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by yaky 11mo ago
Be careful with comparing real-life things and experiences with a (virtual) number on a screen, especially for children. I used to know an adult who only cared about that number going up, despite making more than a comfortable amount of mon
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by yaky 11mo ago
You might enjoy Tristan Perich's piece: https://tristanperich.bandcamp.com/album/1-bit-symphony
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by yaky 1y ago
The instructions are from Synapse docs: https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/turn/cotur... Element (not ElementX), the official/preferred app, works with coturn for 1-on-1 calls. But El
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by yaky 1y ago
After installing and configuring coturn, and then finding out that ElementX requires Element Call instead feels like a "fuck you" from developers.
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by yaky 1y ago
I've been hosting Matrix Synapse and mautrix-WhatsApp bridge for many years. Due to WhatsApp changes, bridge has to be updated periodically (about 1-2 times a year IIRC), but it has worked pretty reliably otherwise.
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by yaky 1y ago
Does this update break calls? I recently set up coturn along with Synapse, but found out that ElementX cannot call Element and now requires Element Call (whatever it is). As a small self-hoster, the pile of growing services (that I presume
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by yaky 1y ago
I hosted Matrix Synapse for a few users and some bridges for many years, and I get some of the sentiment. Synapse is okay, and bridges were the main reason for me. Documentation for setup and configuration is good now. No built-in admin pa
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by yaky 1y ago
Calling health insurance, retirement and paid leave "bloat" sounds like a satire of a 19th century factory/mine/sweatshop owner. Wow.
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by yaky 1y ago
What Apple could have done, for sake of clarity, sanity, and good practice is to handle SMS using one app, and handle iMessage using another, *separate* app. The problem is not that iMessage exists, it's that it operates in opaque and
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by yaky 1y ago
4.7GB is quite enough for a standalone Linux DVD (for devices that still have DVD drives). Plus some cool art. Might be a good idea to preserve a known-working distro for some old PC, especially for discontinued or less-used architectures.
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by yaky 1y ago
A few months ago, there was an update that made the detection much stricter. I believe this was in part to detract people from posting false positives of rare birds to eBird.
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by yaky 1y ago
Seek is impressive just for the sheer number of completely different things it could identify, from mosses to animals. I used it to find native and invasive plants in my garden.
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by yaky 1y ago
AFAIK WhoBird uses the same model (or at least, also developed by Cornell), but for me, Merlin is still better at identifying multiple birds at once.
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by yaky 1y ago
There is http://frogfind.com/ for retro and lightweight devices. But all I see for source is the readability module.
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by yaky 1y ago
That would be fun to read. Did you get the gemini browser to work? AFAIK getting TLS working on old devices could be difficult.
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by yaky 1y ago
Here are some staples of the 2000s runet that I recall (haven't been there since then really) - bash.org.ru, IT and programmer humor site that produced some classic memes (I know of the American one, but this one was its own thing) - M
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by yaky 1y ago
Check out the simpler Internet through the gemini protocol [0]. It's lightweight on purpose, and the capsules (gemini "sites") are mostly text. There are aggregators [1] and even search [2]. 0: https://geminiprotoc
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by yaky 1y ago
IIRC there was a brief VR spike around early 2000s. I remember trying out Duke Nukem in a helmet and a three-button controller. And then a bit later, there were 3D glasses, ones that synchronized with the high-rate monitor to show each eye
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by yaky 1y ago
This is neat, definitely works for finding feeds on more busy / obscured / ad-covered sites, such as news. I see that main part of the code is in JS anyway. Perhaps a fully-local bookmarklet would work even better, without having
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by yaky 2y ago
Fun fact: such "purples" exist for other species. There was a study that found that hummingbirds are more attracted to a color that is a mix of green and ultraviolet (imperceptible to humans, but similar to our concept of "pu
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by yaky 2y ago
Several years ago, Riot.im messenger had a branch called RiotX with some additional features. Then RiotX (or its codebase) became the first version of Element, while the original Riot.im stopped being supported. And this was when Synapse wa
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by yaky 2y ago
This sounds great for large and corporate servers, but a pain for small self-hosted ones. More configuration and external dependencies. Plus additional confusion for non-techy users on those smaller servers.
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by yaky 2y ago
There is browsh, which uses Firefox underneath: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh And looks like Carbonyl uses Chrome: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
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by yaky 2y ago
Many years ago, I found a piece of corporate code that stopped working when a specific person ID was not marked active in the Users table in a DB for a specific application. That person was the long-time developer responsible for supporting
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by yaky 2y ago
Nice writeup. Was this built to be used with multiple devices? IIRC at least older jailbroken iDevices let you modify /etc/hosts, which you can use for the same purpose of blocking specific sites.
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by yaky 2y ago
Also, somewhat unique in that they don't sing. And they sometimes get drunk by eating fermented berries.
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by yaky 2y ago
I don't understand, offline-capable software is now being pitched as something profound and genius? There was software before the widespread Internet access.
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by yaky 2y ago
I tried to find some technical details, but there is nothing on the tutorials page. The press page links to a few articles in French, but all I found was that there is that there is no 4G, and "Circuit artisinal fonctionnel" on a
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by yaky 2y ago
I am surprised this wasn't done much sooner, especially for "flagship" smartphones. When I was in university ~15 years ago, I met a grad student [0] who implemented impressive eye tracking software and even played WoW with it
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by yaky 2y ago
I think it's one of the "pointless but cool" projects, but yes, I don't get it either. Any decent underground system would already have audio and visual announcements; I don't think I have ever cared to know where b

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