Rsync can. For instance, rename files instead of deleting them, so that your backup keeps old files in case they need recovering.

It can also make hard links to existing files so they you can create multiple backup directories that share unchanged files to save space.

Also check out rclone, a similar tool with a focus on supporting many target types, plus it can encrypt a remote location, then mount that backup to access the decrypted files.

Don’t assume that recognizing fakes is a younger generation thing. Maybe the people spotting them grew up reading snopes and alt.folklore.urban so that they have a good idea of how urban legends, hoaxes and clickbait are constructed.

I was wrong to think that, I tested bitwarden Android client in airplane mode and it worked, but I didn’t realize that had a “signed-in” state separate from unlocking the vault with the password.

The Bitwarden client works offline, syncing the database locally when online. So won’t that also happen with vaultwarden? Everyone would still have access to what was last synced.

I guess the last one switched from “1 inch to 1 mile” to “2cm to 1km”, which is why it is slightly larger scale.

Yeah, which key is em-dash?

AI runs in the cloud because it needs a powerful server to run the biggest (i.e. “smartest”) models.

The cloud servers are doing nothing special that another powerful enough computer could do, just a huge amount of data processing.

You can run an ai chat on a steam deck or directly on a phone, if it’s not too demanding (“smarter” models are bigger data files, so won’t fit in the memory of a small device).

Today, for instance, I had a phone call from “Spectrum Internet support” and part-way through the call my phone blared an alarm and said “possible scam” on screen.

The phone itself interpreted the conversation as sus.

https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/15654065?hl=en

For Pixel 9 and later devices: Scam Detection is powered by Gemini Nano on-device

I almost thought to myself “I can’t be bothered to watch a YouTube short”, but then I thought “I can’t be bothered to press Back to get out of it, either”.

I am so glad that I didn’t miss that, it gets better and better.

It’s still Friday in parts of last week.

The python code is free, but you have to pay for the indenting.

This is maybe related, too

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Is no one going to post the Technology Connections video???

Okay, then

https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c

Also https://youtu.be/RpoXFk-ixZc

And maybe channeling electro boom: https://youtu.be/INZybkX8tLI

Pixel phones can monitor phone calls for scam conversations (it runs locally on the phone, so audio doesn’t get saved or uploaded).

Theme parks do use image recognition to flag obscene things in ride photos.

I had to look up embeddings: so this is comparing the encoding of movies as a similarity test?

Which can work because the encoding methods can indicate closeness of meaning.

And that’s why this isn’t running an llm in any way.

With 5¼" disks, it was more convenient to keep them in a ring binder by punching holes in them.

The other similar story I’ve heard is someone asking for the backup copy of a disk and being handed a photocopy.

Some laptops use magnets to help the lid snap closed. I took the back off an old Lenovo and could see the magnets clipped inside.

I recently went to the bank to get a letter on their headed notepaper to act as proof of account ownership. They just printed it out on blank paper from a laser printer.

I’m not typing all that in. No wonder emacs users are angry all the time.

I pressed 6 while holding shift, then x. But it just typed ^x in my file.

Maybe I need to swap black and white as I type them, but I don’t know how to do that.