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by ezst 3mo ago
> You can apply tags to blocks, which make them a kind of thing (a project, an author, a quote, a thought) FWIW, needing typed notes is what settled me on Trilium Notes after a foray into a bunch of alternatives, including Notion, Anytyp
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by ezst 3mo ago
An edge that dates back to the late 60's/early 70's? How soft is that edge by now?
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by ezst 3mo ago
Which seems reasonable. And those who care deeply will have no problem configuring it the specific way they want on their own project. Win-win.
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by ezst 3mo ago
The paradox of them selling "intelligence on demand" or "coding agents rivaling the best developers" and yet having dumb as fart bots/scrapers is lost on many. But not all.
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by ezst 3mo ago
LinkedIn has always been a weird and uncanny place, LLMs somehow managed to make that effect much worse and unsettling.
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by ezst 3mo ago
One front-end for multiple servers is how you end up reimplementing XMPP (bar federation) before you know it: servers are not guaranteed to run identical/compatible versions -> you bake versioning at capability level in the protocol
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by ezst 3mo ago
I'm saying that if Service B is under a jurisdiction that has export control regulations (i.e. all of them) and somehow decides that "users from country X are non grata" ; or under a jurisdiction that oppresses on the basis o
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by ezst 3mo ago
I'm not sure Slick is still maintained. Recently I depended on https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/scalasql#simpletable-variant-... for small CRUD stuff and liked it quite a bit. These days there's a whole bouleva
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by ezst 3mo ago
> I genuinely do not understand where this impression is coming fron. I don't want to engage in a citation battle, I just can't care enough for that. Having read those posts about Matrix, XMPP (OMEMO) and a couple others, many
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by ezst 3mo ago
> disabling it if you don't keep updating yep, it's almost like "Open Source" "non profit" and "we are the good guys, trust me bro" doesn't matter nearly as much as "open, federated, stan
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by ezst 3mo ago
> Does one have to be nuanced in everything one says? no, but unlike a computer, the real world isn't binary, and recognising that it's flawed and full of compromises generally heightens your chances of affecting it (by your id
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by ezst 3mo ago
Maybe I shouldn't, but I stopped taking the author seriously for their lack of nuance/extremely biased views favouring Signal in every article about E2EE applied to IM. But I do agree that threat modeling is just a support to form
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by ezst 3mo ago
What do you believe is so unique about US cloud providers? True, it's a de facto triopoly of American-incorporated businesses, but then what? It's not like computing is alien tech that only the US can own. The US doesn't even
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by ezst 3mo ago
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by ezst 3mo ago
> falling behind the US economically and technologically Are you even human? Do you really believe what you say? Doesn't it come across as absurd, from everything that happened to the US since the Snowden revelations, the Patriot Ac
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by ezst 3mo ago
Sorry to be annoying on that, but if there's one thing LLMs certainly aren't are search engines. They don't index content predictably, they lossly compress it, and furthermore in a manner that the loss cannot be quantified. I
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by ezst 4mo ago
Only worse: internet infrastructure (routers, fiber, ...) depreciates over multiple decades, not mere months. What's inside those data centers matters more than them being built: today's cutting edge inference chips or GPUs may no
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by ezst 4mo ago
> Sure but you need to be able to get to “someone” when say the owner skips town or dies or… And now you get to "nobody at all" when effectively nothing happens to the leaders the instant the need to bear accountability > pl
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by ezst 4mo ago
> Seems like a lot of European tech companies are kept afloat by "digital sovereignty" and maybe EU grant money woah indeed.
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by ezst 4mo ago
Ok, and what would you say is the problem, there? https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en All I see is more interoperability, fairer competition, more consumer rights, etc. If you are against this sort of regu
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by ezst 4mo ago
What are you even trying to say?
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by ezst 4mo ago
The Sans versions has Signika vibes, I like it, but the price was enough of a showstopper for me.
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by ezst 4mo ago
They have served to train multiple generations of ANN and ML algorithms, in that, I think they've been a resounding success!
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by ezst 4mo ago
> If his monetary value to the company was as said why would any other metric like complexity even remotely matter or need convincing assuming the main goal of the company was to make money. I'll just be the Nth commenter to say it,
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by ezst 4mo ago
Not saying that more governance and focus wouldn't bring more bang for buck, but from the lists I sent, you would notice a pattern of investing on open standards and vendor-agnostic infrastructure. It makes servicing specific needs ove
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by ezst 4mo ago
But then they also pay social workers to guide you through the steps of applying and receiving this support. Sometimes the biggest hurdle is to get to know what you don't know.
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by ezst 4mo ago
> Maybe with the current political events and subsequent changes in priorities we'll see EU governments ponying up some money Those wheels are already spinning at a fast pace, the French government has its own NixOS-based distro for
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by ezst 4mo ago
Maybe it should have clicked earlier in life and I'm perhaps that much dumb dumb, but it only recently occurred to me (from experiencing it at two very different companies and discussing with peers having reached a certain seniority le
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by ezst 4mo ago
Not OP but many people eligible for social benefits don't seek it, for all kinds of reasons (not knowing about it, pride, ideology, peer pressure, ...)
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by ezst 4mo ago
Who exactly in the Linux world is supposed to get paid wonderfully to keep mountains of old cruft and technical debt in working order? Not to say I'm insensitive to your point, but when whole UI frameworks are amateurs' passion-pr

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