HeartyBeast

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Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 4 months ago

If the police lose, you really lose

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is reportedly worried about an OpenAI deal with Apple in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

Rapid rollout of clean technologies makes energy cheaper, not more costly in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 12 points 4 months ago

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

The level of engagement on Reddit these days in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold. in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 points 4 months ago

It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel in c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

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Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
 

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

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iOS 17.3 Released. These Are the New Features on Your iPhone (www.cnet.com)
 

Apple released the latest iOS update to the general public on Monday.

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I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System (www.nytimes.com)
 

Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria. But the agency’s plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.

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Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units (www.theregister.com)
 

Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces

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Decent brand external drive for Time Machine backups? (kbin.social)
 

My TM drive has just failed and I'm looking for an alternative. There have been so many mergers and rebranding among drive manufacturers over the last few years and noise about how previously good brands have been taken over and now sell junk, I'm trying ti get a steer on which ones are still decent.

Looking for 4TB - to be honest, happy woth spinning rust as it is only for backup the speed of an SSD not really needed.

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Air Video HD video streaming software seems to have been abandoned. Does anyone know a good alternative? (kbin.social)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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For many years, I've used the excellent https://airvideo.app - it has a free little server component that runs on a Mac and a paid for iOS app that lets you watch on the device or stream to Chromecast or Apple TV.

I wanted to give my kids access to my ripped movie collection, but the app seems to have gone missing from the (UK) Appstore - and the developers aren't answering e-mail.

So. Here's what I'd like.

Something that will show me the contents of my folder of video files on my Mac and let me stream to my TV.

I've had a look at

  • Plex Hugely overly complex - tries to be an entire media manager for everything in the world

  • VLC Streamer By HobbyistSoftware. Kinda OK, but seems to take up about 300% of my M1 iMac CPU and is a bit clunky.

Any other recommendations?

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What does Game Mode do? (eclecticlight.co)
 

Apple claims it gives a game highest priority CPU and GPU access, and reduces Bluetooth input and audio latencies too. Does it, though?

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Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro — Prolost (prolost.com)
 

Free LUTs for iPhone 15 Pro Log Video

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PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma (eclecticlight.co)
 

For the last 39 years, PostScript has been at the heart of the Mac, bringing desktop publishing, fonts, and the LaserWriter and other printers. It has been removed from Sonoma.

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Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working - Blog | Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
 

The macOS 14 Sonoma betas and release candidate contain a bug that causes the firewall to not filter traffic correctly. As a result, our app does not work.

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