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by entropyie 10d ago
Haven't heard a single story like this from Ireland in the last 20 years, but I'm happy to be corrected. If anything the police here are too lenient on children running amok. It's common to see 9 year olds flying around on e-
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by entropyie 2mo ago
To any ollama.com dudes and dudettes reading this: why won't you offer any embedding models on your subscription when they are readily supported by the software and fairly efficient to run?
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by entropyie 2mo ago
I think if you take a global outlook, you'll find I am not the outlier. Wasting food is a recent Western phenomenon.
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by entropyie 2mo ago
I have two kids and this is pure bollox. They'll eat what they are given if they are hungry enough. Or eat the leftovers yourself. Cook the fruit and make compote. We never throw out edible food, virtually zero waste. Just make an effo
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by entropyie 2mo ago
Maybe they should have used a name that wasn't already taken... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set
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by entropyie 3mo ago
What an obnoxious comparison. Any engineer good enough to get into Meta has had their pick of tech jobs for the past decade. They could easily live comfortably, but less well paid, working for a myriad of less exploitative tech companies. Y
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by entropyie 4mo ago
Stunning hypocrisy.
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by entropyie 6mo ago
Please keep Assistant, it's an easy to use alternative to OpenAI, and is not intrusive. I will say that I find the GUI infuriating though... It's never clear where the cursor is when you start a new chat. Don't understand the
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by entropyie 6mo ago
Another Irishman here. Stop trying to harken back to some notional "good old days" that didn't exist. People are better off than they've ever been. Energy was always expensive relative to income. When I was a kid in the
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by entropyie 6mo ago
What would you be spending that money on exactly? If you can't afford to unplug on the weekend, spend time with family / friends, then you are poor.
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by entropyie 7mo ago
That name is taken, especially for anything web related.
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by entropyie 8mo ago
Search is great, using Kagi. Just bought the family plan, never going back to google. Also FastMail.
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by entropyie 9mo ago
Indeed. This was not such an issue when everybody had their own website or blog or whatever, and you had to seek out content intentionally... It's the active intervention of an algorithmic megaphone that is causing the damage. To me th
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by entropyie 10mo ago
Delighted to see something made in Ireland that didn't come from a multinational... The Zorin brothers have worked on this since they were teenagers. https://stconleths.ie/the-zorin-brothers-technology-for-huma... They
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by entropyie 11mo ago
Excellent piece, captivating. I found many parallels here to managing IT. So much of control theory and systems engineering is relevant to developing and deploying cloud systems, improving performance etc... Many times I've seen engine
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by entropyie 11mo ago
Virtually zero ads using firefox mobile... I don't know how normal people can stand surfing the web these days ..
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by entropyie 11mo ago
Is this a submarine article for food corps or what? Yes, it's hard work to make food by hand, but for fucks sake, our ancestors did it for generations, without any modern appliances or temperature controlled ovens. This article was so
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by entropyie 11mo ago
I am a paid user. I use Thunderbird on my desktop. This is a waste of time and money. Put the money into proper EU based data centres instead.
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by entropyie 1y ago
For those who hated the unmaintainable mega spreadsheet of death, MS Access was actually a quite decent solution. It allowed you to sprinkle some structure and maintainability onto a spreadsheet without losing the accessibility and ease of
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by entropyie 1y ago
Honourable mention to ZincSearch, if you are looking for a lightweight single binary (golang) alternative: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch I have no affiliation.
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by entropyie 1y ago
If it's your connection, why on earth would you want to break the crypto? You already have the keys and the message...
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by entropyie 1y ago
Unless folks are regularly sending 32GB emails, this CVE is not severe in this context.
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by entropyie 1y ago
This pearl clutching is ridiculous. The harm caused by this is not even at the level of harm regular advertising causes on a daily basis. We blast people with ads for "food" that we know causes obesity and diabetes. As others have
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by entropyie 1y ago
I ran labs in my university in Europe, in the early 2000s, and I'd like to think this would not have happened. We were selected as tutors due to our proficiency and dedication to the subject. Maybe it was a fluke, I've heard simil
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by entropyie 2y ago
Been using it for a year or two, but recently I've been making heavy use of LLM results using the ? character. I actually discovered this by accident while searching. Even though I have a ChatGPT subscription, the Kagi interface is fas
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by entropyie 2y ago
Far more serious is that these disposable vapes are easily accessible to kids as young as 12. Literally one third of the kids in my child's secondary school are vaping in the toilets between classes. It would be much harder to do this
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by entropyie 2y ago
Yes I enjoyed and used the ads in print computer magazines in the 90s. I think having highly relevant, content based static inline first party ads is tolerable and occasionally useful. Especially for specialist hardware / software. 3rd
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by entropyie 2y ago
+1 on this. Number one source of bugs at a recent job was a homebrew TLS / HTTP load balancer. First chance I got I replaced it with nginx and bugs shot down immediately. With tools like apache, nginx, haproxy and caddy available, it w
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by entropyie 2y ago
Initially read this as 3600 nanometres... :-)
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by entropyie 2y ago
+1 for Sandworm

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