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Machado117

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Machado117··on Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots
> Look at these fucking idiots. (…) They’re probably just really angry at mom and dad and don’t have the emotional skills to resolve their attachment issues or childhood baggage.

And in between he presents his own model where we don’t need to worry about climate change

Machado117··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Just today running latest developers beta, I asked Siri to turn on the coffee machine and it started playing some song instead. I found out later that I had named the switch coffee machine plug. Similar thing happens when I ask Siri to play my favorite songs and it starts to play a song named favorite from my library
Machado117··on iPhone Duo
Can this woman play Rachmaninoff?
Machado117··on iPhone Duo
It’s $2250+tax for europoors
Machado117··on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
Don’t worry, either way, in two years everyone will just ask chatgpt to write the book they want to read.
Machado117··on Foreigners can now move to the US if they buy a Trump Gold Card
What kind of font is that? Serif Comic sans?
Machado117··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
Cheaper voltmeters will lie on RMS values when not reading a pure sine wave
Machado117··on DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'
only 50% of the time
Machado117··on I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
If you get an Apple Tv also get the Infuse app. It is able to play anything that is in your home network - smb, plex, jellyfin. I also recommend running iSponsorBlockTV if you use the YouTube app, it auto mutes and auto skips ads
Machado117··on U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
I'm sure that by now someone on the Trump administration has also realized this and has some plan to keep the politicians from changing.
Machado117··on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
Do LLMs have any perception that Harry Potter is fiction or is it possible that they will give some magical advice based on fiction works that they have been trained with?

edit: never mind, I’ll just ask ChatGPT

Machado117··on Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform
I think it generates the transcript automatically for new recordings but you can also edit a old one and then generate the transcript from there
Machado117··on Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform
The other day I was using the voice memos app on iOS 18 and was surprised to find that it also supports editing the recording by transcript
Machado117··on Plex Accounts Getting Disabled
Use Infuse instead of the Jellyfin client that way you avoid having to transcode media. I'm running jellyfin on a raspberry pi and I have no problems whatsoever.
Machado117··on Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
On iPhone, the edits to pictures and videos are just metadata and the original file is kept. I just tested recording a video, cutting it in half and downloading the file from iCloud. The cut file it's smaller than the iCloud reported size however if I choose to download the unmodified original the size matches the iCloud reported size.
Machado117··on Standard Ebooks
What’s the problem with the kindle? I use an old paperwhite and I have no issues reading epubs in it that I send by email
Machado117··on Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders
What happened to native Americans is not comparable to modern day European immigration.
Machado117··on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
Same thing happened in my country. Fortunately someone decided to create a cooperative and now I can avoid contributing to the profit margin of some private company
Machado117··on Ask HN: Why are there no 5G USB-C dongles for laptops?
There’s one from ZTE. It’s a little pricey but can be ordered from Amazon. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07VKNKKW4/
Machado117··on Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways
* No loading screen when you don’t accept all cookies
Machado117··on Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways
Or RGPD as in Règlement général sur la protection des données
Machado117··on Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros
Communism, probably.
Machado117··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
Adults were throwing their life savings at it
Machado117··on Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box
Yep, I’m using a 500w psu to power my gaming pc with a rtx 3060 ti and a 12700k cpu
Machado117··on Amazon putting a three-day pause on reviews for Rings of Power
That’s basically every review aggregator ever.
Machado117··on Playstation store will remove customer’s purchased movies
The Pirate Bay already unironically solved this decades ago
Machado117··on ‘Anti-hunger’ molecule forms after exercise, scientists discover
Anecdata: I used to get food cravings after going for a run until I started to take a bottle of water with me.
Machado117··on 'Buy now, pay later' is sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt
Assuming you have the money why is using these services a bad financial decision? Isn’t a good idea to postpone payments in an inflationary economy when there’s no interest?
Machado117··on Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future
Why is a modern news publication making such remark when we vilify the same thing when directed at any other group of people?
Machado117··on Apple iOS 15 Privacy: Inspecting App Activity Data
You can already do that by offloading the app but you will need to download it again the next time you open the app.
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