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A whole new industry: CRYPTO ADS!

It has improved a lot. I once wanted to switch with another tech-savvy friend 2 or 3 years ago and the experience was abhorrent. Nowadays I use it mostly like a IRC client and it improves constantly.

However the comparison between this and signal falls flat due to the metadata that needs to be stored on matrix servers due to its federated setup.

Sure check out these two articles, one about tuning it for better sound output [0] and the other for tuning the microphone [1]. Hope that can be a good starting point.

[0]: https://fedoramagazine.org/tune-up-your-sound-with-pulseeffe... [1]: https://fedoramagazine.org/tune-up-your-sound-with-pulseeffe...

Why oh why was it not the first priority to move from phone numbers to random user IDs (like Threema) for identification? And instead come up with a crypto currency integration?

This whole crypto coin focus, the BS about the server code and the total inability to address criticism or be transparent about development made me lose hope in the project.

If you are on Linux it’s worth checking out PulseEffects [0]. Setting up gate, limiter, etc. is a great way to tune your audio and in a more robust way than some AI algorithm that only runs on some hardware.

[0]: https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects

I tried this a few years ago when I was younger and more optimistic. But man it was not a great experience.

Having said that I think there is still room for modern shells which are easier to script in. For a while I am using fish and thought scripting would be at least as easy and straightforward as using lua. But the syntax is really awkward. For example comparing two variables needs to be put in a

math "2 + 2"

Urg.

I know they might be busy and overworked but this attitude of not responding to criticisms or concerns is never a good look.

Meanwhile their twitter account is happily posting cheeky tweets:

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1379284279163686913

Nice!

You forgot „written in Rust“ for a 10x upvote multiplier.

Looks great!

Is this the LA version of "Calculus made easy"? Because I love that one.

I hope I am not getting downvoted to hell but I always thought Strang was overhyped. I watched his lectures and bought his book and I never felt this is the most accessible way of teaching LA. At least not in the way, people hyped it up to be.

I much prefer Jim Hefferon's LA book for example. No hate towards Strang but I always felt so dumb when I watched or read his stuff after people were raving about it.

Oh sorry is it paywalled for you? It works for me.

Does anyone know if there is a way to check if one's data is included in that leak, à la haveibeenpwned?

> why is it that the EU vaccine rollout has been dismal compared to the US and UK?

Because both do not export any vaccine. And the EU does. So even Canada cannot get vaccines from the US and gets it from the EU which exported about half its production outside the EU. Some even went to the US.

Partnering with Pfizer was done because the BioNtech CEO knew people at Pfizer from before. If they would’ve chosen e.g. Bayer (which is what CureVac did) the story of would’ve been different.

I’d say most of the world’s population does not know how to pronounce “Pfizer” correctly.

And it’s Bion-tech.

Credit where credit is due. It was developed by BioNtech and Pfizer helped with trial and distribution. Calling it Pfizer vaccine because it is American or just because it is bigger is such a shame. Give credit to the small company that developed it no matter what country it is from. If the company was from the US, there would’ve been hundreds of fluff pieces and heroism on display writing up the company and the name would be known long and wide.

Or even their next product which looks very promising: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...

Everybody says this, but it is just so unintuitive for me to get into.

This reminds me that I should finally revisit YNAB and re-open those browser tabs that explain how it works and integrate it into my life. (And transfer their US-centric approach to my European reality...) God damn it.

I love this font so much. Actually I use the nerdfonted version "Caskaydia". It just sucks that it does not have italics. But just the last month I was trying out every other font under the sun (with ligatures), including checking out some commercial ones, but none of these is so damn readable while still being rather dense with the perfect weight and expressiveness than Cascadia.

It makes the code so much prettier. However I am extremely open to alternatives that look similar but have italics.

I mean if I don’t trust their devices I will surely not trust their VPN server.

Settings one up is easy, blocking internet for a network device on the router level is trivial. No need for complicated setups IMHO.

Better link might be: https://www.wsj.com/articles/messaging-says-vw-usa-to-rebran...

Such a nice device! And the software is so full of features. I was quite surprised and suspected a much shittier product. Just the case situation is dire.

Right. I would never have any device like a camera be directly connected to the internet and instead cut off that device from the internet in my router software and only access it from outside via a VPN.

Not that this whole screw-up should be excused in any way or downplayed.

For router check out the Turris Omnia [0]. Seems to be a good choice.

[0]: https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/

I always thought that the main selling point of their devices was that you can run your own Ubiquiti server at home and keep everything local? They are always portrayed as the not-so-shitty IoT company.

Can we go back to discussing if Rust is better than Go please?

> But I think the point I was making stands. There are certainly innovations that sounds illogical but turn out to be very successful. Just because something sounds like a bad idea doesn't mean it is, it just means it hasn't worked yet.

No because your point was about horses being replaced by cars, which is what people (and probably horses) were skeptical about at that time. In the same way IBM was saying that computers will never appear in homes, etc.

But these devices were already there. The misconceptions were about predicting demand and miniaturization. This is completely different from terraforming. You are comparing "oh these devices sure never will be popular enough to make this other thing obsolete" with "lets nuke the Mars to create an atmosphere so we can live on it" (always winter, yeay).[0]

Your argument is bad because by saying "technologies were laughed at in the past" every technology that sounds laughable should be taken seriously? No. This is the same trap that Theranos investors had fallen in. It is all a fantasy.

We humans are very bad at estimating what is possible and what not. E.g. our inability to divert asteroids [1]. That is already a hard problem and currently not possible to do.

I am not against crazy technological ideas, for example the space elevator had a surprisingly good feasibility to being realized before we polluted our planet's atmosphere with junk. Terraforming Mars is in the Theranos land of crazy ideas though.

> Just like I also didn't think landing a rocket on its tail ever sounded unfeasible.

Maybe because that was already demonstrated in the 90s [1].

[0]: https://www.space.com/elon-musk-nuke-mars-terraforming.html [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wrc4fHSCpw [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o

With the limited internal storage there is not much future-proofness to me. A folder I sync to my device with PDF, books, etc. is close to 6GB. There is not much room left for others.

The way it looks remarkable wants to introduce a paid cloud service. Also ironically, they are very closed down in their communication.

So on one hand I have a few applications by some dudes on github and on the other I can install apps like firefox, the kindle app, read-it-later clients like wallabag, etc.

I’d say it is very good. According to mydeepguide it is between remarkable 1 and 2. So not the best but pretty good. I used an iPad and Pencil before and it feels better compared to that. But the iPad is more dependent on the iPad.

I am shot at drawing, so not sure. I only draw up diagrams and things like that.