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dudenas dudenas @slrpnk.net

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First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed
  • not sure about peertube audience size, but afaik it does have a serious subsystem of resource sharing.

  • First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed
  • If I understand it right.. it will be much more costly to host videocentric platform than other types of content. A serious proposal for sharing the burden of hosting will likely be vital - through funding or decentralized storage/processing. Havent heard about that yet.

  • Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?
  • One other reason I imagine is to establish a single family name, especially with children in mind. I'm not sure it actually works better than a double damily name, but it probably seems so to some.

  • Help with training plan
  • Just my emotional reaction: I am amateurishly selfhosting for more than ten years with only basic linux knowledge. This training is probably more focused on pros and general web development than self hosting. In my imaginary perfect world self hosting would be a common skillset taught in a secondary school.

  • Why is the word "defense" avoided in reporting and rhetorics around Ukraine?

    I think that would be not only appropriate but also helpful to frame Ukraine as "defending their land" instead of "being at war". So why dont politicians and journalists primarily use this word?

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    Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance?
  • I think the biggest issue is that people dont like to look at the object through phone when it is much clearer here in reality. So looking for themselves and looking to show it to assistant naturally split into two separate processes. While looking "for yourself" the phone is randomly dangling in the hand, making the stream sea/sickening.

    So I thought, VR headsets have a good see-through mode, which could also be streamed. It also could easily display a pointer from remote. Thus both processes would merge into one, and you could directly comment on what is on focus.

  • Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance?
  • For computer problems we use remote desktop. But for dealing with the printer, tv, phones, car, or checking the router we need to have video chat.

  • Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance?

    I'm having hard time to help my parents troubleshoot their equipment remotely, when they try to observe the objects both with their eyes and manipulate phone camera for our video chat simultaneously. You can get sick of camera shaking, and they are getting tired too. I thought maybe if they had a VR headset and could stream their view directly to the chat, it could be helpful. Maybe I could even somehow point at things in their view to tell, for example, which cable to check. I do not own a headset, and I couldnt find info of such tools via simple/AI search (maybe wrong keywords). Maybe you know of such domestic solutions?

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    Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds
  • They forgot the lifespan of the monkey, those thought experimenters.

  • Static site generator for an idiot who doesn't want to learn a new templating language just to have a blog?
  • Technically Grav is not a static site generator, it is just a flat file cms. It means there is no need to generate all the files of website and upload them to server each time you write a post. I have no idea why people like static sites for blogging.

  • WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your smartphone’s address book.
  • Because how could you sell contact data to google and apple if they already have it?

  • What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?
  • Such term would be useful. Christianity does not seem to follow this leftwing liberal immigrant.

  • em client email application okay for privacy?
  • Just took the opportunity to try Thunderbird again and had to downvote myself :) I guess my previous frustrations were related to initial sluggishness while downloading and non-compacting loads tens of thousands of mails from gmail. It still takes some time, but after downloading and compacting my data, search seems to be very responsive.

  • em client email application okay for privacy?
  • I am using eMclient for several years now. I would have loved to use open source, but experience of using Thunderbird was unbearably sluggish and glitchy. Other options for windows were simply lacking. EM is far from perfect too, but still better. I hope to retry Thunderbird in upcoming years to check if things under the hood changed much.

  • Better ways for sampling a colour for vector fill?

    Hi all, I use vector shapes a lot, and manipulate their colours quite often. Changing a colour for vector shape already takes wayy too many clicks, but changing it to another colour sampled from the image seems to be really terrible. Colour sampler (P) does not seem to work when a palette is open. Fill tool seems to work only for raster data. The only way I found around this is to add a custom swatch to a palette and then pick it back from vector fill editing palette. Maybe you found some more usable procedure?

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    What is least terrible SmartTV OS for privacy?

    My parents are getting a new tv, and are asking for recommendation. I think all I can influence is the brand/model (not realistic to propose rpi and more complex systems). I instinctively avoid google/android and lean towards anything else open source, so probably LG WebOS.. But I had bad luck searching for more detailed comparisons. Maybe you have experience or opinions?

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    Must EU banks provide basic service via internet?

    SEB, a Sweden based bank is now displaying warnings on its web app when opened in Firefox, recommending to switch to Chrome. Do they have any obligations to comply with web standards? Or is it just a question of competitiveness in the market?

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    OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman
  • Just making structural changes sound like "changing the leader".