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by ploum 3y ago
At some point, someone literate enough to understand how bad Big Tech is but still promoting Big Tech should be face it. It is like smoking. People say "I know that smoking kill, I don’t want to be reminded all the time". Well, as
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by ploum 3y ago
If the switched to 2$ a month, they might double their customer base. And still earn less money (not even counting the costs). So, sadly, it is sometimes smart to be expensive.
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by ploum 3y ago
I’m also a paying user (and a fan) of Kagi. I’m still confused by the strategy. If you are not Google and trying to have an hegemony on the web, there’s no obvious link between a browser and a search engine. I don’t see the point from a bus
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by ploum 3y ago
I’ve learned quite quickly that you never do any performance job without profiling. Never! Even if the optimisation looks straightforward.
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by ploum 3y ago
You can now start accessing the raw cache with "netcache --offline". Or you can access it by hand: the cache is only made of files stored in folders.
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by ploum 3y ago
Well, I’m the author and, as a writer, I’m very interested in global adulation. For my books. Not my software ;-)
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by ploum 3y ago
I already do that sort of thing with grep and find in the cache folder. Managed to find many things that way. It should be said that the cache doesn’t have any versioning. When a new version is downloaded for a file, it replaces the old one
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by ploum 3y ago
Completely. The concept of "tour" allows me to queue everything I want to read (I also have a "to_read" list, which replaced Pocket for the longest read I would do later). What is incredible is when I got to the end of m
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by ploum 3y ago
Two years of using nearly exclusively offpunk without ever trimming the cache: 2.5G gemini 1.3G gopher 1.5G http 23G https With the exception of dynamic webpages, every single page I’ve read in those two years is there. With pictures.
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by ploum 3y ago
I was not aware of that problem. The do_info is trivial anyway, so performance is not an issue there. But in ansicat, that might speed up significantly the HTML rendering (which is quite expensive with images transformed as ANSI strings by
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by ploum 3y ago
It is made of 3 different parts: - netcache (caching and network) - ansicat (terminal rendering) - offpunk (browsing) So you could use only the cache part
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by ploum 3y ago
Offpunk author here: the goal of "netcache" is to allow access to the cache by more tools. It would be quite easy to build a proxy like webcrystal but for any URL. Something like https://localhost:666/news.ycombina
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by ploum 3y ago
I’ve also taken a few economic classes during my engineering degree and the math was, most of the time, trivial. But they were proud of it and applying like physics, like you said. The basic hypothesis is "people will act rationally i
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by ploum 3y ago
— If you don’t give me 10k$, I will tell the authorities that you have paid a ransom of 100k$. — Ok, here’s the money. — Thanks. If you don’t give me 10k$ more, I will tell the authorities about our previous deal.
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by ploum 3y ago
Well, a good example is given by Yanis Varoufakis (which is, ironically, an economist himself) in his book "adults in the room". In this book, Varoufakis, which was Greece Finance Ministry at the time, explains how he was tasked t
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by ploum 3y ago
I would argue that producing influential economists is what lead to disaster. ;-) (remember that an economist is someone that, if you ask him to study horses, sit down and think really hard "what would I do if I was a horse?")
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by ploum 3y ago
Like Mastodon, Peertube should not aim to "Do everything people think will be good to get audience". It should create a philosophy. I’m quite sure that lot and lot of people are tired by all those algorithmic suggestions. People a
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by ploum 3y ago
Another "Youtube is doing shit" thread and yet not a single mention of Peertube. https://joinpeertube.org/en So for all people uploading videos, please have a look at Peertube. It is to Youtube what Mastodon is to
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by ploum 3y ago
Indeed. The fact that nobody seems concerned about Github/Microsoft monopoly is concerning to say the least. https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html
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by ploum 3y ago
Not so long ago, every blog has a "blog roll", a list of author’s favorite blogs. Nothing was better than have your blog in the blogroll of a "famous" blogger. It is funny how people who didn’t live through this blog era
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by ploum 3y ago
Same can be said of trading (unlike investing, where you hope your money will help build something). When you buy and sell stocks for a profit, it is because someone has a loss (or will have at some point).
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by ploum 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I now understand better: I was confusing WKD and keys.openpgp.org as same thing. As I received the email without the key attached and his domain doesn’t support WKD, I was stuck to manually import from keys dir
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by ploum 3y ago
Proton user here: I’ve an anecdote because it happened this week and support was unable to help me. I’ve received a PGP encrypted email by a non-proton user. It worked fine. But I was unable to encrypt my reply to him. Proton support told m
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by ploum 3y ago
I met my wife because she saw on facebook a screenshot someone has taken from a tweet I did about a terrorist attack. (Charlie Hebdo 2015- Paris). This encouraged her to read my blog then to get in touch, etc… So meeting my wife happened b
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by ploum 3y ago
Would have been funny if that happened at a libertarian event. "I can’t see why we need state regulation".
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by ploum 3y ago
Worst of all is that "pine-apple" translate literally in French as "pomme de pin" ("apple from a pine"). Which is the french name for pine cones. So not only has English a word completely different from others,
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by ploum 3y ago
So, basically, they managed to eventually make money by selling the domain to Elon Musk? Which is quite a nice metaphor for the whole VC scene: 1. Make a team of dedicated and hard working engineers 2. Get VC on board with lot of money to p
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by ploum 3y ago
While with proprietary software, someone, somewhere, did a thing and now you need to change your whole workflow because it is the new "only way to do it". But you will like it because marketing said so.
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by ploum 3y ago
You have to include the fact that the very clear objective of advertising is to make you consume more. Thus producing more pollution than if there were no ads. So, even if advertising was technically neutral (which is clearly not the case),
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by ploum 3y ago
could it be automated?

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