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by sen 2y ago
I’ve wanted a super minimal app that just “counts reps of any repeating motion” without using the phone itself, for many many years. It’d work for pushups, squats, chinups, etc etc. So many exercises are the same idea of “move body repeated
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by sen 2y ago
The Reddit method of deletion. “It’s deleted… for now”
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by sen 2y ago
It should be irrelevant what details the scammers did/didn’t use and how convincing their spiel is. We should be educating everyone that the SECOND anyone asks for your card details, or asks you to pay for something (gift cards include
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by sen 2y ago
It exists: https://apate.ai/
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by sen 2y ago
CBA (largest bank in Australia) is very good about this and has scam info on the front page of their website, and drills it into you that they’ll never ask for any information over the phone and to call them on the main number if you’re eve
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by sen 2y ago
In Australia Toyota sell pretty much all models with a Hybrid option. I see Hybrid Corollas, Camrys, RAV4s, and Klugers pretty much every single day. Hybrids are so perfectly suited here that they've really taken off. You get "EV&
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by sen 2y ago
For home security I use PIR motion sensors in the main rooms feeding into Home Assistant which has a presence service, Eg it knows if we’re home or not based on whether our phones are connected to the home wifi. If we’re not home + it detec
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by sen 2y ago
I bought a $60 weather station from Amazon where the base station generates a JSON file which it then wants to send to its own cloud servers. I firewalled it on its own, and have an ESP32 reading the JSON file off it and then sending the in
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by sen 2y ago
Ultrasonic sensors are so cheap I just replace them once a year or so, but I’ve not for a few new prototypes going with ToF sensors and one using a pressure sensor, to look for a less wasteful solution.
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by sen 2y ago
I've got 20+ devices running ESPHome, about 3/4 of them are part of my Home Assistant network, and maybe 6 or so that are standalone and just using ESPHome to talk to MQTT for other stuff (cheap Chinese weather station that I repl
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by sen 2y ago
Marble Madness vibes. One of my favorite nostalgia games. I think having 3 lives per level with it resetting just that level might be better for starters, then the 3 lives for the entire game being a “hard mode”.
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by sen 2y ago
Brackeys, an iconic game development tutorial channel who are responsible for a huge number of people learning Unity, is back from a hiatus with a great explanation of why Open Source Software is a big deal, and has announced they’re going
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by sen 2y ago
My locally-hosted llama3 actually craps itself if I ask it to answer in other languages. It's pretty hilarious. Has been working flawlessly (and impressively fast) for everything in English, then does hilarious glitches in other lang
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by sen 2y ago
Main difference is an Apple watch with Siri is tied to your phone and has access to all the associated apps/features. I can use my Apple Watch to start a timer, send a message, add a reminder to my calendar, play a new music track in a
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by sen 3y ago
I've got this keyboard but the Fami Edition (tribute to the Famicom), and am pleasantly surprised at the quality and general feel of the keyboard for a "gimmick" keyboard. I bought it mostly to use on Raspberry Pi projects et
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by sen 3y ago
I was just wondering this earlier today actually, then came across this thread. Is there a vision/ML project for identifying lego bricks? I have 6-7 large tubs of Lego and we're a very active Lego family, and I would absolutely lo
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by sen 3y ago
Credit to whoever named the NeXT emulator “Previous”. That’s brilliant.
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by sen 3y ago
Anonymous phone lines. There was (and still are) many services you can call up anonymously for help. If you’re worried about it being traced back to your phone then you’d just go for a walk and use a pay phone. The internet made it a lot ea
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by sen 3y ago
Salt + vinegar is/was a popular combo growing up in Australia. You’d put them on hot chips (fries) etc. Basically anything involving fried potato.
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by sen 3y ago
Yeah I mostly did 3-6mth contracts from ~96-2005 then a contract offered me a very generous FTE role to stay. I loved contract work and probably could’ve done it forever but marriage/kids changed what I look for in a job.
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by sen 3y ago
What an awesome nostalgia trip. Especially that VRML article, I worked at a web/graphic studio that specialised in VRML sites for a while. We all knew it was way too ahead of its time to work yet, but companies loved the hype and threw
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by sen 3y ago
Sounds like it’ll be downloadable. FTA: > In early, unoptimized inference tests on consumer hardware our largest SD3 model with 8B parameters fits into the 24GB VRAM of a RTX 4090 and takes 34 seconds to generate an image of resolution 1
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by sen 3y ago
Yeah I’m Australian-born too, going back to Australia at the end of high school after doing most my schooling in Europe was mind blowing, like going back in time. Obviously some schools/unis were more advanced but almost everyone I me
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by sen 3y ago
I was in high school in Switzerland when PCs were first introduced to students (at least in my more rural area it happened in the very early 90s). When I first started school there only the library had 2 computers that were tied into the un
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by sen 3y ago
Phrack is so incredibly important. I’m so happy it’s still going, even if it takes half a decade per issue. The day it dies, a serious piece of internet culture dies.
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by sen 3y ago
Yeah I tried all sorts of photo services and ended up going for a Synology. You can pick them up very cheap in sales and don’t need the fastest drives or the latest CPUs if you’re only doing photo stuff and not transcoding HTPC media. With
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by sen 3y ago
This is awesome. I currently use Ollama with OpenWebUI but am a big fan of native apps so this is right up my alley.
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by sen 3y ago
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
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by sen 3y ago
There’s a VSCode plugin for PICO-8 that lets you use that. It ties in with the core and has hot keys to launch the current code to test it. I find it way easier/faster than using the built-in IDE for the code part itself. Then just use
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by sen 3y ago
Wrap up that speed-run up in an automation and refer to it as “fuzzing” and you can sell it for millions these days.

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