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Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, I know they are update services; fair point you make, that those not technically-minded should probably leave them on.

However I personally do not appreciate OS updates, no matter their purported criticality, being installed without my express permission. I am aware of Group policies, but Win11 Home does not officially support them (though one can install gpedit.msc manually; however according to sources I researched, not all policies set will even be honoured by the Home edition).

I did consider scheduling it, just hadn't gotten around to trying it out.

If could, I would wipe Win11 and use native Linux but this laptop is too new and support is poor on it; it's gone as soon as practical :)

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now in c/[email protected]
Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah, good. I wonder why it isn't used more often -- this wouldn't be such a huge problem then I would hope. (Let me guess -- 'convenience', the archenemy of security.)

Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I don't know much about NPM (having avoided JS as much as possible for my entire life), but golang seems to have a good solution: 'vendoring'. One can choose to lock all external dependencies to local snapshots brought into a project, with no automatic updating, but with the option to manually update them when desired.

What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh I know little to nothing about turntables, so you're probably right :-)

What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Someone showed me a record turntable with what must have been a centrifugal governor! What an ingenious device. (I got the impression from him this was unusual for a turntable, at least...)

TV that doesn't require 'on-line activation' to set up. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's what I ended up doing. A dumb monitor is just fine, as long as you don't need a huuuge screen. The main thing is to find a good external speaker though that doesn't auto-sleep in the middle of one's show...

Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October | Initial Recall preview was lambasted for obvious privacy and security failures in c/[email protected]
What do you guys do about usernames / passwords for your local services? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat

Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

When our last TV which was 'smart' died, we just bought a big lcd monitor at the pawn shop. We already were only using Kodi on an Android box, so a monitor with external speaker is fine. (Seemed spyware free last time I checked, but beware no-name android media boxes on=from eBay etc., use a tiny or old spare PC instead if you wish).

One must 'sail the high seas' tovget content, of course...

Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (5 children)

What? Oh no, I had not written down the recipe for using gasoline to cook my spaghetti! Whatever shall I do?

What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors? in c/[email protected]
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Help back up the Great 78 Collections before the Record Companies force The Internet Archive to take them down! (yiffit.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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See linked posting. I've commented there with a link to a CLI tool in Python that allows downloading of IA collections. I've submitted a patch to enable specifying start and end points so that it's easier to resume downloading a huge collection, or to allow multiple people to split up the work.

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

https://archive.org/details/78rpm_bowling_green

F*ck the RIAA and absurdly long copyright.

EDIT: There is more than one collection of 78s on IA, so I updated the title.

The issue with these collections are that they're absolutely HUGE. And yes, IA offers torrents for them, but as a separate torrent for every. single. album. And the torrents have all data in them -- FLAC, fixed-rate MP3, VBR MP3, PDF liner notes, etc. etc... there may be some extremely hardcore data-hoarders out there who want everything, but IMHO as these are scratchy old 78 records, FLAC is overkill to just save the audio in a listenable format. The George Blood collection, just the VBR MP3s, is looking to be about 6TB. With ALL data it might be over 40TB! I can't afford that many hard drives :)

So, my approach at the moment is to save just the VBR MP3s (they seem to be done at up to 320kbps VBR) and the JPEG album cover. If I have a chance and any storage left afterwards, I can make a separate pass to get the album liner PDFs...

Tool used: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive

Patch to allow setting start and end item indices for downloads: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/pull/605

Example usage to grab just the VBR MP3 and record label JPG for each (note the --start-idx and --end-idx arguments):

#ia download --start-idx=4001 --end-idx=8000 -a -i --format="VBR MP3" --format="JPEG" --search collection:georgeblood

I'm going to concentrate on the George Blood collection for now.. I'm starting at item 1. It would be great if others started at index 50,000, 100,000, 150,000, ... and others started at the end and worked backwards in similarly-sized chunks, so that it's assured someone gets each of them.

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Louis Rossmann: Right to Repair isn't just about your Macbook (www.youtube.com)
 

Marked NSFW just in case :)

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