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decryption, 1 month ago to random

it has come to my attention that people need help returning to piracy after years of paying for streaming services! i wrote a nice introductory blog post on how to set up an automated piracy machine

https://blog.decryption.net.au/t/a-fully-automated-usenet-piracy-machine-with-plex-sabnzbd-and-sonarr/130

decryption, 16 days ago to random

can you believe someone drew this as a vector illustration back in 1992?? found it on the cover CD of Personal Computer World, July 1994

http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/22928/pcw-0794.bin/mac/Adobe%20Demos/Adobe%20Illustrator%E2%84%A2%205.0/Illustrator%E2%84%A2%20Samples/Illustrations/Color%20Macintosh

decryption, 14 days ago to random

I just got an ad on Instagram from Apple that has them shoving a bunch of things we love (music, games, art) and squeezing it with a hydraulic press into an unrecognisable smush that turns into an iPad. Incredible optics, what a metaphor for the crushing effect big tech has on anything fun and creative whenever it gets involved.

decryption, 14 days ago to random

enjoying a talk about GlobalTalk from @DrJosh9000

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decryption, 1 year ago to random

Just reminding the fine folk of Mastodon that I publish The Sizzle - a daily email newsletter that covers tech news with an Aussie take.

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Here's a sample of yesterday's issue.

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decryption, 11 days ago to random

now that's a movie review

decryption, 3 months ago to random

Love* how Facebook just sends out random notifications to read Pauline Hanson’s nonsense. Good and normal.

decryption, 6 days ago to random

anyone making this argument is 100% missing the point of why apple's ad sucked - it wasn't about the physical items getting destroyed, it was the metaphor of the world's biggest company compressing all the creative, human, cherished things into a boring, soulless computer that it controls and owns and makes all the money on

decryption, 16 days ago to random

Issue 2082 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• Draft of revamped Privacy Act law coming in August

• Google lets Aussies remove personal info

• StackOverflow and OpenAI do a deal

• The Standards Australia's Reading Room is crap

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decryption, 3 days ago to random

Issue 2091 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• OpenAI's "superalignment" team disbanded, signs lifetime non-disparagement agreement on way out

• Microsoft's CO2 emissions & water use see big increases thanks to AI rush

• iOS 17.5 has a bug that un-deletes random iCloud photos

• New LPCAMM2 form factor makes RAM thin & user replaceable

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decryption, 10 days ago to random

sell your car or sell your apartment - problem solved

decryption, 11 months ago to random

saw this on Facebook, immediately purchasing

decryption, 11 months ago to random

this is cool

decryption, 14 days ago to random

Issue 2084 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• US blocks chip sales to China & invests in local development

• The Aussie government is digging for gold

• Here come the armed robo-dogs

• AI and the debate of raising the dead

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decryption, 3 months ago to random

Issue 2021 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• TVs sold in Australia will need to come preloaded with iView, SBS On Demand, 7plus, 9Now and 10 Play

• Gmail's strict email server policies are in effect now

• Apple Vision Pro hot takes and random info from around the internet

• Indulge me in this rant about lack of free access to Australian Standards

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decryption, 4 months ago to random

Issue 2007 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• Kayo will finally stream 4K sports in 2024

• AdBlock browser plugin bug causing YouTube to go slow, not YouTube's fault, use uBlock Origin instead

• Copilot Pro now available for an extra $33/m for Microsoft 365 subscribers

• Audio Hijack will soon not require a tedious install process

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decryption, 15 days ago to random

Issue 2083 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• New iPads Pro with M4 SoC, Apple Pencils & iPad Air with M2 SoC

• UniSuper ran into a very rare Google Cloud bug that's taken them offline for over a week

• New Nintendo Switch coming by April 2025, Pixel 8a is out, Netcomm acquired by US company

• First crowdsourced data from the National Audit of Mobile Coverage is available

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decryption, 11 months ago to random

Anyone know of online services that are using passkeys as an authentication method? I’ve use eBay and there’s Google/Apple/Microsoft - who else is using passkeys?

decryption, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

oh cool, the first data from the National Audit of Mobile Coverage (first time govt has independently tried to map mobile coverage in Australia instead of relying on the telcos to self-report) is now live

https://d1zckiwudrcznp.cloudfront.net/

decryption, 23 days ago to random

Issue 2077 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• US-based PsiQuantum gets $1b from AU govt to build "world's first fault-tolerant error-corrected corrected quantum computer" in Australia

• Review of Optus 000 failure complete, government to make a few changes

• EU determines iPad OS is also a "digital gatekeeper"

• Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Intel N100 benchmarks & specs comparison

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decryption, 11 months ago to random

If you're a Melbourne/VIC Sizzle subscriber, please log in to the forum and vote on this topic :)

https://forum.thesizzle.com.au/t/sizzle-show-tell-lunch-dinner-weekend/1912

decryption, 23 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

Anyone got any clues on a "smart" (i.e: Zigbee/Ethernet/something that works with Home Assistant) zone controller I can use to replace my current one?

decryption, 1 year ago to random

lol as if the old footscray hospital site isn't going to be a 100m apartment tower - how do you think the government could afford to build the new hospital???

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/if-you-build-it-we-will-swim-footscray-residents-would-dig-a-new-lake-20230503-p5d5dq.html

decryption, 2 days ago to random

Issue 2092 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• Microsoft launches "Copilot+ PCs", further pushing AI as a core Windows feature

• OpenAI used Scarlett Johansson's voice for GPT-4o despite Scarlett rejecting the offer twice

• Telstra to sack 2,800 staff, mostly from its Enterprise division

• Beware of the sharks circling your favourite browser extensions

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decryption, 12 hours ago to random

also eSIMs are a mistake for your primary phone number - making your phone number beholden to an app?? bad idea, good for burner/travel numbers though