Yaky
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- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 2 weeks ago:
Smartphones and tablets manufactured circa 2015 were powerful enough to run many apps and software, and not yet locked down as much as they are now. So there were a lot of custom ROMs and kernels being made for Android and jailbreaking tools for iDevices, allowing you to customize much much more than the manufacturer intended.
And it’s just fun to make something that most people consider “obsolete” perform well, or well enough to be usable.
Not sure what role gender plays into that though.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 2 weeks ago:
Large companies can do / have done that (dumping to drive out smaller competition.
Small companies usually cannot afford this.
Unless you can pitch this as a disruptive idea to gullible investors (looking at all tech startups that burn trillions without making profits)
- Comment on How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ? 2 weeks ago:
Wow. This is literally the argument used by the megacorporation in book The Every (sequel to The Circle). It’s supposed to be social commentary and satire of greenwashing - the megacorporation claims only it is capable of saving the world by being “green” (which includes recycling people’s prized posessions like heirlooms and photographs into bricks for prisons)
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 2 weeks ago:
I have a geographic one for you:
Friend: posts some statistics map
Me: Czechia is an interesting outlier here, weird.
Friend: [sic] its czechoslovakia, not chechniaAll countries/regions that start with “ch” sound are the same i guess. Also Czechoslovakia split in 1989.
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 2 weeks ago:
My friend at the time watched some documentary about chess computers (Deep Blue etc.) and was telling me about the “super advanced algorithm called Brute Force”. I told him that brute force is means trying every possible combination, is the least efficient approach, and does not generally work for chess. He was adamant it was some genius algorithm. The only time in my life I remember saying “I have a computer science degree, I know what I am talking about”.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 2 weeks ago:
Who are these smooth-talking scammers that can guide a regular-ass user to jump through hoops in settings to install a malicious app?
Maybe I should ask them how they do it, because I cannot convince my family to download and use Signal. You know, the legit app from the official app store.
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 3 weeks ago:
That is fair, and I appreciate the explanation.
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 3 weeks ago:
What’s up with these brand-new “Discord alternatives” being cranked out en masse? Would be easier to contribute to XMPP or Matrix IMO.
Initial commit 14,203 files changed +2872320 AI? Or “i worked on this for 10 years and uploaded just now”? /s
Overabundance of emojis in description. Probably AI.
Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.
Were you able to run it yourself? What.
- Comment on Cambodia aims to shut down all online scam centers within weeks 3 weeks ago:
There is a recent book/report called Scam, about these scam compounds. Despite being illegal prisons / forced labor, they create a lot of economic opportunity in nearby towns and villages providing supplies and (paid) labor. Also, scam compound victims often get little sympathy, with notions such as “they are gamblers”, “they want easy money”, or plain old discrimination because they are foreigners.
- Comment on Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It 3 weeks ago:
We had “coding without coders” in late 90s (maybe 2000s) with VB and Access databases. Some of my coworkers maintained such “software” previously written by not-a-dev.
And then there was “low code” fad about ten years ago? There was “coding” with diagrams and such, like Scratch but for serious people.
And what will regular developers do? Probably the same old shit, digging in decades-old, hastily-written, and now LLM-generated code, making it all work, and adding functionality. While “architects” and management will draw diagrams (with AI now!), and try to abstract everything into the cloud (and now into AI probably, somehow)
- Comment on How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley 4 weeks ago:
Neat project, but
we set an intention to have a healthy relationship with technology in our home.
Followed by photos of these schedule-reminder screens all over both homes.
- Comment on The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data 4 weeks ago:
IIRC it’s the offshore turbines that pose the most risk to birds, and mostly to gliding fishing birds (bald eagle, osprey) because they barely see in front of them (they are looking down) and do not expect obstacles on open water.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 5 weeks ago:
Wiki says the model is from 2011, and all that functionality was implemented on Android 2.3.x, impressive! Google is only 14 versions behind.
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 5 weeks ago:
Like desktop mode on Librem5 in 2020, convergence on PinePhone from 2021, or Samsung Dex from a few years ago, too.
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 5 weeks ago:
It’s possible to run the services without Kubernetes, but official ESS Community uses Kubernetes.
ESS Community works ‘out-of-the-box’ on a single machine or existing Kubernetes cluster using the provided Helm charts.
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 5 weeks ago:
TLDR: bare Synapse was fine on 1CPU 1GB RAM VPS, but uses lots of disk space (from large rooms). Current/future ESS requires Kubernetes and several services to be functional.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 month ago:
This always gets brought up, and is the chicken-and-egg problem, but only sort of.
Supporting software designed for different platforms is not the phone’s responsibility. It should be the government and bank developers’ responsibility to build software for platforms their citizens and customers use.
Android and Apple do not jump through hoops to run Windows desktop software, for example, and the notion is kind of absurd to begin with. Yet this argument is used for Linux smartphones all the time.
Some of this also applies to people without phone / with dumbphone.
- Comment on New to android ROMs and degoogling and I have questions. 1 month ago:
I know of:
- LineageOS
- LineageOS+microg (is its own thing)
- GrapheneOS - this is what I use
- eOS - shiny degoogled Android
- iodeOS - degoogled Android with some extra features and parental controls - might be something you want?
Some other Android-derived projects are inactive: DivestOS shut down, CalyxOS is paused.
For 3, I think it has to do with popularity, unlockability, and the chipset.
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 1 month ago:
I have ran Synapse natively on 1 CPU 1GB RAM VPS for years. But it fills up a lot of disk space, eapecially with larger rooms, so get at least 100GB? (I had 20GB on my VPS, and with 4 regular users, was using up 15GB)
If you are looking at (new) official ESS Community, they recommend 2 CPU, 2GB RAM minimum for Kubernetes.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 1 month ago:
You see Ivan, birthday is for other people to eat, drink, and have fun, not for you.
Kinda like a big wedding in the US I guess? Bride and groom are not the ones having fun.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 1 month ago:
AFAICT restaurants were few, expensive, and difficult to get into (i.e. not for regular people on regular basis), and the option for regular people would be stolovaya (cafeteria?) which is simple, probably mediocre food.
So seems like if you don’t have the connections and want decent food, make it yourself.
- Comment on ai;dr | (ai; didn't read) 1 month ago:
This reads as vaguely anti-intellectualist.
I can’t imaging writing code by myself again
I don’t want to bother with readability, quality, or efficiency. Taking time to think is pointless.
The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.
Taking time to organize and write my thoughts is pointless. There are plenty of unpolished, incoherent ramblings on the internet, many with ill intent, that should not be given any value. (Yes, I understand that was not the intended meaning, but author should proofread)
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 1 month ago:
Are they (post-)soviet boomers? There are some cultural things that I noticed too, some amusing, some frustrating.
- Home food is automatically better than restaurant food, as you said. Also, somehow, any burger is automatically viewed as McDonalds burger (i.e. bad)
- Unsolicited advice and unprompted attempts to help.
- Insistence on getting you a gift or accepting a never-requested gift. “Here’s a nice thing, it was expensive and difficult to get, you should like it”.
- Viewing self as “a burden”. Being offered food, comfort, or accomodation is rejected because “I don’t want to impose”. Sometimes goes into “suffering builds character” mindset, which is nonsense.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 1 month ago:
From what I remember: France refused to join US war in Iraq in 2003, and around the same time I started hearing nonsense like “freedom fries” and “google french military victories and you get no results lolololol”, and it was all really fucking stupid. But some of that seemed to remain in popular culture.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 1 month ago:
Sounds pretty similar to US stereotypes towards Eastern Europeans, who are “always grumpy” and “rude”.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 1 month ago:
(Not first-hand knowledge) I read somewhere that tonal languages such as Chinese make it difficult to express sarcasm the same way Indo-European languages do, with accent and inflection.
- Comment on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT 1 month ago:
They have been heading in government-corporate direction for a while now. Good for them, yet from a perspective of a small server hoster, everything is more complicated now for no good reason.
(Official ESS requires Kubernetes and a dozen subdomains, third-party auth service is required to even register a plain username+password account, calls are all over the place between Element, Element X and web client)
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 month ago:
Any FOSS / third party Spotify client I used already requires a premium account (I am fairly certain it’s about playing ads), so I was under assumption developer API was the same.
Anyway, I just stopped using Spotify altogether. I’ll support my local indie radio station instead.
- Comment on Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users 1 month ago:
For me it was the opposite: Every “made for you” mix and playlist is fairly popular songs from artists that I like… But they are always the same few dozen songs, just shuffled in different order.
Video suggestions seem to appear if/after you listen to podcasts or audiobooks. I had them, my partner did not.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 1 month ago:
“I use a messenger”
“Which one?”
“You know, Messenger, the Facebook one”