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@ clif @lemmy.world

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Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

  • Iowa teen dies after being mistaken for squirrel during hunting trip, officials say

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  • I haven't had squirrel dumplings in ages...

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • Bonus points for no jailbreak required : D I didn't even realize there was a jailbreak for it (or what benefits there are to jailbreaking it... I should do some research but I haven't found anything I couldn't do with the stock firmware and it sounds like you generally came to the same conclusion).

    Mine is using the stock firmware, wifi off unless using Overdrive, but I plug it into my computer to charge and load it with books. It just shows up as a mass storage device like a USB thumb drive and you can copy/paste books onto it (or use Calibre). After disconnecting it will scan for new/changed files and auto-import any recognized formats into the reader application.

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  • Also saying Kobo. I've got the Kobo Libra Colour and love it.

    It's the only ereader I've ever owned but I used the spouse's Nook and Kindle a couple of times in the past and the Kobo kills it. Granted, we're talking about a nearly new release of the Kobo vs a 5+ year old Kindle so it's not a fair comparison.

    Because of eInk and auto-sleep, the battery lasts me well over a month of casual reading (~30min before bed) with the occasional multi hour weekend session. Backlight is present and is totally readable in dark areas at <10% brightness; 100% brightness is like a supernova in your face. While the Libra Colour is not specifically a note-taking tablet like a reMarkable, it does just fine for quick notes/todo lists/etc but I did splurge on the ($60) stylus. There's a "notes" application that comes pre-installed.eBook support for writing in margins (or over text), underline/circling, highlighting, etc is really nice but occasionally the highlight is flakey when trying to highlight the end of a paragraph. That seems to have been specific to certain epubs rather than an "always" thing, but it happens in around 20% of epubs I've used.

    EDIT: Notes and highlights you do in an epub (and presumably other formats) are exportable to your PC via Calibre ("Annotations"). I love this because I like to highlight things I find interesting, particularly good quotes, and this gives me an easy way extract them while retaining a reference to which book it was and where exactly in the book it was. Example attached.

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  • Not that I would know from experience, but I hear there are Calibre plugins that will allow a user to pull the DRM'd book (downloaded via Overdrive) to a computer and remove the DRM.

    I've read that it's a polite thing to do because you're able to return borrowed books much more quickly so other users can check them out.

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  • I forget that there are large centrifuges (somebody posted about Stuxnet further down).

    Or, more accurately, I'm more familiar with the small ones (ThermoFisher calls them "Mini" and "Micro" centrifuges) for ~0.5mL samples and I had a hard time thinking that those would blow out a room. But the same link (ThermFisher) that I looked at to find the names also specifies 17,000g and 21,000g models which is just... fucking insane. I knew they spun fast, I didn't know they spun 21,000g's fast. Learn something new every day.

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  • Look at the elitist over here that knows how to read : P

    I never learned and you can't make me.

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  • I thought it was the same thing in the first frame : D

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  • That's awesome... And also funny that it had to be added. Thanks for the info!

    I still want to know what happens on an old one without vibration detection or if it was "broken". I assume something like an unbalanced washing machine but on a smaller scale? It just going out for a stroll :)

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  • First frame is a centrifuge that spins samples at high speed to separate the components in them (I think that's the purpose, not a scientist). But, the samples are on one side making it unbalanced.

    Second frame is turning the centrifuge on.

    Third frame is a funeral.

    I hear that if it's unbalanced, bad things happen, because you're spinning an unbalanced rotor at high speeds.

    I honestly was coming to check the comments to see if anyone had experience with it so I could ask how bad it is.

    The comic is insinuating that if you do this, you die.

    EDIT: an unbalanced weight on a motor is how the vibration function in your phone works... Along with other things that need to vibrate (yes, those things). At least, that's how they used to work.

  • Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator

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  • Yeah, and it varies by station. I push all the buttons. Some times one works, some times not.

  • Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say

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  • Who was it that said that the mark of a good leader is that everyone working under them is smarter than the leader?

    By that metric, the C level are the dumbest people in a company.

  • Is there a self-hosted project that does url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?

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  • Came to post this, glad to see it's already here.

    Nice little utility tool box that does a ton of helpful stuff in a small package. Super easy to self host and container images easily available.

  • Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters'

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  • Yep.

    That's all I have to contribute on the topic... Yep.

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  • Ask it to write a

    <reasonable number>

    of lines of lorem ipsum across

    <reasonable number>

    of files for you.

    ... Then think harder about how to obfuscate your compliance because 10m lines in 10 min probably won't fly (or you'll get promoted to CTO)

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  • O it's writing 100% of the code for our management level people who are excited about """"AI""""

    But then us plebes are rewriting 95% of it so that it will actually work (decently well).

    The other day somebody asked me for help on a repo that a higher up had shit coded because they couldn't figure out why it "worked" but also logged a lot of critical errors. ... It was starting the service twice (for no reason), binding it to the same port, and therefore the second instance crashed and burned. That's something a novice would probably know not to do. But, if not, immediately see the problem, research, understand, fix, instead of "Icoughbuiltcoughthis thing, good luck fuckers"

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • I've been getting recommendations for videos with 2 to 10 views. Noticed it about three months ago.

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  • I just referred to the BOFH in class last week.

    ... Nobody caught the reference but it made me happy.

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  • Me too

  • You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome

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  • 2005: Because server side is PHP... Obviously.