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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
What do you mean by "locked down computer." Maybe something like ChromiumOS? Might be a tough sell for the volunteer open source community ("linux & friends") to work on such an alternative "locked down" co
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
I sometimes describe Instapaper as "/dev/null for web content". I reflexively share to Instapaper not to read it later, but to absolve guilt for not reading it at all. It is one of my weirdest web habits, on reflection.
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
Glad the comment was helpful. Cool project. From one book lover to another, best of luck!
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
I use https://libib.com for this use case. I didn't see it mentioned here, so figured I'd share. I'll also mention a fun coding project that I used ChatGPT on. I created a data enriched spreadsheet out of my physi
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
I wrote a little on this topic in "Putting Your Media on a Diet": https://amontalenti.com/2024/01/31/media-diet Written in Jan 2024. I sensed that the world had already moved on from reading as a co
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
To provide a data point from a long-time ProjectionLab user, I don't really need account linking. I use Monarch Money to link cash and CC accounts to track spending. I use a custom Google Sheet to track retirement portfolio performance
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
Author of mise has a page comparing it to asdf: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html
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by pixelmonkey 1y ago
I really love “Sneakers.” It’s one of the best classic “hacker” films. This essay also does a nice job of breaking down a scene you might not have otherwise noticed, which has some lovely filmmaking technique and subtle sound design at play
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
This is mainly a note for myself, but here was the Hinton interview I was thinking about: https://pca.st/episode/951f3fb4-f7f7-4b4d-b2bb-dbf5334ea1aa "The Most Interesting Thing in AI - The Atlantic - Episdoe 1 -
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Geoffrey Hinton recently discussed how neural networks, even human ones, may be "generative" in how they recall information. Our memories of events are hazy, and change every time we recall them. Memorized rote facts can also be h
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
I love the onesec extension and I've often thought society would be better off if this were the way Apple and Google implemented their app timer functionality on iOS and Android. If you could just mark certain apps as addictive and be
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
I wrote up my own version of this idea in "The smartphone app audit." https://amontalenti.com/2024/03/26/the-smartphone-app-audit If the idea of auditing all your apps seems daunting, you can take a
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Here is what I think is going on in this announcement. Take the 4 major commodity cloud companies (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle) and determine: do they have big data centers and do they have their own AI product organization? - Google
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
I'm a generation older. To me, there were three big shifts. One was that Facebook/Twitter/etc. proved that web publishing could be made more convenient by making it more centralized, and that access to an audience was, in som
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
I think you're right, and I don't think it's just about public content being "exploited" to train AI models and the like. Rather, even before LLMs, there was a growing sense that publishing ideas or essays publicly
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Reminds me of: "Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks." -Michael Bolton in 'Office Space' Also funny since the main character in Office Space is named "Peter." I now wonder if this character
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Such a great project. Cool to know that one of my favorite authors, Sinclair Lewis, now has all his popular novels starting to enter the Public Domain. I had only just recently started reading "Dodsworth" so I'll now switch t
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Obligatory meme: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ I'm personally in the top left corner and bottom right corner at the same time, which is sort of funny. I have used WordPress since 2004-2005, and I&
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Exactly. And I also like to remind the Apple fans that Linux's desktop OS market share today is around the same share macOS X had in the period 2002-2010, when Windows was completely dominant and before the iPhone turned so many into m
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Using a smartphone isn't "computing" in the same sense as programmers using a laptop for programming. Neither is it in the same sense as writers using a laptop for writing. Consider: Some devices are consume-only (e.g. Kindle
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
I knew you could do that, but never knew you could do it with "|&" as a shorthand. TIL! I found this comment in a bash documentation example to verify: # To send stderr through a pipe, "|&" was added to Bash 4 as
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
I don't know how this JEP affects Clojure, but if you want to use Clojure for fast-loading CLI apps, a good thing to look at is babashka (bb). I wrote about it here: "Learning about babashka (bb), a minimalist Clojure for building
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Wow, that's some dedication to solve this problem! Very nice write-up. It was also good to see your thinking behind why doing this on an always-on Mac was better than possible alternatives. Thankfully M-series Macs don't draw much
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
That's a good point, well taken. Especially now that "X" is the name of a social media platform :-)
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Hopefully locations shared by users not part of my iCloud Family account, and "Items" (Apple jargon term for AirTags). Currently it only shows macOS or iOS "Devices" directly linked to my iCloud account, or in my iCloud
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Yes, although I recently discovered Hammerspoon which is a clever little bit of open source macOS desktop automation technology: https://www.hammerspoon.org/
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Cross-platform. There are 3 major desktop operating systems (Windows, Linux, and Mac) and 2 major mobile operating systems (iPhone and Android). Every single OS has a huge marketshare worldwide (including Linux, if you count servers). A tru
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
This looks great. If this Python implementation of the FindMy API actually works, it would be a major technology quality-of-life improvement for me. I hope Apple lets it stay alive. Everyone who shares location with me does so over Find My,
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
I just got a PiKVM4 Mini which is like this device but already 100% open source (GPLv3) and not a Kickstarter (available in PiShop, etc.) I had a great experience unboxing it and setting it up. Was able to remotely KVM over to to my target
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by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Discussion of my approach to using restic + rclone + Backblaze B2 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41041056

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