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My wish is to have Telegram clients and user experience (both mobile and in Linux desktop versions) with Signal security and whatsapp adoption.

Signal is a cool 2nd alternative to WhatsApp, but their desktop client is absolute garbage, their videocall echo cancelling is non-existent and sending media over slow connections absolutely sucks (it keeps on resending and resending the files)

They want to do this because they want more traction for their blockchain: TRON, which, IIRC, is the payment method for ads, usernames and "stuff" inside Telegram.

However Du Rove is right about a bunch of things:

- Signal clients suck, specially the Desktop one where they ship (or used to) pre-built binaries like their own lib: https://github.com/signalapp/ringrtc - Also you can't have Signal without Google Play Store - Signal client suck in usability. I wish I had Telegram client (android) and desktop (qt) instead of this electron garbage. Telegram clients are super-duper-awesome - I would say that removing phone number requirement is their #1 request. yet they take so much time to address it, specially when they cry about phone number validation SMS costs - BTW, telegram is implementing a very nice idea of a crowd sourced sms validation, where they use their users phone numbers to send the validation sms - They have a very questionable crypto integration with MobileCoin, which have a obscure value: they depend on IntelSGX and is 95% pre-mined

Gemini AI 3 years ago

Will it be opensourced, like Llama2? or this is yet another closed-source LLM?

gladly we have meta and the newly recently created AI Alliance.

yet another browser. no, thank you. even worse that it is based in blink/chromium.

I would rather prefer they to lower their price than investing in this.

glad that this is happening. OpenAI has very little of "Open" :-) Release the papers, release the process, and stop gatekeeping the models

license issues apart, virtualbox guest tools for windows are awesome: clipboard sharing, drag and dropping files, network shares, auto window resize, etc just work out of the box.

With KVM/splicetools it is always a pain to setup that.

Awesome features! Nice! Now work on reducing your costs and making each subscription with 5x more searches a month :D.

I was a subscriber and I absolutely hate the feeling of "spending" searches every time I search

Instructions are not easy. I want a out of the box solution to help without having to deeply dig into the internals.

Something like archive team warriors: http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

For example,

Bitswap vs DHT

I don't care. I want to help without having to care about these details.

Launch one or multiple IPFS servers (see previous blog post; we currently use 4 servers in Docker).

what? how? where? link? no out of the box deployment?

Alternatively, you can do what we did: add in offline mode first, add the files, then take the node online, peer with public gateways, and then finally run ipfs dht provide -r <root-cid>.

what? lol

kagi is awesome, really awesome. and Fast.

But they are like: super expensive.

Unacceptable expensive. More than netflix, spotify and friends.

I wish they invest more into bringing down their own operating costs so that the premium package could be more affordable.