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dscottboggs··on DOGE's Plan to Rewrite Social Security's Code in Months
I know that the AI that they're going to try to do this with is going to choke on the COBOL side of things a bit, but I have to wonder, what's the target language?
dscottboggs··on Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge
Yeah, 545 watts on an Arizona afternoon in that ugly spaceship-ass lookin thing is exactly what I picture when someone says "solar car". It'll extend your range by a tiny bit and look like shit in the process. I bet 545W doesn't even sustain it at highway speeds, let alone acceleration and deceleration that would be needed on a busy road etc (gee I wonder why they took "the road not travelled").

It's just not a good idea. Sure, put a panel on the roof of a car to power the accessories system and get a little bit back in your range, but if you go into it thinking you can drive a *real* car on the solar power that strikes the surface of the vehicle you're just gonna make yourself look silly.

dscottboggs··on The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy
Or maybe they think your post is not of value? Lol
dscottboggs··on The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy
Do you really need to ask?
dscottboggs··on Donut Lab's next-generation in-wheel motors
At first I was like "this is crazy, those are going to be crazy expensive, they'll never make it" and then I realized we're not the customers, at least not willingly

https://www.donutdefence.com/

dscottboggs··on Exploring Emergent "Self-Awareness" in Claude 3.5
lol
dscottboggs··on LastPass Android app has seven trackers
Meanwhile, Bitwarden: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.x8bit.b...
dscottboggs··on Paralysed man communicates first words in months using brain implant (2022)
Did you not read the article? It's a binary "yes" or "no" to spell things out. I'm sure there's a backspace, and if it was firing randomly it would just generate noise, not "beer me and blast Tool"
dscottboggs··on Banned from Bluesky Within 30s
There are currently 5782947381048583 genders and every time you complain we add another
dscottboggs··on Hertz's Tesla Fire Sale Continues as Depreciation Costs Mount
Amazing what a difference uBlock origin has, I didn't notice at all.
dscottboggs··on Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously
The UI for selecting media only shows covers until you have your cursor over some specific media, which can leave you guessing if your album art isn't super descriptive.

Sync play is TERRIBLE with android TV. We tried watching a show over sync play on the LAN in two different rooms and it just constantly lost sync, commands didn't go through, etc. It was so bad we only tried it once.

Controlling the Android TV app from Jellyfin Mobile or web is awkward at best, basically unusable.

dscottboggs··on U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
I'm six times vaccinated and still can't work full time 11 months out from catching covid so good luck with that idea. And I know people who are doing worse than I am. "Vaccination is like having an airbag. Avoiding contact is like keeping your hands on the wheel."
dscottboggs··on US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year
And fossil fuel usage still did not go down.
dscottboggs··on Arch is a gateway drug to NixOS
Yeah. As someone trying to find the time to migrate back to Arch from NixOS... I understand how Arch drives you to want to make things bespoke and just so and reproduceable, but NixOS adds a ton of complexity and problems without ever really getting there.
dscottboggs··on U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
something that caused an increase in risk of heart attack and stroke?? I dunno what that would be
dscottboggs··on U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
Gee, I wonder what changed between '19 and '21
dscottboggs··on Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously
> Any Jellyfin users here that can vouch for it?

I've been using it since the fork from Emby and it works well for what I use it for.

That said, they're right IMO to redirect funds to the clients. The Android TV app is in a really rough state. The regular Android and Web interfaces work great, Roku as far as I recall works well...but the Android TV one is really not good.

dscottboggs··on Today's Cheap AI Services Won't Last
Do you have some numbers to back that up or just vibes?
dscottboggs··on Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
Bridges do move some normally, yes. It may depend on the type of bridge though? Certainly suspension bridges do.
dscottboggs··on The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men
What the actual fuck
dscottboggs··on Disabled people tried to play by the rules. It cost them their federal benefits
The asset limit hasn't been updated in 50 years. It would be almost 10k if it kept up with inflation
dscottboggs··on The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia's water
Isn't Antarctica melting already? We need to slow down damn it.
dscottboggs··on Increased productivity with a self hosted CRM
Link is down, 504
dscottboggs··on Nix: The Breaking Point
Probably Atom
dscottboggs··on Nix: The Breaking Point
It's not just about privacy, it's about building your project as dependent on an organization that does harm. It aligns you with them and makes you want them to succeed so that you can sustain your project, when without that dependency you may have otherwise wished them ill.
dscottboggs··on U.S. Code § 1
What about it?
dscottboggs··on Landfills Leak More Planet-Baking Methane Than We Thought
Lol the "nitrogen cycle" is dead at most "modern" farms. They kill all the microbes that perform the nitrogen fixing and then add it back in manually.
dscottboggs··on Landfills Leak More Planet-Baking Methane Than We Thought
I feel like this indicates that at least moderately-sized composting systems should also have carbon- and methane-capture systems
dscottboggs··on Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification
That seems like something unlikely to do well at being automated, and not that at least current-gen ai is capable of.

Does it...work?