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General allergy to machine learning tools, blockch*ins, bullshit and pseudoscience in general
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kde , (Bearbeitet ) an Random Englisch
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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

@kde

f4grx ,
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@kde no connect at all is the better option. Why does anyone need a connected account?

arstechnica , an Random Englisch
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Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica fucking nope ++

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Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

f4grx ,
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@foone to select all these numbers you need to know the whole stuff by heart, right?

arstechnica , an Random Englisch
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OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal

Reddit has been eager to sell data from user posts.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/openai-will-use-reddit-posts-to-train-chatgpt-under-new-deal/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

f4grx ,
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@arstechnica How do they just DARE sell what people gave them for free? that does not compute.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

f4grx ,
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@gsuberland @foone ferric perchloride is so old school and annoying. copper chloride is the way to go. in practice that just means hcl with a pinch of h2o2. when depleted it can be replenished with an air bubbler.

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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

f4grx ,
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@foone Why not smaller rails, moved by a servo?

To avoid the dual camera you can put the camera on a sliding carriage moved by another servo (via a lever) to adjust the focus when imaging the side. two positions 1.75 inch apart are enough.

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@foone took the time to draw a hard to understand crap diagram. I'm sorry if thats useless.

arstechnica , an Random Englisch
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Elon Musk loses at Supreme Court in case over “funding secured” tweets

Musk can't kill SEC settlement that requires pre-approval of tweets about Tesla.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/elon-musk-loses-at-supreme-court-in-case-over-funding-secured-tweets/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica eat that free speech, elno!

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