Quibblingeek

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by Quibblingeek 7d ago
We won’t need teachers in ten years when the messiah’s of AI eliminate the need for real humans and their pesky needs for stupid things like..labor rights and human decency. But we must continue because we’ll lose some sort of ideological C
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by Quibblingeek 7d ago
Find a hobby that doesn’t involve computers. It’s the only thing that will keep you sane in these trying times. Switch the work mindset off, turn your nose up at technology and go touch grass. I wouldn’t be recommending if it didn’t work fo
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by Quibblingeek 7d ago
The mini-14 is probably the best and most useful rifle I’ve ever owned and would 100% recommend to anybody.
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by Quibblingeek 7d ago
I really do love the idea. It just comes down to the idea that a cell phone shouldn’t cost as much as a run down, but serviceable used car used to cost in a world where inflation hasn’t run rampant. The solution, of course, is the idea of l
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by Quibblingeek 10d ago
I do the same thing. My concern is that if somebody makes the decision to spin up an open wireless network it’ll just try to connect to that and upload all of the telemetry it’s been holding onto. I’m considering opening mine and taking a d
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by Quibblingeek 12d ago
I love Cory Doctorow’s work, but man is it hard to get through sometimes. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s depressing.
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by Quibblingeek 12d ago
I’ve been using Opencode, but recently migrated to oh-my-pi and have really enjoyed it. I’ve also had luck with copilot-cli, but find that to be more limiting and it’s only really worth using if you are paying for GitHub Copilot (or your co
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by Quibblingeek 12d ago
This is a prescient concern and it all came about due to the initial export controls placed on Fable on a Friday afternoon with zero warning. It was partly Anthropic’s fault though. Engaging in criti-hype by going on an advertising blitz ex
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by Quibblingeek 13d ago
Actually, several airports are. So you have normal WAAS and it has a ground segment. Most (new) IFR certified GPS receivers installed in airplanes today are WAAS capable. To that, you can augment something called GBAS (we used to call it Lo
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by Quibblingeek 13d ago
Maybe not intentionally (at least by the U.S. Government, but the consequences are far greater now. Now that GPS has subsumed a large part of air navigation as more VOR and ILS approaches at non-towered airports are being left to fall into