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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

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  • Be careful mentioning that you use Boost on here... Some parts of the community really don't like non open source clients.

    (I use it too)

  • Specifying file paths

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  • This is a great video about the launch of Windows 95, that covers the history of DOS at the beginning: https://youtu.be/0Ol8ZSE-PEk. Worth watching if you're interested in the history.

  • Specifying file paths

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  • Get a macro pad and configure one button to type a forward slash.

    How do you type URLs using that keyboard layout?

  • “Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

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  • They're different things. The comment you're replying to is talking about different search engines. SearxNG is a metasearch engine - it combines results from multiple different search engines together.

    Both are important. If you use SearXNG but only enable Google, it's essentially just a proxy for Google and you miss out on most of the value of it. Some of the other search engines may have better results for some searches than Google does.

  • “Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

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  • Most of the systems where this worked did it for any unrecognized words.

  • [xkcd 1683] Digital Data

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  • There's M-discs which are supposed to last for 1000 years, but obviously nobody has fully tested that yet. They're readable by normal DVD and Blu-ray players and go up to 100GB capacity.

    There's LTO tapes as well of course, but they're not rated to last for as long (only 30ish years).

  • [xkcd 1683] Digital Data

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  • You could archive a description of the file format alongside the files. Maybe a pseudocode implementation too, or actual code (although who knows which programming languages will exist 300 years from now).

    Or the dreaded .doc and .xls that even Microsoft has problems with today.

    The US Library of Congress recommends archiving data in SQLite databases, since it's a simple, well-documented format, SQLite is public domain, and SQLite devs have promised to support it for a long time and retain backwards compatibility indefinitely.

    CSV and TSV are okay too of course, but it's often much easier to deal with large datasets if they're in an actual database format.

  • [xkcd 1683] Digital Data

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  • I really hope the Internet Archive survive their lawsuits. They're important not just for archival of websites (the Wayback Machine) but also of books, audio recordings, etc. There's a large amount of old content that's only archived at the Internet Archive.

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  • I suspect that most usage of the model is going to be companies and individuals running their own instance of it. They have some smaller distilled models based on Llama and Qwen that can run on consumer-grade hardware.

  • Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

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  • Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

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  • One of the main features of Deepseek is that you can run it yourself. It doesn't matter if Deepseek are based in China if you run the model on your own servers and thus guarantee that your data doesn't leave your own data center.

  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • No I'm trying to use it with my work phone. I can't connect my personal phone to the work wifi since it needs a certificate (802.1x) but there's a separate guest network I can use if needed. Guest network is entirely isolated - different hardware, different backhaul, different IP range.

  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • I love KDE Connect but I can't figure out how to get it to work at work. Probably some firewall thing. It works fine at home, but can't find my phone at work.

  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • Why not Matrix via Conduit?

  • Threads is offically getting ads

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    Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent (including ad supported tier)

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  • $18/month would be a good deal if they still had all the content they used to have, but they've been removing content in favour of their own shows for a long time now. It sucks. You used to be able to find practically anything on Netflix, and if they didn't have it available for streaming, they'd lend you a DVD (included in the subscription price).

    That and the $18/month tier only goes up to 1080p. In 2025, you still need to pay more for 4k content?? It used to be 720p though, so I guess it's not all bad.

  • Is there a hosting/vps community on lemmy or just selfhosting?

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  • 100% agree. Note that some cheap VPS providers are single-homed (only have one internet connection) with a budget provider like Cogent, but the good ones are usually multihomed.

    Hetzner are great. One of the providers I use (HostHatch) is trying to have pricing similar to Hetzner, but in a larger number of locations. Their sale pricing during Black Friday is even better though.

  • OpenAI, valued at $157 billion, isn't profitable. Should that be normal?

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  • Yeah it's part of their overall strategy to be seen as a core part of the internet / the web. Same as Yahoo in the 90s and early 2000s.

    The more people that use their free services, the more appealing they are to advertisers compared to competing ad platforms (broader reach), and the more paid subscribers they get.

    Products like Visual Studio, some Jetbrains IDEs, VMware ESXi, and a lot of SaaS products, are (or used to be) free for individuals or for open source usage for a similar reason - people get familiar with them at home, and end up recommending them and buying them at work. A few individuals liking the product can result in large companies signing paid contracts for tens of thousands of users.

  • OpenAI, valued at $157 billion, isn't profitable. Should that be normal?

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  • People don't realise how much the storage and bandwidth costs are for a site as big as YouTube, and it keeps going up due to the huge number of videos being uploaded. People think that Google are making huge amounts of money from YouTube. In reality, they're not breaking even and rely on other, profitable business units (like their Workspace and cloud services) to subsidize it.

    There's no way the ads fully cover the cost, and more and more people are blocking ads. Advertisers don't pay for blocked ads, and YouTubers don't make any ad money from your views if you use an ad blocker. (this is the main reason YouTubers say they make less money from ads than they used to - ad blockers)