RRRA

Pretty sure it's been the year of the Linux desktop for 30 years for me...

Oh yes, Wi-Fi was cheap, but before HaLow we ended giving up because we couldn't get a meaningful density for the network to get far enough across town to start to be remotely useful, even with 10-15dBi antennas mounted outside.

About the messaging aspect, I mean that though a messaging app is great, I feel that the end goal is having an independent network from the telcos, carriers, etc. In that sense we're going to need to allow more than an SMS replacement.

And from there is born the problem. Bootstraping such a network for more than geeks is relatively impossible in that context. You either have a device that does one thing as a drop-in magic solution for newcomers to jump on, or you chase the better solution, but that brings as much complexity, if not more, as running the Internet...

And while I'm happy to see p2p and mesh research continuing, participate when I can, I just feel like it's a pipe dream that is far far away and I'd like to see it grow beyond the few dozens of decentralization geeks in every city :)

In Montréal we've rebooted Réseau Libre which used to be a Wi-Fi mesh experiment 15+ years ago. It's a fun experiment, but in a way feels like a step backward for me. Meshtastic and Meshcore are just that, messaging, but that makes it the standardized killer app. On the other side you have reticulum which allows decoupling from the LoRa low bandwidth only radios, seems to do a lot of neat stuff, but if we're reinventing a whole network layer, we're going to have to reinvent services, discovery, etc. and I fear we're wasting time when in the end what wins is controlling the backbone bandwidth, but with the added difficulty of a p2p mesh.

I'm starting to feel this is a fun activity, but realistically copium for a world that is very sadly centralizing everything.

Now rebrand it the Apple car, and somehow it would makes sense...

Surprised Enlightenment didn't make the cut while fvwm is there

If you think the 2000s were special, try going back to the 90s when you could finish browsing the web! :P

It was pretty funny to see Qwen 3.6 (heretic) tell me about how many death the Chinese government thought happened at Tiananmen Sq. on April 15th 1989.

Makes you wonder where that data was taken from, or if their great firewall is broken, or even if Alibaba engineers have special access...

The irony of posting ethical social reflection on X though...

https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560

How long before LLM perform perfect disassembly exploitation...

The worst thing about this is a company saying you need to lock yourself on one of the 2 proprietary platform that somehow didn't just wrap the web for apps and use a ridiculously small device you might own, but anyone on an open standard system can go F themselves...

Yeah the only reason I still use YouTube is because μBlock Origin still works great.

Google being shown as unsafe makes me think they have some internal methods for filtering?

Because 2 letters should be reserved for countries and not random endeavors

.cs RIP too...

It's 100% economic corruption and populist/fascists forcing it down everyone's throat through extreme manipulation. yes...

We might always need some for various materials and industrial process, but wasting it on ground transportation is beyond absurd at this point.

Canadians not being able to disable Amber alerts sent at presidential level all the time might also be interested to be able to sleep again...

That's 2 Turing award for the Université de Montréal in 6 years. Sadly, I never had those 2 teachers during my years there!

I did see Gilles' lunch talks though, it was really insightful!

Not sure how on desktop either, I've inspected the value and set it to 25 to no avail :P

edit: ok... somehow my approach didn't work the first time, but got to 18!

I'd be curious to see people give their opinion on embedded models for less tech focused needs, say what's that bug killing spray chemistry like or what is the history of this or that...

I'd also be curious to see if people have started doing censorship analysis of various models, like Qwen differing Tiananmen square to government documments while Llama straights up answers the question.

Until these OS also start putting forward something like WebOS that tried to get phones back to on open web, there is no breaking the binary format and Appstore monopoly.

I wish Europe would have forced that 10 years ago since the US is beyond saving.

I just installed a plug-in for that, shorts are pure brain rot which YouTube already mostly is ...

Now add a flashing red box with:

/root/.workspace/garbage

(was that it?) and a VJ mode that scrolls around to the beat and you have something for the next party!

When is everyone going to dump their US bonds? Will Groenland be the redline, finally?

Might be away to switch some countries administration's away from Windows and minimize resistance...

It's insane to me having to contemplate how much more of a simple cog in the machine I would be mentally, intellectually, etc. had I not been exposed to sciences for the sake of knowledge and had only been trained on the job and some day tossed out as not useful anymore...

That would be the definition of alienation for me.

Jenny Cam has evolved so much

My EV is 3 years old, but I have no hope of being able to swap the battery every, at least not in any reasonable way. That said, it'll be fine for my use case for at least 15 years, so whatever :)

Soon (TM)

How are they at version 26 of VisionOS?

Needs to be able to rotate in place or certain moves usually possible are now unattainable, but great otherwise