Community declines Oracle proposal for using MySQL
gkaklas
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Thank you for sharing!
Do you have any other recommendations for such games? I've been looking for "mindless" games but I haven't had much luck finding any
I however have found "Breakout 71" which is pretty cool!
https://f-droid.org/packages/me.lecaro.breakout
I used to play "Subway Surfers" a little, but got tired of the gameplay being designed around microtransactions etc (similarly, for many other mobile-friendly web-based games on some websites)
I've also tried to find other similar runner games on Steam (again, I haven't found a favorite :( ), but unfortunately the Steam Deck can't always replace a phone in many everyday scenarios :(
Unpopular opinion: I like the concept of daylight savings: 😅
What's written on a clock is entirely artificial, made by humans to use as needed in everyday life; It doesn't matter what it shows, just that it shows the same for everyone
I think we should decide what we want it to mean (e.g. sunrise always at 07:00, middle of the day at 12:00, move the sunset based on concrete statistics that prove it would minimize energy consumption, or anything else we want), and implement it in small increments
In a world where 99% of clocks are digital (phones, smartwatches, computers), no one will care or notice if for 6 months every day they lose 42 seconds of sleep, and then for the next 6 months gain them back again; (computers that need a stable reference point usually use UTC anyway)
Heck, even without modern technology: Germany was broadcasting the time on a specific radio frequency with DCF77 like ~50 years ago, for synchronizing train station clocks, so today it should be more trivial than ever to make this change in the clocks and software that people use 🤔
Throughput metrics
Phase Sanitization 67-85 Melem/s
😆
(Turns out it does exist! But it's just a chemical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melem )
https://docs.libre.space/en/stable/operation/it-infrastructure-operations.html (archive)
Most notably:
- Cloud (for some things): Nextcloud
- Forum: Discourse
- E-mail (some domains): mailu
- Conference planning: Indico
- Short URLs: YOURLS (Although I've set up Shlink at home and it's a lot better)
- Websites: Wordpress
- Status page: Cachet
- ELN: elabftw
- Inventory management: Inventree
employees and how you are managing that
We use gitlab.com in general, so we also use it for support tickets if that's what you mean 🤔
TIL about "lockdown mode"
When you enable Lockdown Mode, Apple applies a strict set of rules that block or limit the riskiest paths attackers use to get in:
- Messages: Most attachment types are blocked; link previews and some features are disabled.
- Web browsing: Certain complex web technologies (like JIT compilation) are restricted – you can whitelist trusted sites if needed.
- [...]
I'm always baffled when I read news about unethical things that a piece of software does; I can't comprehend how software engineers, people who probably have the ability to do critical and structured thinking, program such software and feel ok with it - they can't just plead ignorance and say they're just doing their assigned tasks or sth, they actively make the decision to participate in this.
The managers, I think it makes more sense: they may be evil about coming up with these decisions, but may not have much exposure to the product to understand the consequences of how it works so they just get money and handle they contracts etc.
But the people who write the logic, they're the ones who are sitting down days at a time focusing on their task to think how to design the algorithms, from killing people, to simply tracking people online and exploit a user's behavior, data about their personal life and relationships etc
"Hmm yes if a user seems to spend much on microtransactions in games, we could maybe lure them to an online casino! Lets now work on the algorithm that recommends betting games based on their online behavior. Oh did they lose their job recently? They now have more free time to sink into our platform! We may be able to lure them with games that have small bets 🤔 I'm so good at my job I might get a raise now!"
And I guess now with vibe coding this can only get worse 😕
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTdbpoQkR4U
With a 5-year lifespan and a conservative estimation of 200.000 folds, I count 110 folds per day, which comes out at around 1 fold every 6 minutes for 16 hours straight every day
That's not what my objection is about 😅 Of course low power consumption is important
My point is about depending an independent peer-to-peer off-grid network on one specific technology
E.g. imagine if TCP/IP, BGP, or HTTP were proprietary (instead of owned by standards organizations), and in order to connect to the Internet you would need to buy a network card that is licensed from the TCP/IP company! But since that's not the case, people can connect to the Internet using any technology they want (Wi-Fi, Ethernet), but as long as their device uses TCP/IP, anyone can connect with anyone
(PS maybe there is a better physical layer or routing example than the above 🤔 But I think the principle still stands)
You don't have to pay meshtastic any money
They can still profit indirectly from providing services etc (which is fine)
But even just the fact that in order to use the word "Meshtastic" ™®© I have to read https://meshtastic.org/docs/legal/licensing-and-trademark/ shows that it does not have "community" vibes but "Meshtastic™®© is ours and we're just letting you use the source code etc for now" vibes
Again, the fact that it is owned by someone means that the community (probably) does not have control over it, and one day we might need to fork the whole network and migrate every node
there's nothing they can do to stop you using it as you see fit
If a specific radio is illegal, it's easy to just find where it's transmitting from and fine you; they already do this with pirate radio stations
There is no way to be completely free of dependence on others
But why be dependent on 2 companies instead of having the option to buy a radio from any company? Why is competition and diversity bad for an independent and off-grid network that we don't want it to have a single point of failure? 🤔
Not only it can make the network more resilient (which is supposed to be one of the goals), but it allows for experimentation and innovation in new technologies, which you can't do if you're locked into using LoRa™®©
Why lock every user into a single technology just because some users want to have a long-lasting battery? (Which btw is probably important for very remote nodes and not the home and portable nodes that I think are more common).
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This! I also configured my client to hide posts with ~10 keywords (
trump,ice,kills, etc), and my feed suddenly had a much more diverse set of topics. Usually there is a common keyword between topics you'd want to see less of; you just need to keep it in mind while you're browsing so you can find it!