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JoeyJoeJoeJr

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  • That's How

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  • $30/hour is about $60K/year.

    That's an absolutely livable wage in NYC. You might need a roommate, but it's easily achievable. I lived there for almost a decade (recently), but since you shouldn't trust random people on the internet, here's the MIT living wage calculator:

    As a single adult with no kids, you're just barely under the "living" wage in most of those, but well above "poverty" in all of them. In any borough, with a roommate, you're cruising comfortably (see the "2 Adults (Both Working): 0 Children" column). In the Bronx, as a single adult with no kids, $30 is above the living wage mark.

    It's also worth noting, people may live outside the city, but take a train or subway in for work. Living just outside the city brings costs down quite a bit.

  • Why is Ireland Covered in Pointless Buildings?

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  • The title is a bit of a joke against the thumbnail - "pointless" here means "purposeless." The video is about structures built that do not serve a traditional function, e.g. they exist only for aesthetics, or just to make someone "earn" money rather than donating money.

  • Soviet parachute troops jump off of a TB-3 bomber (yes, OFF of, not out of), 1937

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  • JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity

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  • This isn't newsworthy. I'm not a fan of Vance at all, but his comments here aren't even bad. If you read the article, the comments boil down to: "I believe this, I wish she did too, it's fine if she never does, I love her regardless." It's honestly pretty healthy to be able to have that in a relationship.

    This is practically at the level of criticizing Obama's tan suit, and is just noise and distraction in a news cycle filled with actually bad things (multiple wars, the government shutdown, measles outbreaks, a hurricane, etc). Don't spread this nonsense. It's fodder for the other side to call people out for being focused on ridiculous, unfounded slights, and allows them to not pay attention to real issues. Make noise about things that matter.

  • F U N

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  • Are you sure it's not ukulele?

  • As a backend developer, where do I even start with frontend? Feeling major choice paralysis

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  • But you (almost certainly) started using those backend frameworks after you had experience. You learned the basics first, and then incorporated frameworks when you got to larger projects.

    I came here to say the same thing as the original reply in this thread, albeit with slightly different justification:

    If you don't know the basics, and can't build a functional site with just HTML/CSS/JavaScript, all of the frameworks will be a nightmare. You should really learn those first, even if it means building a practice site, or completely rebuilding your frontend when you decide to use a framework.

    The frameworks can make your life easier, but there's a learning curve, and a huge cognitive burden especially when you are just starting. You'll fight them more than work with them at the start.

    That all said, never use what's "hip" on the frontend. JS frameworks typically have the lifespan of a house fly. React is one of very, very few that has remained popular, and continued to get updates for a long time (at least in JS framework terms). It's a solid choice with a huge community, good docs, good tooling, etc. There may be other valid choices, but seriously - avoid anything new and flashy, because that usually just means its deficiencies haven't been found yet, and as soon as they are, there will be a new framework.

  • Boo

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  • But... you can see his face. He looks so happy! I'd sleep well with this guy watching over me.

  • "We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps

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  • This article was posted here as well. Here's the comment I left there:

    This article seems either very naïve, or fairly disingenuous. Signal is not precariously installed on one box, and if that box goes down, the service dies. It is distributed. It's running on many machines within AWS, and technologically, there's no reason it couldn't be in multiple regions of AWS, or even spread across multiple clouds (e.g. Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, etc), to improve resiliency to outages. The only way in which it is "centralized" is that there's one foundation in charge of the whole thing. Are there drawbacks to this? Yes. But self-hosted, distributed, mesh/relay chats also have drawbacks. Servers in the mesh go down, people don't keep things updated, they don't necessarily connect to every other instance creating disjointed pockets, etc.

    Also, to say "we don't need the internet" we need "mesh networks" is odd... The internet is a mesh. Hence "inter." Anything else is just a smaller version of the same thing, again with some benefits and some drawbacks.

    Fighting a (relatively) successful platform that champions privacy and security, seems like a bad thing to do, when those are the same primary goals of the platform you support. It would be better to discuss the merits and use cases of each, and beat the privacy and security drum together.

    In my opinion, this article is just spreading FUD. Signal is not perfect, but it's pretty good. And when there's an outage, we know why, and we know there's a team working on it. With a federatated service, it may be harder to take "the whole thing" down, but that doesn't mean nodes don't go down, service isn't disrupted, etc. Scaring people away from a (usually) reliable, open platform, that has been audited, that actively advances security research and keeps it's platform secure against emerging threats, is counter productive. It's just going to keep people using SMS and WhatsApp.

  • Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM?

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  • I don't have as much experience with HASS, but I did use Mycroft for quite a while (stopped only because I had multiple big moves, and ended up in a place small enough voice control didn't really make sense any more). There were a few intent parsers used with/made for that:

    https://github.com/MycroftAI/adapt https://github.com/MycroftAI/padatious https://github.com/MycroftAI/padaos

    In my experience, Adapt was far and away the most reliable. If you go the route of rolling your own solution, I'd recommend checking that out, and using the absolute minimum number of words to design your intents. E.g. require "off" and an entity, and nothing else, so that "AC off," "turn off the AC," and "turn the AC off" all work. This reduces the number of words your STT has to transcribe correctly, and allows flexibility in command phrasing.

    If you borrow a little more from Mycroft, they had "fallback" skills that were triggered when an intent couldn't be matched. You could use the same idea, and use https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz to fuzzy match entities and keywords, to try to handle remaining cases where STT fails. I believe that is what this community made skill attempted to do: https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-homeassistant (I think there were more than one HASS skill implementations, so I could be conflating this with another).

    Another comment mentioned OVOS/Neon - those forked off of Mycroft, so you may see overlap if you investigate those as well.

  • F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

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  • This is circular.

    if an attacker compromises the F-Droid app on your device, they can... load malicious apps onto your device

    Could be rewritten:

    if an attacker compromises your device, they can compromise your device

    You've already lost when they put the first malicious app on.

  • Unifying the Fediverse

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  • Fediverse... Fed... Federated. Unifying it would defeat the purpose. Yes, there could be a single platform, with federated hosting, but multiple platforms working with a single protocol is a good thing.

    Consider the web - in the old days, it was an open platform. Then Internet Explorer got a stranglehold, and to use the web practically required using IE on Windows (many sites did not work in other browsers). Eventually we righted the ship, but now Chromium browsers are taking over, and we're heading in a similar direction.

    For the fediverse to remain open and effective, we should embrace extra platforms*. It prevents anyone getting too much control over the protocol, prevents lock-in, prevents centralization, etc.

    *We should generally encourage use/development of the same protocol, though.

  • CPR

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  • Chest compressions, chest compressions, chest compressions.

  • [Video] TikTok grifter explains how influencers received new propaganda talking points from Netanyahu in their recent meeting.

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  • US TV hosts back Jimmy Kimmel and lampoon Donald Trump in free speech row

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  • It can create a hard place. If the current government is a rock, these late night hosts can create a hard place, to catch the network between. The network cares about money - if the government starts taking away licenses, they can't make money, so they'll roll over (as they have done). But they can't make money without their talent either, so the hosts can push back from the other side to maintain their platform/voice.

    Will it work? Maybe not. Will giving up? Definitely not.

  • US TV hosts back Jimmy Kimmel and lampoon Donald Trump in free speech row

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  • Silencing themselves is counter productive. They need to do the opposite. They need to use their platform to make as much noise as possible.

    They can and should protest in other ways, but to sit out is to give the other side what they want, and to squander their ability to affect change.

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • *An official letter, signed by at least three colleagues.

  • Orange cats and a pan

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  • What's going on with the motion blur in this video? The handle looks odd...

  • Gamers Nexus's 3-hour GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction!

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  • What bugs me the most is I've pointed it out to people in conversations that basically go like this:

    Me: You used it for X and caught mistakes - why are you trusting it for Y? Them: That's a good point.

    And then they keep doing it anyway.

    I'm not an AI hater at all - it can be a great way to accelerate work you are capable of doing on your own. But using it for things you don't understand, and/or not double checking its work is insanity.

  • Gamers Nexus's 3-hour GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction!

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  • I hate to bring up AI, but this is exactly what I keep trying to explain to people - when you ask any of these bots questions about things you're an expert in, you see all the flaws. The trouble is people tend not to ask questions about things they already know...

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  • RISC-V @lemmy.ml
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    First RISC-V mini laptops emerge

    www.notebookcheck.net /First-RISC-V-mini-laptops-emerge-Sipeed-Lichee-Console-4A-available-for-pre-order.783018.0.html