I've had far more success personally in growing my reading list with books I ended up loving by following a few people on Instagram who share their reading groups choices. Similarly, anytime anyone whom I vaguely trust recommends me a book I just order it immediately on Amazon and add to the input pile.

It's vitally important for me to keep the next read pipeline well stocked - I get through a lot of books, and if I run out for whatever reason it can take me weeks to get the habit going again.

Virtually every other form of media, I can find a recommendation system that works well enough, even if it's not perfect. Books have always been an outlier for me personally.

While I've no doubts shrinkflation explains a great deal of this, it would be interesting if increased mandatory food content reporting on packaging had even a small effect on reducing the calorie content of confectionery over time, as consumers could more easily compare etc and market responded with products in portion sizes to better fit preferences.

You can even see in the article photo, the more recent modern Mars bar has the calorific content printed on the front, in addition to the big label all UK food has on the rear. The 1991 example does not.

It's not much extra work to do this technique (tunnel to publicly accessible domain name from locally or privately hosted setup) with cloudflare tunnels. It's also completely free, all you need is a domain name managed by cloudflare (~10 bucks a year).

You just throw up a cloudflared container (can be part of your local docker compose stack), it will serve whatever you like from that local system at the public domain name - no port forwarding, no IP configuration, just works, over private VPN tunnel.

I use this all the time for personal projects:

> https://developers.cloudflare.com/tunnel/

Unlimited cloud tunnels for 49 dollars a month is not that great - you can have up to 1000 tunnels on the free cloudflare plan, which I'm realistically never going to max out. Once you've done it once, it's a handful of lines to paste into any future compose stack with your Cloudflare API key to use again, it's incredibly simple to use, and will do the same automatic HTTPS setup.

It still lasts a long time! It's just not as efficient as Nickel on the same hardware.

Personally I prefer Calibre + Nickel over KOReader on Kobo devices (its trivial to convert DRM-free eBooks to formats Nickel will open, Calibre will do it automatically if you plug a Kobo in), although on Kindle devices I would still jailbreak and use KOReader.

Was a primary factor in me buying a 512gb M4 Mac Mini, even though I planned to use large external SSD - I wanted faster spec boot volume.

It's not a huge issue, but I find just browsing my collection to find a read a lot more enjoyable on other ebook readers. IIRC there are plugins to add this feature, but it's not present out of the box.

On the few Kobos and jailbroken Kindles I've used it on, it also drains the battery significantly faster than the stock reader app, although not enough that I couldn't last at least a few days. On stock software I can go weeks between charges.

I'm not even sure if it's possible to even buy a new mass-produced car with no AC anymore in the UK, or pretty much anywhere else for that matter.

> https://meshtastic.org/

The effects of this change are definitely being felt, good and bad, in many countries already.

Everyone in the Go community more or less uses the same Go modules support built into the SDK binary, much like how almost the entire DotNet community uses the NuGet package manager support built into the dotnet SDK binary. There are no extra dependencies to grab your project dependencies and build it.

My experiences in those langauges is that there is so much less debate over tooling, and people just get work done. No one in DotNet is waging an equivelent holy war about Gradle vs Maven etc...

I'm all for choices, but the languages who have made package management a first class citizen in their SDKs tend to be the languages I've enjoyed working in the most. I think package management tooling is a critical piece of developer ergonomics.

People used to joke a lot about how JS has a new framework every week, but I feel that way about Python build tooling! I've now had to use uv, poetry, pipenv, hatch...

Worth noting most of the time the Corals sit idle in many setups, as Frigate only wakes them up if it detects motion with simpler algorithms on the CPU first. You gain capacity for a further 100 detections/sec for every Coral you add essentially. The corals are not sitting watching every single frame from every camera, which I think is a common misconception about Frigate.

It's worthwhile to spend some time with the docs - the mistake I always see made is folks passing a full fat 4k stream for detection at some silly FPS, which generally doesn't make the detection work any better and greatly increases processing costs.

If your six cameras really are generating enough events (100 a second) to saturate a coral, I'd be looking at what else I screwed up!

> https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/camera_setup/#choosing-a-...

> https://www.pcmag.com/news/sony-says-499-ps5-no-longer-sells...

> https://www.pcmag.com/news/sony-says-499-ps5-no-longer-sells...

> https://frigate.video/

I don't use Meta products regularly, but they've crowbarred the "Meta AI" feature into everything - FB Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram... There's even a standalone website to chat with the Meta AI model similar to chatgpt:

> https://www.meta.ai/

I'm certainly prepared to agree that they don't have a huge amount of traction or marketshare, but they absolutely have already built AI products and they exist.

Outside of their own consumer products, there's the family of llama models too etc.