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Not donation-based.

If you have a wallet configured to pay a microtransaction for each day you browse to a certain site (of for x # of page loads, although that could incentivize strange web site behavior to increase the number of pages a reader goes to while they visit), then your wallet pays the small payment when you first browse to the page and you get an ad-free experience.

Otherwise, ads or a subscription paywall, depending on how the site wants to manage revenue.

I want to pay good sites for their content, but I don't think it's economical to expect a subscription from every semi-regular reader.

I'd like for the internet to settle on some sort of micro-transaction system where your browsing history pays out a fraction of a penny each time you browse to a site, so as long as you maintain a balance in your wallet, you can browse the web ad-free across all the sites that support the transaction system.

contained-app includes a Files feature to allow in-container filesystem browsing. Is there any plan to implement this in Davit as well?

Looks like great work, will try it soon!

If you make justifications for non-military targets like that ("tech firms"), then it just becomes a matter of opinion on where we draw the line. _You_ don't think that extends to hospitals and medical supplies, but _they_ might, and you're moral compass is just as righteous as theirs.

Are you being sarcastic?

Like sure, it is. But when I'm out doing something and she texts me a book title and author, I'd have to make a mental note to take care of it next time I'm free. It also means having a stack of epub files in my phone/tablet/laptop downloads that I've got no use for.

My wife constantly asks me about adding books to her Kindle. I use Anna’s archive for this, but the process can be very annoying. I have to go to the site, search for the content. Filter by epub and English. Then download the content. Then send it to her Kindle email.

My openclaw now searches for the relevant content upon her request, sends the URL to a Stacks docker instance, monitors the Stacks instance for when the download completes, grabs the resulting epub from a local file share, then sends it to her kindle email. She doesn’t even send me the request anymore; she sends them straight to the Discord bot.

It also corrects our calendar every night. She often just through something on the calendar like “[son’s name] speech”, but we have speech appointments in either of two locations, and I have a strong preference for calendar items in the format “[person] - activity”. If she puts the city name with the speech appointments (“[son’s name] speech [town]”), openclaw reformats the title accordingly and adds the physical address of the speech therapy office we go to in that town. This means Apple Calendar sends us notifications when it’s time to leave, instead of just 30 mins prior.

I have a few others as well, but those are real world examples. Maybe they don’t matter for your use case, but they’re good for mine.

Yep, I’m in this camp. My OC instance runs on an old MacBook with no access to my personal accounts, except my “family appointments” calendar and an API key I created for it for a service I self-host. I interact with a Discord bot to chat with it, and it does some things on schedules and other things when asked.

It’s a great tool if you can think of things you regularly want someone/thing else to do for you.

Ghidra by NSA 5 months ago

Use military members.

I was a special agent with an org involved in similar work. They put me through 7 SANS courses, including paying for 5 certs, in 18 months.

Funnily enough, I bought BentoBox a long time ago (Nov 2024), but I forgot about it entirely. I'm wondering if maybe it didn't have Windowed mode at the time, as I do rely a lot of overlapping windows so I can switch between content more quickly when I'm just using my mouse.

Thank you for mentioning it again so I could get it set back up. I do like that the experience is almost exactly like FancyZones!

I’ve tried many apps for window resizing on Mac, and none feel like they’re nearly as good as FancyZones (the PowerToys module for Windows). I don’t want secret squirrel key combos. I don’t want hot corners.

I want two things:

- Predefined zones à la FancyZones - Tied edges (there’s surely a better term for this) so that I can grab the edge between two apps and have them both resize together (one gets smaller as the other gets bigger).

Please someone tell me this exists without a subscription!

Consent-O-Matic 6 months ago

Undoing whatever data collection and sharing, as well as seeking and obtaining restitution, is probably a much harder problem to solve (for you) if you select accept.

I was just wondering the other day (after a long back and forth with some AI about a technical issue involving PostgreSQL) how AI was impacting this platform. What a massive loss in interactions! Is there anything besides AI that could explain this?

Claude in Chrome 7 months ago

Well the other contractor (ChatGPT) will happily do it for free. From a comparison perspective, his complaint is valid.

I've been using Orion browser (WebKit-based with support for Chrome and Firefox extensions) for quite some time and haven't had this issue with YouTube, but I've definitely experienced the same with Firefox. If it's an issue of artificial slowdowns, you'd think they'd apply it to anything not running on Chrome's engine, which makes me think it's specifically Firefox's rendering causing this issue.

I think there will actually be a couple interesting adjustments/market forces acting in the car companies' favor.

First, if the insurance applies to fully autonomous driving only, then I suspect they’ll reach a point where the cost of insurance+automation ends up being less than just insurance through third parties.

Second, cutting into the traditional insurance market share is likely to increase costs for those who remain on traditional insurance, assuming there’s a significant enough number of people jumping ship. Combined, this creates a huge incentive for more users to jump on the self-driving bandwagon.

Fair enough, it's protocol is open source and the apps are source available. Modifications can be made by individuals for their own uses, though. I think it's as close as you can expect to get with a mostly full-fledged Notion competitor.

In any case, I don't particularly enjoy AnyType, despite coming back to it a few times to test it out (and still maintaining my own sync server, despite not actively using it, in case I go back to try it out again after some demonstrably updates). Just pointing out that it's a less restrictive alternative.

It's definitely a work in progress, but AnyType has a lot of functionality similar to Notion. I haven't used it in a while, so I don't know whether there are plugins in any meaningful capacity.

From past experience, it's even pretty simple to host your own sync server to get away from their account/storage limits.

Presumably for cross-device interactivity. If I interact with ChatGPT on my phone, then open it on my desktop. I might be a bit frustrated that I can't get to the chat I was having on my phone previously.

OpenAI could store the chat conversation in an encrypted format that only you, the user, can decrypt, with the client-side determining the amount of previous messages to include for additional context, but there's plenty of user overhead involved in an undertaking like that (likely a separate decryption password would be needed to ensure full user-exclusive access, etc).

I'd appreciate and use a feature like that, but I doubt most "average" users would care.

I'm using 3377 (D-E-R-P) since it's effectively replacing the DERP servers on the specified source devices.

Presumably this

We knew this was an adversary, rather than a legitimate user, based on several telling clues. The standout red flag was that the unique machine name used by the individual was the same as one that we had tracked in several incidents prior to them installing the agent.

So in any other context, they probably wouldn't do any digging into the machine or user history, but they did this time because they already had high confidence of malicious use from this endpoint.

I've been through 2 offensive courses (SANS GPEN and Parrot Labs Offensive Methodology and Analysis) and yeah, that was the take I got even back then (5+ years ago). Everything we used was open source and near-fully functional. There was a lot of knowledge needed on the syntax for some tools, but otherwise it was insane to think how easily these could be used by a motivated person.

Apple AirPods Pro 3 11 months ago

Why is it Fitness app only? Odd restriction.

It's not... The compatible third-party apps part means basically any app integrating with the API, presumably.

... foam-assisted tips

I had a set of foam-integrated silicone tips on my Airpods Pro 2 and I LOVED them. All the fit benefits of foam with the easy cleaning of silicone! Wish they'd release first-party versions for the Airpods Pro 2, cause that's the only change I'd really like. Single charge battery usage and ANC are great, but I get by just fine with the AP2 (ANC is already excellent, so I'm really curious what the AP3s sound like in comparison).