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by ezst 2y ago
FTR, that had me chuckle, it's quite funny considering the fingers nightmares current day generative "AI" comes up with
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by ezst 2y ago
> Honestly I do not favor this paradigm I think you are not alone, but I also wouldn't be surprised if this frog is boiled so slow that our opinion eventually becomes irrelevant: today's teenagers are *less* proficient on a key
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> clutch, gearbox, then driveshaft are all gone, and they contributed to a huge waste of power which burned a lot of fuel for nothing. Practically, they are replaced by even more "junk" in the form of literal tons of batteries
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by ezst 2y ago
I've been using https://github.com/TinkerTurtle/Sentry-Picam for a similar purpose with great success. The recorded images/videos folder is syncing up with 3 other machines for redundancy using syncthing, and
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by ezst 2y ago
I suppose that helps recoup some system load that otherwise would be wasted in lengthy random port/service poking
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Almost like the case of constrained environments being a fertile ground for new creative solutions!
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> I don't know where you're buying PCs but where I'm from there is always an option to buy the PC with FreeDOS at a discount of about ~$20-30 compared to the Windows version. Lately, I also see an increase in Ubuntu comput
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> People wanted Windows, because that's what they're used to. which is exactly what I'm talking about, that's the force that keeps competition inexistent: there can't be exposure to alternatives if the alternativ
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> I wish this were a more accessible path for non-tech people. It should be forbidden to ship PCs with Windows preinstalled, unless the user made it a conscious purchase decision (and offered to choose between several options). I suspect
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The characteristics of MTProto are barely relevant when it is not used in the real world: group chats cannot be encrypted with it, 1:1 chats have caveats like terrible UX and the need for both parties to be online to initiate a session.
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by ezst 2y ago
Just curious, what's wrong with dbeaver?
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Yup, navigating history and checking-out commits at will is VCS ground-level. It's mind-blowing that git managed to make it unnecessarily complex by distinguishing "commits" from "commits with a label on them" (aka.
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> `git reflog`, which the article prominently mentions, really should be the VERY FIRST thing to teach everyone who is learning git. Top that up with `log` showing all branches at all times (except if you ask otherwise) and you end up pr
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by ezst 2y ago
"the whole world uses git" is a weak appeal to the masses (Argumentum ad populum), i.e. the popularity of git is no measure for its qualities, and we should collectively strive for better (just looking around should make it painfu
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Git won because GitHub turned the whole contribution model into a resume-making social media game. The first generation on GitHub pressured the second one into using it at a time when the DVCS scene was still nascent (and git's many fl
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Aren't they right now? All I see is similar monopolistic and anticompetitive practices pushed through different product lines.
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> Also why does it need to be an LLM that is doing these things? Well, if you ask me it's pretty clear why: we are in the hype cycle of a very specific new type of hammers, so, of course everything must be nails. Another one is that
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by ezst 2y ago
That's the thing, it's a novel form of computing that's increasingly moving away from computer science. It deserves to be treated as a discipline of its own, with lots of words of caution and danger stickers slapped over it.
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by ezst 3y ago
To my non-webdev ears this sounds like "having only pegs and square holes isn't a problem because otherwise how would you try to fit one in the other?" Could it be that this whole paradigm (which by the way has been devised f
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by ezst 3y ago
You seem to have your objectives (and non-objectives) clearly stated, which gives Plume a fair fighting chance :) Good luck with your project!
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by ezst 3y ago
> I think Notion is too complicated I wrote about the problem space extensively on this site before, tl;dr, to me the issue lies in the fact that most of the contenders aim to manage data/knowledge/notes as "types" (f
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by ezst 3y ago
Hey, I don't use your app because it's too limited for my "PKMS" needs (I use trilium notes instead), but I appreciate that you make being "native and fast" a distinguishing feature (vs all the other electron b
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by ezst 3y ago
Qt apps arguably look more "native" on average than anything else I've seen, considering that it mimics the native look and feel of the target platform for a wide range of them. Now compare that to Gtk, which just leaves you
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by ezst 3y ago
About a decade ago, some Scala library authors thinking that "everything is better as a DSL" gave Scala a reputation for being a hieroglyphics soup, but that cannot be farther from the truth today. It's a really nice language
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by ezst 3y ago
This is a community of Tech enthusiasts and yet, so many entertain this party of leopards eating people's faces by accepting anything less than open federated/P2P protocols. And so far, the DMA has only served to show malicious co
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> it's your phone I can't even tell whether it's sarcasm… All those services are closed-source, exchanging over binary protocols, of which there is no public description/documentation, and no stability guarantee.
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Mine being that large language and diffusion models are trained on "whatever the heck is there, available for scraping on the broad internet, indiscriminately". I don't think Apple's money or it being in bed with the Maj
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by ezst 3y ago
It shows encrypted streams that neither you or I can decipher. By default, either will spend its day scraping your surroundings (wifi and bluetooth) and report it back home, unless you opt-out (which both allow). Both are equally evil in my
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by ezst 3y ago
Is Apple making profit out of generating and selling derivative works from music and movies without compensating the original authors? If not, I'm not sure how it relates to the current breed of generative AI.
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They take billions a year to do that with your search, and have been at it for decades. They collect the same amount, if not more, of personal data. I really don't see why people elevate Apple to higher standards there. Because they al

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