This time round I’ve hacked a phone cable in half and soldered alligator clips to the other sides so we get a decent connection to the fence. #LiveLaughLocalTalk #GlobalTalk #RetroComputing
Thank you to LWN.net for their recent article: Attracting and retaining Debian contributors, which highlights one of the ways that our project grows. lwn.net/Articles/987548/ #debian
A few years ago, I gave my mother a WiFi picture frame for Christmas, from this company: pix-star.com/
This evening, I was visiting my parents for my niece's birthday, and when someone mentioned the picture frame, I got to thinking about how far a photo goes when my mother sends it from her phone or tablet, to the associated cloud service, and then it gets downloaded to the picture frame, especially when she's sitting in the same room as the frame. 1/?
To send photos from her phone to the picture frame, she uses her Gmail app to send an email to an email address at mypixstar.com. I figured a custom email-receiving service like that wouldn't be likely to have something equivalent to a CDN, so it should be pretty easy to tell where the emails are going. 2/?
I thought I remembered Pix-Star being based in France. And, sure enough, mail.mypixstar.com points to an OVH server in France.
As it happens, we're in the US. I'm aware, of course, that much more often, including with products I've developed, the situation is the reverse, that is, a non-US user sending their data to the US. To be clear, I have nothing against France. But even my mom agrees, it seems crazy that the data is going that far away. 3/?
We used to send files across local networks, without them going out to a possibly distant Internet service and back, all the time. But try using SMB on a phone or tablet. Especially if you happen to be away from home when sending the photo.
Oh, I forgot to add, I *was* initially apprehensive about buying this product, aware that it might fall into the category of "Internet of shit". But I wanted to buy a nice Christmas present for my mother, and didn't have any better ideas at the time. I think my brother-in-law recommended this one. And so far it has worked well enough.
It occurred to me that the ideal solution would be some kind of DIY picture frame using a Raspberry Pi. But I'm not good at building hardware projects like that, and I'm sure I didn't have enough spare time to do something like that in time for Christmas that year.
for what it’s worth, I use SMB on phones and tablets all the time, and it works pretty well, if not seamlessly. I rarely bother with it for photos because other solutions are more convenient, but with large videos it makes a big difference in terms of both speed and cost. And thanks to Unifi Teleport, I frequently do it while away from home. This tech mostly isn’t in reach of consumers due to lack of demand, which means it’s priced for prosumers.
the difficulty is that the benefits are “data sovereignty” (not a problem until it’s a huge problem; if there is a benefit you never see it, it’s just a problem you don’t have) and “pricing for very large data volumes”. The latter is definitely something that someone who makes a lot of home movies could have, for example; that’s where most of my usage is these days. Well, that, and the hilariously inefficient way time machine does backups.
@glyph Unifi Teleport is part of Ubiquiti's products, right? How are you liking that whole system? I happened to read some complaints about Ubiquiti recently. lobste.rs/s/j3zdmx/my_homelab_…
I have been lucky enough not to have any serious issues. And I am annoyed with many parts of the product offering, and some of their security is not as good as I would like. But the criticism always overlooks the balancing elements in this equation: it gives access to enterprise-level features and a single pane of glass management setup with automatic updates and staggered rollouts with *significantly* less effort than even most consumer gear, let alone a bespoke solution like OpenWRT
@glyph I bought a few of their APs for my home, running the management software on my server. I hadn't realised at the time that they seem to be trying to deprecate this setup in favour of running the management software on Unifi hardware instead.
It'd probably be a lot more pleasant if I had a Unifi Console device like their router, but self-hosting feels like an afterthought now.
The way it should work is that I can transfer a file from one computer of mine to another over the internet. Except if the devices are on the same network, it's routed locally instead. And if the transfer is still a bit slow I should be able to just connect the devices with a USB C to C cable and have it automatically start transferring data over that.
I'm not sure what the best technical approach to achieving that is, but it's not fundamentally that difficult.
If you want vendors to adopt a standard for this, though, it may be hard when those companies have a business model focused on providing cloud services. And/or a focus on vendor lock-in to their own services, rather than any universal standard.
@ids1024 Well for this particular product, I'd think the natural incentive would be to *avoid* running a service, since it's a one-time purchase. I brought up that point with my mother, wondering how long the service would last. And yes, I should have taken that into account when I first bought the thing.
True. I more mean Microsoft, Google, and Apple in particular. The ideal solution for this should be a standard that's also integrated in Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android so it all just works out-of-the-box and intuitively with the devices people are using.
Otherwise, I guess email is still the best you can get for a universal standard that people are familiar with.
the German router manufacturer AVM offers a free dyndns service together with its routers, so you could connect to your home network via Wireguard or VPN without needing a static IP. It works quite well, even from the other side of the globe. Setting it up is doable for a technically apt user and using it is as easy as tapping a button on your phone.
And here Ithought we Europeans were the only ones concerned about our data. Here we usually think the other way around, EU data privacy policies are so much more strict than US ones, so we try to avoid sending data over sea as much as possible if we can keep it here.
I'd seen these frames before and was sceptical about buying one for this reason, but you've given me an idea for a Christmas present now. My parents really like having pictures of us on the wall, so I may go with it anyway.
We just published the webinar recording that walks through learning and using R with screen readers—and it's bilingual (English & Turkish)! with subtitles in English.
“New Zealand’s Long-term Insights Briefings may not make the headlines, but they should. They’re a little unusual, internationally. Every three years, public service departments are mandated to think long-term—about the trends, risks, and opportunities that could shape our lives over the next 10, 20, even 50 years.”
recent discussion about some older C libraries has me realizing that some of those are going to be Roman road-style infrastructure, probably used for literal centuries and setting design choices that may well be used for millennia if our civilization lasts that long.
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Hello everyone @Friendica Support ! I filed this issue on github and it has been pretty ignored. Of course I don't expect it to be taken into consideration, but I would like to know if I'm the only one who perceives this feature as a problem. I would also be curious to know if in your opinion the issue is easily solvable, or if it requires an unjustifiable effort?
For those who do not have a GitHub account, I report the text of the Issue here:
Good evening everyone.
Introduction
Like most software in the Fediverse, Friendica accounts can also be "followed" through their RSS feed.
In this way, it is possible to use the string https://INSTANCENAME/feed/USERNAME/
Is the feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Unfortunately, however, the feed of the Fediverse accounts publishes only the contents of that account and not, for example, those reshared.
This choice, although understandable for normal accounts, is much less understandable for Groups (the former Forums), since these groups do not publish (if not rarely) their own contents.
Describe the feature you'd like
The developers Lemmy have brilliantly solved the problem with their "Communities" (the Lemmy version of Activitypub groups) and today it is possible to follow the feed of the Lemmy communities through the string https://ISTANZA/feeds/c/NOMEUTENTE.xml?sort=New
I therefore wonder if it is not possible to make it so that at least the "Group" type accounts can display a feed that also includes shared content.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I can't think of any valid alternatives. I tried in vain to follow a Friendica Group with a Lemmy account (basically I signed up to the "group" which obviously in Lemmy is seen as a "Community"): basically I wanted to use Lemmy to make him export the RSS feed... Unfortunately, however, there are still problems that do not allow the contents of Friendica to be correctly synchronized in the community view of Lemmy.
Challenge: How many questions will it take the new Freedom Scientific AI chat bot to give me something totally ridiculous? fscompanion.freedomscientific.… Answer, only one. It just told me that R and Shift+R can be used to navigate to the next/previous slider on the Web. On the more amusing side, it was also perfectly happy to tell me that NVDA+N can be used to access the NVDA menu, and that I should quit JAWS and switch to NVDA first. A real shame we can't share the conversation...
what's interesting is that I can get it to admit being powered by Open AI and GPT-4, but it will refuse to say it's ever Claude-powered, which tells me they are probably using 4O mini for this with custom embeddings of the training / JAWS documentation.
“It was May 8th 2020 for the third time, and Ryan had already caused two traffic accidents.”
Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere. Ryan only sees different routes; and from Hero to Villain, he has to try them all. Only then will he achieve his perfect ending... no matter how many loops it takes.
@talon I read one called Project Nemesis that was quite good. This is what the synopsis says: The Project Nemesis by Brendan Reichs is a three-book post-apocalyptic YA series. The story is told from two points of view, Min and Noah, which share something awful. Since their 8th birthday, and every couple of years, they are brutally murdered and come back alive the next day as if nothing has happened. You find out why that is and what not as the series goes on and it was surprising to me.
is there a good guide for setting up the microservices needed to use the "rooms" on the wider network? synapse single threaded i can't join most of the channels on, say, matrix.org; it's just too slow.
The guides made my eyes glaze over, and i'm a systems architecture person. send help
A project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere.
Today, our job is simple - to inspire to to try a Thunderbird Add-on to boost your productivity! If you don't know where to get started, our community (including here on Mastodon!) gave us some great ideas. 💡
@walterburns Thanks for your feedback, we plan to improve UI/UX, that's one of the next big projects we want to be working on once we've enabled email import!
100% agree. Tuta's posting/advertising of it's only "feature" - quantum encryption - is getting annoying. I am seriously starting to think about unfollowing.
Zero updates on any feature, roadmap. Starting to think they have an AI bot job scheduled to post about "quantum" every other day.
As a reminder, a malicious Tuta server can read the end-to-end encrypted e-mails and shared calendars exchanged on the platform as there is no way to verify the recipient's public key. This issue has been brought up to the Tuta team 6 years ago...
"We require that you credit claudeai.wiki for this image. Please add a direct and clickable hyperlink to claudeai.wiki/ either beneath the image or in the footer of the page. This must be completed within the next five business days."
Getting chased by a stupid AI company for a (claimed) royalty free image on my blog that I obtained from pixabay.
I replaced it immediately. It was not important, Now using another royalty free image...
Puvodni nekolikadenni zastavka se smrskla na dve hodiny na protazeni, ale i to nam stacilo na objev Polskeho Hubacka. Nase srdicko zaplesalo a jestli to ma i terasu na strese, tak je to uplna pecka.
A pytle s piskem nebyly potreba!
Povodnova turistika zdarne ukoncena, hipsterske bistro navstiveno a pokracujeme smer Lodz.
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