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davsti4

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    Comment #49008059

    Sounds great, but why create an account mechanism for something that can be accomplished locally? Who's data are you mining?

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    Comment #48947585

    My $10 Casio is infinitely a more reliable timepiece. It doesn't need charging so it can be taken off-grid for months at a time, easy to read the digits when half asleep and your e…

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    Comment #48629847

    Did that include the ~40% of employee overhead?

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    Comment #48236906

    I like the idea, but in S227(g)(1) - "training shall compensate the server operator for the bandwidth and compute resources consumed" - bandwidth can be defined in finite terms for…

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    Comment #48236784

    Is it corruption, or just an established business model for poorly paid educators to increase their revenues?

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    Comment #48236698

    Illegally scraped? What about Common Crawl, Zyte, Diffbot, and others?

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    Comment #48236378

    Except that Spotify is now becoming enshittified (battery and UI). When I have to think too much to attempt to use a UI, its time to find alternatives.

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    Comment #48222083

    You missed one - V2_OS . A full OS written in assembler. Un-en-shittification at its finest! I ran it very early in its life, got it to boot, then couldn't do much else with it :) …

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    Comment #48153295

    Thanks for that link. Its disappointing that when I go to nytimes now, the only HTML delivered is this: nytimes.com #cmsg{animation: A 1.5s;}@keyframes A{0%{opacity:0;}99%{opacity:…

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    Comment #48049274

    Also look at the "DRM" controls: " Q. Can I increase horsepower? a. The first-ever Chevy eCrate conversion kit has a locked system that does not allow you to increase horsepower at…

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    Comment #47941327

    Sounds like you're Apple now, but would love to hear what you're actually using for DAV on Android if at all?

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    Comment #47934651

    rquickshare works on Linux and is 99% reliable for me, but I don't have a suggestion for iOS devices since I don't use them. https://github.com/Martichou/rquickshare/releases

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    Comment #47922151

    Interesting - thanks for the rabbit hole today. ;) Mercer hasn't released many public statements over the incident. Social media posts aren't necessarily public; but I did find thi…

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    Comment #47680209

    From: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebUSB_API "WebUSB provides a way for these non-standardized USB device services to be exposed to the web. This means that ha…

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    Comment #47454258

    50 times more likely? Don't they need to supply the data for that when making an "advertisement"?

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    Comment #47074759

    Thanks for the links - at first they didn't load. But allowing connections in my firewall to unpkg.com, open-meteo.com and opendata.ch allowed them to work. They're simple, but I c…

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    Comment #47069485

    So you're saying, it's legal to teach AI using illegally sourced copyrighted material, because it's for educational purposes only - interesting argument... ;)

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    Comment #47061394

    Nice - I like the interface, and its easy to navigate. I don't see a way to test the demo apps, but maybe I missed that? One thing that stands out is where does the app reside? It …

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    Comment #46990804

    I'm not even getting that - its stuck at: 10:26:18.027 Downloaded SPI flash: 16777216 bytes 10:26:18.027 [config] icount: off 10:26:18.028 [status] Loading QEMU WASM module (17MB).…

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    Comment #46990705

    "Email is tough", software development is tough, IT is tough, walking and talking at the same time is tough, mailing a letter is tough. When orgs frame problems like this, it erode…

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    Comment #46963405

    Similarly, I'm using it to write apps in non-native languages, like rust. My first foray into it led to finding poor documentation examples. AI allows me to create without spending…

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    Comment #46899698

    ... and you can be one good earthquake away from insolvency.

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    Comment #46899631

    So.... you're saying they must be understaffed and paying poverty range wages to afford the San Diego climate and still cut a profit? ;)

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    Comment #46697400

    Not all of those have "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com" below the shipping timeframe line. It changes depending on inventory stock. The first monitor in the "plus" list says "Shi…

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    Comment #46656356

    Are you referring to this store - https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dell/page/9B75DD0E-9F42-4B9B-A... ?