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by thombles 1y ago
Well I never set much store by marketing and I'm not planning to start. :) More seriously though it helps explain the apparent contradiction that it sounds scammy at a macro level yet many individuals report getting a lot of value out
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by thombles 1y ago
Speaking as a grump who recently chilled out, put reservations on hold and gave Claude a crack... it turns out that the anti-AI crowd (which still includes me in many regards) gets a lot wrong about the experience of using it, as demonstrat
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by thombles 1y ago
Use rufus.ie to burn a USB that has the hardware restrictions removed. Works a treat IME.
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by thombles 1y ago
Hmm a bit of a tone shift from: https://fly.io/docs/about/open-source/ > Fly.io builds on the work of a tremendous open source infrastructure community. We want open source authors to benefit from their wo
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by thombles 1y ago
Bingo. Furthermore, the annoying things that MS does are predictable and usually not directly harmful. Yeah they want telemetry, they want to encourage me to use expensive autocomplete everywhere, but ultimately the range of bad stuff is &q
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by thombles 1y ago
I'll take your word for it but I have to chuckle, since I'm adjacent to some groups of gamers and I've never seen the name of this game in my life. So it goes!
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by thombles 1y ago
> if you estimate that at least 90% of your content is created by humans, you are eligible to add the badges Probably not what most people expect
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by thombles 1y ago
This is also why the official SyncThing Android app stopped being distributed. There is a fork but it's not available on the Play Store.
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by thombles 1y ago
The day outlook.com goes up for open registration I think there'll be enough going on that I won't care too much about my email. :)
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by thombles 1y ago
Losing access is disruptive but far less of an issue than a malicious actor getting access.
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by thombles 1y ago
The lock-in does have the bonus that it's practically impossible for someone else to take over your email address. Forgetting to update your credit card for renewal, long term afk/coma, death etc. are all issues with having your o
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AI: A fork in the road for open source(octet-stream.net)
1 points by thombles 1y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 2y ago
You're right but in my experience the annoyance factor jumps up as soon as you start wanting an RSS feed.
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by thombles 2y ago
I'm, uh, not a fan of AI, however in this case I would strongly recommend everybody ctrl-f the juicy quotes in the 404media article and see where they came from in the full text of Microsoft's study. Both of the leading quotes com
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by thombles 2y ago
I was pleasantly surprised that Yamaha flirted with this then backed off. My receiver is connected to the LAN since this is helpful for streaming, and it has a companion MusicCast app for controlling it on the WiFi or playing audio stored o
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by thombles 2y ago
The optimised release binary isn't the issue - it's the many GB of build artifacts produced along the way if you have a lot of dependencies. You can accumulate hundreds of GB in target/ over time working on large projects.
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Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge(neowin.net)
787 points by thombles 2y ago|514 comments
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by thombles 2y ago
Speaking as someone who has filled up his phone pushing music onto it via SyncThing - 320 kbps MP3 gets me a lot further than FLAC!
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by thombles 2y ago
If I never subscribed I always report spam. It only takes very small percentages of recipients to do this for mailer services to start getting agitated about bounce rates.
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by thombles 2y ago
> AI prompt builder enabled by default in my mouse driver That's so wild I had to go and look up what that could possibly mean. What a world we live in. https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-ai-promp
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by thombles 2y ago
Actually this is a separate problem. If you look at the work of Jon Haidt who promotes the kinds of measures we're talking about here, it's only half the story. The other half is that we have become ridiculously overprotective in
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by thombles 2y ago
> The government gives all children email addresses while simultaneously banning them from social media. Only a bureaucracy could do this with a straight face. If you think it's email that is causing youth mental health issues then
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by thombles 2y ago
According the stats in Haidt's book, between 2010 and 2020 girls in the US saw a 188% increase in emergency room visits for self harm per capita - never mind the less extreme presentations of mental health issues. Imagine you have an a
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by thombles 2y ago
As an Australian parent this is really pleasing to see. It's clearly inspired heavily by the work of Jon Haidt and Jean Twenge et al. The kids are not okay and the main thing stopping a worried parent from addressing it is that "a
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by thombles 2y ago
It can be rather quick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge
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by thombles 2y ago
This non-cgo port might help - I started using it recently and it's fine but I'm not exactly a demanding user https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite
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Gitlab Critical Patch Release(about.gitlab.com)
1 points by thombles 2y ago|0 comments
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by thombles 2y ago
Happy customer here too. Not affiliated, just impressed with how smoothly it all goes.
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by thombles 2y ago
I have fond memories playing with Finale 3 on Win3.11. After that it seemed everyone I knew musically was on Sibelius. What I found most remarkable about that old release is that it came in a huge cardboard box with printed manuals describi
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Building Cross-Platform Offline-First Apps with Bluetooth Low Energy(octet-stream.net)
2 points by thombles 2y ago|1 comments

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