Leonard_of_Q

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by Leonard_of_Q 7d ago
The trees, man, the trees. We never should have left the trees.
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by Leonard_of_Q 7d ago
My neighbour - a few hundred metres further up the road - has two dogs, one of which a surefire genius as it has no problems barking out 334543333-bit RSA factorisations. It must have been solving NP-complete problems for years by now, nigh
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by Leonard_of_Q 8d ago
By your spelling of the word "germofoob" I get the impression that you're Dutch, am I correct? In that case I suspect that the "dozens of animals" you see "shitting on the same spot" are dogs in a small gr
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by Leonard_of_Q 9d ago
You didn't "consume" that "content", that's newspeak which we'd all be better off without. You read books, listened to music, saw movies, plays, etc. You didn't "consume" them either, they&#
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by Leonard_of_Q 9d ago
> On iOS.. There's your problem, you rented a terminal managed by the fruit factory so they get to decide who the thing serves. Either "jailbreak" the thing or get a Google-free Android device with an AOSP-derived distribu
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by Leonard_of_Q 10d ago
> I've gone to great lengths to avoid ads - but it's a war I am losing. Content is now interleaved with ads at the creative stage... In the end you'll win this war, maybe not in the way you envisioned but win it you will
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by Leonard_of_Q 10d ago
Standard answer fit to keep the parasites fed. There is no "the answer" here, there are many answers depending on which lawyers you ask and how much you can afford to feed them. Just release the code somewhere, anonymously, it isn
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by Leonard_of_Q 10d ago
The same is and has been true for Reddit for a long time, the difference lies mostly in the ideological sauce flavouring these places, i.e. Little-endians vs. Big-endians. If you're a Reddit-endian you'll despise the Tube-endians
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by Leonard_of_Q 11d ago
Reddit infected by Youtubers sounds like pest getting cholera, i.e. Reddit did not need an infection to be a bot-infested cesspit.
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by Leonard_of_Q 11d ago
Now all that's missing is Chatlib , a self-hosted proxy for ChatGPT which makes it possible to a) query the service without leaving a personally identifiable trace and b) separate out the facts from the dreamt-up fiction. Using Redlib
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by Leonard_of_Q 11d ago
The reason to use it is that Reddit does provide the occasional answer to questions like "how to get a Samsung SCX 3400 to run on a Raspberry Pi" (etc.).
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by Leonard_of_Q 11d ago
The solution is to run your own instance, create a few accounts for it to use and put it behind a reverse proxy with basic auth. Hand out logins to a few people and it will remain useable. If you put your instance out in the open it will so
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by Leonard_of_Q 11d ago
Use Redlib [1] or one of the other alternative Reddit frontends. [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
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by Leonard_of_Q 13d ago
They are insured against such risks and with that the insurance costs will be another fixed post on the expense list.
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by Leonard_of_Q 16d ago
You can have it use more than one account and more than one user can use the instance. Also, I do not use it to hide my occasional peek at an X thread linked to from some article from the X-man, I use it because it is at least 10 times fast
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by Leonard_of_Q 17d ago
Those who lived through the (text-mode) WordPerfect era may remember 'widow and orphan protection' as being one of the features which was advertised for this program, i.e it could be set to either move that orphaned first line of
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by Leonard_of_Q 19d ago
Self-hosted Nitter still works for now, it is what I use to read X posts. You do need an (or, better still, some) account(s) but those are easy to create for now. The account(s) don't need any history, freshly-minted free accounts do j
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by Leonard_of_Q 20d ago
At the same time the Dutch gas reserves are at a historic low (current somewhere around 44% of capacity) and are not expected to be filled to capacity before winter comes. It is to be hoped this will be a mild winter or prices - already hig
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by Leonard_of_Q 23d ago
Realise that saying something like this against the Chinese regime in China will land you in hot water while you won't have any problems now. > In both systems, anybody with a pulse knows what they can’t talk about. Who you can’t cr
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by Leonard_of_Q 24d ago
Hey, CCP bot, please explain the downvote. If you disagree with what I write here and can prove what I wrote is in error we'd all learn something. If what I wrote is correct and you just hope other knee-jerk downvoters will follow your
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by Leonard_of_Q 24d ago
"Great" except for those nagging problems in Xinjiang, that nasty business with trade in prisoner's organs, forced labour camps, lack of freedom of association and expression, the problem with people forcibly being disappeare
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by Leonard_of_Q 29d ago
I have a bridge for sale, hardly seen use, pay me ${money} and you can collect it in New York City. Interested?
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
Does it or is this part of the push to keep people from hosting their own email services? I've self-hosted email for about 35 years now and see no reason to stop, it hardly ever needs maintenance and my mail tends to arrive even at hos
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
They probably feel like the athlete who missed breaking a record, like the shipping company which just failed to load the goods in 4 trucks and now needs 5, like the painter who just needed that extra 50 cm on his ladder: "darn, so clo
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
Because humans don't want to spend time to learn how to use "dead" languages and humans still play a role in programming. Having LLMs churn out more COBOL instead of Java means more of the code base becomes 'terra incogn
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
You can replace the Android TV launcher with an alternative like Projectivy [1] to get rid of whatever nonsense the stock launcher tries to push. Add Flicky [2] to address F-Droid and you've got a nuisance-free Android TV. [1] https:&
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Racism?
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Just make sure to use a local model if you're really serious about this since there is no guarantee the cloud models can't not won't add watermarks to the output.
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Nothing except for the link with the well-known and -regarded VPN provider Mullvad. The ban on political articles here is not complete nor unbiased.
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Yes, many manufacturers know. I have a number of Motorola Defy phones from 2010/2011 with replaceable batteries, all waterproof. My daughter left hers in her back pocket when she put her trousers in the washing, the thing went through

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