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by rahen 1y ago
Headlines like this make me glad that org-mode has almost completely replaced Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for me (not to mention calendar notifications and Python notebooks). The only exception is spreadsheets with charts, which st
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by rahen 1y ago
Those distributions either use neutered Google Play Services through a stub reimplementation (microG), or rely on sandboxing (GOS). Either way, Google can only collect limited data on those distributions, and you have control over them. Con
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by rahen 1y ago
These discussions seem to come up frequently lately. Both /e/OS and Lineage with microG provide good enough privacy for those who can't afford high-end smartphones like the Google Pixels. The ranking would probably be: - Pixe
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by rahen 1y ago
I definitely would switch to Lineage or /e/OS or anything more vanilla if I had a Samsung phone.
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by rahen 1y ago
You absolutely can write something in C, Rust, Go, or whatever on Lineage. Just install Termux and the relevant packages (e.g., pkg install rust, etc.). AOSP is still vanilla Linux under the hood, just with a touch interface on top. Plus, A
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by rahen 1y ago
Those are very relevant for a Linux laptop, but much less so for a Linux smartphone. An AOSP-based distro like LineageOS, GrapheneOS, or /e/OS paired with Termux provides almost a all of this, with the added benefit of ART - quite
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by rahen 1y ago
It's enabled on mine, at least. By default, it reboots after 18 hours without being unlocked.
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by rahen 1y ago
Out of curiosity, do you happen to know which tools are most commonly used to generate those LaTeX papers? Is auctex still a thing nowadays?
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by rahen 1y ago
Perl is becoming rare, but is LaTeX also falling out of use for technical papers? Most of the scientific and CS papers I’ve seen lately still seem to use it, even those coming from Microsoft. That said, it's often generated via Org-mod
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by rahen 2y ago
Obligatory System Crafter videos: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xB2fFk1tQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gfKrrTtyOk
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by rahen 2y ago
Try Guix System. The entire system, including PID 1, is configured in Scheme (Guile) and has a very nice Emacs-like hackability.
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by rahen 2y ago
It’s exciting to hear that you’ve successfully run LISP and Spacewar on it, especially since the Verilog is based on the original schematics. That makes the PiDP-10 an actual KA-10 CPU, which is a big deal for authenticity. I completely und
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by rahen 2y ago
Can't wait to see the PiDP-1! By the way, something I'm really looking forward to is the KA-10 FPGA implementation for the PiDP-10, rather than the less realistic SIMH simulator running on top of Linux/Raspberry Pi. It would
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by rahen 2y ago
I'm pretty surprised by the claimed memory usage for 300B parameters (table 1). If we compare similar models: - Llama 3.1 with 405B parameters: 2 TB of memory (FP32), 500 GB (FP8) - DeepSeek R1 with 671B parameters: 1.3 TB (scaling lin
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by rahen 2y ago
Very nice to see him using eshell, which is a highly underrated shell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xLeqwl_7n0 With time, I find myself relying less and less on tmux and scripts, while increasingly using Elisp macros, E
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by rahen 2y ago
That's _GNU_ Emacs. The original Emacs is even older (1976), though back then it was still a set of TECO macros rather than a C core with Lisp macros. Interestingly, the very first version of Emacs on the PDP-10 in 1976 was already dev
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by rahen 2y ago
Emacs keybindings are actually pretty nicely organized: - M-x: What would now be called the Command Palette - C-x: Global commands - C-c: Custom keybinds - C-h: Help keybinds
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by rahen 2y ago
I see it the same way I see 'Applied Cryptography'. It’s old C code, but it helps you understand how things work under the hood far better than a modern black box ever could. And in the end, you become better at cryptography than
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by rahen 2y ago
edit: I was wrong, Delta Chat now has forward secrecy from v1.48: https://delta.chat/en/2024-11-20-webxdc-realtime Furthermore metadata transparency can be made less problematic by using email aliases.
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by rahen 2y ago
Here is a quick example of an application labeled as lightweight, which turns out to be a 500MB+ Electron monstrosity: "MarkText is a lightweight, user-friendly Markdown editor that serves as a free and open-source alternative to Typor
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by rahen 2y ago
On the positive side, the use of P2P and IMAP makes censorship difficult, which is a strong advantage in authoritarian regimes. However this comes with serious trade-offs. PGP lacks forward secrecy: if a key leaks, all past messages can be
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by rahen 2y ago
Not only the Internet, but also its technologies. Electron apps bring older computers to their knees, and those apps are becoming ubiquitous (MS Teams, MS VS Code, Whatsapp, Signal...). Sometimes they are even labeled as "lightweight&q
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by rahen 2y ago
But isn't China the same? Tibet and Xinjiang are both nations with their own language and culture. I guess it wouldn’t be long until they became independent again if it weren’t for force and oppression.
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by rahen 2y ago
DOS can also be a nice, predictable runtime for embedded or low-level systems, as long as you're running x86. Some implementations are even 64-bit clean, such as this one: https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp . I rememb
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by rahen 2y ago
I would add the Honeywell 316/516 series to the list. The 316 was the first 16-bit minicomputer, still using DTL logic. The 516 used TTL and served as the IMP 'router' in the early ARPANET. They were fairly popular before the
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by rahen 2y ago
Cold latency is an issue with microservices. If you need to use Java, you'll likely end up using frameworks like Spring or Quarkus, which somewhat diminish the advantages of using the JVM and Java as a language. At that point, you migh
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by rahen 2y ago
Agreed. For a long time, Cygwin was the best Unix userland. It also fit conveniently into a single folder, allowing multiple portable environments on the same machine. Mingw was pretty nice too.
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by rahen 2y ago
Lightning uses incentives to keep nodes online, so it wouldn't be too difficult to leverage those incentives for Nostr with Zaps (earning a couple of sats per message for running a node and losing them if it goes offline for instance).
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by rahen 2y ago
Have a look at Nostr: https://nostr.com/protocol
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by rahen 2y ago
Another relay computer for those interested, with hand built DRAM! http://www.northdownfarm.co.uk/rory/tim/tim-8.htm

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