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by nileshtrivedi 2y ago
Relevant: PowerBI is a Human Rights Violation: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/powerbi-is-a-human-rights-vi...
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Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own repairable hardware(theregister.com)
9 points by nileshtrivedi 2y ago|3 comments
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FLOSS.fund: $1M a year for FOSS projects(floss.fund)
32 points by nileshtrivedi 2y ago|4 comments
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by nileshtrivedi 2y ago
What happens if the account belongs to the parent but all the content is by the child?
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by nileshtrivedi 2y ago
Writing digitally is cheaper but that's exactly why distributing or getting reach is not cheap at all. You still need cost and proof of work in getting noticed by algorithms, as well as people who usually set trends. In fact, the lower
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by nileshtrivedi 2y ago
Exactly. Most of the author's complaints can be answered with: "Use decent software. And make copies." And I found it disappointing that the author did no attempt to recognize that digital #reading is what enables himself to
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by nileshtrivedi 2y ago
> I’ve noticed my near sight dropping You mean your vision got worse after using quest2?
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by nileshtrivedi 2y ago
Doesn't the potential for abuse reduce when content is linked through user's own domain rather than a particular appview like bsky? Bsky already supports a user's domain ALIASed to redirect.bsky.com: https://bsky.a
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
> Flutter is a community project A quick WHOIS search for flutter.dev and pub.dev domains tells me that this is not really the case.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
> any person or company that has ever incidentally done anything with cryptocurrency But Filecoin IS a cryptocurrency. It's not merely "incidental".
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
AI doesn't need accountability, people who deploy AI do.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
What I'd like is to have this image then be uploaded in Google Maps' satelite layer for everyone's benefit. Or OpenStreetMap for that matter.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
If the agent insures the quality and is contractually bound to pay all expenses for repair and maintenance, that could avoid a major chunk of the principal-agent problem.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
> we're not talking of Google or Facebook investing a chunk of their billions cash OpenAI had raised $1B from Microsoft in 2019 and used it to train a 175B param model. Now, they have raised $10B and are training GPT-4 with 1.5T par
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
Microsoft has a library called FluentUI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fluent-ui/web-components/
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
VueJS actually fails some advanced tests for WebComponents: https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/ So, VueJS docs are actually incorrect when they say it scores 100%. The actual score is 91%. I had reported this 8 months a
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
Mathematica is available for free on RaspbianOS. You should be able to run it in a VM anywhere.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
Both Excel and Google sheets have recently acquired the ability to create named functions (lambdas). So, the gap has suddenly reduced drastically: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/08/named-functi...
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
The minute-hand seems to be buggy. It seems to take its 0 as top even though the 0 for hours is at bottom. So when I choose midnight-on-top option, it flips and 00:45 time shows the minute-hand in due-east which is completely wrong. Would
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
23:59, 1:00:00, 1:00:01 would have been better.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
I looked at the Solana ecosystem when people started claiming its strong performance and scalability aspects. It was remarkable how difficult it was to find the identities of actual people behind Solana, Phantom, Serum etc, even though Sola
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
AFAIK, Datasette only offers read-only APIs.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
I'd like to avoid writing boilerplate CRUD code. Is there an equivalent of PostgREST but for SQLite? Essentially, a standard binary would read the schema metadata, and generate standard CRUD APIs: https://postgrest.org/
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
Some challenges arising out of human-meaningful names that any registry of names needs to tackle: - Inclusivity for future generations. Early adopters should not crowd out late adopters of all the desirable names - Community ownership or ge
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
asdf seems to have a php plugin. May be worth trying.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
Looks useful. Just today, I ended up making a simple testsuite using Insomnia's request chaining feature: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/activitypub-testsuite
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
abc@xyz.com is definitely not taken for email. It works as a HTTP url, or SSH logins and it can very well work for ActivityPub.
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
Pleroma still requires PostgreSQL which is an overkill for individuals/families. Instead try GoToSocial which is just a golang binary + sqlite db file: https://gotosocial.org/
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
My own attempt https://learnawesome.org/ (repo: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learndb )
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by nileshtrivedi 4y ago
Compound graphs are those graphs where nodes can also be nested inside each other. Many real-world graphs tend to be compound graphs. While tools like CytoscapeJS can render them using automatic layout algorithms, not many tools exist to ma

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