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by firecall 9d ago
Another up-vote from me for Plexamp. I find the mainstream subscription players to be excruciating to use to play what I want at the time.
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by firecall 9d ago
Feels like only a matter of time with Plex doesn't it! I've got the lifetime pass, but it really does feel like a Sword of Damocles situation...
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by firecall 13d ago
>It is already on par with senior programmer if the instruction/prompt is right. It's magical to me as well, but I don't feel like it's AGI. Because in my experience a Senior Programmer does not need the right prompts
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by firecall 16d ago
I'm more of an optimist! We've been here before with Windows and IE dominance! IE peaked at ~95% market share, and windows peaked at ~97%. Broadly it seems to me that Google is behaving much like MS did. But who knows, everything
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by firecall 16d ago
My guess is that it wouldn’t be TB sized files. It’s probably files that, over the course of a month, add up to multiple TBs. Which would suggest that a 1Gbit fibre connection would be adequate. For serious commercial usage, multi Gbit fibr
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by firecall 17d ago
And there I was wondering about used missiles! Apparently, I googled, “expended ordnance” is the term.
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by firecall 1mo ago
Cot. Chain of Thought?
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by firecall 1mo ago
For a school laptop it’s a unfortunate omission IMHO. Cheap wired headphones are the default choice in the classroom, in my experience. Bluetooth headphones that need charging aren’t really what you want. It’s easy enough to get cheap USB h
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by firecall 1mo ago
This is my current use case. My reading of what Google are saying is that yes, that feature is going away.
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by firecall 1mo ago
Gah! But one of the key benefits of this is obscuring what my actual Gmail address is! I don’t want to use my Gmail address as my main email address. Even if it’s just for personal usage. I don’t want people knowing what my Gmail account is
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by firecall 2mo ago
Wow, that National Museum of American History website is time capsule! Preserved in pristine condition since the year 2000!
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by firecall 2mo ago
Rember when Adobe tried to stop people saying images had been “Photoshopped”? Well, be careful what you wish for Adobe! Now everyone just says an image is AI, and something being Photoshopped is a distant memory. RIP Photoshopped Images.
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by firecall 2mo ago
On a similar note, I still do not understand why I have to plug a USB Flash Drive into my Mac twice for it to mount. I take modern USB-C Flash Drive, plug it into my Mac. Nothing. Take it out, plug it in again, and it mounts just fine. Same
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Australia sues Amazon for making allegedly unfair contracts with subscribers(bbc.com)
2 points by firecall 3mo ago|0 comments
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by firecall 3mo ago
https://ipcrawl.com/?page=6&cam=63f7feaf5042d223
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by firecall 3mo ago
Must be staged?
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by firecall 3mo ago
That’s the first one I saw too. I’m not even convinced these are all real, or at least are staged: https://ipcrawl.com/?page=6&cam=63f7feaf5042d223 That’s the invisible man hanging out at a tennis match…
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by firecall 3mo ago
The kids today will never know the horrors! I used to have SCSI Terminators in my tech support bag. I still have some somewhere… And the size and thickness of some of those SCSI cables!
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by firecall 3mo ago
SCSI my old friend! Much of the black magic art of Mac support back in the 80s and 90s was getting SCSI chains sorted out! Sorting out the device order, swapping out cables, that sort of thing. I once spoke to a client who said they’d been
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by firecall 3mo ago
> The entire point is to gain control over internet traffic. I see many arguments claiming it's about mass surveillance and an invasion of privacy and so on. We already have mass surveillance, so I don't really buy into those a
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by firecall 3mo ago
Where is that quote from? I can’t see it in the article when reading on my phone?
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by firecall 4mo ago
Didn't we call this Retail Therapy in the '90s?
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by firecall 4mo ago
Indeed. Here in Australia, the local and state governments push the use of their Apps as well. These Apps provide access to identity documents, offical notifications, and messages for health, benefits and taxation purposes. Then there is Ba
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by firecall 4mo ago
Is the "$ Spent on AI since page load" broadly indicative of spend at all, or just a fun animation?
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by firecall 4mo ago
It seems you can use the Claude Code CLI harness without a Claude Pro subscription now, which I don't think you could a before? I've been using Deepseek v4 with Cline in VS Code as a replacement for Github Copilot, and it's n
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by firecall 4mo ago
Back in the old days we needed to make an Ethernet Crossover Cable to get this to work. Modern ethernet supports Auto MDI-X, which manages that automagically for you. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossove
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by firecall 4mo ago
> If we're nitpicking, you don't what their usage? Abrogate their usage.
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by firecall 4mo ago
Maybe with Tim and Jensen going on holiday together in China, the relationship might be healed somewhat. Things have moved on since the days where GPUs in Macs were a priority. But then the AI race has changed things. So who knows - maybe w
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by firecall 4mo ago
These Gen AI tools have proved to be incredibly sticky! I genuinely don’t think when Chat GPT 3.5 launched, that anyone believed people would integrate the usage of them as quickly and solidly as they have. So Im with you on this, people us
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by firecall 5mo ago
> The fact that it’s happening shows that they always had the ability... That may not be the case here, and certainly isn't the assumption we can make more generally. We regularly see regressions in platform security.

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