antonyh

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by antonyh 4mo ago
This. Lost hours from the hours running the updates, lost hours from the occasional faulty upgrade, and every now and again it's fail spectacularly and need a restore from backup to return to productivity. No matter if it's Ubuntu
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by antonyh 4mo ago
That's entirely possible and quite likely. The only way to find out would be to renovate the battery and take it out to go shoot stuff. I'm not sure I'm that invested to make the effort especially as the rest of the handset i
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by antonyh 4mo ago
"Don't update your systems for a while" is exactly what an attacker would say. If you can't trust your update sources, you have bigger problems.
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by antonyh 4mo ago
Whilst anecdotal, this supports the idea that I should de-index my personal site when I relaunch it. There's no value for me to get indexed by Google or Bing. The only index I care about is Wayback Machine.
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by antonyh 4mo ago
In my experience, iPhone 4 was better than iPhone 8 which is better than iPhone 17. Either I got lucky, went to more interesting places and composed better, or the technology is getting worse from an aesthetic point-of-view. I definitely ha
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by antonyh 5mo ago
And yet I can buy a Premier League soccer shirt with a casino brand sprayed across the front. I wish it would stop, advertising gambling via sports sponsorships should be banned. It literally prevents me from buying the shirt.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
As a European, yes I'd prefer an EU LLM. What I don't want to do is give it to services with an agenda to abuse the data, particularly those profiling individuals for profit. Frankly, I'd trust a Chinese service more than I w
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by antonyh 6mo ago
For my use case, I use a webclipper to drop a copy of the text as Markdown into Joplin as a personal knowledge base. I can't do this with a PDF. My browser downloads the document by default as a preference for user manuals etc that I w
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by antonyh 6mo ago
I do wish these types of document were published as HTML and not just as PDF.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
This is the current choice developers face - build for the app-store or build for the web. Or both. For me, I honestly don't care if Mobile Safari seems 'crippled' when everything I use works exactly the same on devices as on
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by antonyh 6mo ago
The executed filename could be a symlink to a single common binary/script.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
This is true, but 8TB is big data if it's text.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
That's where I am too. Not sure why I've been downvoted when I've past the point of doing high-stakes risks and have people who rely on me to avoid injury so they get to have fun.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
It would have been a better fit for me than the M4 Air, I literally use it only for typing and browsing, plus a could of Mac-only tools. Brilliant machine but complete overkill for me. It's almost tempting to switch just to get rid of
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by antonyh 6mo ago
I think the definition of big is smaller than that. Mine was "too big to fit on a maxed-out laptop", effectively >8TB. Our photo collection is bigger than that, it's not 'big data'. Or one could define it as too
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by antonyh 6mo ago
The only status it brings is "smart enough to not use Windows 11" or "cares enough to get the work done rather than fighting with Linux on laptops". (I use Linux on desktop as a first choice, but it's always been an
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by antonyh 6mo ago
Came here to say this. I don't want to fall down not because I fear the fall, I fear the not getting up.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
What I thought I wanted: a way for Konsole to send SIGHUP What I now have: ~B What I really need: a way to stop long-running SSH connections from freezing
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by antonyh 6mo ago
I was expecting a hardware project, not software. I don't have a real TB-303, just the Behringer clone, and it'd be fun to build something from scratch that sounds similar. That aside, I've been wanting to play with this kind
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by antonyh 6mo ago
I'm sure they don't unless made from a stable hardwood or coated somehow to resist expansion/contraction which would defeat the whole point of using a sustainable material. Lovely idea though, I really like wooden objects.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
I'm sure they will if they can't already, but the price of the tech & the materials could be the limiting factor. How much would a hobbyist be willing to spend on consistent 10-micron 3D printing?
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by antonyh 6mo ago
Framed that way yes, but wouldn't it be cool to 3D print interlocking parts that can be reassembled in different ways?
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by antonyh 6mo ago
I fail to see how this is technically possible. Virgin Media already censors chunks of the internet, but not in a way that currently would allow age verification. Beyond my ISP I'm virtually anonymous unless I log in. If it's bloc
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by antonyh 6mo ago
Wait. What? Is this just a way to strong-arm non-cloudflarians into adopting their platform if you don't want your site crawled? It does sound like they are selling the solution to avoid their own content crawler.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
This is why Lego has nothing to fear from 3D printing.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
From experience there's a motivation, almost a compulsion, to follow the instructions to build the cool thing. Then... they sit there, those bricks never taken apart. That compulsion doesn't seem present in freeform building, and
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by antonyh 6mo ago
True, but at least it's not single use. Is there a viable alternative? A non-petrochemical plastic that has the same qualities? It's not like they can whittle them out of wood or cast them with metal so it'll always be some f
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by antonyh 6mo ago
Less no, different yes. Instead of dodgy meds and dating sites we'd have games and cosmetics and whatever other junk folks are punting at adolescents. If anything, I suspect there would be more ads.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
Changing this to save elsewhere is the #1 improvement to Emacs. It bugs me whenever any software creates backups in the same location as the original. That said, Nginx is also wrong and shouldn't do that.
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by antonyh 6mo ago
Aside from the concept of adults masquerading as non-adults, nothing so long as those spaces are moderated fully. I have no problem with skipping the verification, but I do question the moderation of most services. The problems start when t

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