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nyquildotorg

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Mobile-addicted. Web-dependent. Digital Plumber. Nerd. He/him. No-coiner.

Citizen of various fediverses over the years, this one since my first Mastodon account in January 2017. Alt-text enthusiast, lover of having his mind changed.

If you engage to disagree with something I've posted, it probably increases the likelihood of a follow. (But chances are pretty good, anyway.)

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Radish hardly ever makes noise when he meows. But he'll look right at me and mouth the word meow when he wants something. Only when he thinks I'm not getting the message will he actually make noise.

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Looking forward to altering the history of Copilot Recall by looking at sqlite queries in my text editor.

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Yesterday I watched a Ze Frank video about pigeon facts, and learned some incredible stuff.

Like: pigeons have an incredible ability to recognize patterns. When taught to eck at certain patterns, they are faster and more accurate at finding malignant cancer cells from a picture on a screen than humans. But, more incredibly, they're able to infer patterns in an incredible way. One experiment featured them being taught to peck a word on the screen of it recognizes it, but peck the "I don't know" when it doesn't. So they started with real words, and then started introducing gibberish words, and the damned birds started recognizing the difference between gibberish and real words without having had to see the real word before. They essentially inferred "vowel frequency" in real words, being like "two z's and 3 k's? Not a word."

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Yet another Beeper rewrite, lol. This will be the third time in three years that they've built a new iOS app. Sounds like the desktop version might not be a super janky fork of Element in a pile of Electron, though.

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"building the best chat app in the world is really expensive."

Yeah, it sure is the way you're doing it.

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"However, to achieve these benefits, there may be a brief delay (a couple of seconds) when opening the app after the update. We want to be transparent about this so you know what to expect."

This makes me laugh because when I installed the last iOS rewrite, they said the same thing and it was taking longer than screen timeout. I eventually had to set the screen timeout to several minutes to get through it.

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"In 2015 [the number of Costco hit dogs sold] hit a staggering 128 million, which is said to be four times as many hot dogs sold in all the major league baseball stadiums combined

That's a neat stat, but I just did a little research. There are 30 MLB stadiums in the US, but there are 600 Costcos.

This means 600 Costco locations sold 128 million, while 30 MLB stadiums sold 32 million.

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I hope nobody 'milkshake duck's milkshake girl

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Andy Ngo can tell by the pixels that they added concrete powder to that milkshake.

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Seeing the photo of Nigel Farage taking a milkshake to the face reminds me of the time that, while searching for a replacement for Wes Borland when he left Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst got a pie to the face at a Portland Guitar Center.

Sadly there's no footage of that one. (That I know of?)

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Dammit, there is a photo, but everything I found hotlinks to local (at the time) rock station KUFO's website, which now 404s.

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Those hilarious "Lightning" earbuds that are really just Bluetooth devices tethered to the cable for power remind me of a device I was seriously considering making at one point: a battery pack with a USB cable for power that would snap into the bottom of an Apple Magic Mouse to make it into a "wired" mouse, but the USB cable only provided power.

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The Magic Mouse is extremely polarizing. You either absolutely hate it, or you tell everyone that you absolutely hate it because you know how inexplicable it is that not only are there people who like the Magic Mouse, but that you are one of them.

The original revision seemed to be precisely machined to only work with Duracell brand batteries so I spent a lot of time taking batteries out and turning it off and then on again trying to get the damned thing to work.

So then when they released the rechargeable one with the port on the bottom, offending my sensibilities, I decided that I couldn't pay money to Apple for such a terrible design and started thinking of ways to keep using the one I had without having to put batteries in it.

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@scribe I had no idea

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@krssctt what's funny is I did figure out that the Magic Mouse can't be used while it's charging, which is why I never actually did it. But my approach was going to be similar. A little "sled" that snaps on (and fills up the compartment for the AA batteries) lifting a little off the table, with a mirror / lens setup like theirs. But mine was going to have the cable at the very front like a wired mouse would, and not be removable. So it's always plugged in.

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@krssctt oh, wait I think I'm confused. I knew the modern one wouldnt charge and be operable, but my setup would have been just replacing the AAs, and the mouse should have no idea whether it's charging or not...

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@krssctt I think my idea is still viable lol

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WWDC drinking game: take a sip every time someone says "it never leaves your device"

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Any time I put on a pair of "blue blocking" sunglasses, I get the theme song from Taz-Mania stuck in my head. Specifically this bit:

"the skoy's always yellow, roin or shine"

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I thought making up a ridiculous fact about about how Apple will respond to Copilot Recall, as a joke about how incomparable Ubuntu is, could go without clarification that it's not real, but I guess I was wrong.

Apple's NPU work is probably not architected to record all your actions and data. (For now.)

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Microsoft: takes screenshots of the screen, OCRs them and places the data in an unprotected sqlite file for later recall.

Apple: creates new NPU architecture designed to save PDFs of the screen and OCR them, storing the data in CoreData for later recall by authenticated users.

Ubuntu: every time the computer sleeps, it wakes up slightly slower than the last time, until you reboot it.

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@Zink oh that part is completely real! I witnessed a thread earlier where multiple people "me too!"ed a poster's question about why it gets slower every time it resumes from sleep.

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@Zink here's one:

Apple so cares about your privacy that they let Google pay them $18 billion dollars a year to keep sending you into their privacy nightmare unless you explicitly opt out by changing your browser.

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@beeoproblem everything on a mac's screen is already (allegedly) PDF, so it just makes sense. But also, I couldn't think of such a proprietary thing.

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@beeoproblem but also, PDF is basically a proprietary format that Adobe pinky swears is an "open standard." If that were true there wouldn't be so many predatory websites wanting to charge you money for editing a PDF.

(I'm a PDF hater lol)

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@Zink how about the thing last week where people found photos that they'd previously deleted came back months and years later after an OS update? It's kind of the opposite of collecting, but a clear problem

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