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by aaravchen 9mo ago
That was Bridgefy that required initial online access to setup. Briar doesn't and never has. Traceability of Briar users, if not the actual content, is certainly potentially worse than something like what Bitchat claims (don't use
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
Check the news from the past year. If you care about security or privacy, Bitchat doesn't actually have either according to !any independent security audits), so I'd stay away. If you dont care about those things, I'd look a
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
You should definitely read the news about bitchat. It doesnt actually have basically any security or privacy from all the dozens of independent security audit findings. Jack even said it was vibe coded and never audited.
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
That's the problem, they don't care if people will buy or rent them. They literally just sit on them writing off any losses against other business units. When enough institutional investors are all doing that same thing, the marke
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
The real contention is two fold: investors are collectively pricing out non-investors that would presumably actually live in the home they purchased, and among investors, institutional investors are both positioned to ignore market pressure
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by aaravchen 9mo ago
It does not actually support hierarchical ("tree") tabs natively yet though. They have a placeholder switch for it in the settings.
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by aaravchen 10mo ago
Not a single link in any of thier chain of articles actually goes to this "Resource Hub" they keep referencing.
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by aaravchen 10mo ago
Replying to myself: Apparently I was mixing up the new Furilabs FLX1s and new Jolla phone. The FLX1s that's a major downgrade from the prior FLX1 and some people were reporting are based on a design that's really cheap on Aliexpre
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by aaravchen 10mo ago
Furilabs was just in the news here because they discontinued their device models from a few years ago, and released a new device for a big price bump with _significantly worse_ hardware. I know I would love to give them a try, but a 720 scr
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by aaravchen 10mo ago
It was discussed here when it was announced. I believe it was determined the hardware is an ultra-low-budget Aliexpress design that normally retails for ~$100 that they had custom built with a mic cutoff switch added to it (probably the cau
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by aaravchen 10mo ago
WARNING: This is a Kickstarter device still, and needed funding to even create a proof of concept device last time it was discussed (extensively). It's a Flagship phone device and price, but with only the oldest of pans on how it'
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by aaravchen 10mo ago
Doubling down on this, get a Reader that let's you filter, and do so judiciously. I have some feeds where I only allow thru items with specific categories. Others I have dozens of filters for "spam". And some I just had to gi
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by aaravchen 11mo ago
You should talk to some people with kids then. I can't find the source, but I think the US national average is something like $1500/month for <40 hour/wk daycare. That doesn't account for child-to-sitter ratio differe
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by aaravchen 11mo ago
> What are people doing that requires so much work? 15 years ago I was in the same boat as you.I just had a set it and forget it config. But about 6 years ago I had to start adding addition languages support to my config, and started ha
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by aaravchen 11mo ago
It's definitely slower when doing any intensive background activities that Emacs would normally offload. But I've found VSCode has features readily available as one-click installs that are very difficult and convoluted to setup in
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by aaravchen 11mo ago
To be clear, this plugin is only a keymap, and just extends the built in Emacs-style keymap option of VSCode. If you did much/any mapping of any keys in Emacs, or are looking to expose more Emacs-like features, you're SOL. VWCode
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by aaravchen 11mo ago
I did exactly the same, though I wasn't an Evil mode user. I quickly found VSCod(e|ium) lacks the internals to even do many of the basic useful things of Emacs. BTW, if you're an Evil mode user, Zed is probably your better choice.
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by aaravchen 11mo ago
It's more like how to put a modern day car dash over an F16 fighter jet. One has modern expectations and standards everyone is already familiar with but far less power and features, while the other existed before usability was even an
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by aaravchen 1y ago
Good breakdown, and excellent clarification. That said, I see some of those "legitimate business purposes" as things the CCPA was explicitly intending to redefine as illegitimate. In particular, while it says it would still limit
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by aaravchen 1y ago
So the alternative is opaque types? Powershell tried adding structured types for the output, and it has some benefits, but now your pipeline composition options are severely limited. Only the tools that understand the output structure of th
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by aaravchen 1y ago
Everyone knows that when a company pinky promises they won't collect your data and they'll keep things private, it means absolutely nothing. Unless it's impossible for them to collect your data even if they wanted to, all pro
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by aaravchen 1y ago
I really appreciate that the team hasn't rested on their laurels with just creating an encrypted cloud-based OnlyOffice wrapper and they've actively pushed I to the space of filling tool gaps. Their markdown files are a nice addit
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by aaravchen 1y ago
You have to download everything in your Drive to your local system first, then unzip it all, but then you can upload the entire folder to CryptPad. Google isn't going to make it easy for a competitor to transfer content, and I'd r
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by aaravchen 1y ago
Honestly, that's why I've been using it too. But it's painful some of the basic features that are missing. Like manually switching indentation settings on a file. Not supported by Zed at all, you have to write an entire edito
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by aaravchen 1y ago
The AI integration with their "Zeta AI" (a Zed product), is incredibly half-baked, and it screwed up/with their existing third-party AI integration. You have to command-pallet to "assistant: show configuration" to s
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by aaravchen 1y ago
Zed's only real differentiator I can see right now is that they're not VSCode, and not run by Microsoft. Their AI isn't really any better than major competitors', and AI integration is table stakes for most new IDEs now
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by aaravchen 1y ago
My experience is that C and C++ can't be done well, unless you have the world's most trivial code base. There are dozens of possible build tools for C and C++, all with complex syntax and most with mandatory user provided input to
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by aaravchen 1y ago
I'd argue their current plugin API model is far too strict. It only supports 4 things: theming the GUI (color+alpha changes only), adding tree sitter grammars, adding a language server, and adding "slash commands" (which seem
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by aaravchen 1y ago
This. It seems Vulkan support, the only GPU rendering API Zed uses, isn't well supported by any of the Debian derivatives. The libraries are only installed and working in Ubuntu 24.04 in Gnome Wayland sessions for example (Ubuntu 24.04
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by aaravchen 1y ago
Not OP, but the Sign In button is for GitHub on Zed. Which conflicts with GitHub sign in for any of the other AI agents, so you have to pick only one (the others will time out and do nothing after the first). On work machines I use the cor

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