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someonehere commented on An annual blast of Pacific cold water did not occur   nytimes.com/2025/09/12/cl... · Posted by u/mitchbob
someonehere · 3 months ago
The YT channel Space Weather News covered this and the cause. Worth knowing what’s really going on with our universe.
someonehere commented on Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon   oregonlive.com/silicon-fo... · Posted by u/cbzbc
someonehere · 5 months ago
Part of me feels Intel was too high on the horse for years and the little ideas that were innovative were ignored. I knew Intel would be in this condition when Apple decided to move off of Intel. Apple’s switch was the canary in the coal mine. Intel wasn’t innovating and giving Apple what they wanted. So Apple, much like the little guys, found a way to innovate without them.
someonehere commented on Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
someonehere · 6 months ago
It’s bizarre, reading people here defending the artificial food dyes. Most of these are derived from petroleum. The stuff that comes out of the ground and powers your car and lubricates gears. It’s in your food and you’re OK with that?
someonehere commented on Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
neuroelectron · 6 months ago
I hope they remove them from animal food as well. Ol' Roy dog food uses tones of the stuff. Why?? So unnecessary.
someonehere · 6 months ago
One of the lesser known things about heavily processed dog food is kind of dark. People don’t realize that they use animals from shelters that have been put down in dog food. It’s been a while, but I had read a few years ago that they found three amounts of the medicine they used to put animals down in dog food. I also recall your before that reading that some shelters make money by selling the dead animals they put down to food processing companies.
someonehere commented on Whole Foods' primary distributor forced to shut down systems after cyberattack   cnn.com/2025/06/09/food/u... · Posted by u/mooreds
someonehere · 6 months ago
I was in two different WF over the last few days in different parts of California. Their produce aisles and dairy were really low on inventory. I guess I know why.
someonehere commented on An end to all this prostate trouble?   yarchive.net/blog/prostat... · Posted by u/bondarchuk
someonehere · 8 months ago
I’m glad we’re starting to talk about the prostate because I feel like for a long time. Men have been reluctant to talk about this more and more in society. I feel like women have their fair share problems as they get older, but men have equal amount of problems too we just don’t like to talk about it.

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someonehere commented on Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/luafox
someonehere · 8 months ago
I don’t trust Apple for this exact reason.

For those interested in the silver bullet to backup iCloud.

Get a Mac mini with enough space for your photo library and wire it into your network. Sign into iCloud.

For photos open the app and change the settings to store full res photos locally.

Enable iCloud desktop and documents sync.

Two options

1 - Sign up for Backblaze and ensure you map the folders from iCloud and photos that are being synced to the device. Let it run and do a full sync. I use this option.

2 - Buy an external drive with a lot of space and use Carbon Copy Cloner to mirror your drive. The caveat is your at the mercy of a local copy that a home fire or electrical incident can destroy.

I like Backblaze for the sheer constant syncing it does and they allow me to set up an encryption key so they don’t have access to my data.

someonehere commented on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative   coppolaemilio.com/entries... · Posted by u/coppolaemilio
someonehere · 8 months ago
If you haven’t been keeping up with Plex, self-hosters like myself and others are up in arms over the client rewrite. It feels like the Sonos update for us. Broken features. Useful functionality removed. UI that’s more streaming focused than self-hosting like it used to be.

If you haven’t gone down the Plex path yet, don’t right now as the community and developers sort out their roadmap. Plex seems to be open to feedback, but a lot of us feel betrayed. They had open user testing for the new apps but they didn’t implement or fix any of the reported issues.

someonehere commented on In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV   newslttrs.com/in-the-1980... · Posted by u/spzb
tech234a · 8 months ago
As a more recent example of a similar concept, TiVo would distribute guide data to their DVRs using encoded video broadcast during overnight Paid Programming time slots. The practice ran from about 1999 to 2016. Around 2016, TiVo discontinued support for guide data updates for their first-generation Series1 DVRs. I couldn't find much information about these broadcasts online, though someone did post a clip of one from 2003 [1], there are a few copies of more recent introduction and conclusion animations [2], and there is some information about them on Wikipedia [3]. It could be a fun project to try to decode it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnu97CHDrYI

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial#TiVo

someonehere · 8 months ago
I worked with the guy that created that. It wasn’t at TiVO but a gaming company. He said it was also how they updated the TiVO firmware. It’s been years but I recall him telling the story about how they updated the TiVO using channels that were encoded a specific way.

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KarmaCake day943July 5, 2017View Original