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by weikju 3y ago
back in the 90s and early 2000s I knew plenty of non-technical users who were fine using IRC or "mIRC" cuz they didn't know the difference between the app and the protocol/servers. Companies are capitalizing on this igno
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by weikju 3y ago
It’s not like Apple won’t have guardrails in their local llms…
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Isn’t that for windows only?
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by weikju 3y ago
The financial incentives just aren't there unfortuately for the game makers.
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by weikju 3y ago
Your dupe link goes right back here
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by weikju 3y ago
> Considering that’s it’s a state actor, Is it? Did we have any conclusive evidence yet? Honest question.
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by weikju 3y ago
I read this as the OP being the patient, not the doctor. Pretty sure a patient is free to violate this confidentiality
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by weikju 3y ago
> By releasing such patches, others can get them for free while it took you significant effort Conversely, you get others’ patches for free without significant effort on your part so it’s still in everyone’s interest to contribute.
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by weikju 3y ago
> Do all those companies use the same low-budget legal drafting service? Yes. Boilerplate rules the legal world as far as I can see. As well as always sneaking in things in the hopes that people will fail to notice and not notice.
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by weikju 3y ago
reminds me of the "multimedia PC" of the 90s. But at least that branding didn't enforce cloud services and Microsoft telemetry
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by weikju 3y ago
XMPP is alive and well and thriving, just not in the mass's consciousness. Google and Facebook dropping support for it, oh well. It works without them. It will work after the current round of commercial chat apps die off.
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by weikju 3y ago
But I've seen plenty of people being confused by the popup about undoing when they just as shake their phone a little bit for other reasons (moving around for example). I always disable this feature.
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by weikju 3y ago
So you didn’t find Tox, Briar, Jami, Session (just the first four off the top of my head that have been around since “a few years ago”. Not to mention anything XMPP)
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by weikju 3y ago
It's a little bit hard to follow the blog post, probably owing to the author's primary language not being English.. - it's a Firefox fork, but he doesn't like his own project being forked by others - he is closing the so
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by weikju 3y ago
There's an option in gnome keyboard settings or gnome tweaks to enable the same in GNOME apps.. Though it's a bit more limited but ctrl-a ctrl-e etc are working!
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by weikju 3y ago
I stand corrected.
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by weikju 3y ago
While I agree is likely secure enough, remember that cloud operators such as Aws used to be ok with making s3 buckets public by default, which did cause many issues until they finally changed that (and made it harder to make them public eve
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by weikju 3y ago
In the usual way, yes you are correct. I think the article is trying to present an alternative viewpoint, where the real Redis product is not the one that is still named "Redis" but the one that continues being opensource. So it
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by weikju 3y ago
Sure, feedback is noted. Hopefully a bit more clear now after my response. :)
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by weikju 3y ago
Right. the "just as much" as was with regards to "they will comply with law enforcement requests" rather than the quantity/type of information part...
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by weikju 3y ago
There was some drama a few years ago where Proton provided IP addresses of some activist to authorities, so yeah, they will do so just as much as Apple will. https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged
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by weikju 3y ago
It could be but not entirely so, so I’m cautious here
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by weikju 3y ago
Cynically, I’m thinking the main “problem” being solve here is the current drivers are not written in Rust
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by weikju 3y ago
Alas the corporate bloat wars ruins many a persons experience of macOS
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by weikju 3y ago
> So, I have HTMX firing when people save their changes via a button, then I need to use the JS API for conditional logic e.g., if valid, then update table. If invalid, then display some kind of message or whatever. Couldn't that be
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by weikju 3y ago
And this is why I keep coming back to Common Lisp
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by weikju 3y ago
My guess is there were many non Russian companies hosting work loads there for many reasons. Took them a while to migrate to other accounts.
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by weikju 3y ago
There's a huge difference here - the GPL does this so that you are unable to revoke from others the rights that you are benefitting from, yourself. You are otherwise allowed to use the software as you see fit and modify it as you wish.
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by weikju 3y ago
GitHub provides an agent that you can run. It polls GitHub for tasks and runs them locally. They also provide docker images and even a Kubernetes controller for auto scaling runners. Some people do it with lambda functions or plain ec2 laun
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by weikju 3y ago
alright I can see the site is back online, launching in June apparently. Supposedly with a new way to run Android apps in Linux (or are they just using Waydroid under the hood? I'm sure someone will dig in). They're making big cla

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