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user2722··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Did not see that. Thanks for pointing that out! Will re-read the page.
user2722··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
I had a pseudo-plan for something like this but for reasons related to privacy I had two types of chatrooms:

* regular chats, existing only on the server, no leaking the chat transcript except via users, but never via server to server.

* chambers: a global chatroom, located at a server, maybe with a MQTT anyone could subscribe to.

This never left the early planning stages though, but I thought the segregation between federated chatrooms and regular chatrooms was of interest to keep in sync with IRC open but closed nature of chats.

user2722··on Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
short sci-fi horror story follows:

* Hello, we've called you to HR because we've detected you have been stressed at work.

- Sure, some... overwork status after you reduce headcount, but nothing it isn't being managed with the hierarchy chain.

* Glad to know. Be sure we, as a company, endeavour to have a stress-free workplace. You will be put in a Stress Workplace Reduction PIP, just as a formality of course; since you mentioned you have taken the appropriate steps to reduce stress you should pass the PIP, no need to stress about it! See you in a few weeks.

- Er... Thanks......?

user2722··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
Nowadays since corps lie frequently I treat FAQs as another lie.

If the capability is there, it will be used, specially since the whole decision process appears to have been rather opaque.

user2722··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
Oohohohohoohohohoho Merry Christmas!!!
user2722··on Norton Neo Browser
I do install them. This day only ClamAV I guess. I used (paid for) ESET Linux before they cancelled their Linux consumer line.

On the fence about trying Kaspersky AV Linux. Wouldn't install their suite on Windows though, last I looked at it hooked too many places, causing weird bugs and slowing everything down. Less bad than Comodo, which was able to bork Cygwin, but still.

user2722··on Norton Neo Browser
Don't forget privacy policy.

Norton is owned by Avast owner which sold data for ads.

user2722··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
No-one referenced Firefox also has Brave's adblocking implementation baked in, even if disabled for now.

Additionally, I eagerly await resource (CPU+site size) buckets to be implemented on a browser and a LocalCDN along it to shrink the web.

user2722··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Bluetooth now works with Waydroid? Seamlessly or you have to "disconnect" from host and "connect" it to Waydroid?

AFAIK, Camera (V4L) is also broken on main repo, to anyone else wondering.

user2722··on It's getting harder to focus every day
Rather ironic: I was in the process of moving all Android apps to a second user to be able to stop all apps (and just not DnD, because I'll know I may have some messages waiting for me after disabling DnD) when I got distracted by HN (just one tiny minute).

Another thing I'm testing is having VPN OFF with its kill-switch ON.

user2722··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
Agree. The only problem about radio is requiring wired headphones to serve as antenna.

Do flagship Snapdragon SOCs still have radio? Thinking about next GOS compatible Motorola-branded device, the first device GOS will support with Snapdragon.

user2722··on Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones
But why?
user2722··on TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
Did they pay you anything at least, for doing their work?
user2722··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
I thought he had created an website which ran an APK server-side and was loadable in a browser. Oh well.
user2722··on LineageOS Statistics
If the ROM is not expecting to be relocked, it's a ROM problem as well.
user2722··on PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)
Meanwhile to play PS5 games like TMNT you can't use PS4 controllers. This is not a customer focused approach.
user2722··on LineageOS Statistics
While my currently favored approach is GOS', I'd really like to know more. Did anything else change? I'm 15 years out of date. In my mind:

* root is still frowned upon

* microG is frowned upon

* bypassing SafetyNet (sorry, Play Integrity) is frowned upon

* bootloader relocking is not oficially nor semi-officially supported

* missing patches (Google's 6 month source embargo) were not talked about

user2722··on Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
There is tinfoil.sh as well but honestly running this stuff on an airgapped server allows a better peace of mind about the data being used for something else.
user2722··on A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began
The half of the story which was available was indeed fascinating.

Dates I'll retain, 1.7 million years and 5000 years. Two different, if associated, marks of civilization.

user2722··on The Road to a Billion-Token Context
Two ideas: grounding the LLM between different chats and researching politicians and their friends through mutual associations.
user2722··on The Road to a Billion-Token Context
I usually ask it to give me two batches of answer: 1) normal; 2) not sycophantic.
user2722··on The Road to a Billion-Token Context
I have a simple and brittle system to track people and facts and associations on Newspapers, which is basically: "LLM extract people, places/projects/structure/places and save them as an Obsidian compatible graph network."

For 2 or 3 newspapers it works; my idea was to use it as grounding to discover relationships between people, companies and jobs.

As for the "everyone's life", I have always assumed that there would be a graph system to point to "forgotten" documents.

Gemini said my idea was amazing and new in its implementation, even if not in spirit, but I'm assuming it was being sycophantic as usual.

user2722··on Apocalypse Early Warning System
You clearly haven't read articles where they said they were pondering all their employees in those bunkers to have explosives in their neck...
user2722··on The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
If the system treats you as a number, you should become a mercenary.

I love this articles who all the coders read but none of the management.

If possible, be a mercenary and put a high number on your expertise, so we can solve this management blind spot faster.

If you can't, let your life/work's passion be "not starving to death", and try to change it politics-side.

user2722··on Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Agents will allow human programmers to get what they've been begging for decades now: proper requirements and flexible, logical, tooling.
user2722··on Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments
Agree. But according to Gemini [for what's worth] the final 1990 Mashmallow's study [since first versions were cautious] did indeed jump to conclusions to point there was a causation to a better later life. The media might have amplified, but the wrong (or misleading) conclusion was already present in the _scientific_ paper.
user2722··on Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments
It really calls into questions the conclusions drawn from the last 50 years. Here's the ones disproven I remember:

* kids grow to be rich because they accept delayed gratification

* alpha males are the leader of the pack and all other males are useless

* people accept violence if there is a higher authority which justifies it with a reason

How many people suffered or delivered suffering because of their beliefs in the above?

user2722··on Artemis II is not safe to fly
NASA operates as a terminal, bloated monopoly that has completely severed its feedback loops with physical reality in favor of preserving a 25-year-old architectural fantasy. The Orion heat shield is essentially a buggy hardware release being pushed into a mission-critical production environment despite the fact that its own internal telemetry is screaming about a catastrophic failure. By choosing to ignore the spalling and the melted structural bolts, the agency is deliberately discarding the engineering equivalent of core dump data to maintain a schedule that satisfies political optics rather than Newtonian physics.
user2722··on Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
I like Cryptomator's solution: donate to get a pretty banner.

Also, it didn't work -- Mountain Duck is closed source.

Personally I donate €50 every now and then when the average of the donation goes below a certain value (varies by project) but it requires tracking in a Spreadsheet.

user2722··on Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations
Ya but in this case, it _is_ AI. It was just an experiment though -- most market absolutists talk like this.
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