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by john61 8mo ago
WhatsApp just implemented cross messaging using the open Signal Protocol forced by the EU. We will see if the Signal messenger enables interop with WhatsApp, they are not forced to do this.
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by john61 8mo ago
WhatsApp uses the open Signal Protocol.
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by john61 8mo ago
same story here :-)
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by john61 8mo ago
A relevant talk from 39C3 Congress regarding Russia: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-coding-dissent-art-technology-an... Coding Dissent: Art, Technology, and Tactical Media This presentation examines artistic practices tha
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by john61 9mo ago
This is open core. An old free fork: https://tryton.org
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by john61 9mo ago
I would call it the ELIZA bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
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by john61 9mo ago
It is just the Eliza effect on a massive scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect Reading Weizenbaum today is eye opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso...
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by john61 9mo ago
In Vienna, a hospital is heated by a neighboring data center using a heat pump, while the hospital cools the data center. https://www.wienenergie.at/blog/fernwaerme-zukunft/#Abw%C3%A...
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by john61 9mo ago
There is a huge heat pump running in Vienna since 2019: https://www.wienenergie.at/blog/staerkste-grosswaermepumpe-m... a bigger one is planned: https://www.wienenergie.at/ueber-uns/meilensteine&#x
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by john61 9mo ago
> The only options to get around was the expensive train system can be cheap when you book early. Vienna -> Graz -> Vienna: ~20€
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by john61 9mo ago
LLMs are calculating probable text/code. A lot of it in very short time. Probable text/code is not the same as correct/proper text/code. It is a huge mass of probable and maybe correct/proper text/code. That is
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by john61 10mo ago
> The distinction between code, config and data is being erased. This distinction never existed in LISP. Greenspun's tenth rule in action.
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by john61 10mo ago
The year of the Linux phone in India is coming.
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by john61 10mo ago
> The argument that computational complexity has something to do with this could have merit but the article certainly doesn’t give indication as to why. OP says it is because that predicting the next token can be correct or not, but it a
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by john61 10mo ago
Stallman's take on the issue: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...
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by john61 11mo ago
I am happy to live in a country that values data safety for critical patient data.
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by john61 11mo ago
This is meant to be used in hospitals. Where I live no hospital personal uses phones to manage healthcare data. They have PCs.
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by john61 1y ago
We united coders have the power to change that. We have done it in the past. We are going to do it again.
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by john61 1y ago
Austria
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by john61 1y ago
The solar panels are connected to a converter which is connected to the normal grid with a standard plug.
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by john61 1y ago
I have cut my warm water costs by 80% with balcony solar panels. I have a warm water heating pump with 600 W electrical power. My little server turns it automatically on when the solar access power is greater than 540 W (measured by the sma
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by john61 1y ago
There is also jolla / sailfishos built by ex Nokia engineers. The Russians forked it and are useing it in government / industry.
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by john61 1y ago
The year of the Linux Phone is coming!
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by john61 1y ago
Maybe a sufficient number off hackers are offended enough now and contribute to really free platforms, like PostmarketOS or Mobian. There has been great work there in the last years. I think we are not very far away from a really usable fre
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by john61 1y ago
Based on my experiences with LLMs and the hype around it, we will need more experienced programmers. Because they will have to clean up the huge mess that will come.
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by john61 1y ago
Depends. If you reuse otherwise wasted electronic it is efficient in avoiding extracting resources / energy building new hardware and avoids recycling energy or waste polluting earth. A big picture analysis of reusing old hardware woul
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by john61 1y ago
Thank you for the post, very informative. I do this half manually. I have a cgi script on the always on very power efficient sbc server that wakes up the bigger server if someone needs it. The big server powers itself down when no backup is
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by john61 1y ago
Since 2019 there is also the ARM64 MNT Reform Laptop https://mntre.com/reform.html
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by john61 1y ago
That the LLM is in control of us.
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by john61 1y ago
where is the nearest McDonald's? 18:51 I'm sorry, but I don't have the capability to access real-time location data to find the nearest McDonald's for you. However, you can easily find this information by using a maps ap

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