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by xtracto 3y ago
Someone should do a UI kind of like Emule: the main idea was the same: You fired your client and could connect to one of several servers, but end users didn't care, they just clicked on "connect" and the client will do whatev
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by xtracto 3y ago
Just recently I had a worst-case nightmare scenario with a single BTRFS partition 5TB disk (no RAID or anything crazy). It was a single BTRFS disk, single partition external USB disk running under Linux Mint. At some point after I restart
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by xtracto 3y ago
Aaah!! I was just trying to remember the "facebook killer" . Diaspora!! IIRC ActivityPub is what c as me from its inception in 2010. Nothing wrong with it. Good job what the team has been doing. Now we only need some entity to bui
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by xtracto 3y ago
Aaah private trackers! I remember once I pondered to enter one of those "special groups" but bailed when I read that you had to study for some sort of interview that was required to try to join . Lol no... I dont like interviewin
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by xtracto 3y ago
The problem I see with lemmy, mastodon and similar services (anybody remember the also open source "Facebook killer" from like 10 years ago?) is that they are confusing: is it one service or a bunch of servers? Which server is th
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by xtracto 3y ago
They dont. Do a search of something older than 5 years in btdigg and you will most likely get only dead magnets.
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by xtracto 3y ago
My main laptop uses Linux Mint. I've had to install flatpaks instead of the shipped .deb versions twice: once for imagemagick because the distros version is older and doesnt support some specific flag/function and the other Libre
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by xtracto 3y ago
We need to go back to build open protocols. Protocols instead of programs. And then let Open Source and companies build the programs. That was a fight we had "won" on the days of MP3 (very painful), SMTP, MKV, among others durin
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by xtracto 3y ago
Whatever happened to voat? I think one problem people here underestimate is the cost of running the required infra. I seem to remember voat fell under it's own weight?
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by xtracto 3y ago
I've tried a couple of reddit alternatives, but all fall short. The one that was more or less ok was lobster.rs , but the founder/owner is kind of aggressive: It was funny how he got mad at some random tweet I made once, which ac
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by xtracto 3y ago
There are a couple og good Chrome extensions that use GPT to summarize websites. Gpt3.5 is good enough, so it's pretty cheap. Now I only need one that actually overwrites the text.
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by xtracto 3y ago
>The web is in the process of rapidly filling up with AI regurgitated garbage This is already the case. See the oceans of crap SEO optimized "food recipe sites". It's unbearable. So sad that, BBC back in 199ps and 2000s, t
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by xtracto 3y ago
I feel that the Usenet protocol in hand with today's technologies should be amazing. It should be possible to make a very powerful client that summarizes groups discussions say, by day/week; filters spam pretty aggressively and so
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by xtracto 3y ago
All of us together do. I saw the nerfing of GPT in real time: one day it was giving me great book summaries, the next one it said that it couldn't do it due to copyright. I actually called it in a comment several months ago: copyright
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by xtracto 3y ago
> What? I have never seen these alleged "entitled gatekeepers". I have been passed to specialists with no issue. The public sector healthcare is excellent and the same medical standard as is received in the private sector. I sa
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by xtracto 3y ago
If you make drugs illegal you have a health problem and a criminal problem. If you regulate it and make it legal, you only have a health problem.
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by xtracto 3y ago
Screw these type of policies... I was bitten by a similar policy by Spotify a couple of years ago when I was a paying customer with a Family Plan that only my wife and I used. Suddenly they decided to "cancel" my wife's acc
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by xtracto 3y ago
I remember installing that CloudStream app and struggling a bit with plugins, repositores and whatnot, for a couple of hours... with regards to piracy up until now nothing has beaten simple BtDigg + WebTor for me until now.
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by xtracto 3y ago
This raises some pretty interesting thoughts to the table that I think many people don't see: Yes, 95% of the US population don't have more than $250,000. Let's say that that 95% has on average something like $5,000 in saving
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by xtracto 3y ago
I don't subscribe to Bitcoin, I think it was a good Proof of Concept that this "Satoshi Nakamoto" entity released with good ideas that have since been tested and replaced by better ones. I very well think that Bitcoin itself
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by xtracto 3y ago
So people who want to work in the office are entitled to keep their coworkers who dont want to be stuck there?
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by xtracto 3y ago
I miss the 90s internet so badly... reminds me of the old bad taste joke: I'm Not Saying Let's Go Kill All The Stupid People… I'm Just Saying Let’s Remove All The Warning Labels And Let The Problem Sort Itself Out.
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by xtracto 3y ago
What about a simple download apk button in a website?. I was raised during the DOS,Windows times and installed software in MY PURCHASED computer without any stupid third party dictating what I could or couldn't do.
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by xtracto 3y ago
I was affected by the same hotmail wipe. My hotmail account was from 1998, and Microsoft decided to wipe it.. All my memories gone. Fuck them I've never used MS crap for anything of value since then.
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by xtracto 3y ago
The EU+UK need a project like the large hadron collider but for AI: Develop a really really large computational infrastructure that allows researchers to study AI experiments with technology that may be 20 or 30 years far away from being co
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by xtracto 3y ago
I grew in the 80s 90s. The culture of phrack, 2600, Fravia, phrozen crew, etc was absolutely phenomenal. My take is a bit worse than the GP: Theres people interested in that but nowadays they sell their skills for money. That's why
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by xtracto 3y ago
I like the advice provided by Jack Ma. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/jack-ma-dont-fear-making-mis... At 40, I'm just doing what I'm good at, learning things that interest me here and there. But m
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by xtracto 3y ago
My dad found the love of his life at around 68yo. In the last 5 years I've seen him happier love-related than ever. So I dont think your snippet about that is necessarily accurate.
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by xtracto 3y ago
That reminded me of the San Junipero episode in Black Mirror. I guess the series you mentioned was inspired by that episode.
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by xtracto 3y ago
I'm a paying feedly customer . FWIW I would move into your paid service if you implemented rss. I moved to feedly when greader was killed, but never liked feedly that much.

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