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A Call for Developers
Honestly, I've been thinking about contributing for a while. This is the push I needed. I'll check it out!
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A Call for Developers
Honestly, I've been thinking about contributing for a while. This is the push I needed. I'll check it out!
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Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story
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Honestly, this whole thing surprises me. I have a lot of respect for Ars Technica. I hope they clean this up and prevent further issues in the future.
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Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
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the AI that wrote the article
The linked article is by Dan Goodin from Ars Technica. He's not immune to mistakes, but he's been writing good articles about security for years.
Can we please not accuse everybody of being AI just because they made a mistake?
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Which FOSS projects do you financially support and why?
KDE because I liked it when I used it and wanted it to get even better. And Lichess because it's what I wish all free services were like. I should do more.
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Thank you, counselor, but I was looking for a little more insight.
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This might be my biggest TNG complaint. The character and the actor are good (or at least decent if we're being picky), but almost every time the focus is on her, the writing is absolutely awful.
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What would you name your Communist inspired Fantasy Football League?
The Punt for Red October
(Assuming American Football)
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Does self hosting your own internet count?
I've been looking into this as well and just bought my first components.
I'm trying Meshtastic first and then will try Meshcore.
What does everybody think of Reticulum Network and RNode? It honestly seems superior conceptually to Meshtastic/Meshcore, but I'm not sure how good it is in practice or if anybody is actually using it.
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SilverBullet: a self-hosted personal knowledge management system for people with a hacker mindset
This is very cool, and I've been watching the project for a month or so.
I like the query setup and the templates look very interesting. One of my biggest complaints about Logseq is how much of a pain simple query operations can be.
A few things make me hesitate a bit:
What are your thoughts on those concerns, OP?
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Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10
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Azure is not Entra. AAD became Entra. They did it because AAD was becoming less about Azure and covering more things than directories. So a rebranding made sense.
It's a pretty dumb name, though. It doesn't really mean much when you hear it, and it sounds too similar to other common words.
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Wrong turn after Tatooine
The Music of the Ainur is a pathway to many abilities which some deem to be… unnatural.
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What are your favorite can not live without apps?
A few I haven't seen mentioned:
Also +1 to the usual favorites: Firefox, Termux, Nova, etc.
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Strange New Worlds is good, at least S1 (haven't watched S2 yet)
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People who are 30+, what career moves do you regret in your 20s and/or what choices are you happy you made?
Regret:
Happy:
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Recomendation for a note taking app
Logseq has an Android app and clients for the usual desktop platforms. It stores as .md files. It meets your requirements. I'm not sure why you're focused on Firefox support?
One I have my eye on is Silverbullet.md. the creator recently promoted it here and it has some nice ideas. It's a web app that you self host. Behind the scenes everything is stored in .md files.
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TV nerds: what should I watch
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Fringe is great. Season 1 is a bit "Monster of the week" but when it gets going it's a great ride.
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Poor video playback quality on Kodi
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I think it's because Jellyfin still needs some polish.
It's getting better every day, though. I run both in parallel and usually use Jellyfin, but my family uses Plex for now.
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Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server
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There's a docker that essentially sets up a web VNC for Calibre. I do this for file conversion, DRM removal (only books I buy), etc.
Then I use Calibre-web for the OPDS server and nice web UI.
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What's the *best* interview process you've experienced?
tl;dr: The right people, the right exercises, the right atmosphere.
I started by sitting down to a pair programming session with a member of the team that was hiring. We did some minor work directly in their code base, and he showed me some of the interesting things in their stack. It was great.
Then we had a panel interview with other team members and the CTO (not a giant company, but there's over 1500 employees, so I was impressed.) We discussed some of my previous work, the designs involved, tradeoffs, etc. There were a couple white-boarding conversations. We talked about leadership and various people topics.
Then most of the panel and my referrer took me out to lunch, and we had a good informal chat.
Finally, we went back and I did another pair programming session with a different member of the team where we did code kata problems for a while. We discussed pros and cons of pair programming and mob programming.
Why did I like this so much?
I was very impressed with this company. They made a competitive offer. I ended up declining, mostly for external reasons like a long commute, but I still wonder to this day if I should have given it a shot.
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Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn?
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Unfortunately, no, you just need training data on children in general and training data with legal porn, and these tools can combine it.
It's already being done, which is disgusting but not surprising.
People have worried about this for a long time. I remember a subplot of a sci-fi series that got into this. (I think it was The Lost Fleet, 15 years ago).
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jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy
I'm getting a Cloudflare error trying to access your demo site.
Also, do you support back linking? That's a feature that's very important to me.