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mikae1on DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment

Not even Altman thinks AGI is around the corner. It keeps the hype and money flow alive though.

mikae1on Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'

Reading this I feel blessed having found https://universal-blue.org

mikae1on uses this

https://usesthis.com/interviews/kicks.condor for the historic Kicks Condor interview.

mikae1on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people

Yup, isn't that what raising the tax in progressive way would do?

mikae1on Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers

> They appear to be designed without pedaling in mind, as exerting effort without proper ergonomics would quickly become uncomfortable and painful. You can actually see some such bikes in the linked article.

Came here to write exactly that. Those who design those bikes clearly don't know a thing about bicycle design. Want to use them for pedaling? Say hi to knee problems and inefficient pedaling!

mikae1on Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos

> Videos are saved to the ./data/ directory and converted to MOV format using ffmpeg with hardware acceleration

Transcoded (ouch) or just remuxed to a mov container? Have to investigate.

mikae1on Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

Wait... 60 dollars per year for a third party solution just to send articles to your ereader? I'd argue that's something that should come with the reader.

mikae1on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

Obtanium[1], F-Droid[2], Aurora Store[3] and FFUpdater[4] are some options. Signal self updates from the APK download[6].

I recommend putting proprietary Play Store apps grabbed with Aurora Store in the work profile with Shelter[5].

[1] https://obtainium.imranr.dev/

[2] https://f-droid.org/

[3] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/

[4] https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

[5] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

[6] https://signal.org/android/apk/

mikae1on What to expect from Debian/Trixie

But you can't do that on a live system as you can with Windows or macOS. Not a problem for pre release upgrade perhaps. But I'm so missing this feature from macOS.

mikae1on Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org

From https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/faq/:

> According to Google reCAPTCHA, Hcaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile, I’m a robot. Although I haven’t seen an engraved plate with the label T-800 on myself yet, these days I might as well just be a rogue LLM. Does it even matter anymore?

mikae1on Pimping My Casio: Part Deux

It’s actually the default package manager for uBlue distros.

I’ve used it as my only package manager on Linux for a few years and I love it.

mikae1on A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)

> Once you lose the autoplaying videos, the popups, the cookies, the cookie consent banners, the social network buttons, the tracking scripts, javascript and css frameworks, and all the other junk nobody likes — you're probably there.

How about a single image? I suppose a lot of people (visitors and webmasters) like to have an image or two on the page.

mikae1on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement

> If France, fair use doesn't even exist!

Same in Sweden. The U.S. has one of the broadest and most flexible fair use laws.

In Sweden we have "citaträtten" (the right to quote). It only applies to text and it is usually said that you can't quote more than 20% of the original text.

mikae1on Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

Being an https://getaurora.dev (Universal Blue based) user I don't notice updates at all. I don't update, updates happen in the background. What difference does "speed" make then?

mikae1on Reflections on OpenAI

> I liked the take of the path to AGI being framed as a three horse race between OpenAI (consumer product DNA), Anthropic (business/enterprise DNA), and Google (infrastructure/data DNA)

Wouldn't want to forget Meta which also has consumer product DNA. They literally championed the act of making the consumer the product.

mikae1on Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage

> contamination

Well, turmeric certainly has a history of “contamination”[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/09/23/nx-s1...

mikae1on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

Can't stand roundtrips anymore. Yup, I actually apply a LUT after tone mapping in darktable.

mikae1on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

I do a lot of mild re-lighting. If RawTherapee had the path masks from darktable I'd be more than happy.

mikae1on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

I fought darktable for two years before feeling right at home. I had used Lightroom since it's inception. I'm happy now I invested the time. I much prefer the control darktable gives me now.

mikae1on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

Local adjustments are really difficult though, as it only supports the good ole "Nik u point" tech. For this reason only I use darktable instead.

Would really like to be able to use RawTherapee's dual-illuminant DCPs (not available in darktable).

mikae1on A new PNG spec

> There is just no need for a PNG update, just adopt JPEG XL.

Tell that to Google. They gave up on XL in Chrome[1] and essentially killed its adoption.

[1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998#comment85

mikae1on LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

Redirector[1] makes it easy to set up your own redirects. I prefer that.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

mikae1on Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way

More importantly, Grav runs on any shared hosting with PHP. Can't say the same about Go based software.

mikae1on Google Shared My Phone Number

Geez. Has there been any good write-ups about this in the German press?

mikae1on Harmonic: Modern Android client for Hacker News

Cool :) F-Droid perhaps?

mikae1on Slow software for a burning world

> a federated social networking toolkit to customise and host your own online space and control your experience at the most granular level.

Bonfire social is built on it. https://bonfire.cafe is a Bonfire social instance. Looks very Mastodon. Here are some other apps built on Bonfire: https://bonfirenetworks.org/apps/

mikae1on Minimum Viable Blog

Blog spam? :) The URL is https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

mikae1on Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival