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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

People who only watch two or three 20-minute videos from the top of their recommendations on their home tab may have no idea the platform is as sloppy as scrollers know it to be.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Steve, ain’t we glad to have ya! Welcome :)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

2 MacBook Pros sit on the grass. The screen on the right is reflecting far more than the screen on the left.

2022 brought one of the best screens for outdoor work… for a price, but of course

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Is it annoying enough you’d actually want to try fixing it or is the Notepad workaround good enough?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

But but but that’s unacceptable!

Custom hotkey to trigger simple plaintext clipboard script, couldn’t live without it.

(“Script“ is a scary word for many of us but you probably only ever see the code once or instead use some free open source clipboard manager that has “replace clipboard with plain text“ built-in.)

Anyway you’re right, I probably still use a similar workaround once a week!

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago

they [have a job] for [money].

Maybe us too, to be fair

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn’t expect this in my search results

Inkjet printers are prone to clogging when they aren't used regularly. The print heads have microscopic nozzles that can dry out and block, leading to poor print quality, streaks, or missing colors. To keep them clear, it's essential to run a small amount of ink through them periodically.

InkjetStandby solves this problem with a simple, yearly solution. Each week, we provide a printable page with a tiny, multi-colour test pattern. The pattern is placed in a different position each week on a 52-grid layout, allowing you to use a single sheet of paper for an entire year. Just print the page, and you're done.

(emphasis mine)

Was looking for a weekly cron script as an example of the ink drying issue being prevalent, but this is neat

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Love Wolfram. I believe Stephen is a big proponent of this stuff? Found his blog on it (turns three years old next Monday) and curious for your thoughts on it.

In Just Two and a Half Months…

Early in January I wrote about the possibility of connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha. And today—just two and a half months later—I’m excited to announce that it’s happened! Thanks to some heroic software engineering by our team and by OpenAI, ChatGPT can now call on Wolfram|Alpha—and Wolfram Language as well—to give it what we might think of as “computational superpowers”. It’s still very early days for all of this, but it’s already very impressive—and one can begin to see how amazingly powerful (and perhaps even revolutionary) what we can call “ChatGPT + Wolfram” can be.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its-wolfram-superpowers/

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

OK already cropped and posted at least twice

But I mean

The shocked face of Miss Frizzle, cropped to

Already cropped and came to the comments

 

"Boar taint is the offensive odor or taste that can be evident during the cooking or eating of pork or pork products derived from non-castrated male pigs once they reach puberty. Boar taint is found in around 20% of entire male finishing pigs. … Studies show that about 75% of consumers are sensitive to boar taint, leading pork producers to control this in order to maximize profits. …

Boar taint is caused by the accumulation of two compounds – androstenone and skatole – in the fat of male pigs. Androstenone (a male pheromone) is produced in the testes as male pigs reach puberty and gives the meat a urine or sweat flavour, while skatole (a byproduct of intestinal bacteria, or bacterial metabolite of the amino acid tryptophan) is produced in both male and female pigs and gives the meat a 'fecal' flavour. …"

 

I err on the side of thoroughness, but I use so much more time & water than others I see. I think I’m doing a better job… does it matter?

I want to watch an in-depth video of the minimum required washing. If you know or are a science educator (microbiologist? Epidemiologist?), maybe you can help :D

 

Bringing a big photo of soybean oil and whole eggs to your feed

 

Wrote books on Apple software. Bought five figures of gear over decades. Then bought an Apple giftcard, & suddenly permabanned in spite of raising issue with internal contacts.

932 comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114

 
 

The baby seal is A-OK! But perhaps thirsty (wasn’t even served a sip of seltzer)…

A seal walked into a bar. Or to use a technical term, it galumphed. ... It was a wet, lazy Sunday evening when the baby fur seal waddled into the Sprig + Fern The Meadows craft beer bar in Richmond, at the top of New Zealand's South Island. ... "Everyone was in shock," Evans said. ... Evading its pursuers, the creature dashed into a restroom and then hid under the dishwasher, which was swiftly unplugged. ... "I just went to my fiancé, I said, grab the salmon! Grab the salmon!" Then it was a brief wait for conservation rangers to arrive. It turned out they were already tracking the wandering seal. "It was their fourth call for the day," Evans said. ... The seal was released on nearby Rabbit Island, considered a safe location because of its dog-free status, Otley said. It's not unusual for curious young seals to show up in unexpected places at this time of year, she added. ... "They can turn up in unusual places, like this pub, but this is normal exploratory behavior," Otley said.

 

I don’t care how they do it but I want to be able to press and hold the flashlight icon and, without lifting my finger, immediately begin to slide my finger up and down to adjust flashlight brightness.

Boo form over function. Very minor nod to the increased granularity.

 

A lotta vapes are reportedly chock full of lead, so kids probably shouldn't be puffing clouds in the bathroom stall, but was there any reason to design the most exploitable version of a product to alert school administrators about it?
The manufacturer was happy to expand to Section 8 (USA, subsidized) housing in spite of script kiddies, rogue employees, or legit employees working under new guidelines being able to root into the Motorola Halo 3C and use its fully-functioning microphones to invade privacy.
The frog is boiling slowly: pay more for your car insurance when your insurer buys your driving data today; risk your home insurance when you don't install this "fire prevention" spyware tomorrow.

DEF CON 33 - Unmasking the Snitch Puck: IoT surveillance tech in the school bathroom - Reynaldo, nyx: YouTube
83,126 views, Oct 10, 2025

 

The song might be goofy but there’s good stuff in there too

 

Are the available sources undocumented so Apple can change them up as needed?

CNN & BBC also work, though longer form / daily as opposed to quick ~hourly updates. (CNBC isn’t too frequent either, and no weekend updates.)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65915774

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