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    Nolan’s The Odyssey gets a new trailer, and we’re here for it

    Although much death and despair happen to people associated with Odysseus I always hated the fate of Argos the dog - I'd go see this if they changed his part of the story. 😥
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    Our newsroom AI policy

    I like Doctorow's use of the Centaur reverse Centaur analogy, you want to be the originator of ideas (head) , tools should help you move faster(extra legs). You don't want to be the ass part :\ I've developed decision support tools for clinicians and enhancing ability for clinician to do top of...
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    Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama’s MLX support

    Definatley depends on the use case. I have a local model I use for local home assistant control and it has been good enough for the last few months (meets spousal certification). I really use it so the rest of the family can use casual requests to query the house and not need to be to...
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    Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

    So does this mean that if I do it Google dance once on a new install or new phone I can just install after that forever? Or will I need to do this every time I update the os etc? Well this does motivate me to get back to self installed roms or try grapheneos on my old pixel. I hope the...
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    Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

    Exact same setup, has been pretty solid for years for 5 people. Since I have a mixed OS homestead I have to support IOS which I do via mobious sync- it tries hard but IOS limitations can make it a bit less likely to stay in sync with out some nudging. I do like like keepassium for keepass file...
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    Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power

    I was hoping earlier in the year that he would be added to the excellent detrumpify addon which replaces undesirable names with insults and pictures of them with things like puppies. However, it was banned by chrome store and firefox after be reported that it "threatens protected groups"...
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    Please send help. I can’t stop playing these roguelikes.

    The Bastion story narration as you play through the story really worked for me, also the package I got has the sound track and Darren Korb's sheet music, which is the first game I got that had that! I still play those on the guitar at times. I still need to get to transistor. Hades is great...
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    Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

    Cool, just dropped into an UT game (the excellent sniper forward CTF Face) and practiced my sniping. I'm old school so I like inverted y-axis on my mouse, so I got my ass kicked - I'm sure that's why ; ). I remember some pretty amazing mods for UT/UT2 my friends and I spent to much time on...
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    Stranded astronaut finds an alien ally in Project Hail Mary trailer

    Came to say this! We listened to this on a intermountain west roadtrip to various national parks and it kept a 3 generation family, sci fi and non sci fi fans riveted. I might need to revist before the movie.
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    Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

    I've been pretty happy with reolink cameras/video doorbell. If you like they can be set up without internet, and run locally with their app, or via the camera's web server - I use it with a home assistant integration which is supported fully by reolink, and is all local, and I don't use the...
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    Alexa’s survival hinges on you buying more expensive Amazon devices

    We had some renovations in our kitchen so our first gen dot went into storage and I never bothered setting it back up when the work was done a year ago. The things I missed most was setting timers, music control, and some general device controls for scene's, but home assistant's voice control...
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    Our fave Star Wars duo is back in Mandalorian and Grogu teaser

    By Pedro's beard, what the hell! - even though I am a fan of the Mandalorian, like others I will have to wait till this is released . . . . as a torrent. Even the Mandalorian (as well as I assume the child*) are not happy with Disney folding like et bantha hair...
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    Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America

    https://meincmagazine.com/cars/2025/04/amazon-backed-startup-wants-to-sell-a-bare-bones-ev-truck-for-20000/ Hopefully pans out and gives options for a "dumb" ev. I wish we had more street charging options in the USA similar to Scandinavian countries, but I have a co-working who rents but charges...
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    Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year—here’s the factory

    According to C&D its in the instrument/dashboard screen: "A digital gauge cluster doubles as the rearview camera display" https://www.caranddriver.com/slate/truck
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    Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations

    +1 for this, my main use for voice assistants was to set timers and occasionally turn of some lights -home assistant is really making this easier to roll something out that is local and open source. https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/
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    Yep, RFK Jr. appoints anti-vaccine advocates to CDC vaccine panel

    I'm in in a similar boat with my patients and my patience, with this administration - the damage of Malone's misinformation is lasting, and giving him this false credibility through this position just makes it harder to talk your average patient down from that misinformation.
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    Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris

    I'll add runbox (runbox.com) to the pile, based in Norway, and have been around for a long, long time. I think I've had an account for 20 ish years with them, I use it mostly for clients, supports your own domain, etc.