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To any ollama.com dudes and dudettes reading this: why won't you offer any embedding models on your subscription when they are readily supported by the software and fairly efficien…

I think if you take a global outlook, you'll find I am not the outlier. Wasting food is a recent Western phenomenon.

I have two kids and this is pure bollox. They'll eat what they are given if they are hungry enough. Or eat the leftovers yourself. Cook the fruit and make compote. We never throw o…

Maybe they should have used a name that wasn't already taken... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set

What an obnoxious comparison. Any engineer good enough to get into Meta has had their pick of tech jobs for the past decade. They could easily live comfortably, but less well paid,…

Stunning hypocrisy.

Please keep Assistant, it's an easy to use alternative to OpenAI, and is not intrusive. I will say that I find the GUI infuriating though... It's never clear where the cursor is wh…

Another Irishman here. Stop trying to harken back to some notional "good old days" that didn't exist. People are better off than they've ever been. Energy was always expensive rela…

What would you be spending that money on exactly? If you can't afford to unplug on the weekend, spend time with family / friends, then you are poor.

That name is taken, especially for anything web related.

Search is great, using Kagi. Just bought the family plan, never going back to google. Also FastMail.

Indeed. This was not such an issue when everybody had their own website or blog or whatever, and you had to seek out content intentionally... It's the active intervention of an alg…

Delighted to see something made in Ireland that didn't come from a multinational... The Zorin brothers have worked on this since they were teenagers. https://stconleths.ie/the-zori…

Excellent piece, captivating. I found many parallels here to managing IT. So much of control theory and systems engineering is relevant to developing and deploying cloud systems, i…

Virtually zero ads using firefox mobile... I don't know how normal people can stand surfing the web these days ..

Is this a submarine article for food corps or what? Yes, it's hard work to make food by hand, but for fucks sake, our ancestors did it for generations, without any modern appliance…

I am a paid user. I use Thunderbird on my desktop. This is a waste of time and money. Put the money into proper EU based data centres instead.

For those who hated the unmaintainable mega spreadsheet of death, MS Access was actually a quite decent solution. It allowed you to sprinkle some structure and maintainability onto…

Honourable mention to ZincSearch, if you are looking for a lightweight single binary (golang) alternative: https://github.com/zincsearch/zincsearch I have no affiliation.

If it's your connection, why on earth would you want to break the crypto? You already have the keys and the message...

Unless folks are regularly sending 32GB emails, this CVE is not severe in this context.

This pearl clutching is ridiculous. The harm caused by this is not even at the level of harm regular advertising causes on a daily basis. We blast people with ads for "food" that w…

I ran labs in my university in Europe, in the early 2000s, and I'd like to think this would not have happened. We were selected as tutors due to our proficiency and dedication to t…

Been using it for a year or two, but recently I've been making heavy use of LLM results using the ? character. I actually discovered this by accident while searching. Even though I…

Far more serious is that these disposable vapes are easily accessible to kids as young as 12. Literally one third of the kids in my child's secondary school are vaping in the toile…