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I don't understand what am I supposed to do with this information.

Now that I know what it means to be poor what should I do?

I read somewhere that CPUs are better at generating graphics than GPUs (although I imagine much slower). Is that true? Does that explain why GUI libraries like Egui are so much uglier than, for example, Iced?

Why do you say they're "clearly aimed at technical people"? Do you know the minds of people who created them?

Those phrases you mentioned do not sound like they were addressed to children, and they have more text afterwards that expand on them.

Maybe you could explain what they're lacking?

Wasn't it better when only .com mattered? There are thousands of TLDs now and that forces companies to buy multiple, these domain names are not even memorable anymore specifically because of the TLD part.

Such a stupid system.

Wow, that is crazy. These prices are hard to believe.

I don't know if these work or not for the specific case mentioned here, but the cheapest eSIMs by a huge margin are from https://silent.link/ if anyone is interested. They definitely do work under normal internet circumstances.

How can it be that one person living in Indonesia says everything is blocked and the country is in chaos and another, very calmly, is completely unaware and can't even find any news about it? This is so odd. What is the truth?

About VPNs I don't know but you could all start using Nostr instead of Twitter and Discord.

Also Telegram using MTProto proxies (that you have to host, do not use those free ones out there), if those don't qualify as VPNs.

Oh, really? rclone is great, but as a standalone thing it's really annoying to use. I didn't realize until now that it was missing a git-annex integration to be great. Thank you! I'll start using it again.

No, because Bluesky the platform has to actively crawl my PDS, and it can freely decide to not do that.

Can you expand on that? In my understanding it is a completely different approach.

It's so odd that they still get to enjoy their status as a "decentralized" "open" social network when it's really just a centralized platform by definition (and it's not even their fault, there is simply no way to do what they want to do without centralization).

Sure, someone may say "the AT Protocol is open", but that means nothing because the AT Protocol is not Bluesky, Bluesky is one centralized platform that happens to "talk" that protocol (well, of course, since the "protocol" is literally defined by whatever they happen to be doing), it still controls who can be inside and who can't.

TL;DR: Nostr is a much better option for most use cases, sadly for some unfortunate reason it never got to enjoy too much attention from a wider technologist community.

A browser extension that interfaces between a webpage and some LLM?

Am I stupid or this a very obvious thing that tons of other companies could have done already? It's crazy nobody thought of it before (I certainly didn't).

I've used this for years, but to me the big selling point was integration with cloud storage providers as a means of backup. That, however, was always flaky and dependent on unmaintained third-party plugins. I think there was also a bug at some point that caused some data inconsistencies, so eventually I stopped.

Does anyone know if the situation has improved on that front in the past 5 years?

Isn't that a good thing?

You should probably allow people to plug in their own API keys and services? I don't know, otherwise you won't be able to keep this running for too long, I assume.

Thank you, this is really good, just what I was looking for.

I was using a browser extension, but it stopped working.

That's a nice compendium of tips and useful information.

I wonder if anyone can learn from this. I feel like I only understood what I already knew, or at least was very close to knowing. That's the same thing that happens with teaching manuals about any topic: they're organized in a way that makes sense and it's easy for people who already know the topics, but often very bad at teaching the same topics to an audience that doesn't know anything.