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cuvinny··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
While Axon's system should be under the microscope too I don't think they have the nation wide cloud that Flock is doing and requires specific agreements to share data. Maybe that is getting abused to form a national database but I imagine it was designed so say a county sheriff department and local city PDs could share resources. I don't think most people are that concerned about things like that (though they should be), it is the nation wide surveillance that creeps people out. That and the stalking of course and both systems can be used for that.
cuvinny··on The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up
Last time I got a costco hot dog the bun didn't look like that. Probably what happened is they ran out of hot dog buns and someone just grabbed some off the self and they weren't big enough.
cuvinny··on We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps
They gave grok 2nd try on that one. Now one shotting a webpage is a dumb metric but if that is what you are testing it did the worse.
cuvinny··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
Yea, they built a new library near me a couple years ago and have a full makers space in a separate large room. I guess "check out" is the wrong term as you can't take the machines home. You just go there and use them or have the trained librarian operate the machine.
cuvinny··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
My library has something similar. Sewing and embroidering machines, 3D printers and even a CNC machine. Most are free to use as long as you bring the material, the only one that I can remember having a cost is the laser cutter but even then it was under 10 bucks an hour. They have a bunch of other things like being able to check out a pass the the state parks and some museum passes.

This is the Charleston County library system.

cuvinny··on Running local models is good now
LM Studio has a lot less tuning options when you launch it. Also it is precompiled so you don't have the latest (and sometimes buggy) releases so you may have to wait a few days to try out a MTP or a new model. LM Studio is easier though.
cuvinny··on Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
Could be because they sale crate engines.
cuvinny··on BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time
Looks like they already have been testing it in the Spartanburg, SC, USA plant (just outside of Greenville SC [also I think the largest BMW factory in the world making most of their SUVs]). Still I don't get why a humanoid robot would be a thing for car making, a robot arm seems like it'd almost always be more efficient.
cuvinny··on Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
I had to enable it in both Firefox (about:config search webgpu) and in Chrome (chrome://flags and enable Unsafe WebGPU Support) on my linux machine.
cuvinny··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
I'm curious, what makes it poorly made if it is working? I don't know anything about it or the game or the state of cheating in the game.
cuvinny··on The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
When I worked in the VOD industry we never almost never did a precheck of the files. The content provider (Lionsgate in this case) would upload the files that would then get ingested by the CMS system for normalization and transcoding. The most check the distributor did was add metadata marks for ad breaks and random checks for transcode quality.

I set up custom ingest workflows many cable companies around the world and they all worked the same. You just had to trust that the providers sent you good copies and get them to fix their shit if it was wrong. Most of the time it was bad metadata (episode description, ect).

cuvinny··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
As long as your prescription isn't to extreme the VITURE Pro XR exists and is similar. I tried it and it worked surprisingly well but returned it because the headtracking didn't work on Linux and I didn't like the static view.
cuvinny··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
I tried this with the VITURE Pro XR (has adjustable lens so if you are nearsighted and wear glasses they work) but with a linux laptop. I couldn't stand the static image (focusing on the top and bottom of the screen was painful) and wanted headtracking which only worked on Windows or the phone. There was a project I found of someone adding support for it but it was pretty jank at the time.

Anyways, ended up returning it but kind of wish I thought of just using the phone. Might finally get me to learn NeoVIM

cuvinny··on Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
Interesting, always wanted to try AR for office work because I travel a lot but the glasses part has always been a killer. Do they work with Linux at all?
cuvinny··on The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
My friends dad had one of those. Incredible picture on that recent tvs can reach.
cuvinny··on Playstation is cutting off X sharing options
It's a popular way for fighting game tech to be shared in the fgc
cuvinny··on Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017)
I went to a tech/engineering magnet school in the early 2000s and the one CS class that was offered had a teacher that had never programmed. We never even got to loops by the end of the semester.
cuvinny··on Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod
Yep, I read about this and did the mod on a pair of 555s back in the late aughts. I didn't notice a difference.