I've just launched my new BT Projects blog! Here you will find posts on a wide range of topics, from tech to other miscellaneous things I choose to write about. There is currently only one post up, but one which I have had a lot of requests for, how to make Windows work better post setup. Note however that this post is an initial draft; it could be updated in the future but I felt ready to put what I have out there! Enjoy! btprojects.samtupy.com/blog/ Note also that this is not yet set up on the home page, this will be updated shortly. #blog #tech #writing
So am I to understand that a full 38% of my revenue may now be siphoned off by Patreon and Apple, neither of whom contribute in any way to the creation of my work?
And that this is because Patreon wants to have an iOS app, which I do not need, do not benefit from, did not exist when I selected them as my payment processor, and cannot opt out of?
Um, no thank you. I called this as a danger almost a year ago, btw:
The internet has become one big roach motel. I lay the blame for this development solely at the feet of The Platform; the proliferation of venture-capitalist backed walled gardens, which are incentivized to trap users inside and milk them like cattle…
Did you know elephants are helping shape robot design?
Their trunks' precise movements have been inspiring new tech innovations for 20 years. Researchers are using the insights to create robotic limbs with precise grips that can work to pick up objects in the unpredictable real world: theconversation.com/elephants-… #tech #research #wildlife
New research has found that the two ‘fingers’ on the tip of an elephant’s trunk exert different forces. The finding will be used to improve the abilities of bio-inspired robots.
Now that ChatGPT4o is out, it's time to revisit my previous thoughts on AI, and discuss what might be happening in the future, and what evidence we have of w...
One of the selling points of Google’s flagship generative AI models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, is the amount of data they can supposedly process and analyze. But new research suggests that the models aren’t, in fact, very good at those things. “While models like Gemini 1.5 Pro can technically process long contexts, we have seen many cases indicating that the models don’t actually ‘understand’ the content,” Marzena Karpinska, a postdoc at UMass Amherst. TechCrunch has more: flip.it/wW5pRm #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #Gemini
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Laura Kalbag is a British designer living in Ireland and has worked in tech for over 15 years doing UX and content design, front-end development, and technical writing.
The worst kind of tech hype is when something is portrayed as inevitable and unstoppable, with criticism or doubt blithely dismissed as "they don't get it".
Just because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.
Do you ever stumble upon an old Excel file that's locked with a password and you can't remember what it is? This can be incredibly frustrating, especially if the file contains valuable data! 😩
In my latest video, I show you a surprisingly easy way to remove worksheet protection from any Excel file, even if you don't have the password! This trick is perfect for those times when you're locked out of your own information.
The best part? You don't need any fancy software to do it! Just a little bit of text editing will do the trick. 😉 Check out my full video here: youtu.be/68goS6XdoW0
Tired of being locked out of your own Excel data? In this video, I reveal a simple trick to remove worksheet password protection from ANY Excel file, even if...
If this lands on your feed, tell me about different features that are just missing in Matrix.
It can be anything, but please don't include memes like "unable to decrypt message" or other things that are already in the works, or maybe has already been merged (e.g media captions). Also, no, I won't "just use XMPP".
Some examples include better forwarded messages, rich profiles, or a live location sharing, just to name a few.
(I am writing something about this, boosts appreciated!)
“I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer.”
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Daniel Stenberg has
posted a report about the recent curl up conference about
curl development. It was held over two days in
Stockholm. The report has short summaries of the talks with links to the
recordings.
"I deleted keys generated by our TV for 5 straight minutes. 5 Minutes of like 200BPM clicking. I restarted. Everything worked again. I laughed so hard I cried. I felt like I'd solved a murder."
holy fucking shit!!!!!!!!!!
I've had this in my drafts to finish writing up for a few weeks but today I made another discovery that has pushed me to finally write it up lol.
My PC had a few hiccups over the past couple of years.
You've all heard the "joke" about the programmer/engineer who keeps a loaded gun by his printer in case it makes an unexpected noise and he needs to shoot... Tagged: sex blogging, handmaids, ovulation tracker, patriarchy
Download as MP3 On this week’s episode, we have a special guest joining us to discuss his work with making our lives better in Linux audio. Of course, this...
It's no lie that the Linux desktop has been changing greatly. Through technological and social shifts, the desktop and community we know today is a far cry f...
Hello, hello 😋 As we still focus on reliability and stability, there have been some major improvements made to JAMS. Discover it all in our new Dev Update #4. #tech #p2p #app
Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.
Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.
NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.
— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers. — Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards — WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable
Hey #furries there's a bill in Oklahoma that was introduced & would punish children for dressing as a furry at school & have them taken away by Animal Control.
Rep. Humphrey has introduced a heap of shitty bills.😭
Hledani prace me nuti se vic bavit s lidmi o mych technologicko-filosofickych nazorech. Treba na pohovorech. Taky vic ctu, co se kde deje. Abych se na tech pohovorech mel o cem bavit, ze ano.
Diskuze kolem variant ruznych technologii jsou moje oblibene. Jako JavaScript vs TypeScript, CSS vs Tailwind. Pripomina mi to krasnou case-study Yarn vs NPM. Dogmatici na vsech frontach.
Really wish there was a PikaPods but for #YunoHost because PikaPods is fantastic, and I directed so many people to them in the past couple of days. It is a fully managed service that lets you pick #OpenSource stuff to host on your own pod, and you basically pay like $1 but monthly! This is how I'm trying stuff like Audiobookshelf and others. You pick servers locations and sizes and stuff but all the hosting is done for you! pikapods.com/apps #Tech #IndieWeb
Tak jsem si chvilku hral s mapama a lbc.wtf ve verzi nula je na svete. 🎉
Princip je jednoduchy. K postu na Mastodon s hashtagem #lbc pridam text "lbc:LAT:LON". Script followuje hashtag na >c.d serveru a novy post prida na mapu. Testovaci posty jsem otagoval zvlast, abych zbytecne neposilal updaty.
A prace s mapami. Nic moc. Spousta niche hardcodovanych veci. Spousta outdated dokumentace. Je to hold pro lidi, co mapama zijou.
V seznamu projektiku jsem se konecne dopracoval az k lbc wtf. Na to jsem se tesil uz od chvile, kdy jsem narazil na pruvodce po Liberci z roku 1966.
Ted to technicky zhmotnuju: 👉 Vezmu Leaflet a Protomaps vysek Liberecka. 👉 K memu hipsterskemu pribehu na Mastodonu pridam geotag. 👉 Magie zobrazi moje #lbc prispevky v mape na webu.
Lokalni influencer in the making! Dal jsem si vyzvu mit to cely staticky, ale editovat v Nextu DB je pohodlnejsi nez .json na CDN. Tak uvidime.
This is the latest #youtube "innovation". #Google with a market cap of $1.7 trillion and $120 billion cash on hand, "needs" to charge for ads on YouTube.
This is, of course, not true. They have more than enough revenue to run YouTube without ads in perpetuity, but they want to please shareholders. The #Peertube community is showing how you can distribute the costs of hosting content as well. If you don't support Google's continued monetization of monopolized video...vote with your feet.
A question to the #Tech bubble: I would like to use #Thunderbird with a bunch of shared calendars over Caldav. I had this issue two years ago and now here it comes again: Thunderbird becomes very slow as soon as all these calendars are added. They contain plenty of events each, many of them are reoccuring and I have tried both with and without offline support and also disabling autorefresh on some of those. I recall that back when I had the issue last, switching the view to show just one calendar at a time would help but to no avail now. Is this something I have to live with in 2023? ###Mozilla #OpenSource
„Es gab keinen Hinweis darauf, dass sie Amerikanerin war. Wir dachten alle, sie sei Irin“, berichtet ein Hoher Beamter der französischen Libération und versichert, niemand habe eine Ahnung gehabt, worüber da eigentlich abgestimmt wurde. „Wir haben erst auf Twitter herausgefunden, dass wir etwas Inakzeptables akzeptiert hatten“.
