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solrize

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  • Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week

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  • reduced two-day work week

    Lol, it will be more like "Soylent Green is people".

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    Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox

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  • Oh crap I missed that. I'm going to delete the post. Sorry.

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  • I'd say there's a wider spectrum on reddit, if only because reddit is so much bigger. Lemmy is mostly center left while reddit goes everywhere.

  • Anyone else not watch movies or TV shows?

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  • I don't have the hardware or the interest for TV, but I do sometimes watch youtube vids about whatever.

  • Melancholic isolation in art and other media?

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  • Not my thing but I thought of the famous and frequently parodied "Scream" painting.

  • The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds

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  • Brick is an evocative word for something happening to a waterbed.

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    I built a free math & logic website for teachers, families, and students (made in Argentina 🇦🇷)

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  • Why is this programmer humor? Also, the site is in Spanish so I can't read it easily.

  • Building a $60 Ham Radio Data Hotspot with Baofeng UV-5R and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

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  • Oh neat. I've been interested for a while in JS8CALL as a means of long range low power communications. That's best with HF of course.

    The classic UV-5R needs 7.2 volt power if that matters to anyone (not the usual 5V USB brick) but I'm sure users can deal with that.

  • Building a $60 Ham Radio Data Hotspot with Baofeng UV-5R and Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

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  • This is interesting but FT8/JS8CALL on an FM transceiver sounds puzzling and I didn't know anyone used those modes on those bands.

  • Could the original WWII Willys Jeep be built and sold today?

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  • Straight from the original blueprints: heck no, consider the lack of seatbelts to say nothing of emissions.

    With a bunch of engineering tweaks but staying close to original: maybe you could get it to be legal, but almost nobody would buy it. The gas mileage would be terrible. Maintenance would suck. Cars have EFI instead of carbeurators now for good reasons. And a car with no air conditioning would be miserable in lots of places.

    Anyway if you wanted to do a project in that spirit today, I'd suggest making it all electric, but designed simple, like an e-bike on steroids instead of like a Tesla (which is more like a computer on wheels). Use LFP batteries instead of the higher energy but much more finicky and dangerous Tesla style packs, have some rooftop solar panels, maybe something like a street legal Kei minivan:

    https://www.vantagevehicle.com/collections/electric/products/electric-passenger-window-van

    You can buy those used in the US for around $5K but their top speed is 40mph, and they are only legal to drive on slower streets. I was a little bit tempted but decided I needed something that can drive on the freeway.

  • Furious MAGA Customers Say They Got ‘Scammed’ by Trump Watches

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  • If the watches are right twice a day, they're working as intended, so what's the problem?

  • What are your suggestions and techniques for studying effectively?

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  • Take notes while you read if it's a topic like history or literature. Write a few sentences for each page summarizing the contents. The summarization effort will make you mentally process the info, which will help retain it. Write down the page numbers so you can find the material later

    Also, shut off your phone if necessary, to not get interrupted by notifications.

  • I'm finally going to get to work on downloading all my music and abandoning streaming services. Any tips and/or advice?

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  • No idea what soulseek is. I've used newpipe and yt-dlp for downloading. Other than that I've just kept things simple with file based playback. I do use a few simple shell scripts to number the files sometimes.

  • Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

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  • Gotta wonder why random apps don't need special permissions to run and operate other apps. You can cause plenty of trouble maliciously navigating a browser even if you can't see the screen.

  • What are you all using for a 2FA token manager?

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  • I'm currently using FreeOTP from F-droid. Aegis seemed to have way too much extra crap. You don't want to sync multiple 2fa applications together since the idea of the 2nd factor is it's only in one place. Even being able to back it up is sort of contra, but if you have to, make sure the backup is well safeguarded.

    The basic TOTP algorithm is quite easy to implement fwiw. A dozen or so lines of Python.

  • Getting old and would like a better way to track health the self hosted way

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  • Paper notebook for each person, really the simplest, unless you have continuous monitoring or something uploading data automatically. Otherwise, for stuff like weight and BP, the actual measurements are the main hassle and computers won't save you any time compared to that.

    Added: for pills, timercap.com bottle caps are brilliant. They have an LCD display saying how it has been since the cap was last taken off the bottle. It eliminates the problem of forgetting whether you have already taken your pill.

    Otherwise, generally, as always: https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

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  • Nah. But I knew (ok, met a few times) a guy like that. He kept entering and winning a certain annual short film contest. Finally the organizers called him and said they wanted to give other people a chance, so they invited him to make the official promo film for the contest instead of entering. I presume he got paid for that but don't know for sure. I half-remember that he also became one of the contest judges.

  • EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you

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  • What politicians want and what the public wants are often totally different things. People vote on a few hot-button issues like immigration, and for stuff that gets less attention, politicians do what they want. So calling attention to chat control likely made a significant difference.

  • Meta will move React to Linux Foundation to address vendor dominance fears

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  • One always has to worry. Also there's lots of surrounding crap like react native. I wonder if that's included.

    Is react still important anyway? I figured something else would be the current hotness by now.