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- Comment on Where is he?! 5 hours ago:
Get a move on! It could be yards away by now.
- Comment on The Best Use of AI Ever: A 'Grandma' Built To Waste Telescammers’ Time - Decrypt 4 days ago:
He decided that it was unethical to have an AI/LLM impersonate a real person, but set up the “wizard” as an AI assistant for his fake crypto site helpline.
- Comment on He’s going to erase half of the tristate area 3 weeks ago:
Making it the one-and-a-half state area?
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 3 weeks ago:
The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.
Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 3 weeks ago:
My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there’s an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I’m getting up.
So it’s doing what it can to preserve battery health.
- Comment on New slop just dropped, from OpenAI 3 weeks ago:
a fisheye lens-style view of a plane making an air trail.
The trail emerging from the tail of the plane, as if it was a rocket.
- Comment on Click here? 4 weeks ago:
A few days ago I almost tried to pause my ebook reader before putting it down.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Someone once told me “meat is murder, but fish is justifiable homicide”. I hope that helps.
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 1 month ago:
I got bad news about who owns Venmo.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 1 month ago:
I don’t even mean browsing! Just trying to install something.
I search for “NordVPN” (because all the cool YouTubers use it!) and the first result is “Norton 360” with an install button.
It’s a “sponsored result” and it’s easy to install the wrong thing if you’re used to it actually finding the thing you just typed in.
If I put Firefox. I get duckduckgo. Okay, maybe not so bad and pretty obvious. But I’ve had these things for apps that almost look like the legitimate one.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 1 month ago:
Now if they could just stop putting ad results above the app you search for in the Play store.
- Comment on More trustworthy than what's currently on the road 1 month ago:
It can lie about it’s own emissions levels!
- Comment on Review of a tester extracting the functionality of USB-C cables 1 month ago:
So is this review based on a prototype?
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
I’m trying the fork now, thanks. So far, it’s behaving. Thanks for the pointer to the logs, I’ll take a look if it happens again.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
Thanks. I’m giving that a try!
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
Good to know. If I can get it working reliably, it will be worth sticking with. Someone suggested it might just not be auto-starting on reboots. I’m trying the fork of the UI on f-droid to see if it helps.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
I have the phones connected, but the app just decides to disconnect and stay that way until I check it. I’ll give that fork a try, thanks!
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
I could live with a few minutes, but it’s showig as offline for days. Maybe it is failing after a reboot. At least that would be a known situation to watch for.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
The only setting I see is “allow background usage”, which is on (I’m using it on a Pixel 7 and 8).
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
Well, it’s not versioning I need (I have an rsync backup that makes incremental copies). I need a 2-way sync that happens when files changes and doesn’t randomly stop working: I want to edit a note on my phone - it copies to the server. Edit on the server, it updates to the phone. Without having to manually run any separate syncs first. I only mention sync conflicts because right now, syncthing hadn’t updated with my phone for over 2 days, plenty of time for me to update a note elsewhere and then edit the same note on the phone.
Resilio does it, but it looks like it’s draining the battery. Syncthing doesn’t drain the battery much, but that’s because it has become inactive on two different phones for long periods of time repeatedly.
Cloud provider apps usually work instantly with little drain, they must trigger from OS notifications, but the apps that sync to local servers just don’t seem to work that way!
Git is a great solution just for versioning. After I messed up a big note file I had, I set up emacs to hook git into the save function. I just created a repo in that directory, then backed up the whole directory including .git, so the versioning was there with the backup. No need to even use a separate repo, git just gave me a version history for the local files.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
Thanks, but I really need a seamless automatic sync. I think that’s a manually-triggered file send?
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
Do you use it on a phone too? I did find it tricky to set up (more options than I really need, and the phone app settings don’t really work unless you select “Web UI”, which is really strange), but I didn’t mind the setup if I could then leave it alone and it works. Ideally I want to set this up on other family phones, so I can update notes and they appear everywhere.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
I’d like to use resilio, I even bought a license to support it as I use it for all my pc syncing. But it’s currently showing 41% battery use for today on my phone for 2 minutes screen time 11.5 hours background. Lenny Voyager shows 7% for 1.5 hour screen time. So something is not good with the phone app. Maybe the Android battery info display is misleading somehow (it confuses me because it shows a percentage of the time-interval you’re viewing, not a percentage of the total battery drain(.
- Comment on Best phone sync 1 month ago:
Interesting, I’d not heard of that. But does it auto-sync files? It mentions the clipboard, sharing links and browsing remote directories, but I don’t see a file sync mentioned.
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- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 1 month ago:
Teletype with an acoustic coupler. You place the handset into the rubber cups that block out the sound, so that the modem noises were clear through the phone line.
The perforations in modern toilet paper are an homage to the holes in the punched tape used to feed the teletype pre-recorded instructions.
- Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating 1 month ago:
The launcher program can be downloaded on-demand, avoiding detection if a teacher inspects or clears the calculator’s memory
If I understood it correctly, the Wi-Fi module appears as a standard calculator-to-calculator interface, so built-in commands can install the cheat apps at any time.
- Comment on An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts 2 months ago:
Once people can run this level of generative AI locally, there would be no need for YouTube to be involved. We could all generate our own shorts from a prompt.
- Comment on Is your writing skibidi? 2 months ago:
All things must pass.
- Comment on Cloud storage/backup 2 months ago:
I use rsync.net, it’s not as cheap as some, but I like the simplicity of storage I can access with rsync, rclone, sshfs etc.
You can run some commands remotely too, so I used rclone to copy my OneDrive files directly from the cloud files to rsync.net. Not through my PC.