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dwood_devon Apple starts pushing AirPods owners into Transparency mode, with no easy opt out

I use "off" most of the time when in single ear mode(which is most of the time if I'm on calls or listening to a podcast). Transparency mode gives me weird artifacts and I have never liked it, for me the only two modes I use are "off" and ANC.

The new change in iOS 18 was highly annoying for me and took me about 20 minutes to figure out how to get the previous behavior back.

dwood_devon Link Blog in a Static Site

Where did you settle on for your image hosting? I like GH Pages and Hugo, but it feels dirty to put images in a git repository. At the same time, GitHub does allow 5GB per repo, so I'm torn.

dwood_devon Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns

I hate the InfoSec generated phishing tests.

They all pass DKIM, SPF, etc. Some of them are very convincing. I got dinged for clicking on a convincing one that I was curious about and was 50/50 on it being legit (login from a different IP).

After that, I added an auto delete rule for all the emails that have headers for our phish testing as a service provider.

dwood_devon Tesla Cybertruck sales are disastrous

It's certainly an unconventional design. I have mixed feelings about it from that aspect.

I think the main thing is they launched a $100k truck when the initial hype was for a $40k truck. It also doesn't help that electric vehicle sales seem to be in the gutter for all US automakers.

dwood_devon The Cybertruck that exploded and the New Orleans vehicle both rented using Turo

If anything, it seems to have done a decent job of redirecting the explosion upwards.

dwood_devon Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)

Except I never hear complaints about CUDA from a quality perspective. The complaints are always about lock in to the best GPUs on the market. The desire to shift away is to make cheaper hardware with inferior software quality more usable. Flash was an abomination, CUDA is not.

dwood_devon AT&T won't upgrade millions of DSL users to fiber despite billions in subsidies

This is no surprise and is not new. I live in a rural area and long, long ago gave up any hope of the AT&T DSL ever being better then 3mbps. I switched to LTE in 2015 and have not looked back. Since then I have been through a few different providers, but have been generally content with T-Mobile Home Internet for the last few years.

Starlink is tempting, but its $165/month versus the $50/month I pay to T-Mobile.

If anyone thinks AT&T or any service provider is going to run fiber to these communities, you are dreaming. It makes dramatically more profit for them to sell LTE/5G home internet options, even if it is not optimal for then end user.