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movq
Reply to #iefub6q
Okay, GPS performance has degraded a lot over the last few days.

- Time to first fix is a couple of minutes now, instead of 5-30 seconds.
- Accuracy is reduced greatly, probably because the phone can one lock on to about 6-12 satellites, this used to be around 30 satellites.

In theory and under good conditions, you need 4 satellites to get a fix. But in reality, there are rarely “good conditions”, there are always buildings, hills, or trees nearby, so you need as many satellites as you can possibly get.

It’s not *completely useless* (yet), but it’s not great. I think I’m gonna lift some firewall restrictions. 🫤
3 hours ago
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movq
Reply to #px274va
@prologic Ahhh, I right, now I remember. That `ai.txt` boils down to this, I guess:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /
4 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #px274va
@movq Found it!

ai.txt: A new way for websites to set permissions for AI
5 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #px274va
@movq Only found 3 results for "robotst.xt" and OpenAI 😢 I seem to recall an effort (_I cannot find_) to build a standard for AI Crawlers similar to `robots.txt`
5 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #6wcpwma
@mckinley Define "fundamental internet protocol"? Do you mean fundamental things that make the Internet work like IP, TCP, DNS, various routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, etc? Or things more like application protocols like IRC, HTTP, etc?
5 hours ago
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movq
Reply to #px274va
… or maybe I should do this based on allowlisting rather than blocklisting. 🤔 Only allow a couple of bots that I think are fine …
6 hours ago
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movq
Anyone got a link to a robots.txt that “blocks” all the “AI” stuff?
6 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji LOL which I block on purpose 🤣
15 hours ago
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movq
Reply to #sp3wdea
I was able to dig up StarOffice 3.1, which I used in the 1990’ies on Windows 95. This was the highlight of my day. 🥰 As you can see in the photo below, this CD includes a version for Windows 3.1, 95/NT – and OS/2! How cool is that? My CD back then did not have the OS/2 version.

StarWriter of StarOffice 3.1 can do a lot of the stuff that I’m missing in the tool at work. Like automatic numbering of sections/chapters and cross-references to other parts of the document. Essential basic stuff like that.

All the following screenshots are from QEMU VMs (OS/2 2.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows 98), but I think I’m gonna install this on my real OS/2 Warp 4 box soon. 🧓

https://movq.de/v/eebbe648a5/

What really blew my mind is this feature, though: You can rearrange your document’s structure using drag-and-drop. Here’s a demo (Window 2000):

https://movq.de/v/67523d0d3f/so31.mp4

I really, really wish the tool at work would have a feature like that. It would have saved me so much time already. 😭
20 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji Bahahaha 🤣 The domain for that image is blocked on my local network 😅
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji Good luck! 🤞
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #66sdgyq
@mckinley I see 🤔
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #xpz5p3a
@rrraksamam You sure that’s enough? My laptop already has 32 GB RAM. You gotta pump those numbers up!
1 day ago
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zhi-hu-mei-ri-jing-xuan
**想认真记录旅行中看到的风景，有哪些相机值得购买？**
在我20年的摄影生涯里，占据主流比例的就是旅行摄影，对于想认真拍摄旅行风景的朋友来说，还真不是越贵越好，而是合适的最好。



旅行摄影对于相机来说，关键并不是画质有多好，对焦有多强，而是要轻便。因为旅行摄影的关键是要发现美景，其实是相机在你身边，如果你扛着一个画质无敌对焦超强的大机器，但是嫌太累，没法去到风景好的地方，那还是白搭。在轻便的前提下，画质要比对焦重要。因为旅行摄影有相当多的静态画面拍摄，比如美景，美食，建筑，博物馆静物等等，即便是拍人，很多也是摆拍，目前哪怕是非常入门的对焦配置拍这些题材也可游刃有余。而更好的画质，可以让你在后期的时候有更大的空间，以及在前期拍摄的时候对设置有更大的容错度。


2 days ago
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zhi-hu-mei-ri-jing-xuan
**有哪些装机方案，能够完美兼顾游戏与生产力需求？**
目前这两个需求确实高度雷同，特别是消费级HEDT平台势微之后，CPU/主板配置部分都更加相似/通用，基本原则就是明显自己的预算、喜好及锁定对应的显卡GPU级别，其它配件基本就是对应配置。

## 618虎哥的装机方案推荐

PC DIY这块个人算资深老玩家，在知乎也分享过众多千赞回答及咨询，荣幸获得网友及平台认可，成为电脑 DIY、电脑硬件话题优秀答主及2023 好物推荐官。

**装机预算要花在刀把还是刀刃上？**

装机预算要花在刀把还是刀刃上？具体要看哪些地方对你是真的有“价值”。

虎哥平时的装机方案分享，如果说有什么不同，大概就是尽量追求“均衡性”，尽量不追求某方面特性的极致，虽然不少人关注我的主要原因，是相关作业的 **“视觉效果”**，但其实 **“实用”** 和 **“性价比”** 同样也是我看中的属性，所以这次618整理了这些方案，尽量兼顾这三个属性，方便大家无脑抄作业。

去年作业的视频参考：

这次推荐的方案综合考量了 ... ⌘ Read more
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #66sdgyq
@mckinley What happened to it? 🤔
2 days ago
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movq
Reply to #5dwby2a
@prologic Yeah, I was just surprised by that low number, because I still have 126 feeds in my list. Buuuuuut I guess I could clean that up a bit as well. 🥴
3 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #5dwby2a
@movq To be fair Twtxt has always been quite niche. Yarn picked up interest a bit a few years back, but then things died down a bit. I built `yarnd` for me, I continue to use it and improve it every now and again. But I guess the only uses we'll continue to see and that includes new folks are folks that give a shit about simple things, and see value in a slow, privacy focused medium? 🤔
3 days ago
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movq
Reply to #5dwby2a
@prologic Not a lot left, huh 🤔
3 days ago
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prologic
Cut my following list down to just a mere ~47 feeds. ~11 rss/news feeds, 23 local feeds from my pod, and 13 external feeds.
3 days ago
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movq
Reply to #sd3pb4q
@aelaraji lol, yeah, that would be great 😂

@lyse @mckinley Huh, I envy you. 😅 I was browsing my GitHub stars, clicked `Next` a couple of times and then hit the `back` button on my mouse. Boom, I don’t get back to the previous page but to my profile page: https://github.com/vain?tab=stars

At work, it is absolutely pointless to expect forward/backward to work. *Almost everything* breaks. Maybe some older Jira still works, but that’s about it.
3 days ago
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zhi-hu-mei-ri-jing-xuan
**如何选择合适的显卡，能够兼顾娱乐和生产力需求？**
大家好，我是Wallace，一名硬件发烧友，知乎显卡区常驻答主（连续日更第935天）。近年显卡价格坚挺，让我有机会不断回血购买不同的显卡，同时也形成了买电子产品看残值率的消费习惯。在两年半时间里，我体验并测试了68款显卡，对显卡选购问题已经非常熟悉，应邀来回答下显卡选购问题。

以往很多知友挑选显卡都喜欢参考显卡天梯图，上来先分个三六九等，比如旗舰、次旗舰、高端、中端、甜品、低端，靠显卡厂家给的定位来挑选显卡。相比于厂家给的名头，还是根据自己的实际需求来选择显卡更合理一些。

对于游戏显卡，需要首先考虑自己准备玩哪些类型的游戏，搭配多少分辨率刷新率的显示器。对于生产力显卡，需要明确具体的生产力场景，比如本地部署LLM、AI绘图、工业设计、视频剪辑、建模渲染等等，不同场景对显卡的要求很不一样，很难单独用“生产力”或者“游戏”单个词来概括。接下来我分点来详细谈谈。

【文章非常长，有用记得收藏 \+ 关注 @Wallace
3 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #d3drzhq
@news Err I meant "junk" 🤣 (_too late to edit, cbf editing it manually or via the API/CLI 😅_)
4 days ago
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news
New feature (_not a great UX, sorry 😞_) that displays the last fetched feed status, last error (_if any_) and error count in your "Following" list. Check it out and cleanup your feeds for "hunk" 👌
4 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Could also just be a shitty antenna 😅
4 days ago
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prologic
I just unfollowed some ~200+ feeds that are basically dead "404 Not Found" 😳
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #iefub6q
@prologic I sure hope you’re right. 😅 I’d love nothing more than not having to rely on the internet for this. 🤞

(I clearly remember sitting in my car and waiting an eternity to get a fix, though. I’d regularly start the GPS device and then continue to load up my bags/stuff into the car because it took so long. 😅 Maybe it was just a shitty device, who knows …)
4 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Well I used to have a handheld GPS device, probably before I lost most of my sight. I didn't really feel that it took ~12m to get a fix, it was usually much faster. You _may_ just find that all this A-GPS thing is all just bullshit anyway and just an excuse to collect and store your GPS location on some random web server that someone else owns 🤣
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #iefub6q
The GPS satellites transmit an almanac, a (coarse) list of all satellite positions:

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1739

That’s apparently crucial for a low “time to first fix” and, as I understand it, that’s where A-GPS comes into play: Downloading this information from the satellites takes about 12.5 minutes, but downloading it via the internet (A-GPS) is much faster.

So the question is: How long is this data valid for? It’s a bit hard to find information on this … It looks like it’s valid for several *weeks*:

https://flysight.ca/wiki/index.php/Almanac_and_ephemeris

If true, it would mean the situation is much less dramatic than I thought. 😅 I go on a walk every couple of days and that gives the device more than enough time to download an updated almanac. So, I *guess* I should be fine without A-GPS *if* I regularly use (standard) GPS for an hour or so. 🤔

We’ll see. This might take a couple of months to find out. 😂
4 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #kfr5vja
If Sam Altman really wanted "AI" to be in the hands of the people, he a) Should not have made deals with multiple devils that turned OpenAI into a proprietary company. b) Sold most of the company to Microsoft.
4 days ago
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prologic
hey @oevl you're still around right? I'm not imagining it 😅 How are ya? 🤔
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #sp3wdea
I’m gonna need some medication if I have to keep doing this. 😬 It’s infuriating.

Automatically numbered sections, 1978 in `nroff` / `ms`: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-Release/usr/man/man7/ms.7#L231-L233
4 days ago
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movq
Thinking about disabling the two extra buttons for “forward” and “backward” on my mouse, because today’s websites don’t support this anymore, and it’d safe me the constant moments of “oh for fuck’s sake”. 🙄
4 days ago
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zhi-hu-mei-ri-jing-xuan
**21世纪之后还诞生过哪些全球公认的名画作品？**
我首先想到的是Matthew Wong，一名如生涯如流星般短暂的加拿大华裔画家。

准确的来说，我提名的不是他的任何一幅画，而是他本人。Matthew Wong，中文名王俊傑，于1984年出生于多伦多，7岁时搬去香港，15岁回到多伦多。他2007年于密西根州立大学安娜堡毕业，专业是文化人类史学。2012年于香港城市大学毕业，攻读的是摄影。

但是他并不认为摄影能完美地表达他所想的，于是他早在硕士期间就开始尝试了绘画。他将中国传统的抽象水墨元素和西式的油画结合在了一起。他的作品有着克里姆特和席勒的装饰性图案感，也有着自学油画前辈亨利卢梭的平面感，有着马蒂斯的多彩，也有着中国画的含蓄。

可惜，他在于图雷特综合症斗争了一生后，终于2019年35岁时自杀身亡。当时，他被艺术界认为是一颗冉冉升起的新星，可却在他如火箭般上升的时候，他的生涯截然而止。

在中国互联网上，他至少算是小有名气。华裔的身份，自学的绘画，与精神疾病的斗争，和在走上最高舞台后不久 ... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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zhi-hu-mei-ri-jing-xuan
**历史上有哪些如神一般存在的人物？**
在公元前18世纪的巴比伦，生活着一名铜商，他的名字叫做埃纳希尔（Ea Nasir），他隶属于一个叫做“Alik Tilmen”的商人行会。埃纳希尔是这个商会里的一名普通成员，平时主要靠往返于波斯湾附近的迪尔蒙市（Dilmun）与巴比伦南部的乌尔市（Ur）之间交易原料铜为生。

但当考古学家对他的家进行了发掘后，他们意外地在一个房间里发现了堆积如山的泥板，上面写满了对埃纳希尔的抱怨和投诉。这些投诉从各个角度出发，批评埃纳希尔铜的质量、他的服务态度、发货速度等等。

除了扭曲的性格外，很难想象还有什么别的原因能让一个人不以为耻反以为荣地把如此数量的投诉在自己家里单独腾出一个房间收藏起来。



在埃纳希尔所有的顾客里，一个叫尼加南纳的人可能是被坑得最惨的，他寄给埃纳希尔的泥板上 ... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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zhi-hu-mei-ri-jing-xuan
**当名画《拾穗者》PK《千里江山图》，你觉得哪幅画在你心中更胜一筹？**
**在我心中的观感，《千里江山图》胜过《拾穗者》，无论是从画面的直观视觉冲击力还是背后故事的传奇性，我觉得《千里江山图》在我的喜好中，都要更胜一筹。**



我自小学画，在长大后也从事设计相关工作，对于艺术作品这人类瑰宝一直都抱有极大的兴趣，这次知乎组织的活动十分有趣，我想按照理性的评测模式尝试进行对比，来得出这感性与理性交加的结论。

个人觉得，作为人文艺术类，名画PK不同于科技数码产品测评，不仅仅是拼画面效果、艺术独创性的这些硬指标，还需要考虑到这幅画所代表的人文故事，以及带给后世的影响意义这几个软性指标。

下面我将从这几个方向来说下我的看法，本评价仅为我个人观点。

## 一、画面效果

让我们来对比下这两幅画的直观画面效果。

... ⌘ Read more
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #ghroc5q
I’m (just) old enough to have experienced the German Democratic Republic first hand and if they had had *any* of these capabilities … 🙈🙈🙈
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #ghroc5q
@mckinley Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh! 🙈🙈🙈 What a mess …
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #f5xzzha
@mckinley Wow, nice. 😍
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #ghroc5q
@mckinley Thanks for the info. 🤔

This is quite bizarre. Why are we accepting this? 🤔 I guess it just doesn’t matter to people when they use Google for everything anyway (mail, Google Drive, …) … 😒 Bah.

It’s extra “funny” in my case, because I run that Matrix server myself, so I assumed that data is only sent between that server and the clients. But no, of course not, lots of things still get shoved through Google and Apple. 😂😭 How silly.
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #yonaqra
@mckinley Looks pretry interestinf 🤔
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #hw74veq
Sorry folks, it was a total disaster 🤣 Had to disable the new feature 😢

- ran out of disk space
- blew up the db on this pod (_corrupted_)
- lots of missing features and. broken shit™
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #2nqa6vq
And we're back!
6 days ago
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news
Reply to #3kqbdxq
@news And we're back!
6 days ago
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news
👋 This Pod (https://twtxt.net) will go offline for ~15m shortly, while I perform an offline index of the archive.
6 days ago
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prologic
👋 This Pod (https://twtxt.net) will go offline for ~15m shortly, while I perform an offline index of the archive.
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #hw74veq
@xuu You got any time/energy to help me test this? 🤔 There's a process for indexing an existing archive too...
6 days ago
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prologic
Okay, I've built full search capabilities for `yarnd` 😅 Let's see how many bugs I've created 🤣
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq I _think_ my daughter might be finally 🤔 She's 9 now and getting into table tennis 🏓 whoot whoot! 🥳 So... Maybe...
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #qmttc3q
Yeah nothing being logged, so all the "golden paths" are being executed hmm 🧐
6 days ago
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