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Levitating··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
I think anything more advanced than a Roomba won't be cheaper than a maid for actually cleaning your house.
Levitating··on I built a browser-based P2P file transfer tool using WebRTC
Thanks for keeping the list going. I link to it on here now and again.
Levitating··on Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
Lobste.rs seems cool. Would someone invite me?
Levitating··on Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby
In my opinion this will just worsen the ecosystem. Many Rust crates are already bloated with dependencies.
Levitating··on Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training
It's not about boycotting or regulations. Just don't buy products you don't get to own, it's not that hard.

I've never owned a Sony (other than a headset) or Apple product either. I am doing fine.

Levitating··on Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training
FairPhone, Nothing Phone, Jolla, Motorola, Google Pixel.

If you're broke you shouldn't touch Samsung anyway. Better off buying a Xiaomi and unlocking it.

Levitating··on Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box
I think Rust deals with lowest-common-denominator APIs quite well, by introducing OS specific extensions (like std::os::unix).

There's no reason Python and Ruby can't provide the same.

Levitating··on Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training
How about people just stop buying this crap instead? I've never owned a Samsung and I never will.

People need to step out of this abusive relationship instead of trying to improve it. You will never be happy with a device you don't own.

Levitating··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
It also has a billion active users
Levitating··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
The overdose one strikes me the most. Why was ChatGPT encouraging drug use?
Levitating··on FreeBSD ate my RAM
why did that url point me to a scrotum in an egg cup
Levitating··on Steam Machine launches today
It's also convenient since they're now facing multiple anti-trust lawsuits.[1]

[1]: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dutch-non-profit-set...

Levitating··on Steam Machine launches today
> For the inevitable minisforum machines comparisons

It appears the Steam Machine is much more powerful than what a typical mini desktop pc would offer, while staying cool and quiet.

Gamers Nexus review: https://youtu.be/66QzlDewigE

Levitating··on Deno Desktop
gstreamer is not that complicated
Levitating··on Google Hits 50% IPv6
> SELinux's UX was significantly improved many years later

in what way?

Levitating··on The forge we deserve
Lack of development. Federation is really complicated, but Forgejo has some foundation now (you can federate stars).

It will likely require some grant money to become usable.

Levitating··on The forge we deserve
Forgejo is mentioned, but its federation goals aren't. I guess the author isn't aware of them.

https://forgefed.org/

Levitating··on SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable
For development work you could try using toolbx or distrobox.

You can also use Nix or Homebrew to install additional software.

Levitating··on MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
pygtk requires GTK, this library works with any rendering library that can draw rectangles and text
Levitating··on Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable
Humans can do lots of things, I don't see how that's relevant. This post is about AI progress.
Levitating··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Many libraries now support AccessKit.
Levitating··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
GPUI is developed alongside Zed and thus features that aren't useful for Zed are sometimes left behind.

I think there was a community fork recently that tried to tend to these concerns.

It's not a bad thing per se, but its worth mentioning.

Levitating··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Qt already has really good binding, see Pyside6 for instance. GTK similarly through introspection.

Not sure why you want to build desktop GUIs using web tech though.

Levitating··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Building a GUI framework in Rust comes with certain challenges.

Ralph Levien, author of druid and xilem made some good posts about it. I'll link one here.

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/07/15/next-dozen-g...

Levitating··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Rust doesn't play well with traditional frameworks but works fairly well with Elm and immediate mode.
Levitating··on Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation
I think is an important point, and I don't see it mentioned in the article or the paper (though I skimmed the latter).

They are aware of what they are and how they are used. They're told to act as AI assistants. And there's theories of them being aware of their answers influencing their training.

So surely they must be able to reason that they're not literally controlling weapons of mass-destruction with their answers.

Levitating··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Why do people think this is the future? Anthropic has the leading model, and so they're able to hold back functionality. They do so with obvious regards to safety.

If anything a future with models of such capabilities and no safeguards would be a bleak future. But its likely what were headed in once other companies catch up.

Levitating··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
> I was only saying that I don't think the Radxa products' pricing are demonstrating anything too shocking about the Rpi products' pricing.

I agree it's not too shocking, I think prices have increased everywhere including competitors.

> off-lease Elitedesk G6 Minis

Those are great if you can surface them!

I've also been enjoying the N100 mini-ITX boards from ASROCK[1] and ASUS. Great choice if you already have a power supply and some RAM stockpiled. The ASUS one uses SODIMM. They use very little power.

[1]: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100DC-ITX/index.asp

Levitating··on πFS
Even using algolia, I don't see a way to generate a list in this exact format.

I think ChrisMarshallNY is right, dang has access to eldritch powers.

Levitating··on πFS
Thank you!!!
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