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by kkfx 8mo ago
I use Emacs/org-mode to do the same and much more, without tying myself to specific third parties, but the point remains valid and largely ignored by most until recently: the heart of our information is plain text with potential binary
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by kkfx 8mo ago
I agree but... I've tried self hosting Matrix, messy. I manage to get it running on my NixOS homeserver, it works, but Livekit is very limited, Coturn seems not that stable to traverse NAT occasionally for reasons I still don't kn
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by kkfx 8mo ago
As an EU Citizen I do not want to switch from a proprietary fintech to another, I want FREEDOM. So, I have nothing against FLOSS cryptos, but I see exactly no reason to choose a company instead of another, especially given the record of EU
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by kkfx 8mo ago
I've very recently try on my NixOS homeserver both Matrix and XMPP, with the target of having family/few friends own video-calls with chats aside mostly meant as shared scrap of text more than real chats to waste time on them. Som
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by kkfx 8mo ago
The Sinicization of the West continues, yet people still aren't pushing back; there are no indefinite general strikes, nor is there anyone foaming at the mouth demanding the arrest of the coup plotters in power... I suggest to (re)read
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by kkfx 8mo ago
IMVHO these days chats serve two purposes: - notes left there for work, family organization, etc basically things for which an email is "too much" but a small scrap of text seen by some serve the purpose well - calls, whether audi
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by kkfx 8mo ago
My intention wasn't to compare software but rather paradigms; Gnus is only relevant here because it unifies email, feeds and news into a single UI. In other words, the human user sees everything as generic "posts" an approach
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by kkfx 8mo ago
There is https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/calen... and https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav but that not much related to Gnus approach of "unifying
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by kkfx 8mo ago
I wonder when contemporary developers will (re)invent Emacs/Gnus: the unified inbox for email, feeds, and news, because what really matters are text messages + eventual multimedia content, personal and private scoring to manage them, a
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by kkfx 8mo ago
That's the result of excess censorship and PRs on those platform, you can play with people more or less easily but you can't re-program them at such speed. They understand and start rejecting the narrative. Vocal minorities vary b
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Spreadsheets are perhaps the only pseudo-visual programming tool to have achieved significant widespread use, but they are terrible: - the logic is hidden; until you click on a cell, you don't know "what it actually contains"
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Same for me, I made a choice back then, and only realized it was a mistake in hindsight, to set up a small storage system, thinking it would just serve as a backup for blackouts. Since those have mostly been very short so far (a few seconds
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by kkfx 8mo ago
The Bitcoin genesis is certainly unclear; a FLOSS project is proudly published by those who create it and certainly don't want to remain anonymous, but the super-value of BTC over time has been driven by substantial criminal activities
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by kkfx 8mo ago
As a domestic p.v. auto-builder: the real point is seasonal storage, until we will (if we will) be able to store energy across a whole year not just day-to-day, we simply can't run on p.v. while p.v. is excellent for self consumption i
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Is there really for the ML boom, or is it just a way to make computers more and more expensive to push people towards mobile? Because looking around, that's the effect I'm seeing, regardless of the causes. I see a future where mos
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by kkfx 8mo ago
A small note: in 2026, classic office suites shouldn't even exist in my opinion, so if the EU were to create a glorified R/Quarto, essentially a LaTeX wrapper with some basic calculation capabilities added, it would be infinitely
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by kkfx 8mo ago
The real issue is that there is no easy-to-self-host complete enough solution. We do not have something go install-able, pio-able, without a gazillion of deps web-app who offer: - a direct call UI - a chat UI, with optional group chats - a
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by kkfx 8mo ago
EU governments don't want to learn one thing: you don't replace one dictator with another. The specific case says little, France has been developing "La Suite" for YEARS, Italy had experimented with Jitsi Meet and Big Bl
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by kkfx 8mo ago
1:1 teaching is the old tutor method, still the most efficient way to transfer knowledge today, and also the least scalable. LLMs, on the other hand, are a kind of implementation of the Library of Babel or Conrad Gessner's Bibliotheca
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Nothing strange nor new: the average teacher is reactionary even at top universities, generally incapable of evolving, much like the stereotypical average vegetable seller. We continue to teach children (at least in the EU) to write by hand
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Most companies have terrible infrastructure; they're hardly ever examples to follow. But they also have it because there's a certain widespread mentality among those who work there, which originates on the average student's d
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Ugh, containers/VMs are black boxes because in common practice you just pull the image as-is without bothering to study what's inside, without checking things like outdated dependencies left behind, some dev's forgotten SSH k
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Well, yeah, but in the enterprise world, the infrastructure is often really pathetic, layers of legacy garbage with "do not touch, if it breaks everything is lost" labels. I wouldn't take them as a model, which is one of the
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by kkfx 8mo ago
How often do you test your OS replication script? I used to do that too, and every time there was always something broken, outdated, or needing modification, often right when I desperately needed a restore because I was about to leave on a
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by kkfx 8mo ago
Honestly, pre-made containers are usually black boxes and also a huge waste of resources. If anything, your problem is not using NixOS or Guix, which means you have no reason to waste resources with Proxmox and maintain a massive attack sur
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by kkfx 8mo ago
And the server is handled how? We're always there: complexity can be managed or hidden. Why do you think some people asked SUN to un-free ZFS back in the day? Because unlike most, they understood its potential. Why do you think PC comp
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Let's say if I had old-school BTC, mined personally or bought back in the day for very little fiat currency and today it's an enormously larger sum, I'd say it's time to not keep all my eggs in one basket and rebalance m
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by kkfx 9mo ago
A currency has no intrinsic value except a minimal one; for BTC, we can say it was 10k BTC for two pizzas. The subsequent value didn't come from speculation but from an underlying economy. In BTC case, it was the D-Company that sold dr
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by kkfx 9mo ago
Yes and no. ZFS is for managing your data with simplicity and efficiency that isn't possible with other "storage systems" on GNU/Linux. Setting up a desktop with mdraid+LUKS+LVM+the chosen filesystem is a way longer job
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by kkfx 9mo ago
There's actually no substantial difference: it's the very concept of a mere filesystem that's obsolete. What's needed to manage your data is: - Lightweight/instant/accessible and transmittable (at block-level)

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