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I've been writing online at various sites since 2003, mostly about a wide variety of topics including web development, tech, food and whatever else I feel like writing and sharing.
New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter
On Wednesday, Twitter employees had the tech equivalent of a snow day: the company’s Slack instance was down for “routine maintenance,” they were told, and the company was implementing a deployment freeze as a result.
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What is going on with Fitbit?
These days, Fitbit users seem to be asking each other the same question: is it me, or is the app down for everybody else, too? Between frequent server outages and a recent decision to shutter popular social features, frustrated Fitbit customers say they’re weighing their options.
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BOBOVR M2 Plus Head Strap For Meta Quest 2
You want to be comfortable if you wear a VR headset for long, and also having a backup battery or two doesn't hurt. This strap provides both of those features.
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Instant Pot Tuscan Chicken
Make this Italian-inspired Creamy Instant Pot Tuscan Chicken. Tender chicken immersed in simple yet richly balanced creamy garlic sauce with caramelized mushrooms and sweet sun-dried tomatoes. Crazy satisfying easy weeknight meal!
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Google Stadia had less than 10% market share among cloud gaming services
In new statistics shared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), we’ve learned that Google Stadia had significantly fewer active users than most other cloud gaming services.
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Deploy Directus to Dokku
Adding Directus to your dokku stack is fast and easy.
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Microsoft Announces New AI-Powered Bing Search and Edge Web Browser
“ To empower people to unlock the joy of discovery, feel the wonder of creation and better harness the world’s knowledge, today we’re improving how the world benefits from the web by reinventing the tools billions of people use every day, the search engine and the browser.”
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Marry Me Chicken
This creamy chicken dish is family-friendly, and always a crowd-pleaser! All you need to make this wonderful dish are just a few ingredients and half an hour from your time.
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Bard: Google’s Conversational AI Chat
“We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard”
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Back to the SSR
When servers were in Swiss basements, all they had to serve was static HTML. Maybe, if you were lucky, you got an image.
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Picking a self-hosted Feed Reader
I used to use Google Reader back in the day then from Google Reader I moved to Feedly like a lot of other people did, but I decided a few months back to look into a self-hosted solution and Miniflux won out.
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Anker Soundcore VR P10 Wireless Gaming Earbuds
I’m a fan of VR, especially the meta quest 2 and pro, so when I was sent a pair of these to test out, I jumped at it.
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Microsoft shutting down AltSpaceVR on March 10th
AltspaceVR, a social VR platform founded in 2013 and acquired by Microsoft in 2017, has just announced that it will be closing permanently.
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TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Let Their Employees Make Anyone Go Viral
For years, TikTok has describedits powerful For You Page as a personalized feed ranked by an algorithm that predicts your interests based on your behavior in the app.
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AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit
A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.
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Watch out for these Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives on Amazon
If you see a 16 terabyte portable SSD on Amazon for $100 or less, don't buy it. Such a drive would cost thousands of dollars. These are nothing more than a scam, and don't work well at all. We bought one and got a glorified 64GB hard drive.
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Craig Hockenberry on “ The Shit Show” that is Twitter
What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it’s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.
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Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party Twitter clients.