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I agree when it comes to most “smart” home devices. However, I wired an ESP32 to my heat pump for remote control and automation, which has been absolutely fantastic. Also, I use a ton of ZigBee and zwave, since those are not “smart” by themselves and are local-only.

It’s the cloud bullshit that always breaks and spies on users that I hate.

pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices.

They aren’t using cell tower data, if that’s what you mean. I’m guessing that unless you degoogle, your first suggestion won’t do too much.

Cerberos can’t crack Graphene and mentioned in during sales presentations to law enforcement. This is for multiple reasons, but for example, Graphene allows you to disable your USB C port at the hardware level, and Cerberos requires the USB c port to function.

Yep, it’s classic. They might as well be a bot, their behavior is very predicitible. It’s not even worth ever replying to them, they use canned responses and never change their behavior for the better.

Oh, and they always make sure to downvote anyone calling them out, naturally. Luckily I can’t see them as my instance disables downvotes, but I’m sure my comment has at least one downvote (and it’ll be from them).

A new report by the AI company Writer

Into the trash, then.

Might as well be.

Oh look, it’s like the 13th cm0002 spam account that I’m blocking, no exaggeration. I thought I got them all, especially because cm0002 claimed elsewhere that they would only use “a few” to repost and has told several users just that. They make it impossible to block their accounts on purpose. They don’t ban evade, they block evade, and when confronted give some line about “promoting smaller instances”, even though they never post to their account’s home instance.

And before they reply with their bs about only reposting .ML content, they repost shit from all instances. If they truly cared only about reposting .ML content, they wouldn’t need almost two dozen accounts to do so.

This is the sixth time this has been posted somewhere on the fediverse, and yet, cm0002 posted it again.

You can share it to some file browsing apps and save it to your device that way.

Maybe, but I think it’s important to note that LLMs can hallucinate web results just the same. You can give them a specific web page and they’ll sometimes spit out things that don’t exist on the page, especially if you’re doing it to correct a mistake the model made.

Honestly, a lot of it is what I used to watch on YouTube. Pretty much anything from Sam @ Wendover Productions (including Half as Interesting, Jet Lag, and some of his Nebula exclusive series such as Extremities), Practical Engineering, Pinely, Chubbyemu, Bright Sun Films/Travels, stuff like that. Day Pass is an exclusive that comes to mind.

Sometimes Nebula uploads have extras even if they upload to both YT and Nebula. I like Nebula because it allows me to get away from Google while still supporting the creators I like from there. It’s pretty cheap, all things considered.

I do the same with William Osman’s Sauce+ (based on floatplane but for engineer creators).

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A classic. LLMs can help if you know what you’re doing on your own, at the cost of having to burn tokens while basically having to guide it to the result you need. The second you use it for something you’re not an expert in, you enter pure slop territory. The fact is that LLMs are constantly hallucinating but with guardrails that allow them to sometimes hallucinate the correct result.

And yes, I’m in tech and have experience. The only way it’s going to “take” my job is if it crashes the entire economy because the bubble pops or an executive needs to pump some stock from braindead morons on wall street.

Charlie Kirk sure has been quiet about this law named after him. I wonder why?

This is just an ad from Anthropic.

Nebula is great.

Does your country have a working public transit system?

Good call, but this “dad” did it intentionally for two years.

The boy’s father told investigators that he put the child in the truck in November 2024 “to protect him” because his partner wanted to send the then 7-year-old to a psychiatric hospital, the prosecutor said.

Heitz said there was no medical record that the boy had any psychiatric problems before he disappeared and that he had had good grades in school.

The boy told investigators that he had “big difficulties” with his father’s partner and thought his father “had no choice” but to lock him up, according to the prosecutor. He said he hadn’t showered since 2024.

Jesus. Intentionally did that to his kid as a “punishment”.

Sucks that the US is so car-centric. If there was actual public transit (especially of the electric variety), people would struggle a little less.

Thank god. I use Verbatim m-discs for archival. Won’t stop me from buying some extra drives and discs though