techjamie

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by techjamie 11mo ago
I also beg my girlfriend not to shop based on ads or TikTok. But she still does buy things off ads. On the rare occasion I see an ad, I assume it's a scam. Once she showed me this video of a woman claiming she invented a new travel bag
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by techjamie 11mo ago
Was GIMP being renamed a project stance or just something someone tried to do? I can't find anything about it. But their website says they have no intent to change it. https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-
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by techjamie 1y ago
DNT is considered deprecated in favor of GPC, which has legal backing in places with internet privacy laws. Funnily, Chrome still supports DNT but you need an extension to send a GPC header. Almost like the advertisement company wouldn&#x27
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by techjamie 1y ago
It only has to sell for more than the remaining cost of the debtplus repossession and storage cost. Unless someone defaults on their payments very early into their term or totally trashes the thing, this should be achievable more often than
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by techjamie 1y ago
When I bought my most recent car I drove the financing guy nuts because I kept going back to total price instead of caring about payments. Was clearly making him sweat a little bit.
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by techjamie 1y ago
OAI is a big fat lawsuit target, plus they can restrict it and still make the money because odds are they'll also have it on API, and someone could verify for the API then offer a wrapper around OAI with less stringent ID verification.
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by techjamie 1y ago
They're also amazing for digital TTRPG sheets. You can send around the PDF form, and everyone can fill out and store their own sheet, print it, send it back to the GM, whatever the group needs.
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by techjamie 1y ago
Privacy preserving unless someone gives a support agent in a third world country a $500 bribe. Then you get unfettered access to download the entire ticket database and attachments.
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by techjamie 1y ago
I've created a few sites and never explicitly told search engines about them, and they got picked up just fine surprisingly quickly.
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by techjamie 1y ago
I can't speak for Gemini, but when I found out about Gopher I read the specification and made a very simple server implementation for myself. If you're looking for a quick project to play with, it's not a bad one to try. It d
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by techjamie 1y ago
3b monthly users would mean nearly half of the entire world's population is on Facebook at least once per month. No matter how you shake it, that's simply not a realistic number, even before you consider people that live in areas
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by techjamie 1y ago
It was just a small personal test of skill with no purpose or stakes. Not even really with intent to make a real game, just a slice of something that resembled a game to see how far I could get without help. Then, once I got as far as I cou
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by techjamie 1y ago
It comes down to how you use it, whether you're just getting an answer and moving on, or if you're getting an answer and then increasing your understanding on why that's the correct answer. I was building a little roguelike-i
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by techjamie 1y ago
AirPods are very commonly swapped with fakes and returned. It wouldn't surprise me if they added a blanket policy requiring ID for all AirPod refunds no matter what. Source: I work in LP, but not for Amazon.
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by techjamie 1y ago
I will say you have to respect that he would eat his own dog food though. It's one thing to be wrong and contradict it in private, it's another to be wrong and actually live it. So many powerful people are the former.
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by techjamie 1y ago
It's moreso about the general trend that's happening where everything must be sanitized and advertiser-friendly. Like, is it really that far-fetched for an action thriller movie, that contains guns and people using them, to also h
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by techjamie 1y ago
Things used to have personality, but there's been this slow march toward making everything as bland and boring as possible. Restaurants are becoming grey utilitarian boxes, logos that used to have interesting designs are boiled down to
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by techjamie 1y ago
I would say the smartphone market would be more stable in terms of market share by its nature. The only way that it would shift significantly is if there were a mass exodus of users from one platform to the other. But the vast majority of p
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by techjamie 1y ago
This can be disabled. Go to your profile in the app, then to settings in the upper right. Under General there's a setting called Playback in Feeds.
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by techjamie 1y ago
I understand why they'd take action against something like this, but at the same time, people should have a right to modify the devices they bought and paid for in any way they want to. Saying "well someone could use this for pira
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by techjamie 1y ago
If they weren't in NK they could probably try. But given the poverty there, how restrictive the government is about anything getting out, and that they're in a hostile nation to the US, the answer is effectively "No." If
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by techjamie 1y ago
Who is spending weeks learning and practicing Morse, and also getting their friends to buy-in, just to bully people discreetly? When I was in school, they'd just come up with agreed upon dog whistles and use them in front of you, direc
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by techjamie 1y ago
That's what I'm getting at with the expectation of privacy part. Talking into a drive thru speaker isn't really a private activity since everyone around can kinda hear it, but it'd probably be better to disclaim it anywa
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by techjamie 1y ago
The voice recordings at the drive thru without disclaimers of recording seem like maybe a two party state lawyer's wet dream? I guess they could argue shouting into a machine in public carries no expectation of privacy, but it seems li
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by techjamie 1y ago
They do that here with the ISP wires and it takes out internet and cell service all over the county and beyond for usually two days straight each time. All the providers here run off the same infrastructure, so the only people with internet
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by techjamie 1y ago
It makes me sad that video doesn't have 100k views at least. He tried so hard to bury it and it kinda worked, but it's a well put together documentary on the stuff he pulled in the 00s. It'd be one thing if he owned up to it
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by techjamie 1y ago
It has the kind of buzzwords to get executives to buy in, who will then force it on their employees. I mean, if you offered a CEO an "Enterprise AI Browser," it feels like the sort of thing they'd salivate over. Then they can
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by techjamie 1y ago
Technically it'll have some impact on the number of write cycles your disk goes through, and marginally reduce the level of wear. Most disks have a lot of write cycles available that you'll be fine anyway, but it's a tiny ben
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by techjamie 1y ago
I would love to see iOS be unchained for users to do what they want with it. But in realistic terms, buying an iPhone comes with the baggage that you are basically opting into Apple owning your device for you. So when stuff like this happen
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by techjamie 1y ago
And the sentiment that I own the things I've bought and paid for and should be able to do what I want with it. That a company shouldn't be able to come in and take away features, that I purchased with the device, away from me for

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