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Angostura··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
I’ve never had a problem with, but then I’ve never sent an email containing the phrase ‘barely legal teens’
Angostura··on Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
> Does anyone else remember when claiming it was a lab in China that leaked was “racist”

No. I remember it being called a conspiracy theory. And it still is.

Angostura··on Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague
> But it is awfully strange that the first patients of a novel pandemic coronavirus were workers at a lab conducting gain of function research on coronavirus.

Except - as far as I know - the first patients weren’t.

Angostura··on The evolution of effective altruism
What about if it were called 'evidence-based altruism'?
Angostura··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
The want some disk space back.

Personally, my limited experimentation with Apple AI has left me quite liking it.

The contents of the Exportable’Privacy Report’ are interesting to look through

Angostura··on I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around
On iOS Safari:

Island Three could not start

Range consisting of offset and length are out of bounds

Reloading the page may help. A screenshot of this to @gruberbuilds on X helps fix it.

I’m not on X

Angostura··on Ballmer Peak
See also the Mitchell and Webb ‘inebriati’ sketch - https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0
Angostura··on Dots: Always-on agents
It looks to me like non-LLM specialist who would like a prepackaged simple, ‘safe’ way to have an always-on personalised agent.

Senior and middle managers? (not using those as pejoratives, by the way - I am one)

Angostura··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
Typical transit time seems pretty good for me
Angostura··on "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
So, it was obvious why Open AI models started inserting references to goblins and pixies it’s conversation- references that had to be suppressed?
Angostura··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
But were you successfully conned into believing an AI had solved the Navier-Stokes problem?
Angostura··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
I think you've said nothing here other "Look up a good summary of the Monroe doctrine, with which I mildly disagree"
Angostura··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Does low-tariff trade and easier freedom of movement offer benefits?
Angostura··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
Tokens want to be paid for
Angostura··on Can we stop with the uptime percentages?
> What's the point here? That everyone should use the n-nines notation? Sure. However, companies have no inte

Skip to the last 2 paragraphs

Angostura··on Can we stop with the uptime percentages?
I don’t see why you think “12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime)”

Is trying to spin anything. It’s making easier to see the impact over the last 30 days. I agree with the article

Angostura··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
It might be reasonable for a new source you don’t pay for to make money from advertising. Not so, the company that sells you a tv
Angostura··on The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
Indeed. Chances that it will be humans who turn out to be fittest?
Angostura··on How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread
I’m not sure that’s true. I’m old enough to remember the great British bread strike of 1977 https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11045641.look-back-chaos-c...

One of the effects of the strike was that white sliced was in short supply and mangled people ended up with weird granary loaves etc as they were all that was left in the shelves. They liked them.

And from that day granary and seeded breads became a lot more popular over the bland spongy white sliced stuff.

I will say that whatever the failings of white sliced, I still prefer it to over-sweetened US bread.

Angostura··on Logo Programming Language
There was an excellent fully featured version of Logo for the ZxSpectrum that got me hooked.

Came for the graphics, stayed for the recursion and string handling

Angostura··on Copying login keychains between Macs fails on Secure Enclave Macs with Tahoe
Migration assistant can also use a TM backup, I’m pretty sure
Angostura··on Asahi Linux on M3
Ah, that’s interesting- I wasn’t aware and I can see why it would be annoying
Angostura··on iPhone Duo
I’m sticking with the 13 Mini as long as possible. iOS 25 public beta is probably faster than 26 on it.
Angostura··on Asahi Linux on M3
Can you give some examples of a goal you can’t accomplish?
Angostura··on Asahi Linux on M3
From what I can tell from the project team, Apple aren’t being hostile. Just not contributing resource
Angostura··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Mine is still attached to the network, but I’ve turned off all the ad/customisation &AI stuff. Seems to work fine, no ads etc. though usually I’m using it simply as a screen for the AppleTV.

I do have it isolated from other devices on my network, though.

Angostura··on IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2
Investors
Angostura··on IBM Bob
Never enough Frank Sidebottom on here
Angostura··on GPT-6 Astra
Chain Of Tokens
Angostura··on Holden's Lightning Flight
Tongue in cheek dry humour, nothing more. "That wasn't a very good idea was it old chap?"
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