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by jon-wood 2y ago
Why? If I'm renting a place it doesn't matter whether my landlord is a big corporation or some guy and his wife, I still need to know that the rent isn't going to triple next week, I still need to know I won't be evicted
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by jon-wood 2y ago
There's not much to it to be honest. If you've got Home Assistant running then https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wake_on_lan/ will sort you out, and I have Parsec ( https://parsec.app
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Wake on LAN has existed for decades, and works just fine for that if you’ve got an always on machine somewhere on your network. I have Home Assistant set up so that I can hit a button on my phone and it’ll wake my PC from wherever I am and
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I also try to read the specification or manual for tools I use, and find the biggest benefit is simply knowing what that tool is capable of, and what the recommended approach to a given problem is when using that tool. Even just skimming th
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by jon-wood 2y ago
One company I worked for had very cyclical sales spikes, culminating in Christmas week each year. During that week everyone did operations, we had developers out in delivery vans carrying parts of the extra large orders to customer's
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by jon-wood 2y ago
> Yoke is a project that takes this basic idea to the next level. With Yoke, you write your infrastructure definitions in Go or Rust, compile it to WebAssembly, and then you take input and output Kubernetes manifests that get applied to
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by jon-wood 2y ago
The recommendation algorithm isn't necessarily identifying this as shock content or gore, all it's doing is identifying it as having the hallmarks of something that a certain circle of people engage with, followed by it deciding t
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Yeah, this is all true in my experience. We buy devices with the appropriate Quectel modem for the region, stick a SIM card in from a provider who has relationships with operators worldwide, then ship it to site. Once it gets given some pow
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by jon-wood 2y ago
You might want to take another look, I went through a similar process a couple of years ago, and am now doing it again because our original equipment supplier decided they'd like a life (RIP PC Engines). There's a thriving industr
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by jon-wood 2y ago
As an example of something similar happening, my family and I once went to a little village in the middle of Bulgaria to visit a family fried, and booked a hotel room for the week. This was a huge hotel, next door to another huge hotel, ser
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I would hope nobody is using it for anything professional now but it was definitely used back in the day, my first professional development job was for a small agency which used Dreamweaver for everything. I'm not saying that was a goo
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Depends what you're doing. If it's literally just serving up some static web pages though that is hilariously over specified, you're going to be constrained by your internet connection long before that Mac Mini starts breakin
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I use a similar keyboard layout, it took me a couple of weeks to get back to being able to competently type when I first started using it and now I wouldn't go back. It's not really any different to getting used to the fact that w
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by jon-wood 2y ago
If you use it in that way then fine. I suspect both you and I knew that’s not what the GP meant though.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
> AI made your homework? Guess what, the homework is a proxy for your talent, and it didn't make your talent. At least in theory that’s not what homework is. Homework should be exercises to allow practicing whatever technique you’re
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by jon-wood 2y ago
> If we can figure out self-driving cars, maybe we can talk about replacing pilots with AIs. There's currently a human in the loop at almost all times but a great many planes are already self-flying. Autopilots are a thing, and have
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Not really relevant but I'm going to say it anyway. I hate devices that tell me about "low" battery long in advance of actually going flat, it simply trains me to ignore the notification and then it unceremoniously dies on me
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by jon-wood 2y ago
FOSDEM is a conference for open source software, possibly one of the most functional demonstrations of anarchy working in the modern world. Seems only fitting to me.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting to ship a version to actual customers without some polish, but foregoing polish is good advice. I've attempted to make games on several occasions and my current is the first to stick because I in
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by jon-wood 2y ago
You're aware we've had grammar/spell check since (checks) 1961 right? It's built right into your operating system.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Apple are a hardware company. One that's deep into software because it helps them sell that hardware, but ultimately still a hardware company. Having their software running on other company's devices doesn't help them in the
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Possibly, it wouldn't be anywhere near this trivial though. With proper certificate validation you'd need to dismantle the device and find a way to get into the OS it's running, which can range in difficulty from finding a se
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Passkeys include a key that the website you're logging in to holds, if a site can't present that key then the passkey doesn't work, meaning phishing attacks no longer work because 0utlook.com doesn't have the key that ou
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by jon-wood 2y ago
This is partially true for me, but when I listen to podcasts it’s generally in what would otherwise be dead time for me such as when grocery shopping or exercising.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
This is a soap dispenser though. That's not a safety critical component, the soap dispenser breaking isn't going to cause a plane to fall out of the sky, or the weapons system to accidentally go off, it's just a thing for dis
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by jon-wood 2y ago
My perspective on that one is broadly "screw 'em". If you buy property over a bar or restaurant that was there before you I don't think you should then be allowed to turn around and act surprised that there's a bar
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I don't think Linux has been primarily built by volunteers for decades, Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, and a great many other companies employ people to work on it because it's a product that they sell.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
My neighbour and I did this when we were about that age, and it was just as good as you imagined it to be! I think we managed to talk our parents into it because it would mean we were no longer tying up the phone line and racking up bills t
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by jon-wood 2y ago
Not sure why but I'm quite tickled by the existence of WhatsApp groups to coordinate who's paid their bribe for the day. I think it's the thought of breaking the law being done in an orderly way.
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by jon-wood 2y ago
I had a similar experience using a 43" 4K TV as my monitor, it was an OLED so the picture was absolutely beautiful but I'd end up only using the 32" in the middle of the display. I'm now using a 32" 4K display on my

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