" Solar(gov.uk)
22 points by edent 7mo ago|15 comments
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Open Alleged PhotoDNA(github.com)
2 points by edent 7mo ago|0 comments
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Lost Doctor Who episodes found(bbc.co.uk)
303 points by edent 7mo ago|107 comments
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Unstructured Data and the Joy of having Something Else think for you(shkspr.mobi)
2 points by edent 7mo ago|0 comments
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HeliBoard is creating an open source gesture typing library(github.com)
2 points by edent 7mo ago|0 comments
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by edent 7mo ago
Sure, but Life + 70 means it is unlikely that anyone will benefit from the death soon .
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by edent 7mo ago
"Up to death" would provide a perverse incentive for people to kill creators in order to liberate something from copyright.
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F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026(f-droid.org)
164 points by edent 8mo ago|153 comments
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by edent 8mo ago
OP here. If you're interested, here are my thoughts on Google Glass from 12 years ago. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/04/quick-thoughts-on-google-gl... I am looking forward to 2028 matching the hype of 20
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by edent 8mo ago
OP here! Thanks for replying. To take, for example, calculators. I can't find any evidence of a massive influx of hyperbolic articles talking about how the calculator will change everything. With bikes, there were plenty of articles de
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by edent 8mo ago
Yes. And, again, they look amazing and make you feel like you're 10x. But then I look at the code quality, hideous mistakes, blatant footguns, and misunderstood requirements and realise it is all a sham. I know, I know. I'm holdin
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by edent 8mo ago
That's the most recent time. But I've bounced around all the LLMs - they're all superficially amazing. But if you understand their output they often wrong in both subtle and catastrophic ways. As I said, maybe I'm wrong.
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by edent 8mo ago
Yes! More blogging :-)
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by edent 8mo ago
That sounds like an interesting article. You should write it.
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by edent 8mo ago
I spent an hour with Gemini this morning trying to get instructions to compile a common open source tool for an uncommon platform. It was an hour of pasting in error messages and getting back "Aha! Here's the final change you need
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by edent 8mo ago
The thing is, the successful tech rarely get the excessive hype. MRNA vaccines. Where are the countless breathless articles about these literal life saving tech? A few, maybe, but very few dudes pumping out asinine "white papers"
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by edent 8mo ago
OP here. Unless you're still watching Quibi on your curved TV, delivered via WiMax then, yeah, I'd say it was pretty bloody substantiated. I like technology. I made a decent living from it. But if I had chased every hyped fad that
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by edent 8mo ago
Because when you're a kid, your mum restocks the fridge "automatically". So much of modern tech is developed by slightly pathetic men wanting their mummies to come back and run their lives. Fill the fridge, vacuum the home, d
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by edent 8mo ago
OP here. As the meme goes, I am one of literally dozens of people who live outside the USA. "Immigration" is the commonly used term in the UK. See https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/question/99775/eur
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by edent 8mo ago
My bank sends me an alert when my card is used to make a transaction - handy for spotting fraud. I get an alert when a payment comes it - handy for knowing if a client has paid. I can quickly check my balance - handy for knowing if I can af
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I Don't Like Magic(adactio.com)
160 points by edent 8mo ago|128 comments
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Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries(internet.exchangepoint.tech)
1 points by edent 8mo ago|0 comments
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by edent 8mo ago
Neither. They used to discover your device and then send a Bluetooth push. "Would you like to receive a file from …" It was usually an image, movie, or audio file.
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Social Media Payments and Perverse Incentives(shkspr.mobi)
3 points by edent 8mo ago|0 comments
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Hold the security: a vibe-coding story(blog.harrym.com)
1 points by edent 8mo ago|1 comments
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100 Days to Offload(100daystooffload.com)
1 points by edent 8mo ago|0 comments
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eInk UI Components in CSS(eink-components.dev)
2 points by edent 8mo ago|0 comments
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Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts(shkspr.mobi)
8 points by edent 8mo ago|3 comments
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Get all the reactions to your GitHub content using GraphQL(shkspr.mobi)
4 points by edent 8mo ago|0 comments
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The Day the Music Died(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by edent 8mo ago|1 comments

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