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emayljames

304 karma · joined September 9, 2018

Software/Web Developer & sometimes designer.
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emayljames··on Sshole
Did you try one incorrect standard password fail first?
emayljames··on Gemini 4 Carbon
From using Gemini, flash needs a lot of corrective input, pro rarely does
emayljames··on The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)
I don't know if the article writer is north American, or possibly not familiar with traditional/native English, else they would know they are completely wrong it not being English.
emayljames··on If-then-else had to be invented (2020)
I don't know if the article writer is north American, or possibly not familiar with traditional/native English, else they would know they are completely wrong it not being English.
emayljames··on The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)
I don't know if the article writer is north American, or possibly not familiar with traditional/native English, else they would know they are completely wrong it not being English.
emayljames··on The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)
Else could I?..
emayljames··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Did the university at any point specifically communicate to him that he is refused access? I find that a very defining point.

Automated limiting, or blocking is not the same as explicitly saying you as a specific person or entity are forbidden.

emayljames··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
The planes in question would have been obsolete by that point, also those planes from WW2 would have already been widely distributed among allied (including Soviet) countries
emayljames··on Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English
Also grok (musk), and the strong allegations of SA against altmann (openai)
emayljames··on Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost
The horizontal moving elements of examples become stuck and unable to be scolled once one of them is played. I'm using Vivaldi (chrome based) on Android
emayljames··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
The implementations of RCS servers that were being done (here in the UK) by carriers, had many issues. A lot of the time your Google messages couldn't connect to the carrier RCS server, messages silently didn't send. I don't know if that was due to something like the carriers not updating their servers, or bad implementation though.
emayljames··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Elison and Oracle are a big threat, they have an obsession with holding as much data as possible, for every single US citizen they can get their hands on, and it is no coincidence they not only sell electoral targeting demographic data, but also are trying to install dystopian level servers under the whitehouse.
emayljames··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
"fatal" You are just clutching at dramatic things nobody said

Also,these studies are a search away. Fill your boots.

emayljames··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
I prefer Anti-social Media
emayljames··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
That is the point they are making.
emayljames··on I Changed My Name
This happens to Irish/Scottish names too, such as McDonald, Mc being 'son of' in Gaelic language; the capital letter after Mc is wrongly changed to a lowercase letter.

Another very frustrating issue I run into, is hyphens not being allowed. My firstname and surname both have hyphens, and they are very common even in English based names.

emayljames··on One million passports leaked online
This is the best one. Not a shady company website, or a paywalled site:

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/28/a-million-passports-leaked...

emayljames··on European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control
The majority is for migration, the problem is far right propaganda
emayljames··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
I wonder what the minimum required memory specification is
emayljames··on UK PM gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children's phones
Sigh! Once again they are pushing something they don't understand the impact of.

It sounds great on paper, they can pretend they have done something. The reality is, the overreaching age gating they enforced, resulted in a lot of parents needing to set stuff to adult settings, because like this, the government doesn't have a clue what they are doing

emayljames··on Show HN: Image-3D: photo to 3D splat that runs in the browser
The local version is not able to properly 3d any image I put through it, they all just end up a random 3d mess
emayljames··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
This will have a huge impact on a lot of organisations, for example those that have a communal SharePoint, or shared document page: files shared from ex-employees for critical documentation is going to break.
emayljames··on AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
paywalled
emayljames··on UK PM Starmer set to ban 'harmful' social media for under-16s
This is all a smokescreen, to force queer kids out of having online community. As a queer kid, it is a lifeline, the government knows this and they are bowing to extreme xtian groups.

The irony is, it is the boomers that have serious (anti-)social media problems. They are being manipulated enmass

emayljames··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Which one. They have several under their blood soaked belt now
emayljames··on Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
Interlacing is synonymous with 80's/90's video
emayljames··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
The YouTube app on Android is terrible, even with the premium. Autoplay has been notoriously broken for years
emayljames··on Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Looks like you have a serious moderation problem, there are racists running around using n-word racist slurs
emayljames··on Google changes its search box
You don't need butter to make cake, it ends up lighter and softer without it
emayljames··on Traces Of Humanity
She.
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