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causality0··on Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation
I stopped using Dropbox when they started limiting free accounts to three devices and I suddenly got a lot of confused and irritated messages from all the people I'd evangelized into using Dropbox.
causality0··on The Storm Hits the Art Market
There are people who think the art world isn't 10% fools and 90% money laundering?
causality0··on Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25
Did anybody not see this coming the day Google fucked over all their Revolv customers in order to force them to buy into the Nest ecosystem?
causality0··on Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility
I don't think it's a coincidence that both Switch 1 and Switch 2's usb-c compliance is a shambling wreck. It's pretty clear to me it's a good way to sow doubt and disability in the industry of third-party docks while maintaining perfect plausible deniability.
causality0··on Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs
An adult contracts with the ISP. The ISP provides unfiltered internet access to the adult. It is the adult who then chooses to provide access to adult, social, or otherwise-restricted websites to children. I don't see how this isn't obvious to any court.
causality0··on Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux
I always get like three weeks into using Linux and then find out some obscure functionality is missing in a super annoying way. "Oh sorry, you can't use that model of touchscreen and a Bluetooth mouse at the same time"
causality0··on From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
I've definitely seen some unexpected behavior from gpt5. For example, it will tell me my query is banned and then give me a full answer anyway.
causality0··on The contrarian physics podcast subculture
I stopped being willing to consume any of her content after she made that video about "Academia is terrible and everyone I worked with were poopyheads and that's why I have to make these videos even though I hate it and all my viewers are stupid losers".
causality0··on "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
From logical standpoint it seems pretty obvious that the person providing children access to porn is their parents when they give them an unfiltered internet connection, not the porn websites. God forbid we actually require parents to, you know, parent.
causality0··on GPT-5
Mental-modeling is one of the huge gaps in AI performance right now in my opinion. I could describe in detail a very strange object or situation to a human being with a pen and paper and then ask them questions about it and expect answers that meet all my described constraints. AI just isn't good for that yet.
causality0··on ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
I can't believe there's more of a market for this thing than there is for laptops with actual mouse buttons below the touchpad.
causality0··on Sign in with Google in Chrome
"Sign in with Google" has become the new un-blockable popup for me. I fucking hate it.
causality0··on Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8
My S24 Ultra is unlocked and rooted and I use DeX every day.
causality0··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
Some people report personality changes, some as radical as "I found I didn't love my husband anymore."
causality0··on The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
I love these types of videos. The ones for Jurassic Park and Jaws are also good. The problem with this type of content is that nobody has the time or money to do more than a couple of these videos so the body of work is spread over hundreds of different creators, making it next to impossible to find and watch a significant fraction of what's out there.
causality0··on Chatterbox TTS
It would be nice if there was some type of front-end integration that would present the user with a list of heteronyms found in the text and ask for clarification for each one. As well as having lists of common phrases to compare them against. There's really no excuse for an LLM to mispronounced "live feed" or "live here".
causality0··on Infinite Grid of Resistors
My math isn't strong enough to follow the whole article, but my intuition as someone who works in electronics is that when a quantized system interacts with an infinity, the infinity is restricted based on the magnitude of the quantized factor. Electric charge is quantized. Less than one electron cannot pass through a node, therefore an infinite grid of resistors is effectively a finite grid of resistors whose size changes based on how much charge is dumped into the system.
causality0··on Chatterbox TTS
Anyone know how this compares to Kokoro? I've found Kokoro very useful for generating audiobook but it almost always pronounces words with paired vowels incorrectly. Daisy becomes die-zee, leave becomes lay-ve, etc.
causality0··on Microsoft is removing saved passwords and auto-fill from Authenticator
I thought Authenticator would be a more stable place to store and manage my passwords than Chrome. Guess I was wrong. I have hundreds of stored accounts and this is going to be a huge pain to migrate.
causality0··on Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app
Seems like you know a lot on the subject, so I'll ask you about another missing obvious feature: why's there never been an option to auto-expand the task bar with the number of open windows? It seems unquestionable that if you have three windows open you need a single-row task bar and if you have twelve windows open you need a two-row task bar yet if you want one you have to manually unlock it and then manually expand it.
causality0··on Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app
There are a lot of mind-bogglingy obvious features Windows lacks. For example, there should be a simple menu that controls what entries show up on the right click menu and in what order.
causality0··on Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars
One of the inevitable consequences of the legal conceit that images belong to the person who owns the camera, not the person who owns the face.
causality0··on GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down
Right, so if the timecode in the signal doesn't match the receiving device's internal clock it should know the signal is invalid shouldn't it?
causality0··on GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down
Wouldn't that require them to match the timestamp somehow?
causality0··on Internet Artifacts
I found having to keep backtracking because one swipe advanced two or three screens to be very annoying.
causality0··on Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode
Reasonably fluid, but not when it comes to heavy web pages with a lot of 3D. I have an S24U I use in DeX for most of my day but when I do have to switch to my ten inch 6800u laptop it absolutely demolishes the DeX experience. There's still a fractional second of lag that Samsung hasn't done away with yet.
causality0··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
Buddy, Google didn't create YouTube. They bought it and ruined it.
causality0··on Design for 3D-Printing
Huh? Claude isn't open-source and neither is Bambu.
causality0··on Design for 3D-Printing
If you can assemble Legos you can design in Tinkercad. You don't need to mess around trying to get LLMs to write scad files, though the results can be hilarious.
causality0··on Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes
Very pretty. Is it still impossible to change the order of the boot list from inside grub?
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