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causality0··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
Ever notice how Windows 7 and 10 and 11 have basically the same features and benchmark the same on performance tests yet 10 and especially 11 completely shit the bed if you try to run them off a hard drive? Like they might all boot in twenty seconds from an SSD but booting from a hard disk might take W7 two minutes and W11 ten minutes to a stable desktop.
causality0··on O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
Could it have used data you inadvertently supplied it, like the location from which you uploaded the image?
causality0··on Firefox tab groups are here
I have tons of tabs open but tab grouping is an anti-feature. It takes way more time fucking around with tab groups, opening them, closing them, moving then around than I've ever saved by using them.
causality0··on As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
This is so strange. When I was enrolled in college my financial aid was sent directly to the college, I couldn't steal it even if I wanted to.
causality0··on AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation
Other hominids as well as visibly diseased humans.
causality0··on Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount
God what a fucking leap from the actual results of the study to that article title. The only thing the study indicated with even the barest hint of significance is that there is probably only a very limited amount of glycine being transported from the surface to the interior ocean. That's it.
causality0··on GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better
FxSound made a huge difference in changing my GPD Win Max 2's speakers from unusably bad to average.
causality0··on Show HN: I built a Yahoo Messenger-inspired web chat app – pure nostalgia
Now the real question, can I make five hundred accounts and use them with a booter program to crash the chat clients of preteens who get on audio and start screaming? Good times, good times.
causality0··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
Yeah the amount of "piffle work" that LLMs save me is astounding. Sure, I can look up fifty different numbers and copy them into excel. Or I can just tell an LLM "make a chart comparing measurements XYZ across devices ABC" and I'm looking at the info right there.
causality0··on Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
No, you can't. Try it. It will only let you read or write from one location at a time. If you're copying files out of one folder you can't even find out what files are in a different folder until you're done.
causality0··on Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
God I miss the days when I could plug a phone in and get a mass storage device. Imagine, I could copy a video off my phone and copy music onto it at the same time.
causality0··on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
I'm gonna be honest with you, the giant orange un-hideable brave logo might be the biggest reason I don't use Brave. It's like I can feel it burning into my phone's OLED.
causality0··on A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter
And they believe that if we can bring ourselves to dramatically reconsider what we think we know about it, we will end up with a much better concept of how to restabilize the balance between human and nonhuman life amid an ecological omnicrisis that threatens to permanently alter the trajectory of every living thing on Earth.

Do we really have to resort to total bullshit claims like this in order to make people care about this subject? Knowing what is and is not intelligent has fuck-all to do with not destroying the environment we as a species rely on for survival. The people and forces at work care not one whit. You could prove that chickens can write symphonies and it would make no difference.

causality0··on Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting
Affirmative action is discriminatory. It is literally discriminating between different people based on sex, race, religion, or gender identity. You can argue it's good discrimination, but it is by definition discrimination.
causality0··on Show HN: Air Traffic Control Radio and Chill Music for Focus
Yeah that one made my laptop absolutely chug. I want to listen to the page while reading a writeup of why such a simple graphical effect is so inefficiently rendered.
causality0··on A brief history of code signing at Mozilla
You're going to write a history of code signing at Mozilla and not even mention the time they fucked their users by negligently letting a certificate expire and forcibly disabling every extension on every Firefox instance worldwide?
causality0··on Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid
50 and 60Hz were about equal in transmission efficiency but in 1891 Westinghouse engineers decided 60Hz produced less perceptible flickering in light sources.
causality0··on 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says
It's an even better deal if it gets torn up after a month. You get a one month paid vacation and then go back to work.
causality0··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
People who express this sentiment seem to consider "the world" to be composed of North America and Europe. Why do you ignore the conservatives of Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia in your assessment of what "average" is?
causality0··on Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)
Why is there that much writing? I would imagine a game system reads billions of times as much data as it write.
causality0··on We're bringing Pebble back
A modern Pebble would be very interesting. An e-paper display smartwatch that runs whatever I want it to would be great, with the benefits of modern batteries and e-paper. Maybe use those advancements to build it cheaper so I could have a smartwatch that does the things I need (text message display, media control) which being cheap enough I don't have to be constantly scared of breaking it while doing manual labor.

If enough people are interested, we'll build it

I'd remove that line from the website. That's a line from a bad Kickstarter.

causality0··on Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car
That would be mine, yeah. Set up an old phone with one of those esims from a company that offers small amounts of data for free for watching an ad, then drop it in my glove box as a backup in case something happens to my real phone.
causality0··on Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
Has anyone gotten this working on windows? No matter where I put the files Powershell insists that kokoro-v0_19.onnx and voices.json aren't in the current folder.
causality0··on Right to root access
Right. Personally I think Android has gotten worse with every single update since 4.4
causality0··on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
It's strange. Tech journalism also has a bizarre fixation on them. There are tons of smart speaker companies out there but every time Sonos releases a product or really does anything they get tons of articles written about them.
causality0··on A Laptop Stand Made from a Single Sheet of Recycled Paper
made from a single sheet of recycled paper

Do they mean a single sheet of seriously thick card stock? Sheets of paper do not weigh 45 grams.

causality0··on WordPress Is in Trouble
Anybody know if Mullenweg has recently purchased property in Belize? I'm curious how far along the McAfee curve he's gotten.
causality0··on Right to root access
A PC can access those folders but even with root and "all files access" android file managers can't on recent versions of Android. Shizuku or apps like it allow file managers to access those folders by pretending to be a PC. Folders like the contents of android/data for each app. Without it you just see empty folders. It's ridiculous.
causality0··on Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
Nah. This was much later and in full 3D.
causality0··on Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
I remember once buying a graphics card that included one of these virtual environments where files were on shelves, etc. Wish I could remember its name.
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