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Either the repo doesn't exist or it's private
It would be interesting to see statistics comparing who
1. Byod (just gets a SIM card from the carrier)
2. Keeps updating their phone to whatever the carrier offers via billing credits
3. Just keeps using the same phone they got from the carrier when they started
I want a physical home button. I want volume buttons. I want _extra buttons_ on the sides that I can program to do whatever I want, depending on whether or not the screen is on and what app is open.
I use duck.ai for simple stupid "creative" stuff like writing extremely short stories. I've come to the conclusion that I may as well use the smallest model (Gemma? Gpt-oss? I don't care enough to look) because they all get it so nearly the same every time. Provide a strict enough set of conditions (this is the plot so far, do A and B) and often enough they'll all come up with the same results on different words (A and B all the way through Z).
The office UI has changed dramatically over the years. We have floating toolbars, live preview, ribbons, collapsing menus, an undo button in the title bar, a tabbed interface. We've moved from SDI to MDI and back to SDI. If you had a customized toolbar layout in office, upgrading to 2007 meant you had to learn to use office the way Microsoft wanted it. The default font changed multiple times. Chart wizard, clip organizer (and later clip art as a whole) were removed. Print preview changed to a tab. Contextual help (the `?` button) was removed when Microsoft got rid of winhlp, followed by the office assistant, followed by offline help as a whole.
Want to extend the idea to office as a whole? Lync was replaced with Skype, OneNote came and went and then came back again. Groove, infopath, publisher, frontpage, SharePoint, various versions of Outlook, the office shortcut bar, photo editor, picture manager - they've all disappeared (some have come back again or been replaced with something else).
I used office XP and 2000 (blocked at the firewall; I mostly saved files as rtf for personal use) for years (admittedly this is mainly because they loaded in 0.5s on my crappy laptop and PC) until I was forced into upgrading to office 2007 by the need to pass around files for class with someone who complained incessantly about their stylesheets being lost every time I converted the file.
I'm still salty I can't waste my time editing 16x16 (32x32?) 256-color dicks into the toolbar icons i when I'm supposed to be writing essays or setting up autocorrect to quietly put typos into a shared computer (the computer isn't shared anymore, and it's no fun doing it to myself)
Dynamic DNS clients are a thing. I host a bunch of stuff on my domain, the only issues I have are related to having a local address when I'm at home. I don't host game servers much, but I hosted terraria (tshock) for few a few years.
Were they considered persons at the time?
I work at a grocery store that used to sell batteries. They stopped. If I had to guess, I'd say the number of batteries that were thrown away due to being past the date on them had a lot to do with it. Nobody ever bought them. Everything important is rechargeable these days, with the possible exception of remote controls (which shouldn't need replacement batteries at all: remember solar-powered calculators? Put that on a remote and just leave it face up to recharge when not in use)
If I'm playing on my steam deck, I kill games fairly often. It's the easiest way to exit. Open the menu, tap exit, stick it on the charger and off I go. Admittedly most of the games I play either don't auto save, are cloud-based, or are idle games (who cares?).
I've pretty much given up on first-party scripts and only care about data being sent out these days. However it's entirely possible to make a reactive image carousel with navigation and drag/swipe control in pure HTML and CSS these days, there's no need for JavaScript to do this. It should even be possible to make it auto play with CSS animations.
Issues:
- I would avoid autoplay without JavaScript--the only way to make it pause is with hover-state (animation-play-state), it's not possible to start/stop permanently without scripting afaik, though you could make it only auto-play when the cursor is within the borders but not over a button. This is solvable with scripted buttons.
- using anchors as bookmarks will snap page scroll to them when you click. Scroll containers and scroll markers[1] proposes to fix this (see the link at the top of the article below), but it's still implemented only in chromium-based browser. This is also solvable with a small amount of JavaScript.
See https://css-tricks.com/css-only-carousel/ (the auto-play once didn't work for me, but see caveat above regarding automatic play without scripting).
[1]: https://caniuse.com/wf-scroll-markers
This picture is the service image in the carousel at the top of tfa.
> the cost to rent a single b200
A 180gb b200 on runpod is $6.8/hr. Nowhere near $50/hr.
The _most expensive_ on-demand b200 rental I can find is $11.2/hr. There's a number of websites around these days that track GPU rental prices across different services: gpus.io, gpu.watchworks.dev (vast and runpod only), gputracker.net (not free, lol), gpurentalprices.com, priceofcompute.com, rentgpu.org, etc (I'm only looking at the first page of search results for GPU rental prices tracker search). Most of these don't include vast or runpod, but all of them show prices under $10, mostly around $6/hr for b200.
"make a cartoon about bears playing tennis with jellyfish. Sign it with the openai logo, not someone's name"
I heard an ad on the radio this morning from the local Internet support/WordPress/website developer/seo company that they've moved from seo into astroturfing for _LLM_ input. They advertised that they'll make sure you're company is the one that gets returned and trusted when other companies search the web via agent. If this works for agentic search, it probably works for _training_ as well, so good luck finding an open LLM that's been trained to follow your interests.
Has there been any research into whether/how much LLMs are more likely to recommend companies whose names they saw in training over similar but smaller or newer command also returned in search results? Given how well advertising works on people, I can't imagine that it _doesn't_ work on LLMs too.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the comparison is breaking down here. Reading a book is the specific intended purpose. It's why the book exists, not just fair use. If you couldn't remember what was going on in the book as you read it, it would be worthless.
My insurance will not send emails to my
[email protected] domain. Neither will several other systems. A number of systems flat out refuse to acknowledge that such a tld exists. (Improper assumptions about valid email addresses)
RethinkDNS does everything for me. You're tied to their DNS server if you want to use the in-app interface to make changes to the blocklists in use, but that's not a hard requirement. As a bonus, it also supports actual VPNs (wireguard, http connect, and socks proxy). If you don't care to micro-manage it, trackercontrol is also pretty good. There's other apps as well, like personalDNSfilter.
In that case, I suggest (not having tried it) that updating the OS and then resetting it might work better? Does Windows still have the reset option it had in win8?
I kept my floppy drive installed until I got tired of explorer freezing every time I accidentally selected it (quite often as I have a habit of navigating with the keyboard)
I detest magic links. I have probably 9-10 accounts with a certain service that uses magic links (I mostly use them to get an API key or download a file every few months and never visit directly otherwise) because
1. the only login method they support is magic link and login with Google/Facebook. There's no password field so my password manager can't fill out my login details for me.
2. I don't have a Facebook account, and I don't keep my Google account signed in. Even if I did, I don't want them using these as my primary email address. (I use a catch-all and don't give out the primary address; I give each service it's own address)
3. A bunch of newsletters and forums (hackaday, etc) mention them by name every few weeks, often in the subject field, making it hard to search for. They don't send me any newsletters themselves, and I don't participate in their forums so there's nothing from them directly. They can't do anything about this, but it makes things harder.
4. If you enter a new email address that they've never seen before, the process exactly the same until after you click the magic link you received. They don't tell you they've never seen it before until you verify the address.
5. As such, if I can't recall the exact address I used to sign in, I automatically create a new account and don't find out until after I click the magic link and I'm asked to enter a new username or use the existing username they've already created. Proceed to settings and create a new API key for a new account instead of just adding one to my existing account.
This is an extreme case, yes, but I have similar issues with several services that only support magic links and GitHub login, and it's hard to configure services to use a new catch-all address when they harvest my address from GitHub login and won't let me change it. Magic links are a great tool, but they should _never_ be the only option. They should supplement existing login methods. Password managers exist for a reason. Several services that I have since stopped using for this reason have in the past decided that they should start sending emails to the addresses they harvested from login with other service. Two services have gotten my magic link address stuck in their system because it's not associated with an account (the account has been deleted) and thus I can't manage subscriptions.
I suppose you might be able to argue that everyone is authorized to view the data if they made no attempt whatsoever to prevent you from doing so.
As much as I hate the weather app myself, this isn't an equivalent solution. The weather app shows the temperature in the taskbar itself, without opening anything. Also, I don't keep my browser open 24/7, so it's more than just loading a single extra tab, you need to wait for the browser process itself to start up.
If you want to load weather in a browser from the taskbar instead of having it available without having to open another application, I'd recommend using dillo or some such to load wttr.in or similar. A single http request that loads fast from a comparatively simple application that also loads fast. You might even be able to load it as a .hta file.
The DMCA doesn't care exactly how the authorization works, it only cares that it's needed.
Quote from Wikipedia[0] of DMCA section 103:
> No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
> "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
> a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention_laws#Circum...
Worse is when the hotkey is underlined but doesn't actually work (multiple buttons with same hotkey, and instead of switching between them it just doesn't do anything. Admittedly this is rare). Or when the list is an MRU that can be navigated with the first letter of the item names, but some letters are reserved for static functions (looking at classic shell start menu: I can't start certain programs from the MRU or pinned list without the mouse because (A)pps Sh(u)tdown (S)ettings are reserved. Numeric helps with MRU, but can't be used in multiple places for the same reason)
Younger people love not having to wait in line.
If I'm really hungry and I'm stopping at McDonald's because it's the only place close enough to the bus stop, then I want to order and pay, not wait for the person ahead of me.
If I only have one item at the market/drug store, I want to use a self-checkout machine, and I don't want to be waiting behind someone with a cart full of items who doesn't know they have to actually unload their cart for the cashier, or who decides to go back for "one more thing" that happens to be at the back of the store where they get caught up talking to someone they know.
I have a vague feeling that tabs should be doable in pure CSS/HTML, but I might be thinking of menus (where the menu is a sub element of the button and thus visibility can depend on mouse position)
The paste action gives you feedback by having the cursor move to the end of the selected text after it replaces the text you copied with itself.
If you're on Android, lately it actually does give feedback by putting the copied text into the predictive text/autocomplete bar above the keyboard (I find this annoying as I'm usually copying text to save for later use, and I use the appearance of text I want in the corrections as an indication I've swiped wrong. If only I could touch-type while lying down...). In other apps that don't display the keyboard, it sometimes gives you a toast that an app has access the clipboard, though it gives the same toast for pasting or just for accessing it (eg pasting with termux or using an RDP app that syncs the clipboard)
Technically the processor is on in low power mode, but the TV unit itself is not running. On pressing the power button, the interface does not appear immediately. First the screen displays the Samsung logo, then the system loads, then the (broadcast/HDMI/analog) TV signal appears several seconds later. I can hook up a power meter (if I can find it, unlikely), but if the system was fully running it would be near-instant like when you switch to your cable box that has a fan running 24/7 expelling hot air (in this case it would only have to turn on the screen itself). This is about 3x longer than it takes my monitors of the same age to power on. (Samsung and Acer and Dell).
I do not have the smart features enabled, not do I have it connected to any networks.