Also #TIL, you could connect to a remote #SMB share right from the native Files app on your #iPhone. Did just that and copied over some BIOS files and ROMs, now I'm off to the races.
I'm grudgingly impressed. Here's the quick test I did.
Me: Are machine learning algorithms a robust way to create AI?
Pi: Machine learning algorithms are definitely a powerful tool for creating AI. They allow computers to learn from data, rather than being explicitly programmed, which can lead to more flexible and adaptable AI systems. However, like any technology, machine learning is not a silver bullet.
I have some Shortcuts automations on iOS that speak text, and sometimes the voice is very quiet, and sometimes it shouts at me at full volume, and adjusting the device volume has no effect on it. Well, #TIL you can tell Siri, “Set your volume to 40” (the number is a percentage of the max volume), and that affects the automation speech level. Problem solved!
#TIL There are a lot of dead "pixels" on JWST's NIRSpec Micro Shutter Array. Every "pixel" is actually a tiny MEMS shutter with moving parts and there are 249,660 of them, so making a defect-free one is impractical. The most amusing part is that the ground control plans to repower short-circuited "pixels" every now and then to fix some by burning contaminants away.
#fsspec (https://github.com/fsspec/filesystem_spec/) and how to use it in your code (change open() with fsspec.open()) and how to extend it with your own custom url schemes let it work in pandas/polar/...
#TIL that installing a #Brother printer with @debian is simply a piece of cake. 🍰 I just pressed all the necessary buttons and it works out of the box. 🤯 So far, that has never ever happened before. I didn't even have to install any drivers. I'm flabbergasted! 😮
TIL that coelacanths (those supposedly extinct fish that were found to be still around) can grow up to SIX AND A HALF FRIGGIN' FEET LONG and weigh up to 200 LBS!
That's not a fish-- that's the whole seafood section!
💛💙Saying farewell to Ants Kitchen Hub in Kyiv today. I donated lifesaving tourniquets and helped prepare nutritious dry meals for the frontline heroes.
🌻It’s been an honor serving alongside such incredible people, especially the babusias whose strength and dedication are a powerful symbol of Ukrainian resilience.
I’ll miss you all dearly, but I promise to return and continue my support from the United States. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
#TIL: There are two formats to put something in /etc/apt/sources.list.d: The one-line format that most people know about, and the multi-line "Deb822" format.
With the latter, you can simply add the ascii-armored version of the repo's OpenPGP key into the same file!
Take care to indent the key by one space. The empty line after "BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" is mandatory and needs to contain a single dot. And the filename has to end in ".sources".
As with "cyberbullying" or any other neologism created by adding "cyber" to the start, I think it would be better to just stick with the un-prefixed term. Adding "online" or "digital" or other qualifying terms as appropriate to the usage.
Why? Because these terms imply these are new problems, specific to the net. Whereas they're just the same old problems, using into digital means.
What happens when you go to a work conference (KubeCon in Paris) and then go straight from that to a hobby one (PKM Summit in Utrecht)? Well, in my case, you throw together a talk that's a mix of both of those passions. Here's me rehashing a talk I did at PKM Summit that was all about relating system observability to what it might mean to make your Personal Knowledge Management system observable too: https://youtu.be/i-uNtkre1aE
#TIL that actual #VisionImpaired people have pointed out that the #ableism in the term "time blindness" (in my context, associated with #ADHD) and have requested that we sighted folk refrain from using it.
Never occurred to me, as I'm privileged, but it makes sense. Time isn't something anyone can actually "see" anyway, so nobody can be "blind" to it. What happens with ADHD (& with other neurodivergences too, I assume, I just don't know which ones) is that we don't perceive the passage of