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oaththrowaway··on Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary
I interviewed with them maybe 8 years ago and it seemed like a pretty typical interview process. Has that changed in the years since?
oaththrowaway··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
I had to yell at Red Cross once. I was getting calls maybe 2-3x a week to go donate blood in areas almost 200 miles away. It was obscene. The caller never could seem to understand why I wouldn't rush down there.
oaththrowaway··on All possible plots by major authors (2020)
Also there needs to be a chapter where children run a train on a girl in the sewers
oaththrowaway··on OpenAI Is a Bad Business
sama is basically trying to say that OpenAI is the only one who can be trusted to build LLMs. How is that not regulatory capture?
oaththrowaway··on Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
To make it look like it is has actual engagement
oaththrowaway··on SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS
> A jet liner is safer than the ISS.

Maybe not if the jet is a Boeing though?

oaththrowaway··on It's time to bring back the iPod
Sadly I don't either. Just saw it on the Jellyfin forum a while back.
oaththrowaway··on It's time to bring back the iPod
Have your cake and eat it too

https://github.com/m0ngr31/jellypod

oaththrowaway··on Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today
Kind of part of the plot to "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
oaththrowaway··on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
At one time Tumblr had all the assets from each blog in one giant S3 bucket. Wonder what that migration looks like for this or if they'll just keep them there.
oaththrowaway··on Dinosaur footprints on either side of the Atlantic are matching sets
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352656
oaththrowaway··on Thoughts on the Durov Arrest
> Note that Durov/Telegram could have been easily protected against this by using E2E encryption and therefore not becoming the owner of the data on their servers.

How'd that work for Lavabit?

oaththrowaway··on How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
I've moved from Lineage+MicroG to /e/OS. Overall it's fine. I don't feel like I'm missing anything from a full Google experience
oaththrowaway··on How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)
Do different fonts effect you or are they universal enough to not give you any problems?
oaththrowaway··on LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
How is that ancient?
oaththrowaway··on LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
What are you using P100s or something?
oaththrowaway··on GMC made a motorhome that pumped sewage through its exhaust on purpose
My RV doesn't have separate tanks or a chemical toilet.
oaththrowaway··on TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
I'd love to replace my phone with something like this. If only I could get Slack and Telegram to run natively without requiring a linked phone
oaththrowaway··on Tech, Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way
It was lost as soon as AOL merged with Yahoo. The leadership of the entire "Oath" suite of companies was a joke
oaththrowaway··on Speed limiters now mandatory in all new EU cars
Even my 2013 has OnStar. I gotta figure out how to kill that as well
oaththrowaway··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
Typically beer league players wear full face cages so facial recognition is harder to do
oaththrowaway··on Ollama v0.1.45
Ollama is easier to get working on my server with a container, simple as that
oaththrowaway··on Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
What indie game dev shut down because of piracy?
oaththrowaway··on Omakub – Opinionated Ubuntu Setup
I did something like this UBlue instead. But now I have a Fedora Silverblue "spin" that's always up to date and setup exactly as I want.
oaththrowaway··on How big a deal was the Industrial Revolution? (2017)
The industrial revolution and it's consequences...
oaththrowaway··on The Rabbit R1 Walked So That Cake Could Run.
Can you send and receive messages on Slack and Telegram without a phone?
oaththrowaway··on Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
I never claimed he did? I was just responding to your incorrect assumption
oaththrowaway··on Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
> Sure, there’s some piracy - but even at the end of the day, pirates would watch a smartphone recording to save a buck.

I spend a lot of money on hard drives and Usenet to have quality rips. It's a service problem, not about the money

oaththrowaway··on Tracking Illicit Brazilian Beef from the Amazon to Your Burger
It's where you buy half of a cow
oaththrowaway··on Blue-Recorder, a Simple Screen Recorder Written in Rust
Probably for Xorg maybe? It doesn't work for me in Wayland
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