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by kalleboo 2y ago
The summary of a spam message is "this is a spam message", not "you've gotten the inheritance of a Nigerian prince". We're being told that AIs are basically as smart as humans, that AGI is arriving this year an
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by kalleboo 2y ago
If you ask someone for a Kleenex, are you going to be angry if they give you some other brand of paper tissue?
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by kalleboo 2y ago
If you want something today instead of waiting for a Kickstarter, the PowerZ checkers are available on Aliexpress. These will read the e-marker and tell you about supported PD and alt modes https://www.aliexpress.com/item&#x
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Remember they have a very specific definition of "AGI", which they want to meet quickly so they can charge more money from Microsoft. https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-...
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I really enjoyed the recent VR remaster re-release of Riven.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Sony actually did something like this once back in 2013. It could work independently or clip onto your phone as a viewfinder Low end model https://www.dpreview.com/products/sony/compacts/sony_dscqx10 High end
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by kalleboo 2y ago
It's really unintuitive! A lot of photo sync apps also have to use this workaround to be able to sync your photos in the background, it's been a long-standing issue with Apple's platform. And App Store rules means they have t
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> why would a terminal emulator need my location Because that's the only way Apple allows apps to stay open in the background on iOS so your SSH connection doesn't disconnect after 10 minutes. And the Mac app is a universal a
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by kalleboo 2y ago
And Steve Jobs famously described it as a "bag of hurt"
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Windows 2 came out in December 1987. The Macintosh II (which introduced "full" palettized 8-bit color) had already come out in March 1987.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Thanks! I would have released the source, but it's just a big ball of PHP since that was the easiest thing to use to just pull some JSON off of mastodon and template it into HTML.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Apple allows you to use third party apps as passkey providers
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Going more to the topic of the article rather than platform wars: In moving to Mastodon from X a few years ago, I didn't want my content to be owned by a platform, but I also just don't have it in my to write blog posts, posting t
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Who remembers App.net, after the first time Twitter tried banning third-party clients back in like 2012?
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I don't know one normal person who's on Hacker News either
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I've never had any issues running dumb USB loads off any of my MacBooks. Just tested it, no problem running 1.7 A of dumb resistors just soldered to the power pins with nothing on the data pins at all (not even the passive "apple
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by kalleboo 2y ago
You don’t need an intrusive banner on page open. You just need consent. If the user is saving a setting like a language preference, just put “by saving this preference you agree for us to store the setting” next to the option/OK button
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I think a lot of people want a new device and use the battery getting weak as an excuse to justify the expense
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by kalleboo 2y ago
There is a way to perform processing on encrypted data so the result is also encrypted and the person doing the processing never knows anything about the data that was processed on or the result (which can only be decrypted by the user with
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by kalleboo 2y ago
All I've seen this year is people complaining about all the security dialogs Apple are throwing at them when they upgrade macOS ARE YOU SURE ARE YOU SURE ARE YOU SURE
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> There is also no guarantee that Apple isn't lying about everything. And at that point all the opt-in dialogs in the world don't matter and you should not be running iOS but building some custom Android ROM from scratch.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> This was very clearly an "ask for forgiveness because the data we want is absolutely priceless and we'll get lots of it by the time people notice / word gets out. It's very clearly not, since they've gone to
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Doesn't Spotify still have a free tier? I think that would account for the biggest discrepancy in their payouts.
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by kalleboo 2y ago
> It supplies 5v at up to 50mA from a sink device like a TV. And USB is also only supposed to supply 100 mA until the device negotiates for more. But literally every device in the real-world just wires the port to the 5V rail with 2 A
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by kalleboo 2y ago
As a kid my favorite screensaver was the Virex module for After Dark which would show a cool animation of it scanning your files for viruses icon by icon
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I use this feature all the time, and never have to auth on my phone... Do you have some higher security setting than default, like requiring passcode and not allowing biometric unlock?
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by kalleboo 2y ago
The classic MacOS, Apple's HFS file system (also used in OS X), and PalmOS all had en epoch of January 1, 1904. The macOS/Swift Foundation API NSDate.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate uses an epoch of January 1, 2001. edit: Looks lik
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by kalleboo 2y ago
It is extremely buggy. I have a friend who works in video ending and is always sending me screenshots of how Premiere has tortured him today. Also recently saw a social media post of someone complaining how adding 5 PNG files to his project
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by kalleboo 2y ago
Nobody is going to pay for a 40Gbps Thunderbolt cable to plug in their keyboard
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by kalleboo 2y ago
I haven't tried any hubs, but my problem was using a 2.5 Gbps USB Ethernet controller off of one of the Fresco Logic USB ports (the front 5 Gbps ones or the rear right-hand 3 USB-A ports), after a few hours it would drop. I thought the

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