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Signal leaked random contacts to me!
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Signal leaked random contacts to me!
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New York intends to have electric air taxis by 2025
Why are tax dollar being spent making it a little faster for rich FiDi people to get to JFK. Take the A train like the rest of us.
There is so much infrastructure NYC could improve:
And that is just what I can think in the moment.
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have to use zoom for my class
I would keep it simple and use the zoom web client and restrict as much as possible.
However, if you must have an app, they support linux. Then you can sandbox it as you would other apps on your machine.
Going into another partition might be a bit safer, but I'm not sure the privacy vs convinience tradeoff works.
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If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose?
Signal: Because I want better messaging, and somehow they already achieved some adoption.
Firefox: If Firefox can somehow make their browser miles ahead of chrome, I think that'd be just plain good for the world.
Gitea/Forgejo: I think Github is another one of these centralized platforms that's pretty ripe for disruption (and gitlab is just not gonna do it).
Lemmy: It'd be amazing to have all the kinks ironed out of lemmy.
Mastodon: Same thing as lemmy. Get social media out of the hands of big companies.
Mail-in-a-box: I want to be able to host my own email if I want to. Proton is great, but isn't email supposed to be an open standard?
Framework: Not exactly a software project, but man I'd love to see them get the time to push out a ton of great different products and really spark the right to repair movement. It's the first device I was actually excited to buy.
Linux Mint: I don't use mint, but it seems like one of the most user friendly distros. I would love for them to make everything perfect and create a seamless experience (and really make a year of the linux desktop). I also think it would be great to just have one clear frontrunner for new users.
Coreboot: Make firmware open source? Yes please.
Truly Open Source LLM: I really don't want this tech to be in just the hands of just a big company. I'd love for there to be an LLM that has not only it's weights open, but the full dataset, training methods and everything open.
I think when you just get 10 years of dev time, you get an opportunity to push a project ahead of all it's competitors. It is kind of interesting to get to pick and choose a project to be the frontrunner (even if they aren't currently).
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The world would be a better place if companies deleted your information as soon as you delete your account.
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System76 or Framework laptop?
I think using a framework is a unique experience. I don't worry about breaking it nearly as much as I did with my old thinkpads. Like my hardware key shorted itself and took my usb port with it. But, instead of it costing me a new laptop, it was 1 week, ~$10, and I was back in business.
Also, Linux support has been great so far. The only thing I had to do was install the brightness stuff they document.
I also heard they're working on coreboot, so that may be a thing. Also the fact that the motherboard is released to all repair shops is quite nice (at least there is some potential for some type of community audit).
Also, the laptop is super slick. The only complaint I have is maybe the battery life, but I'm not on the newest generation, and I don't know what has changed. Highly recommend.
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Encrypted email provider Proton has built its own CAPTCHA service
“As we investigated available CAPTCHA options, we weren’t satisfied, so we decided to develop our own,” Eamonn Maguire
Based.
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The end of the Googleverse
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I'm probably from a younger generation, because as long as I have been around google has never felt like a choice for me. Instead, it was always the default or mandated by the organization I am a part of (university, other web services...). It's kinda a fight to get out of the google grasp.
Hearing you (and I guess the article towards the end) talk about google as not a monstrosity gives me hope that maybe other companies can push through and usurp google's "defaultness". It'd also be great if it was not another giant like microsoft giving competition.
I'd love to be able to a make a non-google choice and not feel like an outsider.
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Considerations for a homeserver thats open to the internet? (Jellyfin / Nextcloud)
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In the spirit of selfhosting, you can also host headscale. Its an open source implementation of the proprietary tailscale control plane.
It allows you to get over the 5 device limit (different depending on tiers), as well as keep your traffic on your devices. And, imo, it is pretty stable.
The only issue is that the control plane (by nature) has to be publically accessible. But imo it's way less of a security target than a massive app like nextcloud.
Edit: device limits were wrong
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Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto
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I feel like this enables the process.
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Recommendations for self-hosting a blog
I really like hugo. Everything is written in Markdown and its pretty light. Definitely not as heavy as a full CMS. I also think the themes are pretty nice.
To deploy it you can use github pages or some cloud services (the hugo site lists some).
Its also pretty flexible, so its pretty easy to change how you want to deploy it, or change the look.
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8 dead in crash after police chased a suspected human smuggler, Texas officials say
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...and definitely not capitally punish them
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Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS
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Just read through their faq
Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not.
That's a nope from me.
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A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine
for “private reasons.”
That's such funny phrasing. Why not say like a misguided effort to protect better against covid.
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OpenAI Suspends ByteDance's Account After It Used GPT To Train Its Own AI Model
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There is actually a whole subsection of AI focused on training one model with the output of another called knowledge distillation.
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Raspberry Pi 4 replacement
To give a different opinion than all the thin-clients, old laptops can be a good choice too. I am a bit preferrential to really nice old thinkpads.
If you buy them used you can get insane prices (~$40) and also you get all the laptop conveniences of a keyboard, screen, battery (for power failure). Also I think the power/performance ratio is pretty much the same to the thin clients.
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I think joplin fits the requirements. You can run your own server (or use theirs) to sync between devices.
I also think simplenote meets the requirements.
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Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market
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Imo, Andrew Ng is actually a cool guy. He started coursera and deeplearning.ai to teach ppl about machine/deep learning. Also, he does a lot of stuff at Stanford.
I wouldn't put him in the corporate shill camp.
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What is your favourite font for code ?
I like hack. I use it for everything.
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I got my first cease and desist letter. AMA
What for?