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by lowkey 2y ago
It is all about use case. SD cards are a bad idea for a swap heavy primary storage solution but a great solution for storing large amounts of data that you write rarely but read often - like a music, video or other media collection. Somethi
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by lowkey 2y ago
I don’t have personal experience with it but I think TimeScaleDB is worth investigating. It is a Postgres extension. The founder is an academic and a really nice person who managed to build a really great community.
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by lowkey 2y ago
Your problem isn’t lack of marketing, it is the false assumption that you have product market fit. With 13% monthly churn customers are telling you they either don’t really care about the problem you solve or they don’t value your solution.
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by lowkey 2y ago
What's really crazy is that your iPhone, well every iPhone, every Pixel - basically every high-end smartphone made by any tier 1 manufacturer - doesn't offer even the option of a built-in microSD card reader. My conspiracy hat is
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by lowkey 2y ago
I genuinely don’t mean to be snarky but I don’t think the method of soliciting donations is at all relevant here. It sounds like you would have otherwise been fine if he handed out a hat and asked for cash in USD.
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by lowkey 2y ago
A few years ago I supported a Kickstarter project for a paper notebook that may be a great fit for your needs. The Rocket Book is a wire bound paper notebook that has icons on each page and a mobile app. When you take a picture of a page wi
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by lowkey 2y ago
Personally I switched to Safari and Brave due to their superior approaches to privacy. I am curious what did you switch to and why?
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by lowkey 2y ago
Last night after leaving a local tech event in Austin I stumbled into an ‘AI Industry’ reception which turned out to be all high powered government officials and lobbyists. I had my Popl NFC/QR code business card but they all had old s
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by lowkey 2y ago
It seems like Trump’s immigration stance has evolved significantly in the seven years since this article was written. A few weeks ago he appeared on the All-in podcast and promoted the idea of giving green cards en masse to foreign students
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by lowkey 2y ago
I love much of Chomsky’s writing as he opened my eyes in powerful ways, especially wrt media bias. I would however hesitate to call him an anarchist after hearing his comments about the unvaccinated during Covid.
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by lowkey 2y ago
According to the following source she was not a founding member and she has never been a formal member, though she did invent the term open source [1] "Peterson was not a founding member of the OSI. The OSI was founded by Bruce Perens
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by lowkey 2y ago
Hey @cvwright, On a side note could you share the best way to provide feedback on Circles? I am a new user as I downloaded the app just today. It looks beautiful and I love that it runs Matrix but I ran into a number of usability issues tha
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by lowkey 2y ago
This statement is factually incorrect. The OSI didn’t even exist when the term was invented by Christine Peterson on February 3rd, 1998. It is true that she was looking for a term to replace “free software” with something more akin to free
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by lowkey 2y ago
Really? You do know that Christine Peterson isn’t even a member of the OSI, right?
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by lowkey 2y ago
Claiming that a single institution that is has open source in it’s name but benefits from having it’s primary source of revenue come from closed-source big tech software companies is very suspect. These source-available licenses that limit
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by lowkey 2y ago
“The FUTO license does not allow for the freedom to view, modify, and distribute the software's source code. It allows it for certain groups and activities but that is the same as not allowing it.” The FUTO license allows all these thi
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by lowkey 2y ago
“ When you state "with no mention of the ability to commercially exploit the software without compensating the original author(s)" then the opposite of what you are insinuating is also true--it was not mentioned because the ideas
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by lowkey 2y ago
“It is arrogant of FUTO to try to redefine 'open source' to their liking” What if FUTO isn’t trying to redefine the term but merely reminding everyone of the original definition as it was coined by the inventor of the term which f
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by lowkey 2y ago
Open source as originally defined by Christine Paterson, the inventor of the term refers to software the includes the freedom to view, modify, and distribute the software's source code. By the original definition of the term by its inv
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by lowkey 2y ago
Agree with your statement. It is accurate for me to say that the FUTO license is open-source according to the original definition of open-source as coined by the author of the term, which focused on the freedom to view, modify, and distribu
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by lowkey 2y ago
The inventor of the term "open source software” defined it as software which includes the freedom to view, modify, and distribute the software's source code. She made no mention of the ability to commercialize without compensation
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by lowkey 2y ago
It’s a fair point that “did not invent the term” is not a valid criticism and I retract my earlier comment. I still stand by my comment that the OSI is an organization that profits directly from significant funding by closed-source big tech
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by lowkey 2y ago
Correction: only AnySoftKeyboard is open source according to the 0SI definition – an organization that famously did not invent the term open source but co-opted it from Christine Peterson, and which is primarily funded by closed source tech
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by lowkey 2y ago
Correction, it isn’t open-source according to the definition of opensource.org - an organization that famously did not invent the term but just co-opted it and whose primary source of funding comes from private closed-source tech giants suc
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by lowkey 2y ago
Why is the OSI definition considered canonical? I mean the OSI: - didn’t invent the term open-source, they co-opted it from Christine Peterson who is not even a member of OSI - was founded by secret charter members and is funded by closed-s
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by lowkey 2y ago
“Oh yea, anything FUTO is not open source. It’s merely source available” I disagree and so does FUTO but in the interest of making nice with the community, they now call their software license “source first.” Personally, I think of their li
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by lowkey 2y ago
Both are privacy-focused open-source keyboards, the difference is that FUTO Keyboards also includes a polished voice-input capability designed for dictation and speech-to-text functionality that is also fully-offline capable and built on to
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by lowkey 2y ago
I haven't personally used the FUTO keyboard since it is Android-only and I am on an iPhone, but I do want to share some context on FUTO.org as it is a fantastic group with an inspiring mission.to provide decentralized alternatives to t
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by lowkey 2y ago
Regardless of who handles the underlying payment rails (FIS, Fiserve, GS) it is the agreement that the payment processor has with the issuing bank that determines the ability to re-sell tx data to 3rd parties. Apple and Credit Unions have s
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by lowkey 2y ago
Fun fact: the only credit cards in America that do not share credit card data with 3rd parties are: 1/ Apple Card 2/ Local Credit Union Cards Apple doesn’t even have access to your transaction history as it is sired E2E encrypted

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