[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

As a professional juggler practised early on to do things with either hand - whether it's washing dishes or putting a key in the door.. just paying attention to how you do things. Now can take juggle 3 balls in either hand

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

As a former Android developer, you can't just do anything in an android app on a modern smartphone. The system is fighting you for resources the whole time. It makes sense to have something like this running as root on a device that you control.

Not that I'm sold on it, just saying..

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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.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

I'm my county a high percentage of cars have GPS trackers fitted already - by the owner - because of the high vehicle theft rate.

I imagine if that police here just have to call up the tracking company to achieve the same result - something to think about actually (I don't have one, my car isn't worth much)

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I mostly use PipePipe on android, from f-droid store. It's basically New pipe but more reliable and can also view Chinese and Japanese video platforms

On desktop Freetube can't be beat

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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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[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

AI models get more dishonest if you ask them to respond as if they were a pirate: https://www.circusscientist.com/2023/11/13/i-hired-a-pirate-to-take-orders-for-my-entertainment-business/

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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?

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I've been told it is bad, I really like it (it's my own site)

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

ChatGPT is incredibly useful for summarising. The next step is to automate the whisper transcription, and add some tts for the replies. So you can talk to it directly

I'm curious did it not lose the plot at any point? I find after a certain amount of questions it rambles a bit - that's on 3.5 though..

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

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Yeah ok but my affiliate links what happens to them?

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Fun meme but corporate job listings in my town contradict the premise.

Let them C# I'm sticking to C++ and Python.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I was about 19, a magician friend told me I was good enough at juggling to do busking but I was too shy. Decided to give it a go anyway and remember shaking so hard while lighting the fire torches I was using. Made R30 ($2) so not a lot but I did it. I remember thinking to myself, "I'll never have to work again!"

That was over 20 years ago, and since then - with the exception of that stupid pandemic we had recently - I have made a decent living as a circus performer and magician.

I won't tell you it wasn't a bumpy ride at first, but that first show was the turning point for me I will never forget.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's in South Africa. You can't legally buy a TV without showing your TV license here.

Luckily this does not apply to computer monitors although there are some in our government who want it to be an obligatory national tax instead - due to widespread non-compliance. The fees support a bloated and corrupt nationalised public broadcaster.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

In my country you are charged a license fee for the privilege of owning a tv. That's why I always only had a PC attached to a monitor instead.

Nowadays that is replaced with a dirt cheap orange pi running libreelec (Kodi) which also runs pi-hole in the background for all of the other devices on the network.

The setup is a bit of a hassle but it's a vast improvement on the interface and functionality of friends "Smart TV" experiences in my opinion. I even set it up to work with an old TV remote as the pi has IR built in, although there are phone apps to do remote control also.

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