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by snickerer 20d ago
A huge usabilitiy step would be the operating systems (and apps) just supporting geo links. Geo links are from a RFC and are plain simple: geo:52.512974,13.420131 Clicking this link should open your chosen local map app at this position. Bu
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by snickerer 1mo ago
There is a full no_std Rust implementation called Leviculum, Python-free, compatible: https://codeberg.org/Lew_Palm/Leviculum It has a lnsd daemon which runs the full stack as a native binary and some firmware implemen
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by snickerer 1mo ago
Oh, the classic Tuttle <-> Buttle name confusion! I always remember the movie Brazil when I have to interact with a stupid cybernetic apparatus like every big company, where simple programs are the brain and low-paid humans are the ac
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by snickerer 1mo ago
Ads are an attack, aimed at your brain. They try to inject malware into your thinking, manipulating your worldview and your actions. That's horrible, worse than attacking a machine with malware, damaging persons and societies. Decades
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by snickerer 1mo ago
No, that's not hell yet. The boss in this case knows their own limitations and asks the technical person to help. True hell is when the boss thinks AI most be more knowing than the human. 'But Claude said it, do it!'
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by snickerer 2mo ago
If you understand German and want to know the history of Ramen, listen to this podcast: https://www.geschichte.fm/podcast/zs223/
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by snickerer 3mo ago
Fable has a 'security system' that just stops it when it tries to use the tool 'kill' to end a process. Which is nonsense and funny because in that situation it immediately invents a creative workaround to kill the proce
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by snickerer 4mo ago
C++ version of this game, using exactly the same original Comanche map and rendering algorithm: https://codeberg.org/Lew_Palm/voxelcopter
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by snickerer 5mo ago
The Internet was originally designed to survive a nuclear war. Now we downgraded it deliberately to not survive a football game. Decentralised infrastructure: good Centralised infrastructure: bad Good and bad for you, of course. For the big
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by snickerer 6mo ago
Stay away fron Lasius! Lasius cinedus
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by snickerer 6mo ago
Allowing scripting on websites (in the mid-90s) was a completely wrong decision. And an outrage. Programs are downloaded to my computer and executed without me being able to review them first—or rely on audits by people I trust. That’s comp
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by snickerer 7mo ago
Reform idea: We should decouple the publishing of papers from academic careers completely. Papers can't generate any reputation or money for the authors anymore. To achieve that, we must anonymize the authors. All scientists get some (
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by snickerer 7mo ago
In a normal and sane world, a scientist is a nerd about their field. They are highly interested in new thoughts and insights. When a new paper in their field is published, they try hard to find the time to read it. The reason is: every pape
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by snickerer 7mo ago
Could they hunt down the werewolf wizard and defeat him or not?? I need to know how this ended.
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by snickerer 7mo ago
The question is: did the fake numbers make any difference? Were the management decisions based on them better or worse?
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by snickerer 7mo ago
Bad grammar is disrespect. Underlings have to swallow that disrespect. It is just a power game. The next level is simply to insult everyone, and everyone will still remain submissive.
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by snickerer 8mo ago
If you look at the studies on which this post is based, you find out that the (very) positive effect oft Vitamin D is only short-term. The effect after taking the Vitamin longer than 24 is not significant anymore.
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by snickerer 8mo ago
If you look at the studies on which this post is based, you find out that the (very) positive effect of a Vitamin D supplement is only short-term. The effect after taking the Vitamin longer than 24 weeks is not significant anymore.
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by snickerer 8mo ago
There is always so much grumbling and nitpicking about this topic, which I don't understand. The production of renewable electricity is skyrocketing everywhere, far better than predicted. And that's not because of clever politics,
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by snickerer 8mo ago
I love that Mark Qvist publishes his strong opinion, view of the world, and goals. It quite smells like the hacker spirit of the 80s, mixed with a little spiritualism and anarchism. Very refreshing after so many other people are just disill
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by snickerer 8mo ago
I took a deeper dive in Reticulum-rs. It is std. It implements 20% of Reticulum functionality. And it has 2 major protocol incompatibilities (like a different size for the MTU / Maximum Transfer Unit). It looks like a quick vibe coded
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by snickerer 8mo ago
Reticulum is a production-ready full network stack. Cryptography and anonymity are first-class citizens there. It is transport-layer agnostic, not just tailored for LoRa. I like it, but is see two main problems that prevent the wide adaptio
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by snickerer 8mo ago
Mark's Reticulum implementation has a strong ideolgical background. Not just the oppositon to AI. If anybody is interested in what drives the developer, here's the manifesto: https://github.com/markqvist/Retic
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by snickerer 8mo ago
Did you use it? I've never seen it used outside of Beechat's own devices.
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by snickerer 8mo ago
Reticulum is a full network stack with full user anonymity. You can integrate it in every app that needs P2P network connections and that can live with a slow connection. Reticulum is an alternative to TCP/IP and UDP/IP, using a
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by snickerer 8mo ago
A Yggdrasil link is an IP tunnel. Reticulum has its own network protocol instead of IP because IP would not work well over slow and low-bandwidth connections. I think tunneling IP through Reticulum would cause only headaches.
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by snickerer 8mo ago
The Internet got its death blow in the Eternal September 1994. But it was a long death struggle, bleeding out drop by drop. Who remembers that people had to learn netiquette before getting into conversations? That is called civilisation. Th
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by snickerer 8mo ago
You can hide the position of the cables from fishermen and the public. But if someone knows where they are, it is the KGB, I mean, FSB. We should make information about infrastructure public. There was a power outtage in Berlin, due to to a
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by snickerer 8mo ago
The horrors of non-free software... When I become king of the United Continents, I will make a new rule: If you don't publish high-quality updates for your software for one year, it will become open source automatically.
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by snickerer 9mo ago
After working with agent-LLMs for some years now, I can confirm that they are completely useless for real programming. They never helped me solve complex problems with low-level libraries. They can not find nontrivial bugs. They don't

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