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dan

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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

  • Goodbye [System32 Comics]

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  • The Internet did not have the advertising presence it does now when it was conceived.

    Do you mean back when it was only the government and universities connected to it, before the web existed? Those times were very different. Practically user was contributing to the internet some way, either through time (like actually creating the software to use it, and once the web existed, creating sites) or money.

    These days, there's a significantly larger number of freeloaders that want everything for free, without contributing anything back. So far, advertising has been the only effective model to support such users that don't want to pay.

  • WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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  • QVO drives are trash though. Would not recommend. Very slow and they don't last as long as Samsung's EVO and PRO drives.

  • WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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  • I'd guess that they're commercially available but only for hyperscalers - large companies like Google, Amazon (AWS), etc that need a huge amount of storage.

  • WD unveils new high-capacity 32TB SMR and 26TB CMR disk drives

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  • It's more likely if you bought all the drives from the same store (since that increases the likelihood that they're from the same batch), so you should make sure that you buy them from different stores.

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  • I think one of the main reasons is that a lot of tech people on Twitter ended up on there. Mastodon originally filled that spot for me, but I found that a bunch of people that moved from Twitter to Mastodon ended up abandoning their accounts (or very rarely posting) a few months later.

    It's also probably the largest Fediverse instance, as users can opt in to sharing their posts to the Fediverse.

    I still don't use it often, though. I don't spend a lot of time on any social networks (or similar services) any more.

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  • I tried Bluesky but just couldn't get into it. Same with Mastodon. I like Lemmy because long-form posts/comments are more interesting to me. I'm liking Threads a bit, too.

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  • Why is the FTC being useful now? What happened?

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  • HaLow is sub-1Ghz so it goes through walls pretty well. Not sure about cost or how widespread it is yet.

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  • Yeah there's a SIM card in most new cars, usually in a place that's not easily accessible.

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  • on my car it was free for three years

    At least it sounds like they told you this. They probably aligned it with the most common lease period. Mazda just suddenly decided to make it a subscription.

    Ideally it should be longer, like 8-10 years.

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  • There's socially responsible ETFs that track stock indexes but exclude companies like oil and gas companies. The return isn't as high, but at least you're not giving money to Big Oil.

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  • I acknowledge the cell connectivity in the car costs Mazda money to keep running

    They should factor it into the price of the car. Maybe not a lifetime license, but some decent amount of time with a reasonable price to renew it for a few more years.

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  • Why should that use the internet though? There's low-power wireless communication technologies like Wifi HaLow that have a range of around 1km (0.6 miles), which would be totally fine for this use case. No internet needed.

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  • Remote start is a fine feature. It just shouldn't need internet access.

  • Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts

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  • I've been using Google Voice but it's not working well for me any more. Half the time, it doesn't record the voicemail message properly.

    It's also a fairly old Google service, so I'm worried they'll kill it.

  • Self Checkout [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • The one near me just says "please place your ITEM in the bagging area" for everything. Everything is just "item" and it says "item" is in a different voice that's louder than the rest of the sentence. What.

  • Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts

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  • I haven't found any voicemail services I really like, so I'm thinking of building my own thing using Twilio and OpenAI. Call comes in, Twilio calls webhook on my server, server opens connection to OpenAI using their new streaming API, sends call to OpenAI to build transcript in real time, uses OpenAI to summarize transcript and extract the person's name, number, and the reason for the call, sends me an email with the contents and a copy of the message attached.

    Just an idea at the moment.

  • Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question | TechCrunch

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  • My other guess was that they've hard-coded an IP address in their firmware and they've already sold off the IP range.

    Or they fired all the technical staff and no longer have anyone left that "does the computers" (as my parents say about my job as a software engineer)

  • This little gadget to find out which type of USB-C cable you have

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  • like USB 3.2 Gen 2x2

    Did you see that the newest version is called USB 4 2.0? lol