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aembleton

3,683 karma · joined March 26, 2014

Website at https://blerg.net/

Email: arthur at the url above

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Interests: Climate Tech, Cycling, Hiking, Outdoor Activities, Programming, Remote Work, Running, Technology, UI/UX Design

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aembleton··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
> I think they actively do trial sessions with public running groups?

Probably, they certainly do in the UK

aembleton··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Yes. This is where most of Googles and Metas revenue comes from.
aembleton··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
I've read through these comments, and one useful app that has not been mentioned is Vespucci: https://vespucci.io/

It's not got the best UX, but it does let me edit anything from my phone. This means that I can easily check and/or edit the tags for a path or a track. For example, recently I was on a track that had steps. These weren't on OSM, but I could modify the track on Vespucci to add them. Easier to do on my laptop, but I'd forget to do them by the time I got home.

The other OSM apps, I can recommend but have been mentioned are CoMaps (https://www.comaps.app/) for viewing and route finding and Street Complete for easily updating data. Street Complete (https://streetcomplete.app/) has got a bit more powerful recently as you can now add things like toilets, bins, and benches

aembleton··on So you want to use OpenRouter?
Whats the tracker called? I'd like to try it.
aembleton··on Jellyfin 12.0
That 1.0.0, and 1.0.1 is in Beta. Is that ready to be moved into stable? Or am I looking at the wrong project? https://github.com/finamp-app/finamp/releases#release-1.0.1-...
aembleton··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Most people won't care
aembleton··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Do you have a filter list that you use to block all of their domains, and their cloud offerings like AWS?
aembleton··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Or just use these AdGuard DNS servers, no infrastructure setup needed

  Primary: 94.140.14.14
  Secondary: 94.140.15.15
uBO does so much more though, with it ability to block particular elements and inject CSS. It can do more than remove ads, but also any annoying elements like autoplaying videos from news sites.
aembleton··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Also, non-multipoint Bluetooth.
aembleton··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
They wouldn't have beaten him. Farage would win and he knows that otherwise he wouldn't have called the by election.
aembleton··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
It keeps changing all of the time, so it might be easier to have Facebook load up in a headless browser, that takes a screenshot and sends it to an LLM and uses that to convert into a standard JSON document that can be rendered nicely. Or something like that.
aembleton··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
you can use upward. For example

  facebook.com##span:has-text(Suggested for You):upward(8)
That then goes up elements in the dom.
aembleton··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
The problem is extracting the data from Facebook. They do a lot of work to obfuscate their markup. You'd probably be best loading the whole thing in a headless browser, taking screenshots, running that through an LLM and getting the data.
aembleton··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
Most people don't run adblockers, even though they're pretty effective against 98% of ads. I doubt they're all going to rush for a local AI model.
aembleton··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Or even someone wearing a Nike branded baseball cap, hoodie, trousers and trainers.
aembleton··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
If they are an adversary, then you could inject broken information for them to distil with. Then have an alternative, private model for government and military purposes that doesn't have the broken information.
aembleton··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
You could run the inference locally using the open weight models. Then you'd still get to use the models without sending money overseas
aembleton··on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
Maybe a pair of these: https://uk.shokz.com/products/openswim-pro

They have 32GB of storage, no screen, light enough to run and swim with.

aembleton··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
Estate agents are also doing it; making interiors of houses look very different to how they really are.
aembleton··on Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign
Only if you consume the ads too
aembleton··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
It is in Firefox. Which browser are you using?
aembleton··on StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
If you go into settings and then quest selection you can choose what you do care about
aembleton··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
I guess each instance does its own moderation. Peertube has been around for years and still no one watches it.
aembleton··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
Thank you, I'd not come across makertube.net. Is there some website that collects all of these instances together? I thought peertube.tv would do that, but there are loads more content on makertube.net so clearly not.
aembleton··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
Peertube pays 100%
aembleton··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
> which means catering to the lowest common denominator

At some point that becomes saturated, and you're better off catering to a niche that is poorly served.

aembleton··on Open Source Low Tech
Sounds like a Dutch bike would work well
aembleton··on AI children's books, body horror edition
Some of the older quality content uses language which is now considered inappropriate. Of course, it wouldn't be hard to replace those words and there are plenty of books that do, but we can't just use the older books as they were.
aembleton··on AI children's books, body horror edition
> All the stupid bars nd cafes with rustic wood and old timey aesthetics for example.

Surely that's been a thing for decades. In the 70s, there were bars that harked back to the 1920s. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

aembleton··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
Might be worth switching banks
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