tomjuggler

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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms in c/technology
[–] tomjuggler 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What like OpenAI?

NewPipe was failing me today, so I reverted back to the YouTube app. After the first ad (20 seconds), the app gave me a permanent blur. in c/mildlyinfuriating
[–] tomjuggler 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just checked, they said it's done!

The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget‘ may have already undercut those hopes in c/technology
[–] tomjuggler 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Deepseek api is down today - probably a result of their viral success recently..

It's my 54th BD, left a $83K IT job last summer, interviewing at Lowe's tomorrow. Is it weird I'm looking forward to it? in c/asklemmy
[–] tomjuggler 4 points 1 month ago

I dropped out of the IT game before I even started (dropped out of an IT qualification 20yrs ago), and can honestly say it was totally worth it.

Now I spend some happy evenings working on IT side projects related to my main career (entertainment) and it's fun. I even make extra cash doing freelance programming but because it's not my main hustle I get to choose to say no.

What I'm saying is while you are at the hardware doing what you enjoy, there is nothing stopping you from doing freelance IT work on the side, just look for the projects that inspire you. It's not all or nothing decision..

A lesson in housekeeping in c/facepalm
[–] tomjuggler 15 points 2 months ago

We had a new washing machine that for the first two washes smelled really bad and made a screeching noise as well. Just before sending it back I noticed that we forgot to remove the styrofoam around the drum..

Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. in c/android
[–] tomjuggler 1 points 2 months ago

Actually capacity exceeds the original spec. Battery indicator seems accurate though.

Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. in c/android
[–] tomjuggler 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you that was the idea, In the missing tutorial I explain that I used batteries from a power bank with a broken usb. So yeah re-using stuff, this tablet should last 10 more years at least! https://www.circusscientist.com/upgrade-your-tablet-with-replaceable-batteries/

Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. in c/android
[–] tomjuggler 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? It never happened to me even after shorting one once.. There are some super cheap ones at the local Chinese store I was thinking of trying out, the brand ones are pretty reasonable already though, so that's what I use. Maybe will give the cheapies a miss at least for indoor projects

Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. in c/android
[–] tomjuggler 2 points 2 months ago

You are correct - I forgot to link to the tutorial page on my website where I'm pretty sure I explained that I'm fully aware of the risk and nobody should do this

Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. in c/android
[–] tomjuggler 1 points 2 months ago

If you get more likes on your comment I am willing to test this

Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. in c/android
[–] tomjuggler 1 points 2 months ago

Context I live in a country with an unreliable postal service and shit currency. Also batteries were free from an old power bank

Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. in c/android
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Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by tomjuggler to c/android
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Battery on my Android Tablet died, so I upgraded it with 18650 replaceable batteries. Tutorial with pics

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What are the bands that didn't get international recognition but still are absolute legends where you're from? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 months ago by tomjuggler to c/music
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I'll start - Tananas. It's basically the soundtrack to my early adulthood. They were the Dave Matthews band of South Africa.

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Xiaomi replaced my app from F-Droid with their own version (self.android)
submitted 11 months ago by tomjuggler to c/android
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So this just happened - those of you who have a Xiaomi phone know when you install apps it has it's own "Virus Checker" screen which comes up before the app is approved for install. This is provided by Avast I just found out..

Anyway while installing an app from F-droid today I got an error message on this screen - which said "app from unknown source" and two buttons below - "Ignore" and "Install". So I clicked on "Install" since I wanted to install the app and then noticed that the install process seemed a bit different (I can't remember what happened exactly) but I checked the app on F-Droid and the version history wasn't available - which a notice says means the app was installed from Play Store or somewhere else. But I just installed it from F-Droid!

So I tried another few apps and it happened again for one of them. I clicked around and there it was, some sort of Xiaomi app store installing versions of the app instead of the one I told my phone to install.

I guess there is an innocent explanation for this - stopping people from installing malware and giving them a "correct" version of the app they wanted - but I have disabled it on my phone, I know what I am doing and if I want the cracked version it's because that's the version I meant to install ;)

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Monkey Squirter ESP8266 project in action - keeping vervets away from the garbage bins. (www.instagram.com)
 

Code and circuit is here: https://www.circusscientist.com/monkey-detector-part-3-the-monkey-squirter/

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Alternative to Generating images: get AI to generate query for real image (Unsplash) (self.machinelearning)
 

Unsplash has a ton of free content and a great api - so I used the hugchat api to generate search queries based on some user input text and fetched images from there.

Buggy test site (using all free api's so will break frequently, free Unsplash* api is 50 pics/h) here: http://aisitegeneration.devsoft.co.za *sorry Unsplash I haven't added the attribution for photo's yet, I will soon ok?

Thoughts on this approach vs generative AI?

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I hired a pirate to take orders for my entertainment business - Circus Scientist (www.circusscientist.com)
 

Ahoy there, matey! Welcome aboard Big Top Entertainment, the finest entertainment company on the seven seas!

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