jamesbelchamber

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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappea
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
And backed by popular support.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
The op in the thread is wrong, it's not blocked. Source: am British, on phone.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
I've been dutifully following this approach for a little while now and it's had the nice side effect of pushing me to smaller and more local options. I think it's also saving me money!
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
I don't think using an LLM counts as a kink but I'm prepared to be persuaded
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Seeing the list, I thought they might at least have some reporting responsibilities. Alas, I am also not in the US.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Al definitely made this easier but I've been on this particular merry-go-round a few times and I suspect failing to properly evaluate a product that seems too good to be true is actually a tale as old as time. (Still sucks though, sorr
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Why link a Wikipedia article that undermines your assertion that Wikipedia is biased?
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
"the people who did the work, did this" is basically the answer to most things, and I think here you're right - ultimately, working on X sucked and more people were willing to rewrite a whole new windowing system than to keep
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Wikipedia considers them to be generally unreliable.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
I spent some time on their Discord chatting and trying to nudge them towards a healthier approach. Many of them seem to think that PebbleOS was released just for them (they quote the Google press release), and so reading between the lines I
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Some Personal Thoughts on This Whole Mess [Rebble/Pebble/Core](rebble.io)
7 points by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago|1 comments
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
And start putting flowers up our noses while we're at it!
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
I think the attitude here was "you've publicly accused me of impropriety, so here come the receipts". Specifically the accusations that he's not communicating with them (the messages prove he is). You could argue the ext
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
What an entirely avoidable lose-lose bust-up.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Do the up-and-coming new browsers/engines (Servo, Ladybird.. others?) plan to support XSLT? If they do already, do they want to remove it?
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
..does Valve wanna make a phone any time soon?
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
That's very cool. I wonder if sniffing the Bluetooth connection directly might be easier than reading the PDF (although not because it's easy). At least you have more than 24 hours to find out!
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I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours(james.belchamber.com)
349 points by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago|157 comments
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Get them to install WordPress on a different second-hand computer. Other things exist to host but WordPress has a lot of resources out there, and going from bare metal to WordPress introduces a lot of staples of Linux systems administration
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
No CUPS driver :)
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
Agh, I got myself a Niimbot D110 because it seemed to be the best supported "cheap" label printer (using the excellent https://niim.blue/ website). If I knew these printers had CUPS drivers I might have gone that
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
Weirdly I find Silverblue to be much more relaxing _because_ I can't fuck up my laptop one night while trying to get something to "just work". I _have_ to spin up a container or a VM, but then I can just delete it again. Befo
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
I'm on Silverblue rather than Bazzite (although I'm only an `rpm-ostree rebase` away from it!) and I genuinely think this is becoming best OS family out there for most people. Super-stable, lots of software support, lots of "
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
It's a transcript of the video at the top.
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
The title seems perfectly engineered to get upvotes from people who don't read the article, which puts the article in front of more people who would actually read it (which is good because the article is, as you say, very interesting a
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
> “I am closing this but this is interesting, head over to our forum/issues to discuss” I really like the way Discourse uses "levels" to slowly open up features as new people interact with the community, and I wonder if Gi
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
To steel-man this - the public have become more wary of the internet's influence on society generally: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/technology/trackers/how-optimist... If you consider all we know about th
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
Porn consumption, especially at the scale we see today, us pretty new. Not 2020s new, but it wasn't that long ago when porn was "that one magazine passed around at school" and an "addiction" to porn just wasn't
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by jamesbelchamber 1y ago
> Speaking of which, the memo implies that “significance” in this context is interpreted as being relative to the population of the UK, not relative to the user base of the service. We have seen risk assessments that take the other inter

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