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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Something to remember is that back in 2018 there mightve been a different vision around WhatsApp businesses possibly helping subsidizing the app for things that are useful for their customers. From a 2018 interview of Brian Acton after he l
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Related articles: - The great brain clearance and dementia debate - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00962-y (2025) - The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science - https://www.nytimes.co
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Something missing from this article is more depth into the issues of doing a webkit-based os back in the late 2000s/2010s, and this goes back to 2008. From https://web.archive.org/web/20140110095058/https:&#x2
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Worth noting there's also a fork of FreeCAD (Astocad, made by a former Ondsel developer) with some UI enhancements: http://astocad.com/
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
In the 'Tools, not Apps' part of the article they reference Michel Beaudouin-Lafon's talk 'A World Without Apps' which goes back in time and shows the Xerox Star operating system: https://m.youtube.com&#x
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
"In August 2014, President Obama and Congress created the United States Digital Service (USDS). In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to rename and reorganize it as the United States DOGE Service. [...] On March 17
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Over a decade ago microsoft actually sold a Bluetooth adapter for the surface keyboard
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
> Can someone please make a good folding keyboard? This little $18 piece of plastic is decent for what it is, but this was the weakest part of the whole setup, and it feels like it should be the easiest. You may want to conside
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
> Or we could just all get mercenaries for our burbclaves. Not like police turn a profit either! There was literally a documentary on Citizen in 2023: https://www.vice.com/en/article/watch-new-documentary-tells-
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Thanks for adding some information on this, I had almost forgot about these devices. So would a cell booster / network extender using eNodeBS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENodeB ) actually help in the scenario
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
I've been a newbie too and tried to use FreeCAD as others mentioned but I found myself enjoying build123d (basically a python library that uses an long-existing technology called OpenCascade and a viewer called OCPViewer generally used
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
It may be worth articulating the Bluetooth headset specifically as the one-ear little clip headset executives and IT staff seemed to use to answer calls. Remember companies like jawbone? I vaguely remember a cultural stereotype of bmw drive
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Haven't heard of that one, thanks!
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Yes, but in practice I've experienced Firefox (at least under linux) getting killed by the OS when RAM runs low. I recently lost some low-priority reading projects after I couldn't recover the tab sets (they were opened months ago
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Did you read my last point about "a way for Home Assistant based HVAC control setups to work with energy company savings programs where appropriate" ? Unless you're living off-grid, I think there's still some benefit to
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
See https://community.home-assistant.io/t/rooting-to-save-the-ne... , particularly the post asking about using the older unofficial APIs with Nest Thermostats on an airgapped network controlled by Home Assistant ( htt
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
Haven't read the article in full yet, but it reminded me of this nice excerpt on Wikipedia and truth and the best of what we know: https://emilygorcenski.com/post/on-truth/ ""But one of the most sig
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by seltzered_ 1y ago
I think we need to find some ethical and sustainable alternatives to emergency communications. HAM radio is still very much around along with alternative satellite communications. There's also been some DIY efforts in using LoraWAN-bas
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Fwiw, the /r/ergomobilecomputers tracks a number of these setups involving xreal glasses: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/search/?q=xreal . Hasn't been my cup of tea but seems temp
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Perhaps they mean small business entrepreneurship, not tech startups?
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Just sharing bookmarks, see also https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/16/4481 (talk link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OdFBARXHg ) (via https://ashfordhall2018.wordpress.com/
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr flattr , which shutdown in 2023.
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
It's a sharp memory lcd (not eink, sometimes called epaper): https://sharpdevices.com/memory-lcd/#1615979030123-5695809f-... https://www.sharpsecd.com/#/memory-in-pixel-lcds-product
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Possibly SoC differences or space limitations. If I recall correctly, the original Pebble had a Compass (which may not have even been used until a OS overhaul later on) but the Pebble 2 SE didn't. ( https://www.reddit.com&#x2
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Related, here's a comment from 2019 from at the time of writing from someone claiming to be a principal engineer at Amazon, talking about how "I'm proud of the approach that Amazon takes to privacy. Privacy of customer data i
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Worth noting that Linkding (what the author migrated from to Hoarder) also now supports page archiving via headless Chrome + SingleFile and also via manual upload: https://linkding.link/archiving/
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
For those trying to remember, microsoft intellisense (autocompletion within the IDE) was a big subject of debate going back to ~1999 on whether it'll make programmers lazier or more productive. Some of this stuff would be found in old
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
FWIW I had one of those IBM Power Series workstations, and Windows NT was installable via CD-ROM. Considering I had no idea how to use AIX then it was nice to have a machine with a Sound Recorder application (probably to hook up to a cd pla
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by seltzered_ 2y ago
Funny, my first thought in seeing this headline was The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites: http://www.thetoasterproject.org/ (~2010) - more of a reflection about globalism and what is possible to create from scratch. htt

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