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by mbirth 9mo ago
At least Siri guarantees the privacy of my data and uses a local model directly on my device, alternatively a private cloud - instead of a globally shared one. And you can still ask Siri to ask ChatGPT if you need someone to talk to. Also,
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by mbirth 9mo ago
At least in writing you can use [insert double-stroke X here - which HN can’t display] to make it clear that you mean the social media service. (Unless you’re talking to mathematicians.)
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by mbirth 9mo ago
The difference is that after you’ve googled it for ½ hour, you’ve learned something. If you ask an LLM to do it for you, you’re none the wiser.
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by mbirth 9mo ago
I’ve recently downgraded my 10 year old used-only-for-obscure-firmware-updaters laptop to Windows 7 and enabled the “Classic” design. The snappiness of that GUI is unmatched even with Win 10/11 on much better hardware. Makes you wonder
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by mbirth 9mo ago
Or in this case have a look at the Google Graveyard and/or those many stories of users that lost access to their Google account without any way to contact an actual person that could help them.
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by mbirth 9mo ago
> It's good, but they're expensive as fuck for what they are. Yep, I remember a time where you could extract the Ki and IMSI from legit SIMs and write that to a bog standard Goldwafer card (which were also used for cable TV hac
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by mbirth 9mo ago
Still beats a specific sum or $0.01 transaction with a code appearing on your bank statement. ;)
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by mbirth 9mo ago
They also promoted this with the iPhone 17 eSIM-only variant. More space for battery.
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by mbirth 9mo ago
The biggest obstacle with changing traditional SIMs is where to find a paperclip or pin to open the tray. And that’s easy to overcome.
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by mbirth 9mo ago
There are also SIM cards you can upload eSIM profiles to, now.
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by mbirth 9mo ago
Back when eSIM was relatively new, while upgrading to a newer iPhone, my wife’s eSIM didn’t get transferred over but still got deactivated on the old phone. And the T-Mobile Germany portal to download a new eSIM required authentication via
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by mbirth 10mo ago
> It relies on their hosted services/infrastructure. Only if you want it to. Your local Plex server is always available on port 32400 - which can be opened up for others as well. But using Plex’s authentication is more convenient, o
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Most probably. WhatsApp is also still using the old way of accessing photos where you have to define which photos WA has access to every time you want to share newly taken photos. I’m pretty sure they do that deliberately so you get annoyed
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Have a look at MakePass[0] - which sounds exactly like you describe. It allows you to design a pass as per spec. [0] https://pvieito.com
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by mbirth 10mo ago
MakePass is an app that creates independent/proper Wallet *.pkpass files. You can completely customise the pass appearance according to Apple’s specs. (Not sure whether the current licensing offerings are worth it, though. I’ve got gra
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by mbirth 10mo ago
I’m currently evaluating whether I’m happy with Kagi News in my RSS reader compared to separate news outlets. So far it seems to capture all the important bits.
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by mbirth 10mo ago
You forgot that even poor old notepad.exe also got the Copilot treatment.
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Yep, 20-odd years ago, I had modified a radio scanner and added a discrete output. Then used Poc32 to decode pager messages from the scanner via the PC’s sound card. Got lots of server health messages and requests to call people back. And s
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by mbirth 10mo ago
How does this compare to flohmarkt? https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Planet Computers Gemini? Or their Cosmo Communicator? (To be fair they’re more Psion 5-sized.) Or do you remember the Beepberry/Beeper? OTOH, your phone is more than capable, so maybe a small bluetooth keyboard is all you really need.
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by mbirth 10mo ago
I did a fun experiment once to confirm it’s not me sausage-fingering but the stupid iOS keyboard. There’s an app called xKeyboard which lets you design your own keyboard. I remade the FITALY[0] keyboard in it and even though the keys are sl
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Same here. Despite Legendary status, I’ve used Alfred as a souped-up launcher and implemented my workflows app-agnostic either as a shell script, a Shortcut, or an AppleScript. I haven’t launched Alfred since upgrading to Tahoe. Especially
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Just make the battery banks container sized and swap them out with fresh ones while doing the main cargo. Then service and charge the old ones.
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Since the association renamed itself to “Ecma International” in 1994, I believe we can just call it Eck-mah-script.
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Sounds like a 3D Commander Keen.
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by mbirth 10mo ago
I’ve got mine set to cynical and have the objectivity personalisation (found here a year ago) in place: > Strict objectivity mode: be as scientifically grounded and unflinching as possible. Be unbiased and only base your answers on facts
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Do you really believe, Elon is watching over all Grokipedia articles and edits them as he pleases? And, to engage in your whataboutism, it’s not that Wikipedia is inherently publishing wrong facts. It’s about their editors omitting inconv
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Do you have any evidence that Grokipedia is actually biased? Most articles are merely their Wikipedia counterpart filtered through the Grok LLM.
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by mbirth 10mo ago
Have you tried selecting the wrong section? For me, a “Suggest Edit” button pops up at the bottom (on phone) after selecting some text.
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by mbirth 11mo ago
Or as Hofstetter put it: “If I see a helicopter in a tree, I don’t have to be a pilot to know: Someone fucked up”

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