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Name: Steve Webb. Website: http://badcheese.com hntrades:fffb60d95a0390f786800037bc2cf6a737deba1b

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Comment · 4 months ago
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Comment · 4 months ago
Some free side-loadable android apps: http://badcheese.com/android

* Auto-Birthday - if you have a contact in your android contacts that has both a mobile number and a birthday in their contact info, you can choose to send them an automatic "Happy Birthday" message on their birthday at a specific time. Can do it with hundreds of contacts. Doesn't use hardly any battery or resources.

* Wrecker - stupid simple "throw a ball at a tower of bricks and try to clear the board" game. High score tables. Made in unity. High battery when in use, No battery use when not playing. Will use internet for high score data.

* GeoNote - Create Geo-fences to generate a notification when you enter a location with your custom text in the notification. My wife is always telling me, "Next time we're here, remind me to only order one piece of toast" or something like that, so I make a note, it pops up the next time we're there and we're both happy. Notes are stored locally. No internet access required. Uses Geo-Fencing which is more battery-friendly than always-on GPS access.

All my apps are free, very privacy-focused and as battery-friendly as possible.

No information leaves your device (other than the high score data in Wrecker).

You have to side-load my apps though. I'm not putting them on the Google Play Store. They're so annoying to deal with! OMG

Comment · 1 year ago
closed on mondays. :(
Comment · 1 year ago
mosh is awesome for ssh over iffy connections
Comment · 1 year ago
Things like "What is today's date" used to be enough (would usually return the date that the model was trained).

I recently did things like current events, but LLMs that can search the internet can do those now. i.e. Is the pope alive or dead?

Nowadays, multi-step reasoning is the key, but the Chinese LLM (I forget the name of it) can do that pretty well. Multi-step reasoning is much better at doing algebra or simple math, so questions like "what is bigger, 5.11 or 5.5?"

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't like that I can't connect to a RHEL 8 machine (that doesn't have a subscription enabled yet) without buying the Pro version of XPipe ($50). Definitely not in the open-source mindset.
Comment · 2 years ago
syncthing blows. Don't trust your data to it. Tons of posts on the forums about "out of sync" and no real answers other than "delete the database and start over". I've given syncthing a try over and over again for > 10 years and every time it fails to sync.

Use rsync.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Take long lunches and get something done around the house. You're working at home. Might as well make it worth while. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Wash your car. It doesn't have to be about work 100% of the time. If/when you do this, block some time off in your calendar for it so nobody is trying to contact you during this time.
Comment · 2 years ago
I just bought a 5 year old rugged Dell laptop on eBay for $50. Why would I pay a premium price for the top of the line laptop nowadays unless I was a game developer or my work is buying me a new laptop?
Comment · 2 years ago
This is just a map/reduce problem. Use Hadoop. It's Java, isn't it?
Comment · 3 years ago
30.5 - the Internet went commercial in the summer of '94
Comment · 3 years ago
Articles are shared so quickly nowadays, the 'making it public when they get enough tips' might not happen fast enough and it'd be the same experience for most people...

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