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  • The hell am I reading?
  • Thank you!! What a cool animation

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  • The risks of downloading music at home with wifi
  • Don't know if this will help assuage your fears: https://www.techradar.com/news/mullvads-no-log-policy-proven-after-police-raid

    I've used Mullvad for years, and from what I know, they store almost nothing -- only your randomly generated account number. If you are paying using an anonymous method that's even less to go on.

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    Fun!

    I think I might just like using the colored square emojis...

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    I don't really do these... that was tough for me

  • What are your favorite open-source games?
  • Endless Sky for me

  • Looking for some Android apps
  • Neovim Is a highly customizable, modal text editor program. Probably no what you're looking for as far as terninal emulators go, but I use it daily as a near-IDE on desktop. Look into LazyVim for an easy way to get started.

    I can second KDE connect--use it between my phone and Manjaro. Can't speak to the other applications because I don't have a use-case for many of their functions on a smart phone myself.

  • TGIM
  • Also looking forward to this week here. Work from home is awesome! I just spent a month and a half on a cross-country (USA) road trip while working the whole time. I'm fortunate for the opportunity to do so--and to visit and crash with friends and family along the way--but I am glad to be home.

    My wife and I towed a 5' x 8' U-haul trailer the 2,000+ miles back home from FL to CO, moving our friend's stuff in so he can live with us for a while (he drove back with us in his own car). A really awesome trip in a lot of respects, but stressful to take meetings and try to program on the go. Learned my lesson: two weeks max for a trip like that, or take the PTO.

  • Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork lie exposed!
  • Am I one of the few who just doesn't use AI at all? I don't have to generate tons of code for work at the moment and brand new projects that I've been given are small--meaning I wouldn't necessarily use it to generate starter boilerplate. I have coworkers that love copilot or spend much longer prompting ChatGPT than they would if they wrote code themselves. A majority of my time is spent modelling the problem, gathering rejuirements, researching others' solutions online (likely this step could be better AI-assisted?), not actually implementing a solution in code.

    Anyway, I'm not super anti-AI in software development, and I see where it could be useful. Maybe it just isn't for me yet. The current hype around it as well as the attitude of big-tech exceptionalism ("AI can salve all our problems") feels a bit like a bubble, at least regarding the current generation of LLMs and ML

  • jroposal
  • I thought the same and just rolled with it. What was the whole jean thing anyway?

  • How do you like to cheer yourself up when you're sad?
  • My wife got me onto a comedy podcast called Bananas on the This is Exactly Right network--it's usually really funny. We both also like Dungeons & Daddies which is a Dungeons and Dragons improv comedy type podcast. Just lay in bed and laugh

  • former smokers, do you ever have random moments months or years later where you just get textbook "cravings" symptoms?
  • Feel exactly this... Sometimes you just still want one randomly. But 99.999% of the time do not think about it at all anymore

  • Reverse Engineering & De-clouding a smart device
    jmswrnr.com Hacking a Smart Home Device

    How I reverse engineered an ESP32-based smart home device to gain remote control access and integrate it with Home Assistant.

    Hacking a Smart Home Device

    This was a fascinating and informative read. I hope the author makes progress on "creating an open-source project to de-cloud and debug smart home products"; I would love to contribute to something like that!

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    No joke: Feds are banning humorous electronic messages on highways
  • *sigh can't have any fun in the DOT I guess

  • In what ways has your use of technology/internet changed in 2023?
    • I turned my old desktop into a home server, which let me cancel some streaming services.. and I set up an rpi4 as a kodi server.
    • Signed up for Firefox Relay (had a holiday sale) to have email masks and a proxy phone number, which should help with spam & marketing crap.
    • Stopped using Reddit in favor of lemmy (which I hope to contribute to this year)
    • Gonna have to find a replacement for mint, since it's dying this month
  • Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam
  • Thank you for this chuckle hehe

  • Could someone help me understand how modules work in Rust?
  • What do you mean by "doesn't read from the same directory"? Is part of your application's function to read in data from files in your project's directory tree?

    Without seeing the directory structure of your project, or some more actual code samples its hard to understand how to help πŸ˜…

  • First time correlating a crash to a CME (probably Bit-Flip/SEU)
  • That is amazing! Now, I need to see about using weather satellites to explain the bugs in my code at work...

  • "On the Point" - Andrea Kowch

    48" x 36" - Acrylic on canvas

    First saw Andrea Kowch's work at a portraiture exhibition at the MOCA in Jacksonville, FL years ago. You can see more of her work on her blog

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