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by cvwright 3y ago
It’s like the book “Why Nations Fail”. The elites wind up wrecking things as soon as they can consolidate all the power. They (stupidly) would rather have all of a small, shrinking pie, rather than sticking with a smaller slice of a much
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by cvwright 3y ago
His “Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems”, from a few years prior, is right up there too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_Theory_of_Secr... IMO Shannon does an amazing job laying out the foundational
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by cvwright 3y ago
Defensive arguments like this are good, too. But it feels like to really achieve successful political pushback on something of this magnitude, it really requires going on offense. Like, why are all the headlines not "Dudes in law enfor
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by cvwright 3y ago
The most amazing psy op I’ve ever seen is this convincing the public that it’s people who use encryption who are the perverts, and not the people who literally want to creep on other people’s private photos of their kids / spouses &#x2
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by cvwright 3y ago
I think it’s much easier to take a system that has working, audited E2E encryption, and add photo management on top of that. In other words, I think the E2EE is the bigger lift, and the photo stuff is the easier piece to re-implement.
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by cvwright 3y ago
This is why I like https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook and its associated Ansible roles for configuring various services. All the portability of Docker, plus (something close to) the ease of use
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by cvwright 3y ago
AFAIK PhotoPrism itself is open source, but the PhotoSync tool that they suggest for syncing your photos to it is not.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Let’s hope it stays shelved then. In my experience, things are much easier to sneak into the details of some random update once the key functionality has been built and deployed. The root issue here is a loss of trust.
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by cvwright 3y ago
I’m currently using iCloud. It’s great, but the E2EE comes with the huge caveat that they scan your photos before encrypting, against a giant unaccountable database of hashes for bad stuff. Even though I totally believe that the current se
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by cvwright 3y ago
I’m working on building something similar. From what I can tell, Immich, Ente, and PhotoPrism are the best of the batch when it comes to open source photo storage and management. They are all good, but it depends on what you’re looking for
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by cvwright 3y ago
Overall I really like SwiftUI. As a total iOS newbie when it was new, I don’t think I would have bothered if the only option was to slog through UIKit. But all the complaints about its incompleteness are spot-on. How did they think it was
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by cvwright 3y ago
Wasn’t QNX itself open source for a short time? I seem to remember eagerly grabbing a copy from Github around 2010-2011, but unfortunately that was on a work laptop from a previous job.
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Frigate – NVR with Realtime Object Detection for IP Cameras(github.com)
33 points by cvwright 3y ago|3 comments
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by cvwright 3y ago
I used to loooove KDE 3.5 before the mess that was 4.0, so I was very excited to try this. Unfortunately it fails with some DCOP error on Rocky 9. :(
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by cvwright 3y ago
> There are fun, technical, “control your own destiny” reasons to rack hardware instead of layering on top of commodity clouds. But it's really just economics. ... Hardware is what makes the margins work. Amen to that. Nice to see s
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by cvwright 3y ago
One helpful tip to avoid most of the sketchy cheap cameras that try to send your data to China: Look for "NDAA compliant" cameras that are approved for use by the US government. There's a Taiwanese brand Vivotek that makes so
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Mother-of-All-Self-Hosting Ansible Playbook(github.com)
3 points by cvwright 3y ago|0 comments
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by cvwright 3y ago
I used to live in PDX, which is generally regarded as having very good public transit for the US. My experience was pretty close to what the poster describes.
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by cvwright 3y ago
This is like going on a forum for athletes and complaining that people want to be like Jordan. Maybe you just want to play pick-up games at the local Y. That’s totally cool. I’m not even that athletic. But for the people who want to play
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Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)(waivek.github.io)
196 points by cvwright 3y ago|130 comments
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by cvwright 3y ago
Carmack is a beast. Here's one of the first articles I ever read on HN, written by a guy who used to work with him: Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls https://waivek.github.io/website/tooltip.html
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by cvwright 3y ago
> Also, if you occupy a niche and run it well, you can make internet money the old fashioned way, by finding products that your niche users specifically want and organically selling to them without ad spamming them to death. Yes, that&#x
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by cvwright 3y ago
Unfortunately, if you don’t want your data “monetized” through creepy tracking and annoying ads, and you’re also completely unwilling to pay, then you’re going to have a bad time. Storage, compute, and bandwidth all cost money, and it has t
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by cvwright 3y ago
Neither is iOS
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by cvwright 3y ago
What are the creative apps on Android that Apple is not allowing to exist on iOS?
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by cvwright 3y ago
The article clearly states that they had to get clearances before they could start the job. Everything they created was top secret. Therefore it was not necessarily in violation of any rules to tell them the outcome after they had finish
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by cvwright 3y ago
Apply again if you're still interested. We're taking applications now.
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by cvwright 3y ago
OTOH their hardware tends to get the best support in alternative Android flavors like Lineage and Calyx.
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by cvwright 3y ago
> No, you pay to continue having hegemony over multiple continents. Sure, it's that too. It's both. Regardless, it should stop.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Helping an impoverished country that has been actively invaded is one thing. Providing decades of national defense as a service is quite a different thing. Especially when the beneficiaries are some of the richest nations in the world.

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