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kanemcgrath

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kanemcgrath··on Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
I always wondered if anybody has calculated how much of our global heating could be attributed, if any at all, to every electronic device, server, and engine outputting heat as a byproduct.
kanemcgrath··on 4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign
I made a list of the extension names here https://pastebin.com/eXb9GRjK

its mostly Homepage Wallpapers

kanemcgrath··on Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]
I have been using copyparty since the last hn thread on it months ago. It is a masterpiece of "Just Works" Technology.
kanemcgrath··on CDC File Transfer
for self-hosted game streaming you can use moonlight + sunshine, they work really well in my experience.
kanemcgrath··on The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End
Not sure if its still an issue, but companies were buying popular web extensions, then auto updating malware/spyware into them. I haven't heard much about this in a while, but I think chrome still forces auto updates for extensions, so I would expect this to be the biggest vector for scraping walled data now.
kanemcgrath··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
Subtitle edit is great, and their subtitle library libse was exactly what I needed for a project I did.
kanemcgrath··on DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming
You could also fire smaller lower power beams from multiple sources that converge on the receiver, like a gamma knife. 9 points around a large dish could fire beams close together, but only at the intersection would it be at full power.
kanemcgrath··on Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?
For people who want to learn programming, I think language models are a very powerful teaching tool. I have learned more programming than ever before because I have been able to ask questions, and get answers directly relevant to what I’m working on. Maybe it depends how you like to learn things, or maybe works better because I already know a base amount of programming knowledge, but I tell people who want to learn programming to ask chat gpt to teach them through a simple project.
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