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Good spot, but the AI tells are getting so so much harder to spot. If I had to guess, models have producing content that is, for most of the population, indistinguishable from real…

I used rope and suction cups to mount a shade cloth (neatly) over my apartment balcony. I quite liked it, it made the balcony more cozy, gave a bit more privacy, my apartment was c…

I feel a similar divide forming over personal privacy. A lot of my privacy backbone (proton mail/VPN, a pixel device for Graphene, a disposable phone plan for registering with goog…

I'm with you on this one. I'll be using my 11th gen i5 and GTX3080 for the foreseeable future. The 'hostility' you mention puts me off doing so more than price of an upgrade.

> "The tool itself worked properly and functioned as intended; however due to a bug in a separate code path, the system did not properly verify that the email address provided by t…

I'm an embedded systems developer. I have almost fully "outsourced" the Python code for frontend pc software that interacts with my firmware. I deliberately continue to write all m…

I wonder if the speaker had built in lithium batteries too.

When I owned a iMac G3, the Classilla browser was surprisingly good. Looks like development ended in 2021. Also, the branding was "Mac OS 9".

> Aston Martin Cygnus Googling this ruined my day

> A 2022 blog post by Crandell — “Defining and sustaining value for Bitwarden users” — was quietly edited. The GRIT list in the body now shows the new values: Innovation and Trust.…

I've paid for and recommended Bitwarden. For years it's operated along a stable trajectory. I was confident in its security record. Vaultwarden is an escape hatch I'm in a position…

Early adopters are exactly the people that like to test and recommend things to the majority. Without being aware of it, I was recommending a different product than the one I was u…

You're right, though the friends and family that I would feel the need to recommend a password manager to aren't the type that would self-host their own servers.

I stopped endorsing closed-source software to friends and family years ago, because you can't trust the companies behind them not to quietly change directions. Years ago I used a f…

Just like ham radio, it's a an interesting technical hobby for those that may get excited when their little 0.25W radio hits a repeater 80km away. More practically, I'm going to tr…

What about when the model trusts itself more than the "black box" you gave it, and hallucinates its use or non-use in favor of reimplementation? I found this video about "intellige…

Maybe 5 required fields and 30 optional fields. Apart from "census dweebs" [1] I don't know of many people that fill in more than the required. [1]: https://thebeaverton.com/2026/0…

I had never heard of this before, then last week I watched a video about it and was hooked. Now I'm seeing it everywhere! Meshtastic and Meshcore are both cool LoRa-based mesh text…

I have so many technical hobbies; coffee is my analog retreat :)

Agree on the Classic Pro. The Gaggiuno is quite complex; a Shades of Coffee PID kit is simpler if you want better shot-to-shot consistency and don't care much about customizing to …

We've definitely passed the point where discerning between real and AI images is impossible, even for a very detail-oriented eye.

I'm noticing sites that break the rules. I report (flag) them, is that useful or should I just PR to remove them?

I think it's meant as an art piece, not a product. I liked that the call to action is "BUILD YOUR OWN" instead of "BUY NOW ($599)".

I use a TCL Flip for this purpose. Phone calls and texting work well enough, the web browser is painful on the small non-touch screen but works in a pinch, and the phone can create…