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  1. Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 Recall AI hardware requirements in ~tech

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    This sounds kind of cool on paper but we'll see how it works in practice. There's are massive privacy concerns as it doesn't obfuscate sensitive information. It's apparently done all on-device but...

    This sounds kind of cool on paper but we'll see how it works in practice. There's are massive privacy concerns as it doesn't obfuscate sensitive information. It's apparently done all on-device but I'm not sure how accurate that is.

    20 votes

  2. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    Thank you! I actually spent some money on a 2-3 hour manual driving lesson a few months ago so I didn't go into the car with 0 experience. Outside of that, I've been watching the YouTube channel...

    Thank you! I actually spent some money on a 2-3 hour manual driving lesson a few months ago so I didn't go into the car with 0 experience. Outside of that, I've been watching the YouTube channel "Conquer Driving" and then picking things up as I go.

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  3. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    After looking for a car for about 8 months, I finally bought one. I got a 2018 BMW M2! I've been on the hunt for a sporty manual car under ~$45k USD and there are just a million options new and...

    After looking for a car for about 8 months, I finally bought one. I got a 2018 BMW M2! I've been on the hunt for a sporty manual car under ~$45k USD and there are just a million options new and used on the market so I took my time going through them all and ended up with the M2. This is also my first manual car so I've been slowly learning that too. Been trying to drive it in traffic and not cause any jams and so far, it's been going great. I've only stalled twice, which is a lot less than I was expecting myself to stall. I'm still a bit clunky on my shifts, especially the 1->2 shift but I expect myself to get better in the coming weeks.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Bike brands start to adopt C-V2X to warn cyclists about cars in ~transport

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    New technology is cool and all but I don't think this will really solve anything. What would really help is having better protections around bike infrastructure and re-work the road network to...

    New technology is cool and all but I don't think this will really solve anything. What would really help is having better protections around bike infrastructure and re-work the road network to slow people down. No amount of high-visibility jackets, flashing lights, sensors, and more is going to help in my opinion. It's just going to increase costs.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Again just listening to K-Pop and rap, nothing out of the ordinary for me haha. This week I've been listening to a lot of k-pop artists I haven't listened to much previously. These include IVE,...

    Again just listening to K-Pop and rap, nothing out of the ordinary for me haha. This week I've been listening to a lot of k-pop artists I haven't listened to much previously. These include IVE, Loossemble and Loona, and Viviz. On the rap side of things, I've just been half-assedly following the Kendrick-Drake feud and have been listening to Kendrick's disses. I'm a long time Kendrick fan so I'm a biased against Drake here but they've both put out good songs (save for Drake's latest song, that is just sad).

    Anyways, highlights this week are:

    • HEYA by IVE
    • Baddie by IVE (love the trap beat and electric bass rhythm here)
    • Sensitive by Loossemble
    • 숙녀-淑女 (Lady) by Yubin (love the 80s urban/city pop thing its got)
    • Euphoria by Kendrick Lamar
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  6. Comment on Recipes for chicken thighs in ~food

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    Something I'd cook with chicken thighs back in college were baked chicken thighs with onions and bell peppers. You'd need: 4-6 chicken thighs 3 bell peppers 1 large onion Cut everything into...

    Something I'd cook with chicken thighs back in college were baked chicken thighs with onions and bell peppers.

    You'd need:

    • 4-6 chicken thighs
    • 3 bell peppers
    • 1 large onion

    Cut everything into strips, season, cover with oil, bake at 375 for 20 minutes or so.

    The main variable here is what you'd season the chicken with. For a fajita type thing I'd season the chicken with salt, pepper, chili power, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, cayenne pepper. For a tandoori chicken type thing, I'd buy a box of tandoori chicken masala and mix the masala with the yogurt before slathering it on the chicken.

    Sorry I don't have any amounts for the seasoning mixes as I'd just mix them together by eye.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    Relatively boring week but with some positive highlights. My direct manager is back from paternity leave and has been helping me get back on track for a promotion hopefully by the end of this...

    Relatively boring week but with some positive highlights. My direct manager is back from paternity leave and has been helping me get back on track for a promotion hopefully by the end of this year. With leadership wanting us to improve developer productivity, I've taken on more tickets than I normally do but I'm confident I should be able to get them done.

    I started rewatching the show Atlanta and forgot how much I liked it. I'd previously watched this show last year (around this time too I think, can't remember) and quickly got through all four seasons. I really love the "short story" type of story-tellling instead of the more traditional multi-episode story arcs most TV shows have. I also queued up the recent hit K-Drama Queen of Tears to watch but I haven't gotten to it yet.

    I'm excited for this weekend. I'm watching the movie Civil War with some old friends later today. Tomorrow, I'll be going to an autocross event, my first one! Only trouble is, the event is 100 miles away and check-in starts at 7am so I hope I can wake up in time. Anyways, I'm excited and nervous at the same time. My friends who I'm going with all have actual sports cars (BMW M2 Comp, Lotus Evora, Porsche Cayman). Meanwhile, I'm going in a 4000lb diesel sedan haha. I just hope I'm not the slowest person at the event as that'd be a big hit to my ego.

    Hopefully after that, I'll be able to relax and rest properly. With weird weather we're having in the Bay Area, my pollen and dust allergies have been on turbo mode and it's made sleeping a bit difficult. Think I've averaged around 3-4 hours of sleep per night from my usual 7-8 hours. Hoping to just pass out and recover properly tomorrow night.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along in ~tech

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    Not too surprised by this given how much work it takes to build a whole operating system from scratch. The article also mentions that the Humane Ai Pin also runs a customized version of AOSP....

    Not too surprised by this given how much work it takes to build a whole operating system from scratch. The article also mentions that the Humane Ai Pin also runs a customized version of AOSP. There are YouTube videos of the R1 running random APKs people sideloaded too.

    The more I learn about the Rabbit R1, the more disappointed I get sadly. It doesn't really seem like AI at all. Found a thread on X/Twitter (linked below) where someone digs into the APK following the response from the CEO that bootleg APKs won't work. In that thread, the user mentions that the reason bootleg APKs didn't work anymore is because Rabbit hastily added a check for the app version and OS version. They were previously not checking anything about the app or its runtime before connecting to their servers. The "LAM" is apparently just a hardcoded list of pre-made apps toggled by their backend servers. The "learn mode" is basically like browser automation tools in which you give it a series of steps to take and it'll recreate them faithfully. Overall, the R1 seems a bit hastily put together.

    https://x.com/uwukko/status/1785626783900930447

    11 votes

  9. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    Yeah the stuff at work sucks but unfortunately it's becoming more and more common in the tech industry so I can't really run away from it. Your media server sounds exactly like what I had...

    Yeah the stuff at work sucks but unfortunately it's becoming more and more common in the tech industry so I can't really run away from it.

    Your media server sounds exactly like what I had previously set up, though I was using an ancient WD Blue drive. I've had the dedicated setup for almost a week and it's been great. I'm using an HP small form factor PC just tucked away next to our router so it's easy to forget that it's there. Glad I've gotten rid of basically all my subscriptions, though it'd still take a few years for the cost of the subscription to match the cost of my server haha.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    I've had a pretty eh week looking back at it. I'll leave my rant for a different thread but essentially my company started tracking "developer productivity" numbers a few months ago. The results...

    I've had a pretty eh week looking back at it. I'll leave my rant for a different thread but essentially my company started tracking "developer productivity" numbers a few months ago. The results are in and the team/org I'm in has some low productivity by their standards. Management and leadership are effectively cracking their whips to get to start working faster which is hurting team morale a bit. Looking at the pure figures, I'm relatively low on developer productivity as a junior engineer. However, that's a bit out of my control as the tickets I get are poorly defined and often require me to bother various other people to even understand wtf they want me to do. I've been picking up some smaller tickets just to inflate my numbers a bit but I'm pretty unmotivated :(

    On a much much brighter note, I've been enjoying myself outside of work, finally making progress on my little media server project. Bought the hardware finally and got the software up and running. I did run into two issues however. A minor one was that there was no included hard drive mounting hardware in the PC I bought. I had to buy some special mounting screws off of ebay to properly mount my hard drives in the chassis. The other problem I ran into was that I may have killed our Google router? Not entirely sure but when I first connected everything and had qbittorrent download something, it killed the internet connection on all my other devices. Quick research told me to set limits on qbittorrent but that didn't seem to help. Even completely stopping qbittorrent didn't seem to help. Our ISP requires us to basically chain 3rd party routers off the ISP included one and then just turn off the radios on the ISP router so I simply turned off the Google router and turned on the radios on our ISP router and things seem to be working fine now. I also turned off some discovery settings so that could've also helped, not sure though. Hopefully over the weekend, I can dig a little deeper and reconnect our Google router because it was so convenient being able to control your router through a phone app.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Help me ditch Chrome's password manager! in ~tech

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    I've been using Bitwarden now for a few years and I highly recommend it, I've never had an issue with it. Works great on pretty much all major platforms like Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS....

    I've been using Bitwarden now for a few years and I highly recommend it, I've never had an issue with it. Works great on pretty much all major platforms like Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS. It does unfortunately add an extra click or two when saving passwords or auto-filling but I quickly got used to it. I think overhead can be minimal too as you only really need the browser extension for your computer and the mobile app on your phone. On Mac (and probably Windows and Linux), you can connect the extension to the Bitwarden program and use your computers fingerprint or face scanner to authenticate the auto-fill.

    Regarding the extra clicks for the auto-fill, the way I use it, you just right click on a text field, click the Bitwarden option, and then the "Autofil details" option and then, if there's only one saved password for a site, it'll fill things in. If there's multiple, you can then choose that from the menu I mentioned earlier. The extra clicks from saving are basically just a confirmation message. If you have the extension running in your browser, when you log into a website with new credentials, the extension will ask if you want to save the new credentials.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I 100% feel your pain w.r.t documentation in that it either geared towards people who don't care about the details or people who care about every single detail. I guess I shouldn't be too...

    I 100% feel your pain w.r.t documentation in that it either geared towards people who don't care about the details or people who care about every single detail. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised since much of the homelab hobby is tinkering and learning things yourself but I'd still appreciate some hand-holding as I explore things haha.

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Oh that's great! I don't know how I managed to miss that fact, think my eyes may have just skipped past it.

    Oh that's great! I don't know how I managed to miss that fact, think my eyes may have just skipped past it.

  14. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Yeah from my reading, YAMS basically walks you through setting everything up and connecting it together, though as far as I understand, it's not containerized. It'd be nice to have everything...

    Yeah from my reading, YAMS basically walks you through setting everything up and connecting it together, though as far as I understand, it's not containerized. It'd be nice to have everything containerized through Docker just to make it easily reproducible if I want to change my hardware.

    I read a bit about having everything networked through Docker but my previous failed attempts at getting Jellyfin running through Docker have discouraged me a bit from using it haha. I'd definitely like to explore it more in the near future.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I've been wanting to have a dedicated, low power media server in my home for a while now and I've just given myself the push to start. For the last year or so, I've been running Jellyfin on my...

    I've been wanting to have a dedicated, low power media server in my home for a while now and I've just given myself the push to start. For the last year or so, I've been running Jellyfin on my main PC to act as a media server. I've got all my TV shows and movies on one 10 year old hard drive and no backups or redundancy of that data. I've been anxious about that drive dying and looked into building something out but was too busy with my job to do the research. Finally made the time to do the research and I'm just about to buy the hardware now. Looking at purchasing a HP Elitedesk 800 SFF PC and then 2x4TB WD Red Plus drives for storage. The HP already has a 256GB SSD internally so I'll be using that as the boot drive and hope to run the WD drives in a RAID config. Now, just need to figure out if I want to use something like YAMS to easily configure everything or manually configure and learn as I go.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Creating an official politics group? in ~tildes

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    The tag filtering system is one of the underrated features on Tildes. People in my experience have been super diligent about tagging posts properly so it's always easy to filter out things you...

    The tag filtering system is one of the underrated features on Tildes. People in my experience have been super diligent about tagging posts properly so it's always easy to filter out things you don't want to see.

    13 votes

  17. Comment on Wrexham secures promotion to League 1; second promotion in two years in ~sports.football

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    Big ups to Wrexham! I watched the first season of Welcome to Wrexham and you really see the pride that the little town had for the team. I'm glad the investment of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney...

    Big ups to Wrexham! I watched the first season of Welcome to Wrexham and you really see the pride that the little town had for the team. I'm glad the investment of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have been put to good use and that the team is flourishing! A 6-0 victory on home ground must feel amazing. By the looks of it, they were just untouchable scoring 4 goals in the first half and another 2 in the second half.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    Had a rather productive week at work, the product and engineering teams were aligned on the expectations for our work so things were able to move faster than normal. It was honestly great. Doing...

    Had a rather productive week at work, the product and engineering teams were aligned on the expectations for our work so things were able to move faster than normal. It was honestly great. Doing quite a bit this weekend as well. Celebrating a friends birthday then going to a car enthusiast event near me. Looking forward to both but hoping I can make the car event as its from 9am-12pm and I usually sleep in until 10am on weekends haha.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on How do you organize your phone's home screens and apps? in ~tech

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    As a long time Android user who recently also got an iPhone, the way I organize my home screen really reflects my old habits I don't really even look at what apps are where on my home screen, my...

    As a long time Android user who recently also got an iPhone, the way I organize my home screen really reflects my old habits I don't really even look at what apps are where on my home screen, my finger just knows and will move to the correct spot. I'm also used to a nicely organized drawer for all my apps so my homescreens are pretty minimal.

    On my iPhone, I have a single home screen page with a Clock and Weather widget at the top two rows. Then, because the iPhone STILL doesn't allow you to place apps anywhere on the home screen, I have a widget that acts like a spacer and then I have my most recently used apps like messaging, web browsing, phone, and media. Everything else gets shoved into the App Library. I do not care for the automatic categorizing that iOS does for this but the list view is very useful.

    On my Pixel/work phone, I've got two homescreen pages, one for personal stuff and another for work stuff. Since I outright own my work phone (my company only pays for the phone plan) and Android lets me have my work apps only active during work hours, I feel fine having my personal stuff on there as well. My homescreen on the Pixel is organized largely the same as on my iPhone, with the same core apps visible and everything else relegated to the app drawer. The big difference is I do not have any widgets outside of the contextually aware Pixel At a Glance "widget". I find this super useful as it syncs with my work calendar and lets me know of any upcoming meetings or events. It also negates the need for a separate weather widget as it also displays the weather rather discretely.

    I used to be way more into customizing my phones, my Reddit posts from 6 years ago proves that. I would go really in depth, making custom wallpapers, custom widgets, apply all sorts of icon packs, and way more. Not entirely sure when I stopped doing that but I kind of miss it. I do sort of yearn to get back into that sort of customization but more so with my PC rather than my phone as my PC now runs Linux.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Tildes is changing the way I use and think about online engagement. How about you? in ~tildes

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    Tildes has definitely made me be more thoughtful in the comments I post. I remember when I first joined last June, I read somewhere that short, one line comments are discouraged because the...

    Tildes has definitely made me be more thoughtful in the comments I post. I remember when I first joined last June, I read somewhere that short, one line comments are discouraged because the comment section was meant to be a place for proper discussion where people can build off one another. As a result, I spend a decent amount of time actually thinking before writing my comments. I'll often write paragraphs on paragraphs and eventually whittle things down to be a few lines. Heck, even this comment went through many iterations before I got to this point.

    Tildes has also just made me hyper-aware of my social media habits. I was hooked so I'd use social media on my computer and then pick up where I left off on my phone. I used to use Reddit, Twitter and Instagram fairly often on phone and computer. I've since mostly deleted social media apps off my phone, keeping around only Three Cheers around for random Tildes browsing. My Twitter usage actually increased when I switched off Reddit, I guess as a way for me to still get my meme fix. I've been lucky enough that my feed isn't really polluted with the junk that other people see but I doubt it'll stay that way for much longer.

    8 votes