TheOneCurly

Open source is about ideas being freely shared and iterated on. Open hardware has benefits, making a lot of things more accessible to people. It’s not the end all of sustainability, but it doesn’t pretend to be either.

S1m0ne 2: crypto boogaloo

I run Lemmy, Plex, and a bunch of other services from a desktop in my basement. It works great. The Lemmy docker setup is a little finicky but works well once you get it.

There are quite a few creators who are primarily funded off patreon and release content to YouTube. I imagine a group like MCDM (Matt Colville) who has patreon, merch, crowdfunding, and products doesn’t really care about ad revenue.

I disagree. Each distro is a user of a thousand different open source systems. When a distro developer integrates gnome, systemd, bluez, or whatever other system they’re finding, reporting, and possibly fixing bugs that end users might miss. Other than arch users, who else is compiling these things from scratch and really digging into the documentation?

The headline gives a bad first impression but I think the text itself has an interesting point. As it stands right now (in the US) the AI gatekeepers can’t copyright any of their output. So each and every piece of generated media is one more piece added to the public domain pile. Most of it is worthless but if there’s anything worth building on someone or someones can do that.

Doing this by hand is challenging but possible.

First you need a hex editor, not a text editor. xxd on linux will get you started but you might want something a little more user friendly.

Then look for a label for a value you know, xxd and other hex editors will show ascii text on the side. Hopefully you’ll be able to identify the value (in hexadecimal, probably 4 bytes but could be 1, 2, or 8 as well) somewhere before or after the label. You might have to get familiar with endianness, two’s compliment, and binary floating point before the numbers make sense.

Once you know how to read a value after a label you’ll need to find some label for the information you don’t know. If it isn’t displayed in the program it might not have a super readable label.

Distributed but high trust.

Zero-trust blockchain tech has no value. There is no such thing as a zero trust system in real life.

Except blockchain solves no useful problems so you will never find it behind anything that isn’t explicitly using it for marketing.

Joke’s on them, I could already browse the internet.

You’re pretty nuts, huh?

In case anyone hasn’t seen Folding Ideas - Line Goes Up. He gives a great overview of the history of crypto and is worth every minute of the 2 hour run time.

Plus he isn’t a crypto bro like OP here.

Your water supplier should provide you regularly (depending on local regs) with the contents of your municipal water. If you want to obtain your own rain water and make it yourself from source you certainly can.

The default mobile web view literally has sidebar at the top of the page when viewing a community. If your app is missing a basic feature you don’t get to complain and be a dick about it.

I’m not sure I would contract out a highly secure trading platform. You’re going to need constant updates, patches, fixes, and monitoring. This is the type of thing that requires development, dev ops, and security teams with 24/7 on call.

But, that’s what I expect from finance people trying to get into crypto scamming 10 years too late.

His principled stance against conventional contraceptives (condoms)

Lol

I don’t know if you’ve looked through any banned book lists recently but Mein Kampf doesn’t tend to be on them.

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-banned-books-in-america/

If you’ve ever taken public transit in the US, you know no one is asking for perfect lol.

I love how well received pipewire was/is compared to the drama systemd and Wayland got.

I couldn’t find a good one on their site so I downloaded the app. It’s a fancy notes app with templates for a bunch of different things. The hook seems to be the decentralized sync system.