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by napkin 4mo ago
This is me. I’ve gamified it to the extent that, to control my passion, I play tricks to ensure that the right thing becomes the wrong thing. My brain must believe it is procrastinating. For example, I often don’t pay my bills (the money is
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by napkin 4mo ago
Fool here. What’s the small bit of research I need to do?
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by napkin 4mo ago
I burst into laughter after hitting reply and seeing the same message character for character
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by napkin 4mo ago
))<>((
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by napkin 9mo ago
Things are complicated. As a policy, I wouldn’t want to encourage grandma to be going to any web site to download software. Grandma should probably stick to the App Store. And personally, I would way rather install github builds than downlo
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by napkin 1y ago
When prompting an LLM service to leak the system prompt, how do you have the faintest idea as to its accuracy? I‘ve read people say it‘s a difficult challenge for the providers. But aren‘t there some pretty basic strategies? E.g., code pret
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by napkin 1y ago
The author recommends this add-on- “Auto Tab Discard”- apparently optimising tab memory management. Why wouldn’t the standard distribution adopt it? I’m reminded of when I used to maintain an epic-sized vimrc, compiled my kernel for a diffe
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by napkin 1y ago
Yeah, not arguing the legal specifics. It’s good for Apple to be challenged in court. But Epic did go out of their way to ‘trash’ Apple in the press. For this and other reasons I can’t generally relate to Epic. (e.g. targeting kids with mic
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by napkin 1y ago
But you’ve left out part of the narrative: Developer pushes an App update which purposefully violates the TOS, expecting rejection- having planned in advance to kick off an expensive PR campaign and legal battle. I don’t deny Apple’s pettin
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by napkin 2y ago
This all doesn’t sound worth reading into. There are other interpretations to supplier leaks. Ditto re: execs moving between teams. Apple AR != Vision Pro. On the flip side Apple is still shipping updates, new content, and selling units. I’
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by napkin 2y ago
Is there evidence Vision Pro production was ‘cancelled’ as opposed to just running its limited course as planned? Are there substantial leaks indicating its successor has been cancelled?
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by napkin 2y ago
The Silk Road represented a tiny fraction of illicit drug revenue per country. Some report-skimming would indicate less than a single digit. A series of more profit-oriented darknet markets replaced it. I don’t know what the costs were asso
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by napkin 2y ago
You really cannot stop illicit drug use. A hard approach to prohibition not only makes people less safe, it’s a massive waste of spending. On just a pragmatic level- Fentanyl and analogues are by weight hundreds of times more potent than mo
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by napkin 2y ago
(SWIM’s experience with Silk Road): For LSD there existed a third-party forum, where a group of (supposedly) vendor-neutral, unaffiliated individuals would purchase samples from vendors, send them to private or state-sponsored labs around t
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by napkin 2y ago
“This is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle.“ (* deleted tweet by Netanyahu) https://web.archive.org/web/20231017165958/https:/&#x
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by napkin 2y ago
I’ve been maining an M4 iPad Pro for a few months now since frying my laptop (which ran Linux) while travelling. There’s a lot to love about it. Sadly, one discovers dozens of minor bugs and annoyances, that are mostly specific to doing pro
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by napkin 2y ago
I primarily use an iPad pro. Hardware-wise, I think it’s a superior paradigm. Most of the time I’m using it with the magic keyboard. I love that if the keyboard is damaged, it’s totally removed from the device. We don’t need to talk about t
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by napkin 2y ago
A less finnicky approach would be binding to 0.0.0.0, then configuring incoming firewall policy. By default deny, then allow SSH through wireguard network. Or by default allow then deny SSH through public network.
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by napkin 2y ago
Sure, you wouldn’t call the Steam Deck a Desktop. However as you pick apart its software stack, you’d be hard pressed to find a few parts that don’t also benefit the Desktop usecase. Valve delivered a device that mostly just works for gamin
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by napkin 2y ago
The argument that it is ‘screwing desktop Linux’s progress’ doesn’t hold well in light of the success of the Steam deck- selling to millions- and running a Wayland compositor. Which ‘non-wayland’ efforts have been thwarted, that had any suc
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by napkin 2y ago
Wish I could say it was more sophisticated than slow trial and error. I tried changing many different aspects: MTU, forcing different routes/peering through different VPSs, various reverse proxy configurations. I guess what started lea
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by napkin 2y ago
I had this problem too! Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy over Wireguard. For intercontinental visitors (high latency), there would be an initial burst of reasonable transfer speed, but within seconds, slow to an unusable crawl. It took a lon
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by napkin 2y ago
I’m currently using xtts2 to make language learning more exciting, by training models on speakers I wish to emulate. I’m really into voices, and this has helped tremendously for motivation when learning German.
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by napkin 2y ago
The circumstances around this particular crisis are spiritually difficult to process. I'm cynical, but not cynical enough to have imagined the political alignment that we currently ('the west') hold, to enable/allow this
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by napkin 3y ago
Can you provide a URL to a page containing a link of this style? I’ll concede that it’s useful to someone if I see it! The term ‘FQDN’ does not always imply the dot at the end?
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by napkin 3y ago
Curious. What is the use case here? I’ve spent tens of thousands of hours of my life on the Internet and a lot of that as a sysadm and I’ve not once heard of people accessing or linking to sites this way.
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by napkin 3y ago
Yes. In a heartbeat. If only to support OpenWRT. Since the demise of Soekris and PC Engines, I don't know of good alternatives. I'd like to be excited about newer ARM-based, power sipping routers- but which ones aren't so che
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by napkin 3y ago
Love this! Naive question: what kind of resolution do potentiometers like these provide? I took a look at the specs but I don't know how to interpret them. I'm curious why you would or wouldn't use high res rotary optical enc
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by napkin 3y ago
Yeah, that's what I was factoring. For my home, the 24/7 power consumption from a handful of switches + some kind of hub just balanced out the potential savings from having the same bulbs off more often.
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by napkin 3y ago
I'm reserving my interest in smart home tech for when it's a clear win in terms of energy efficiency. Very recently I compared my current home lighting costs with a fully smart-equipped setup, and it basically just balanced out. I

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