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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 13:17:45 JST LisPi @inthehands > Given Proton Mail’s fashiness coming out of the woodwork
What did they do this time? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 05:52:16 JST LisPi @lain @jeffcliff There's been increasing frequency for a number of reasons and lethal epidemics already happened at least on a 40 years-ish frequency. It wouldn't be too hard to guess at its possibility.
And it's /also/ on fire despite the pandemic. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 12:50:52 JST LisPi @ireneista @ntnsndr I have another complaint about Zotero.
As far as interoperability goes it sucks, the only supported option is the API that requires the cloud-y service. It does not support self-hosting and everything else meant to interact with it (3rd party or not) would need patching.
The sanest layer remaining is directly interacting with its SQLite database and essentially reimplementing the rest from scratch.
That's my takeaway from trying to make Emacs work with it. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:15:28 JST LisPi @Suiseiseki @fiore A lot of instances complain about Tor or behave weirdly around it for some reason, it's annoying.
It may also be a problem with other server or firewall configurations fot he host you're trying to connect to. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 14:14:42 JST LisPi @dalias @jplebreton Though given how there are a few exploitable kernel bugs in the network stack every few years, it can be a good idea to apply OS updates periodically.
This wouldn't be an issue with either high-isolation kernels or microkernels, of course, but we can't have nice things. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:24:08 JST LisPi @nyanide @doskel Most of the tab-only configurations are mode-specific so I can't provide any general advice.
indent-tab-mode allows it to go mixed, instead of only spaces. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 22:24:10 JST LisPi @Suiseiseki @fiore There is also at least one Emacs-based client for the Mastodon-like APIs. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 19:29:42 JST LisPi @Suiseiseki @Zergling_man @rher @HopperMCS The article on hardware misses acknowledging the existence of dynamic FPGA programming/reprogramming/reconfiguration which has some interesting possibilities. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:37:53 JST LisPi @dalias @eri I just had a look and I have to ask... are there even ultrasonic welders for plastic at halfway reasonable prices?
It all seems universally more expensive than tools for metal, several times over (even in contrast with the cost of arc welding PPE added). -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 14:04:38 JST LisPi @dalias @eri I was thinking mostly of old computer cases & similar electronics that originally were quite rigid and sturdy but which end-up practically flaking/shattering apart after a while on the slightest stress. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 13:58:34 JST LisPi @dalias @eri Doesn't basically all plastic end-up brittle after a few decades? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 13:55:30 JST LisPi @dalias @eri Seriously? It seems to me that plastic produces a lot more toxic fumes than metal welding, which is a lot harder to manage.
Metal also tends to be rigid enough that drilling holes and strapping something through them is an option if welding isn't. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 12:37:20 JST LisPi @dalias @bedast Didn't mathematical/rule-based language modeling start showing massively diminishing returns back like... two~three decades ago or is my information wrong?
As far as I'm aware it would be preferable to start from a rule-based language, and then be able to specifically train a small model on a different captioned sample set of the speaker(s) to eliminate its flakiness. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 07:04:54 JST LisPi @lanodan @liztai @dalias Eh, even then I'd prefer if it required arrest/physical takedown of the actual host instead.
Otherwise one gets the kind of bullshit the Roskomnadzor does and that isn't okay. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 06:39:16 JST LisPi @lanodan @liztai @dalias Without legal action being undertaken by the government (not very reliable that), a lot of the USA is stuck having no choice other than VPSes.
A "you might be able to publish by yourself in a few decades or if you move" is far too long or impractical.
> Yeah, when it comes to ISPs I think routing should be neutral, exception being for precise DDoS mitigations
Indeed.
> and legal requirements
I'd disagree. I prefer full application of the “I write myself, edit myself, censor myself, publish myself, distribute myself, go to jail for it myself” samizdat pattern.
Illegal data should still not be interfered with by the ISPs. That is not and should not be their remit. Dumb pipes all the way. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 06:24:06 JST LisPi @lanodan @liztai @dalias There is a fuzzy line with online speech, when ISPs or VPS providers start to prevent one from hosting one's own site instead.
Due to how bungled up the design & architecture of the Internet works, that is tantamount to censorship because there remains no way to self-publish (online samizdat requires the routing infrastructure not to discriminate). It becomes not a community moderation matter, but active silencing even away from external communities (especially in places with ISP monopolies, which sometimes try to prevent hosting *any* website).
The issue is rather specific to clearnet routing. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 14:54:14 JST LisPi @icedquinn The main devices for which this is a reasonable design are double-conversion UPSes, because the constant power-smoothing through battery & isolation from the grid is the whole point of them.
If laptops want to do things like that? Then they should also have hotswappable batteries like most of those UPSes have. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 14:46:47 JST LisPi Laptops that only have internal batteries are much less likely to work without the battery, this is obnoxious because keeping dead/outdated batteries in live computers is a fire hazard, so one can't simply be assured it's possible to keep using the computer as a pseudo desktop or discount server once its use as a laptop is over.
Some of them will still work fine without a battery while plugged in, but it's no longer a reliable expectation anymore.
I hate this planned obsolescence crap. At this point one legitimately has no reasonable choice other than building a luggable out of an SBC & portable monitor + USB power bank or something (unless one feels like screwing with USB->AC inverter for microatx + conventional PSU, good luck with the power constraints & finding the components in the first place).
Fuck whoever thought that was smart.
How did things degrade so much in the last few years? -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 10:53:33 JST LisPi @dalias @mekkaokereke @craignicol To be fair, all server-centric options are at risk of taking relationships away randomly if they suffer catastrophic failure.
It's a pretty strong indictment of the model and Nomadic Identity protocols only mitigate some of the flaws. -
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LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 12:16:57 JST LisPi @dalias @jplebreton > That's different from "right to burn down all records of history", which is what these asshats insist on. Or rather, they insist nothing of historical significance is supposed to take place on fedi because it's their private retirement community.
That is indeed much worse.
> It's okay that some people want that. It's "right to be forgotten".
Personally, I find issue even with that, though perhaps not for fedi. I've seen *many* authors and artists go completely insane and purge their galleries for shit & giggles over the years.
It's a significant part of why I even do datahoarding to start with. Sure, corposcum are untrustworthy hosts, but artists purposely burning down their contributions to culture are also a problem.