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by shortformblog 20d ago
Hi I'm the author and yes, this.
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The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle(tedium.co)
3 points by shortformblog 21d ago|1 comments
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by shortformblog 1mo ago
The point of the story was that I built a thing about Mechanical Turk to promote its money-making capabilities, and ironically made more money from it indirectly than I ever did directly. Considering that point was implied by my framing, yo
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by shortformblog 1mo ago
I see you missed the point of the story. But whatever. I'm sorry my dire financial situation didn't tie up in a nice enough bow for you.
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by shortformblog 1mo ago
I explained the situation after the fact, and they were understanding. But certainly I admit that if I could do it again I probably would have clued them in sooner. The site had slowed down by the point this happened, so I’d describe it as
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by shortformblog 1mo ago
So, I have a story to share about Mechanical Turk that you might find interesting. I’ve shared it a couple of times before on Twitter and Bluesky, but I’ll share it again. Long story short: Mechanical Turk saved my bacon. Back in 2005, I wa
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by shortformblog 2mo ago
I have one of these that was donated by a reader. I've never been able to get it to work because its battery (its infamous Achilles heel) would not charge. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. I've never written about it in
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by shortformblog 2mo ago
I got the Gigabyte 5060ti AI Box, which is good but a real pain to set up on Linux. Not enough to run Deepseek but a lot of good options. https://tedium.co/2026/06/10/gigabyte-aorus-5060-ti-ai-box-e...
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by shortformblog 2mo ago
FWIW, I have found Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.5-Pro to be a pretty cost-effective alternative. https://mimo.mi.com/models/en-US/mimo-v2.5-pro While it won’t cover everything DeepSeek does, it handles sophisticated tasks qui
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by shortformblog 2mo ago
Honestly, I found managing a Bulma codebase significantly more of a pain in the ass than Tailwind. Tailwind offers the expressiveness of actual CSS with the ability to make quick changes on the fly. As someone who has spent a lot of time wo
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by shortformblog 5mo ago
It is so wild that this got shared, as I was working on a project that very specifically was hoping to integrate a feature like this. Psyched to try it, I’ll credit the author in the credits of the site I’m building.
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Wheel Reinvention: Not Just a Common Metaphor(tedium.co)
2 points by shortformblog 5mo ago|0 comments
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by shortformblog 6mo ago
The problem is less the color than the weight. If it was 500 rather than 300 it would be perfectly fine.
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by shortformblog 8mo ago
Curious to see how this worked, I tried this on Deepseek using Claude Code Router, following the author’s guide, with two small changes: Make it an emo song that uses acoustic guitar (or, obviously an equivalent), and it could install one t
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by shortformblog 10mo ago
Quick add: I tested VivaDesigner on some old InDesign docs and I found it did not handle color blend modes very well, which is kind of an essential for a risograph project like 404’s. Nonetheless, the fact that it was able to open an InDesi
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by shortformblog 10mo ago
Thanks for pointing out VivaDesigner—I’m surprised in the many obsessive searches to find something like this, it never came up! (I will note that there are a lot of pretty obscure layout programs out there. At my first newspaper, I was bro
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by shortformblog 10mo ago
Claude can't properly count the number of characters in a sentence. It's asking a lot to assume it can get pixel perfect.
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by shortformblog 10mo ago
I followed the same steps the Verge reporter did: Downloaded GameHub, connected my Steam account. The initial boot was lengthy, but it worked.
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by shortformblog 10mo ago
I downloaded an unoptimized game and tested it (Stray, a few years old at this point) and got some graphical glitches, but between 10-20 FPS on a three-year-old phone. That it’s even possible is impressive, and I imagine it will only get be
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Grokipedia Cited My Article 43 Times in One Post. Not Cool(tedium.co)
3 points by shortformblog 10mo ago|0 comments
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by shortformblog 10mo ago
Affinity I believe is C++ with C# used for the front end on Windows. The code doesn’t have nearly the legacy of Adobe’s code, so the result is that Affinity already runs very well in WINE thanks to some passionate fans that really want to s
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by shortformblog 11mo ago
This poor man is in a losing battle with modern computing.
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A Man Who Keeps Predicting the Web's Death(tedium.co)
2 points by shortformblog 11mo ago|0 comments
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by shortformblog 11mo ago
They mention Hollow Knight in their update, but I should note that Silksong also works on my M1 Air flawlessly. Games with more 3D graphics also work to some degree. I tried Bakeru on it and got decent results though the texture load time w
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RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers(tedium.co)
60 points by shortformblog 1y ago|34 comments
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by shortformblog 1y ago
Thanks for the reminder that what the Internet Archive did in its case would have been legal if it was in service of an LLM.
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by shortformblog 1y ago
I use Craft CMS’ GraphQL capabilities with my Eleventy site. Works well and helps me keep my page loads static. I would also recommend Directus for this, as it has some nice quality-of-life benefits. To manage deploys, I have used Cleavr, w
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Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing(tedium.co)
64 points by shortformblog 1y ago|17 comments
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by shortformblog 1y ago
I like the spirit of this, but I just think Mavericks is a bizarre break point for this type of approach. At least hit Yosemite so you can benefit from NVMe. For me, Mojave feels like the neatest break point, but if you’re rocking Nvidia, t
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The Node-Driven Future of FOSS Image Editing(tedium.co)
2 points by shortformblog 1y ago|1 comments

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