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by ezst 6d ago
GP's username chess' out
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by ezst 7d ago
Funny then for them to believe that foldables would sell more...
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by ezst 8d ago
My audio needs have been satisfied for many years with subsonic, then airsonic, and now navidrome. They all expose the same subsonic API, which gives quite some flexibility on the audio player client to use. At the moment, Tempus (Android)
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by ezst 8d ago
> Ecologism is a hobby for people with full bellies. Then it's a good thing that Chinese bellies are satisfied, we can get to those existential problems, now.
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by ezst 8d ago
Doesn't matter, we need to opt out of the rat race that consists of making the planet worse for the next generations in exchange of quick bucks for the oligarchs. The way is to factor externalities in the final price, reward sustainabl
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by ezst 9d ago
Yeah, perhaps "hack together" is unnecessarily dismissive, but the experience to match is that of a single peripheral to control everything. The other area I have no interest expanding my knowledge into is the minefield of codecs,
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by ezst 9d ago
Yeah, because the only thing that's for certain is that American LLMs are so special that they cannot be reproduced, as everyone has been knowing already in 2023 from the public "we have a gigantic moat" Google memo.
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by ezst 9d ago
> This. Why would you even connect TV to the network? I happen to have a NAS with family pictures I like to display. I can (and do) firewall that thing, but then you hit other issues like the apps you need to show pictures and movies in
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by ezst 9d ago
> until there's a legal framework in place I don't think the American oligarchy even bothers with keeping up appearances anymore, so, good luck with that! (Also, I fully agree with you, and it's especially infuriating as a
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by ezst 10d ago
Don't read this as me saying that we are anywhere near it, or that LLMs are a stepping stone towards this scenario, but assuming inhumane hacking capabilities, it's not hard to think of how bots could change the way water treatmen
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by ezst 10d ago
That's why, every time a discussion comes up about decoupling from the US tech and cloud offering, and how supposedly the whole world is captive and incapable without it, I'm like "well, certainly we should give it a serious
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by ezst 11d ago
Sure, and all it took was a systematic dismantling and building anew the whole government and a bunch of institutions, not exactly a "oh, the other party will figure something out over the course of the next term"
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by ezst 12d ago
As a non American, I don't think you can get back from this unless you get rid of the 2-parties system. Identity politics is a big component to what compelled individuals to operate against their own interests and those of their countr
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by ezst 13d ago
And yours and other's agents will probably remain an insignificant and invisible customer base anyway. My crystal ball is as good as anyone's, but if "agentic shopping" ever becomes mainstream, you can be sure that the v
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by ezst 13d ago
By that point, you don't need an AI that boils the oceans and hopefully doesn't confabulate or misinterpret your words, all you need is a better corporate travel portal, which is a legitimate workplace productivity discussion to h
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by ezst 13d ago
On a different corner of the open source ecosystem, PrusaSlicer, also a wxWidget project, just announced the first of its v3 releases with a full GUI rewrite, and what a blast from the past it was to have a X11, non-scaled, wrong font &
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by ezst 13d ago
In case you missed it, yesterday there was a hn post about openshot 4 (also a Qt modernization release)
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by ezst 16d ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this down and cite sources. I'm baffled by the recent-ish increase of such dismissive and lazy comments as the one you responded to.
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by ezst 17d ago
You mean, just how it is on Windows?
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by ezst 17d ago
Funny how this post appears in my timeline just above: Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497357 Folks, until LLMs (but more probably, something th
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by ezst 18d ago
I saw a laptop earlier in the train that I asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini what it was, providing a brand, screen size and ports description. Gemini could never figure it out, Claude and ChatGPT eventually did, after multiple rounds of ind
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by ezst 18d ago
> It is also definitely true that the regulations are largely written by people who do not understand the tech I kind of switched side on this after the silicon valley made it clear that they are in the king making business, and the king
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by ezst 18d ago
Matter of fact, the vast majority has moved on to Wayland years ago, both KDE and Gnome have reported their usage stats and neither sees a point in keeping X11 afloat. I too have been using Wayland (KDE) for years, it addressed some decades
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by ezst 19d ago
Eventually you'll realize that it's performance artistry all the way up and down. Don't you think that GitHub and its owners are engaged in high stakes lobbying and spending tens/hundreds of millions swinging politics th
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by ezst 19d ago
My ThinkPad's touchpad has been good enough for 10+ years (and I got a trackpoint!), to the extent I stopped caring altogether. Perhaps a MacBook Pro's is better, but however better it may be, that won't swing me towards Appl
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by ezst 19d ago
Just to add to that "Competition" is no longer even a thing when the unchecked capitalistic game is played to the extent we are at, with extreme consolidation and duo/triopoly cartels running most services and playing all the
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by ezst 20d ago
I might add (although it's getting off topic) that a centralised service, by definition brokering every single user's comms and metadata is NEVER private. The whole premise of Signal as a secure/private solution always seemed
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by ezst 21d ago
The big deal of a decade ago about SSDs wasn't throughput, but random read/writes. HDDs can be astonishingly fast, but by their very mechanical nature, they suck at jumping from sectors to sectors to gather small files, which is t
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by ezst 22d ago
Last I checked (couple years ago?) it was ill-advised to use anything but Synapse, because: - you would be at the mercy of very real and frequent federation problems (Matrix being so implementation-dependent and centred around Synapse ; lik
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by ezst 22d ago
> But why wouldn't it be possible to have these two in the same app I don't believe it's "impossible" to have both in a same app, it's just that the kind of high-density UI and advanced features you depend u

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