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by ezst 11mo ago
By stitching together an inconsistent hodgepodge of sometimes overlapping languages, technologies and APIs. On the user-side, I'm glad I don't need a proprietary player for such things any longer, but I sure hate doing anything re
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by ezst 11mo ago
Similar-enough story on an Asus similarly branded "ultrabook", I figured I would put my whole fedora root partition on that cache, which worked wonders for a few months, until I started having random freezes and crashes that I lat
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by ezst 11mo ago
I'll be the one to nickpick, but Scala never intended to be a nicer Java. It was and still is an academic exercise in compiler and language theory. Also, judging by Kotlin's decent strides, "little Syntex differences" ge
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by ezst 11mo ago
> The machine-learning community Is it? I only see a few individuals, VCs, and tech giants overblowing LLMs capabilities (and still puzzled as to how the latter dragged themselves into a race to the bottom through it). I don't belie
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by ezst 1y ago
I mean, without going this far, the very first computer I put my hands on as a child was a Mac, because then Apple had a reputation for user-friendliness and discoverability. Least I can say is that Apple has taken a few turns since. I don&
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by ezst 1y ago
> wiping out desktop Linux Doubt. I couldn't figure out how to do windows management under macOS to save my life. This is so needlessly obscure and inconsistent.
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by ezst 1y ago
For what's worth, I have a "form history save" add-on for Firefox that retains this kind of info for a time, that doubles with a password manager (bitwarden) which I suspect would have caught it as well.
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by ezst 1y ago
Taking screenshots of your whole desktop every other second and sending it to a third part, just in case their OCR and cheap search built on top of it might come up with something useful? I haven't found a single situation where I wou
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by ezst 1y ago
To me it felt like just shoving more AI for the sake of it, pretending that there is a problem to solve while making no case for it, and boiling oceans along the way as an acceptable externality.
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by ezst 1y ago
But somehow the malware infested/backdoored alternative has more appeal? Even more than the myriad of other distros, or DIY options for that matter? Doesn't click.
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by ezst 1y ago
Case one: you don't need staging. You can stash, or just commit and checkout HEAD^ Case two: you don't need staging. You can stash, and then unstash incrementally (I would be shocked if git doesn't have the equivalent of `hg
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by ezst 1y ago
Though I wasn't trying to say that there is no need for staging-based workflows, I was just saying that there is nothing in terms of convenience or capabilities that the staging area does that can't be achieved with just regular
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by ezst 1y ago
So, exactly as DrinkyBird said: I still don't see a good reason for this distinction to exist, what's in the repo's history and in its working directory are orthogonal concepts that are tied together by a bad UX for no appare
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by ezst 1y ago
As a git user "not by choice" (my preference going for mercurial every single day), I never understood why git needs this distinction between bare/non-bare (or commit vs staging for that matter). Seems like yet another leaky
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by ezst 1y ago
That's some wishful thinking. I understand the case for JMAP above IMAP, I understand how "it makes sense" to NIH the rest of cal/cardDAV, I'm not sure what the sales pitch for file transfer is, though, especially w
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by ezst 1y ago
OTOH we are taking about the web, here. A domain notoriously defined by technical debt, the "when all you have is a hammer" mindset, NIH, and resume-driven development...
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by ezst 1y ago
Next step is to give up on files/filesystem. As long as it's opensource, there's no lock-in. As long as the storage backend is clean and structured (SQLite or comparable), you actually get so much more (full text indexing, st
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by ezst 1y ago
https://triliumnotes.org/ is my clear recommendation. It's quite more powerful than the usual contenders and it may take a while to explore its depths, but it's also not pushing its complexity in your face like Lo
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by ezst 1y ago
> has some track record for privacy, like Apple. Should we tell them?
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by ezst 1y ago
On the same boat few months (actually, almost 2 years!) ago, I found Logseq too limiting as soon as one need to manage notes consistently ("typing" them as collections of notes of similar nature and acting on their properties as m
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by ezst 1y ago
Google is an established business, OpenAI is desperately burning money trying to come up with a business plan. Exports controls and compliance probably isn't going to be today's problem for them, ever.
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by ezst 1y ago
Not really? I mean, it's easy to set and forget which subnets get tunnelled with wireguard (and others, it's just that wg forces you to be explicit about it)
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by ezst 1y ago
> self-hostable coordination server What a long way to spell VPN :-) (been using it for a decade or so through wireguard)
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by ezst 1y ago
> It is the simplest and fastest way to get it done right now. or the fastest way to get a confidently wrong words-salad. This stuff is niche AND indexed in search-engines, which makes LLMs generally not the best-suited (as proven by Gem
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by ezst 1y ago
> 2005 is pre iPhone I hate how incompetent tech writing and marketing rewrote and simplified mobile phone history into pre/post-iphone. Yes, we did have touchscreens, smartphones and camera-enabled devices many years before the iPh
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by ezst 1y ago
Their project, their rules. I don't know why you would think that your ideologies automatically translate into something that's convenient or better for them.
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by ezst 1y ago
And the 1998 approach of just Googling it works perfectly, why would you even bring GPT to this?
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by ezst 1y ago
> Qt might have at least led to some good results You seem to focus on the outcome while what interests me is the programming model. Say what you want about object-oriented programming, the problem-space lends itself very well to it. In
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by ezst 1y ago
> The problem with it is that most of extensions are bad: half-baked, often contradict or duplicate other extensions, and sometimes solve only part of the problem that they intend to solve. I think that's in the organic nature of pr
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by ezst 1y ago
Hi Jeremie, you made the world a better place, thanks for Jabber!

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