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shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 18 days ago to Memes in Ice cream sandwich has some funny ad reads

"I'd like a subscription to Skillshare (Skillshare!), a subscription to Skillshare is what I need..."

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 1 month ago to Technology in Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

I asked about a plot point that I didn't understand in a TV series old enough to be in an LLM's knowledge. Chatgpt and Perplexity both said they couldn't find any discussions or explanations online for my particular question.

Bard/Gemini gave several explanations, all of them featuring characters, locations, and situations from the show, but confidently bullshit and definitely impossible in the story's world.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 1 month ago to Technology in Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

Yep, same here. Whereas ChatGPT and Perplexity would tell me it didn't know the answer to my question, Bard/Gemini would confidently hallucinate some bullshit.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 1 month ago to Technology in Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years

Yes, I should've added - whether the write speed matters depends on your own use case.

For my SMR drive, it's taking roughly 2GB of backup files every few hours, in the background, and there's plenty of empty space on the drive. In my case, it doesn't matter at all.

However, if you're sat at your computer, frequently transferring large files while the drive is at least half full, and you have to wait for completion... Then it'll matter.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 1 month ago to Technology in Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years

From the article:

UPDATE 5/17, 6 PM: Western Digital has confirmed that the new 2.5-inch T GB HDDs uses 6 SMR platters

SMR = shingled magnetic recording https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording - "continuous writing of large amount of data is noticeably slower than with CMR drives"

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Selfhosted in Nextcloud appreciation post

Libre Cloud's head office is a unit on an industrial estate: 82A James Carter Rd,
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nu75EEHEDFbY5PMW9
(Update: it's a virtual office address, which doesn't really inspire confidence for me)

They probably colocate at data centres.

Personally, I'm on Hetzner's Storage Share (Nextcloud but without Collabora), and I'd prefer to trust my data to them: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

Regardless of your choice, I definitely agree that nextcloud rocks.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 2 months ago to Technology in Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album

Not French, I don't understand a word of what they're saying, but man, I love that album. Especially "Demain, c'est loin", an epic tune that gives me Wu Tang "Triumph" vibes.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 2 months ago to Technology in UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s

This government is really good at doing something to solve our problems. It's a shame that the 'something' is usually easily circumvented and was poorly concocted so it looks like they're being tough on some perceived problem.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in My stupidity saved me from being hacked today!

Trying to work out why this is a good idea. Please could you explain why?

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in [Question] RaspPi5 with Pi-Hole, Tailscale and Traefik

Pi-hole (or my preference Adguard Home) is great for devices connected to your home network. For your phone, go with Blokada (free) or Adguard (iOS, Android, paid - see Stacksocial for occasional license deals) - that'll cover you at home and out of home.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit , 5 months ago to Privacy in Can I edit .docx files without a Microsoft 365 subscription and if not are there any alternatives

How about using the free browser-based tier of MS Office 365 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web - but with an alt email address for this purpose only?