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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Buy a computer monitor as big as possible (42" non ultrawide as far as I can find). Otherwise if you are in an isolated area (no wifi reachable from other houses and thus TV hotspots), then you can just get a TV and block it from the internet on your router. If you are good with electronics, you can rip out the mic and/or network card or chip.

    Then get an orange pi 5 pro/plus/ultra with a rockchip RK3588/RK3588S if they are ever fucking available again, and put plasma bigscreen on it.

    Or if you are more tech savvy, hook up a recycled newish Intel laptop motherboard, slap a heatsink and fan on, 3D print a chassis, get a power supply, and throw plasma big screen on it.





  • No IMAP, doesn’t support open standards, proprietary encryption, no compatability with 3rd party apps/mail clients. You get forced to use their app and have none of your mails locally. Also, since their encryption is proprietary, they only support password less encryption between tuta users, so 99% of users will only ever have encrypted mail with the tuta advertisements/announcement (though they market the “encrypted” angle extremely hard.

    Not to mention all of their apps are exclusively web and electron and perform badly with a very very barebones user interface and options. Also the search is pretty bad. All things that would be fixed if they support open standards. I really dislike using their apps and interface with my account.


  • AI in and of itself isn’t shit. It’s the training data and the ethics of how that data was acquired that determines whether or not it is shit,

    And adittionally you know, the massive amounts of energy, destruction of local computing accessibility, the mass surveillance built into every chatbot, directly supporting and enabling of fascist regimes, the water stealing and toxifying, destruction of local communities, and not last or least, the Observed decline in brain function (also not limited to AI, but many digital tools, sadly).

    The only models that skip this are locally trained and run models on solar power.

    Of which it is maybe what? 0.01% of the AI use of the world? Less, if we are being completely honest?

    Proton itself uses Mistral, OpenHands, OPMO, and Qwen under the hood. Again, not ethical or avoiding any of the above problems at all.





  • Eh, I see every 4th project post in open source communities being a cool looking project with no Claude contributed, no AI disclaimer, no agents.md, however when you look at the user’s commit history on the git service, it is

    • 10-20 contributions (mostly issues) before 2025
    • maybe a couple readme or documentation commits in total
    • mid to late 2025, user starts committing 500-5k lines per day, every 3-5 days, evolving from large commits to broken up 100 commits today (following the 2025-2026 timeline where AI started doing the same)
    • exact same commit structure that AI uses, and filled with jargon
    • no comments at all on the post, or few comments but never responding to anything technical about how the program works.

    Probably some confirmation bias going on on both our sides.


  • They why try to hide it? If AI is not problematic at all, why do 90% of AI bros hide it and refuse to disclose and when they do are often extremely cagey about it?

    For these types of projects, it is standardized what compiler they are building against, kernel /proc allows you to see what compiler was used.

    Why does AI, which Linus himself has compared to compilers numerous times, get a complete pass and absolutely nothing has to be specified about them whatsoever (in the anti-AI-Disclosure advocation space of course)?







  • Huh, interesting. I had the opposite experience.

    I mean the tabs are nice, but then everything is just a clusterfuck of randomly made pages, no tags, bad search, and pretty much only a filesystem of organization (especially in a team). Liked the hand-written to OCR feature though.

    I only found obsidian a bit ago, but getting into wikilinks with every association to another note makes everything very findable, which is the most important if you are looking for a note you made 6 months ago but only know tertiary info about it.

    To each their own!



  • Hey hey hey,

    They stand up against unions

    They stand up against cheap, green energy

    They stand up against human rights

    They stand up against good working conditions

    They stand up against good and affordable medical care

    They stand up against required paid sick leave and maternity leave

    They stand up against regulations to not poison people or exploit people quite so much

    They stand up against anything that might slightly hurt short term profits.

    They pump tens or hundreds of billions at the government to “stand up to them”. Just always, without exception, to pommel the working class and long term into the ground and sacrifice the long term for short term superficial gains.