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exadeci

416 karma · joined August 24, 2011

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/exa; my proof: https://keybase.io/exa/sigs/xc6iwbjF7zJ4gR18ZLEJy1IvFegoA2TvilL3j9COAew ]

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Socials: - github.com/exadeci - instagram.com/exadeci

Interests: Climbing, Fintech, IoT, Networking, Outdoor Activities, Programming, Remote Work, Travel, Technology

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exadeci··on Patreon laying off 20% of staff
Found him with his animatronic video on Instagram later he announced Patreon, I thought that's neat I'm sure it'll help a few people, a few years later it's worth Billions
exadeci··on The death and rebirth of my home server
You can flash them to boot on an USB drive so any ssd, I have a RPI4 that had the sdcard slot ripped, flashed an sd card to instruct it to boot on usb, held it against the pins and now it boots without any sdcard.

Though I'd agree that if you got none the NUC is the better solution as if you add an ssd and power supply to the PI it becomes as if not more expensive for less power

exadeci··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Maybe you haven't fully explored coding with AI, yes a lot of people will say "Make me a pretty website with user accounts" and have a working poc they'll use as finished product. But there's so much more you can do with programming knowledge to restrict and control AI to build it exactly how you want it without having to write thousands of lines of scaffolding yourself
exadeci··on Grok Build is open source
Easy he constantly forces them to cut corners and take risks put their lives in danger "Tesla Has Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands", "Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. "
exadeci··on Google Flight Simulator
Some people weren't born when it was released and now are 20 years old it was released in 2007

We old haha

exadeci··on Pico-Banana-400k
Someone here shared an interesting comparison of models performances, and Gemini does seem much better

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing

exadeci··on Pico-Banana-400k
I've personally always preferred number lists and bullet points rather than wordly paragraphs that say the same thing.

I guess that makes me an LLM

exadeci··on FLX1s phone is launched
If Apple with their trillions of dollars decided that their new phone should be a thinner one, it tells us that the general public for some reason likes it.
exadeci··on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer
There are some ridiculously cheap "smart" bicycle brake lights that already react to slowing down
exadeci··on A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy
So you have repressed feelings towards men that are only able to come out when taking XTC?

XTC doesn't make you want to kiss anybody, you might lower your standards, but won't make you attracted to men if you aren't already before taking it.

exadeci··on Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
If you actually read the article, they explain that it isn't actually that big of change to how it was done.

" For a while now, Google has been developing most parts of Android behind closed doors in its “internal branches,” with the “AOSP branch” only having certain other aspects of Android’s framework (including Bluetooth, kernel, and some other core components). As such, it’s been quite a while since the current state of AOSP is at the same level as Google’s internal builds, leaving developers and others to wait on Google to make a public release to get all of the new changes.

With this change to move everything to its internal, private development branch, Google isn’t changing the speed at which these new builds arrive. Rather, this will potentially streamline the process and prevent conflicts when merging the branch"

exadeci··on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
That's not the app change you think it's.

The app update they're talking about is the one that got released last year which is terrible, it keeps crashing, doesn't work with time zone and a bunch of other stuff

exadeci··on They see your photos
Facebook has been doing for years a basic alt-text generation (not the best but better than nothing) eg: May be an image of 4 people, people smiling and text
exadeci··on Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link
Pine64 boards have been beating Raspberry for years in both performances and price.

I've got their first board since 2016 and it's been running cooler than a raspberry pi 4 (2019) with the same software on it.

exadeci··on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
Maybe some WhiteHat hackers telling IA about all their security issues being ignored so they hacked them to force them to do something about it as nothing seems that have been badly damaged
exadeci··on OpenAI Announces SearchGPT
How often did Google Assistant and Siri get your questions, rarely.

AI terrible until OpenAI released ChatGPT so I'm personally excited to see what ChatGPT can bring to search

exadeci··on Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years
My high school back in France was offering 1000euros each to girls who'd pick STEMs for the last 2 years of their studies and had 12/20 or more on their final exam.

Out of 200 girls 2 picked it, there's only so much you can do but the truth is most women prefer to work with people.

exadeci··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
It's a classic move from corporate America, foreign cars banned if less than 25 years old, high taxes on motorcycles for decades to protect Harley etc...
exadeci··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
https://www.beeper.com/ has been my main chat app aggregator, it's not perfect but works for most cases

You can also self host it

exadeci··on Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO
Pine64 has been doing much better in that matter for years, I've had a Pine64 since 2016 and a raspberry pi 4 running the same OS (dietpi) and software kept running hotter even though it got released 3 years later and for double the price
exadeci··on Grok
So many countries still have data caps, even the supposedly 1st world countries.

Even without hollywood people wouldn't have wanted to use any platform that uses their data and battery/power to share to everyone else.

It's the main reason why torrenting platforms have introduced ratios and made it hard to get invited.

exadeci··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
It was only the first part, he hadn't really given much yet.

Killing him after the first part tells everyone else that if they're thinking of doing the same they'll be killed, if they had "suicided" him before people could have though he did actually killed himself.

exadeci··on Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
Someone posted a video and either the screen is having some ghost touches or the watch is actually getting brute forced
exadeci··on The dating app paradox
Feeld
exadeci··on Popcorn Time 0.5.0
Plex shares are harder to find now but on Discord you can find servers with 100s of TB of movies and TV show to stream straight from your devices with no work and just a small monthly payment
exadeci··on DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it
Cancelling it sounds like best way to get DEF CON attendees to try and hack your hotels
exadeci··on Plastic bag bans work
The part that this article completely ignores is that you'd have to re-use a bag 50 times for it to have the same impact on the environment the old plastic bags had. The fabric bags it's about 7000 to 20000 for organic ones.

From a Dannish study

exadeci··on Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
I've also used it then, it worked fairly well but it seems that I might need to tweak it to update my position faster.

I also made a fork of a modified firmware that gives you your playa location

https://github.com/exadeci/Meshtastic-device-bm

exadeci··on My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
Tourists only go to the beach areas, north has mountains and can be quite cold
exadeci··on Threads has passed 2M sign ups in the first 2 hours
At least they haven't released to production an inifinite loop that DDOS their own servers
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