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If I want you to see my webpages I'll send you links or post them someplace relevant. That doesn't completely stop sloperators and other scrapers but it at least slows them down. The more private pages are password protected or whatnot.

My great startup idea is workable at last! Monetize your spam!!

I think you can put multiple pictures in a comment.

Hard to pierce pseudonymity doesn’t interest me that much, because it’s bad enough having all your posts connected together. I want something like 4chan (but heavily moderated), where all posts are just marked “Anonymous” and if you make 3 different comments, it’s not publicly shown that they came from the same person. It’s ok to retain the info privately for a short period, for moderation purposes. It could be ok to assign a persistent pseudonym for each thread, so if you comment 3 times in the same thread, those comments are connected to each other, but not to other comments in other threads. This is a good article about the attractions of completely anonymous posting, though it’s from the pre-supertoxic internet era: wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

Hmm ok, but it still sounds kind of sus. One of the insights of the Mixmaster era is that what really matters is the amount of message reordering you can do, and that's why remailers typically had 24 hours or more of latency. So I've never believed in Tor (near real time). Even with a text chat network, more than a few seconds of latency will have a significant usability hit. And also, as mentioned, using the service at all probably makes you into one of the usual suspects. The Guardian (newspaper) handles this in an interesting way, for 1-way communication from users to the Guardian itself. They have a news reader app used by millions of subscribers to access news articles and stuff. And if you want to send them a confidential news tip, the app has a feature where you can enter a text message for their editors. The news reading protocol includes some space for this type of message in every transaction, under a layer of encryption so that an eavesdropper can't see if a message is present. Allowing user to user communication through such a scheme could easily lead to mayhem, but for sending stuff to an identified recipient (the Guardian) that has some establishment cred, it's clever.

Wait you mean the chat users have to pay to send traffic through the mix pool? This sounds worse and worse. Is BitMessage still around? I would say once you're observed sending data into Tor or anything resembling it, you're already compromised even if your correspondent hasn't been uniquely identified. I can't see getting excited about the app.

It costs money to run a node? That's even worse. The people most willing to pay will be the ones up to no good.

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Ok I still don’t know what this program does that’s interesting, but it sounds like another thing we don’t need.

Overall I think we’re going to see a much higher quality of software, ironically around the same level than before 2000 when the net became usable by everyone to download fixes. When the software had to be pressed to CDs or written to millions of floppies, it had to survive an amazing quantity of tests that are mostly neglected nowadays since updates are easy to distribute. Finally someone else said that.

People run Chrome on Linux.

I’ve self-hosted Gogs which is a predecessor of Forgejo and it used very few resources. A tiny VPS is plenty. Fossil (fossil-scm.org) is even smaller, but it’s a DVCS that’s not directly compatible with Git. For personal projects you don’t really need a “forge”. I just use self-hosted git directly, with no web UI. Just “git pull” and so on. That’s what the Linux kernel devs do, so it’s obviously workable even for huge projects. There’s actually a web interface (gitweb) that comes with git, but it’s mostly to let other users browse your repo.

The crappy old Casio that I use now has no microphone and no wireless comms. Just an LCD and some pushbuttons.

Go to settings > notifications and turn off unified push. It's a bug, someone posted the gitlab link further up.

I don’t understand the premise here. A non-rich person seeking a rich partner is seen as a grifter of some sort, regardless of genders. My dad came into contact with rich people (not Bezos level rich but still rich) through his work. One thing he used to say was that the rich people all knew each other.

There’s such a thing as a dating coach, if that’s what you’re asking. Try a web search.

It’s gonna take a long time, just deal with it. 12 hours is expected, right? Get some sleep and check it afterwards.

Useless article. No dates, prices, specs other than the capacity, etc. It does mention this is a new HAMR platform that might reach 100TB in a drive someday.

No the battery is LFP, fairly conventional. The new thing is the super powerful charger and the cooling system.

Stay off LinkedIn.

GPS itself is receive only but if you’re really paranoid, don’t trust your phone to not store the location data and upload it someplace afterwards.

Upside down US flag signalling that the country is in trouble has been used at times.

It will be great if this reaches the Moto G series. I’m sure the Fairphone is nice but it’s 4x as expensive, no thanks.

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fptp First Past The Post, as opposed to e.g. proportional representation or whatever. It’s how US elections work. Other countries have other systems.

I’m pessimistic, so I constantly get pleasant surprises when things turn out better than I expect. It’s nice.

There’s a famous story about Isaac Asimov’s mother Anna Asimov. It’s in one of Isaac’s many autobiographies. Anna and her husband Judah Asimov immigrated to the US from Russia and worked very hard operating a candy store in New York while raising Isaac and his siblings. Isaac eventually became a famous writer. After Isaac’s parents were finally able to retire, Anna (still with her Russian accent and not-so-great English after all those years) decided to take a creative writing class at the local college. The stories she handed in had grammar and spelling errors like you’d expect, but they had inventive plots, interesting characters, and so on. At the end of the semester, the instructor complimented her on her work, and asked her if she was related to Isaac Asimov, who by then was quite well known. “Yes, he is my dear son”, she replied. “Oh! No wonder you’re such a good writer”, the instructor said. “No”, responded Anna, “you mean, no wonder he’s such a good writer.” I’ll see myself out.

Don’t bother with any of those in-your-head translations. Just erase the English from your brain and speak Polish directly. If you forget a word, look it up if you have to, then use it. After you’ve used it a few times, it will stick. Polish is pretty hard though, from what I can tell. Even Hungarian is easier.

Unpopular opinion: it’s hard to beat youtube.

The G Play 2024 didn’t have 5g and people say that’s significant. I got the G Stylus 2023 which was $250 at the time, so I’d consider it midrange. It’s fine, I don’t need a fancier phone. NTN (non terrestrial network i.e. satellite) text comms is the next interesting feature. Currently only in flagships so I can wait for it to reach budget phones.

If none of the online and similar stuff works, it might be time for the family to file a missing person report. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agre about a guy who disappeared like that. He was eventually confirmed to be ok, but had apparently decided to go off the map for personal reasons. There was also a medical researcher whose name I’ve forgotten, who also went dark iike that. Her family eventually found her and she said oh, she hadn’t been up to much, and just didn’t realize anyone that was looking for her. She did some well known work connecting allergies with cancer but I haven’t been able to identify her through a few web searches. Anyone remember?

Person rebuilds an N900 to use a battery eliminator and replace the micro usb port with USB-C, and then sets it up as a media player. Ok but why bother? It’s still useless as a phone, at least in the US, because the 3G network is dead. Sigh. Its UI was also hopelessly slow, as was the later N9’s.

For literary fiction, machine translation is near worthless. For tech stuff and maybe some nonfiction, it can be usable with some human cleanup. But ideally you can do the machine translation on your own computer if that’s what you want.