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Opus 5.5 blocks any biology research that even remotely looks like this. I guess that the "safeguards" are for peasants only.
Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:40AM (#49739886)
Not all crap is created equal, some needs censoring.
Re:The Strongest El Niño Ever on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:43PM (#49062730)
It was fairly impossible to find a restaurant in Paris that had an AC not so long time ago. It’s totally not an issue in states.
Play Integrity checks if app was tampered with. Hardware attestations can only guarantee key's source and cannot be used to check app integrity.
There are many apps to run local LLMs on both iOS & Android
Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:14AM (#46498959)
It’s hard to justify the UI rant when there is annoying snowflakes animation on top of it.
Re:The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review on Thursday September 25, 2025 @07:19AM (#45371545)
If you split all the changes for a feature this way not only you hide the way all changes interact with each other but also make the development at least 10x longer because an average approval time is often more than a day.
Re:Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:47PM (#44265024)
It's because an average Apple engineer has to enter his password at least 10 times a day and it's kind of no big deal for them. Source: I was an Apple eng.
Observe it
Re:The $100T Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:39PM (#43227012)
Then wait another 50 years, easy.
Re:Reasons to Not Parse Localized Strings on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:23AM (#43068704)
The same way as people who use periods. 1,004.004
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:47PM (#43064838)
Actually after reading it more carefully I probably see why it didn't work for me, but the notes in the page are bizarre:

* Avoid special characters such as * in M*A*S*H, use MASH instead.

Since when a common ASCII character is a special one? What about more common unicode characters I use?

* Do not abbreviate the Season folder with S01 or SE01 or alike.

I.e. if I put anything not in the folder named "Season XX" it won't work? Ugh... really?

* Season folders shouldn't contain the series name, otherwise Jellyfin can in certain cases (Stargate SG-1 due to the dash and one, for instance) misdetect your episodes and put them all under the same season.

Well, how about to fix it?

* Episode numbering for specials may vary from metadata provider to metadata provider.

Very helpful, so the "Series XX" required above won't always work.

And even if everything above fails why not to sort by name? It should not be hard for any engineer, right?

Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:35PM (#43064779)
I have the series in their own folders. I tried to do a more nested structure to no avail. After a day of attempts to fix it I switched to Plex and it despite having its own quirks just worked fine.
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:34PM (#43064767)
Thanks, I can google. For some reason Jellyfin totally ignores folder structures for me.
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Saturday February 15, 2025 @07:20PM (#43063947)
I have one folder with movies and series. It shows as a randomized mix, maybe it uses something like modification time by default? It's definitely not by name.
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Saturday February 15, 2025 @07:18PM (#43063928)
Then I could not figure how to make it work. Plex did that without any effort from my side though
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Saturday February 15, 2025 @06:52PM (#43063710)
Jellyfin is not able to group series together and on top of that shows everything in random order, why bother with it when there are alternatives that can do that?
Re:XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:34PM (#42079452)
Awhile ago. XEP-0286 (mobile connection improvements) dated 2018-01-25. File sharing has many different XEPs and I have no idea which works, but I know that early XEPs usually didn't work because of NAT. XEP-0384 (encryption) dated 2022-01-18.
Re:XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:48AM (#42078336)
XMPP was not a mobile friendly protocol for a while, had efficiently no security out of the box and lacked simplest things like image or other file transfers.
Re:Phrase Matching in Marginalia Search on Monday September 30, 2024 @12:04PM (#41698742)
Removing stop words is usually a bad advice which is beneficial only in a limited set of circumstances. Google keeps all the “the”: https://www.google.com/search?q=the
Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @08:47PM (#41241447)
It will probably run 2B models, there are many more options for iOS, try it out.
Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @01:46PM (#41237644)
Private AI app in play store wraps llama.cpp
Oh, there is a readable JavaScript inside!
Yep, likely my iPhone to blame
It doesn’t work on phone, sigh
Re:My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:42AM (#41067982)
I was asked to invent this algorithm on a whiteboard in 30 minutes. Loved it.
Re:Llama3 running locally on iPhone 15 Pro on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @10:56AM (#40132700)
I wonder why not to publish it on Google Play?
Re:Llama3 running locally on iPhone 15 Pro on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:55AM (#40130869)
You can run it on Android too. Not very fast though.
Is this an actual search engine or just a front end which builds “select from” queries?

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