sfRattan

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by sfRattan 1y ago
> It seems like the AI revolution hit as interest rates went insane... > ...I'm wondering if we would be having the same conversation if money for startups was thrown around (and more jobs were being created for SWEs) the way it
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by sfRattan 2y ago
I'm cautiously optimistic. It's certainly the most realistic business plan their leadership has put forward in a long time. And a Mozilla/Thunderbird based email service is well timed. Microsoft's upgrade (read: downgrad
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by sfRattan 2y ago
Browser engines have become so complex that each ultimately represents a massive attack surface. I think, rather than trying to pick the most secure browser (which may change over time) instead: * Stick to one browser engine per device as m
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by sfRattan 2y ago
There's an extension called floccus [1] that can sync bookmarks between numerous different browsers (including both Firefox/Gecko and Chromium/Blink based browsers, mobile and desktop) and plug into a user-controlled NextClou
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by sfRattan 2y ago
The authoritative bullshit isn't what society is running on, it's what society is giving as an excuse for enshittification that enriches interested parties. Your landlord (I'm guessing based on having seen it before) gets kic
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by sfRattan 2y ago
There were large swathes of Americans in those generations who stopped using German publicly because of World Wars One and Two. German was at the time the second most commonly spoken language at home in America. You still see vestiges of it
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by sfRattan 2y ago
> Yes because you judge people by the country they live in. This is an extremely uncharitable reading of the preceding comment. The comment is clearly concerned about the national jurisdiction from which the AdGuard binary originates,
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by sfRattan 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! How's the simplicy of setting up and accessing cloudflare tunnels over a VPN for the near-totally computer illiterate, in comparison to Tailscale? Part of setting up a homelab and self-hosting more and more o
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by sfRattan 2y ago
This is super cool! I was looking for something like this just a few days ago. Ended up going with Flow[1], an open source Android app, because I wanted something that I could enter data on from my phone and run completely locally there. I
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by sfRattan 2y ago
I agree on photos, but when I hear "larger media library" I assume we're talking video content, both family videos taken on phones and commercial media (TV and Movies). Maybe I'm misreading but either 200GB or 2TB are bo
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by sfRattan 2y ago
If anything their trick is in how they describe the storage tiers on their website[1]: > $0.99/mo for 50GB: Storage for thousands of photos, videos, and files. > $2.99/mo for 200GB: Great for family sharing or larger media l
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by sfRattan 2y ago
Is it possible to install WhatsApp on one of the three major 3rd-party AOSP-based operating systems (distros): Graphene OS, Calyx OS, or Lineage OS? Each one has varying models for replacing functionality of the Google Play Services, and II
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by sfRattan 2y ago
> How about guns? Imports of firearms and ammunition from China to the USA have been banned since 1994 [1]. IIRC Chinese companies were caught selling rifles and other gear to known gangs in California and that motivated the law. Firearm
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by sfRattan 2y ago
I am days late to this thread, but there's at least one person out there putting out builds of LineageOS-based AndroidTV for Raspberry Pis. https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi5/ If you go to the devices menu t
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by sfRattan 2y ago
My cousin has had success with Apple Watches for her middle school aged kids. The Watches now function independently from phones IIRC and allow her kids to be "reachable" in the way that is now socially expected/enforced, but
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by sfRattan 2y ago
> ...it's not that they learned the new tech fluently while millennials haven't adapted—there aren't "modern" digital skills that aren't readily learned by millennials, but there certainly are fewer Gen Z ad
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by sfRattan 2y ago
> I think making things difficult is useful, it forces some learning to get a 'reward'. I found the same growing up. But at the time (the 90s) there weren't hyperstimuli available in the form of smartphones, streaming se
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by sfRattan 2y ago
A medieval castle could be defended by surprisingly few people, but not by zero people . And a castle full of people who don't know how to fortify and maintain its defenses eventually becomes someone else's castle. Aiming for zer
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by sfRattan 2y ago
> And extended families are not necessarily warm, safe spaces where everyone trusts everyone else; extended families are more likely to be "broken" than nuclear families. It is a good thing to promote and advance privacy, sec
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by sfRattan 2y ago
I tried once or twice in the early 2010s to set up a home server and had a similar experience to what you describe. Stuff would break and I wouldn't want to spend time fixing it. I think part of the excitement I'm feeling is that
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by sfRattan 2y ago
As I've been deliberately moving toward self-hosted computing, under my control, on my home network , I've had a feeling more and more that we're on the cusp of something transformative... For those who want it and those who
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by sfRattan 2y ago
There are tabletop wargames for the consumer/hobby market that do try to include various kinds of friction in the gameplay. Both the classic Memoir 44 [1] and the Undaunted series [2] have you issue orders from a hand of cards drawn fr
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by sfRattan 2y ago
A license for a live event stream makes sense, but libraries having to buy special licenses to loan out physical books seems completely nuts to me. Does the UK not have an equivalent to first sale doctrine for physical goods?
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by sfRattan 3y ago
Going by the Wikipedia article and included map, use of comma versus period as decimal separators is roughly an even split: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://commons.wikimedia.org/
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by sfRattan 3y ago
My recollection is that health care and other, similar benefits were incentives employers could offer to attract and retain talent during a period when FDR had wage and price controls in place. That is: healthcare was exempt from wage contr
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by sfRattan 3y ago
People have their own reasons for silence, even when a referendum is nonbinding. Interpreting that silence as consent or approval is the moral equivalent of a bulldozer.
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by sfRattan 3y ago
> The proposed solution that at least 54% of this village have recognized is that the internet has really eroded societal bonds. Just under 11% of the village support the measure strongly enough to vote for it . Not 54%. Only 20% of the
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by sfRattan 3y ago
> If you don’t want to have what an AI generates then don’t use it. The author is writing about sort of AI outputs that other people and organizations are passing to him: chatbots, generated emails, phony presence at a meeting, and so on
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by sfRattan 3y ago
I had a similar realization early after first picking up vim in college: customization of any tool eventually hits a point of diminishing returns beyond which further alterations reduce your ability to use the tool in its default state . I
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by sfRattan 3y ago
There are various third-party and sometimes first-party clipboard managers that give you more visual access to the things in the clipboard. But you hit a steep uphill conceptual climb for the average user pretty quickly: the better solution

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