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- Comment on If you're bad at tornado chasing you spend hours driving around in cloudy weather with nothing to show for it. 19 hours ago:
driving around in cloudy wwther with nothing to show for it
Seattle wants to have a word with you
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
Home Assistant is - by far - a better home automation platform than anything else I’ve tried. Most of them cannot integrate with as many platforms and your ability to create automations is not as powerful.
Folks will argue that it’s harder. I argue back that if you buy a hub with it pre-installed, your setup experience is as easy or easier than HomeKit or Google Home or maybe Alexa.
- Comment on Ideas for Hosting on a 2009 Netbook? 1 week ago:
this is the most responsible idea. i love it
- Comment on Ideas for Hosting on a 2009 Netbook? 1 week ago:
that’s a great idea re: music. i use a ton of Chromecast audios and, when Google “forgot to update the certs” I was SOL
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- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 2 weeks ago:
How can one reproduce this?
- Comment on Microsoft mulls more job cuts, this time focused on managers and non-coders, not just low performers. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not often discussed that Microsoft, Amazon, and other ‘very cool’ tech companies still practice this 80s firing the bottom 10% bull.. It has nothing with being a low performer, but everything to do with culling jobs indiscriminately and creating an in/out culture. Managers are forced to place employees into bottom performance slots, sometimes arbitrarily, so that teams/groups/departments fit the bell curve nicely. Then, people get fired, bonuses go out, and everything is peachy at the end of the fiscal yesr.
Let that stew for a few years and these behemoths are factories of pet projects and crunch culture. Your long-timers are either golden performers who’ve seen massive churn and project turbulance OR they’re climbers, willing to step on top of anyone or burn any project to climb the ladder or at least keep their spots.
- Comment on Anyone else get the thing where images and post titles become confused? It can often be humourous. 3 weeks ago:
Happens here too
- Comment on 'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap 4 weeks ago:
Price?
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 4 weeks ago:
I know 😢
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 4 weeks ago:
100%
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 4 weeks ago:
VS Code has a fully open source base which excludes proprietary extensions and default telemetry ( kind of his AOSP is for Android)
Check here for more info:
- Comment on Looking for feedback: Ventoy CPIO 4 weeks ago:
This is great work. Thank you for your contributions
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 weeks ago:
Ollama is FOSS, SD has a proproprietary but permissive, source-available license, but it is not what most people would associate with “open-source”
- Comment on Relevant documentation, database, PKM, etc, for HomeLab 5 weeks ago:
This is so awesome. I this will be my light reading for the next week
- Comment on Google has a fix for all of the broken Chromecasts 1 month ago:
Thats the vibe. In this case, it seems like they get more value from the signals they interpret from the devices already out there.
In a better world, these devices (and maybe even the Chromecast protocol) would be opens sourced
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
Valid concern as I use their browser often. From their FAQ (link):
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
I’m considering adding it to the alternatives list I posted. Can anybody else validate their privacy policy? Seemd ok but I’m a bit iffy regarding their use of telemetry. Maybe I’m overthinking it
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
Added
- Comment on In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook 1 month ago:
Thank you. Something I would absolutely consider
- Comment on In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook 1 month ago:
Understanding the problems you’ve outlined, can the positive functionality of this platform be replicated? I mean, we’re on the fediverse (?) here and it’s a decentralized platform but it’s not geography close-knit. I think having neighbors talk would be a net positive for society but nextdoor obviously seems like it replicates the worst of social media
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
I’m excited for these to mature but they are still developing and would not recommend them for regular use
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
Oh for fuck’s sake! List of Firefox alternatives:
Windows/Linux/MacOS:
Android:
- DuckDuckGo? f-droid
- FOSS Browser? https://codeberg.org/Gaukler_Faun/FOSS_Browser
iOS: ??
- Comment on Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative 2 months ago:
Chime was a piece of shit. But it had a killer feature. If you had a meeting, and you accepted it, that shit would blow up your screen to join. I NEED that.
I am so desensitized to the constant onslaught of work notifications that a little popup just doesn’t cut it for me.
If anyone has suggestions, lmk.Gobless
/Rant
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 2 months ago:
It took them 147 days to fix this?!?
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 2 months ago:
I literally gasped. iPAQ510, my beloved
- Comment on "Introducing you Fast Music Remover, a free and open source tool that filters internet media" 4 months ago:
I haven’t seen anyone mention that this could be a massive improvement for persons using adaptive technologies to interact with audio media. Ive personally witnessed complaints from users of hearing aids and transcription tools who get annoyed by music messing up the content they’re trying to get from a video or podcast
- Comment on I love hoya flowers 5 months ago:
HO-YAAAAAA
- Comment on Over 170,000 EV chargers in limbo as Enel X Way exits North America 6 months ago:
Anyone know how we would be able to continue these products? My understanding is that this charger is 100% controlled by an app. Are there open source alternatives?
