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by jrmg 7mo ago
I’ve had my email address in a `mailto:` link in plaintext on my then-web-site, now-blog, since the early 2000s, and spam is no real problem. There are a few spam messages in my spam mailbox per day. Perhaps my provider’s just great at filt
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by jrmg 7mo ago
I wonder how many here are aware that SpaceX (not Musk) now owns X Corp. (nee Twitter), via its ownership of xAI. Smells like great fiduciary responsibility!
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by jrmg 7mo ago
That’s true - this was the reason for the original action in 2019 - but is not the whole story. The current rationale depends mostly on national security concerns: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47012 …but it al
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by jrmg 7mo ago
“The White House” app seems to be new, first published three days ago. It’s easy to verify this by looking at the App Store listing for the app. And reading news coverage.
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by jrmg 7mo ago
I’m surprised to see no comments on this yet: [The White House app] ships with 3 embedded trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core (yes, the Chinese company the US government sanctioned, shipping tracking infrastructure inside the si
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by jrmg 7mo ago
don't want your name, address, phone number on public display Where are these displayed?
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by jrmg 7mo ago
And grown with fertilizer produced using energy provided by burning petroleum.
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by jrmg 7mo ago
We just got solar panels and a battery installed on our house. I try to be hard-headed about the economics when planning, but I have to say the _experience_ of having done it is exactly as you describe. The other thing it made me is angry a
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by jrmg 7mo ago
I find it hard to believe that seven-figure software engineers at top labs aren't being careful about how much post-ChatGPT-era internet content is going into their training data. I agree - but as the Internet descends into all-slop-
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by jrmg 7mo ago
I wonder how likely it is that the people who are posting that they got most of them correct are just the people who happened to randomly guess correctly with 50/50 chance each time - people who guessed wrong or thought they couldn’t t
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Amazon leads me to believe this may be a rebadged version of this no-brand-name player (with a translucent case for full late-90s throwback!) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FC5MD6WP/
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by jrmg 7mo ago
That looks huge!
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by jrmg 7mo ago
One of the things I like most about my Xbox controllers is that they still take two AA batteries rather than having an internal one. No need to think about charging the controller - just have a pair of charged AAs nearby and switch them out
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by jrmg 7mo ago
I liked Ars Technica’s snarky take: If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality of the food, would you find that reassur
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by jrmg 7mo ago
No, I mean the other direction. The repo is what’s this HN post links to, and I don’t see a link to the blog post in it or in other comments here. The blog post is interesting!
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by jrmg 7mo ago
It seems you’ve written an extensive blog post about this, but I don’t see a direct link anywhere! https://www.patreon.com/posts/fortransky-we-in-153457794
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by jrmg 7mo ago
There seems to be a bunch of Rust in there too?
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by jrmg 7mo ago
`man xxd`
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Felt this way too. I may not have felt this way if the article had discussed this step in as much detail as the first steps - describing what was done by the agent rather than just that an agent was used and the results. It all felt a bit
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by jrmg 7mo ago
FWIW, YouTube Premium Lite is $8/month. It removes ads from most content, just not music, and doesn’t include YouTube Music. For me it’s well worth it.
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by jrmg 7mo ago
This has nothing to do with keeping people safe. ...and... some people are gullible enough to go into a hidden setting on their phone and enable that in order to install an app from a random Chinese website are kind of contradictory.
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by jrmg 7mo ago
The money has to come from somewhere. Agree - and I pay for news - but I also find it hard to imagine that the current morass of low quality, usually scammy, ads is the most lucrative way to monetize a news web site. It’s literally drivin
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by jrmg 7mo ago
This is great [terrible].
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by jrmg 7mo ago
It’s amusing that ‘claw’ is sticking around as a term for these kind of things, when it was originally a pretty transparent attempt to avoid infringing on ‘Claude’…
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Now I’m wondering how you could create ‘uncomfortable’ versions of simple command line tools (ls, cat, more etc.) or perhaps shells. Emacs and/or vi, depending on your inclination, have text editors covered already, of course ;-)
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Home Assistant is indeed a massive pile of software, mostly Python. I couldn’t get it to work reliably (or, at least, usably - the web interface was painful to use) on a Pi Zero because of memory requirements and disk access speed. …having
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Alibris ( https://www.alibris.com/ ) is a great alternative. I do basically all my book buying there. If anyone’s concerned about the condition of used books, I’ve found their condition descriptions ( https://www.al
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by jrmg 7mo ago
There is so much to reply to here. I feel like I’m being Gish Galloped. You didn’t actually justify most of what you said and when you did the reasoning seems circular. Most of what you say just has the premise that what’s being done now is
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by jrmg 7mo ago
His book ‘Code’ is his masterpiece, IMO. It’s a tour de force in technical communication. A fascinating book for both the Computer Science novice and expert.
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by jrmg 7mo ago
Just because something was done before doesn’t mean it’s good (obviously?) The purpose of the Department of Defense should be to defend America and Americans. Waging war is an unfortunate necessity that stems from this sometimes. War is n

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