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I've done this for years and it has saved me many times. I just make a new markdown file everyday and often search through them with ripgrep.

One secret here is to have a good UX for adding metadata. For example, in obsidian a search window pops up when you write `#[[`. Or when you type `#` to create a tag, a window with all preexisting tags shows up.

However, lately I've been working on a new side project in order to additionally automatically record/collect what I am doing on digital devices. Basically I am building a "personal" spyware/data collection software suite. Kind of in the same realm as ms recall but more focused on security/privacy with sensible cryptographic defaults where needed.


Is the submission's title "AWS data center hit by Iran" editorialized? Neither the article nor AWS claim it was Iran's doing, it's only heavily implied, and the article's title would've sufficed

Good question! It's a bit of a stretch. BEAM has mailboxes, non-blocking sends, and asynchronous handling of messages, whereas the original CSP is based on blocking sends and symmetric channels. Symmetric means you have no real difference between sends and receives: two processes synchrnoise when they are willing to send the same data on the same channel. (A "receive" is just a nondeterministic action where you are willing to send anything on a channel).

Occam added types to channels and distinguished sends/receives, which is the design also inherited by Go.

In principle you can emulate a mailbox/message queue in CSP by a sequence of processes, one per queue slot, but accounting for BEAM's weak-ish ordering guarantees might be complicated (I suppose you should allow queue slots to swap messages under specific conditions).


A while back I bought a Motorola phone (one of the Moto G-something series) for a family member because I used to have one and had a good experience with it.

I regretted that decision because soon that phone developed a bunch of warts that were a pretty obviously Motorola's idea to monetize their users. It was a constant source of problems. The peak was MotoApps that was constantly popping up with questions and installing random shit on the phone.

That pretty much put Motorola on my dont-buy list.


The post about Graphene partnering with Motorola is right about this one, currently, (Lenovo bought Motorola from Google in 2014.), so that point will no longer be valid as soon as they ship something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214645


> Even worse, it slowing us down from leaving Android entirely.

I appreciate the vibes where this is coming from, but does it really? I think that assumes that everyone that works on this would work on a true open source OS otherwise, and that if they did, that would result in us breaking free from Android where we otherwise wouldn't. I'm not confident about either of those assumptions.

Meanwhile I'll keep complaining to orgs that don't allow me to work through their website, and tell them that their app won't work on my phone.


I haven’t used gmail. No idea about the problem.

Because they are clearly a talented and successful developer and don't need to rely on slop generators to program or think for them

> pixel screens had extremely low Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) rate for screen dimming, apparently as a cost saving measure

The PWM issues are inexcusable. Cost saving measure on a £999 phone. Ridiculous!


I live in a rural area (not in the US though). Everyone knows I'm a weirdo, and almost all of them are cool with it. This is how people lose their prejudices - they meet a foreigner, or a single mother, or a gay person, and they discover that they like them

I'm trying to figure out in what situation asking someone a general question like 'how is your day going?' going to have lasting negative consequences.

And in the EU.


idiots

I think in social media and search, clear ad labeling laws exist and are also enforced. I can imagine that OpenAI will be under a lot of scrunity and it will be easy enough for outside investigators to prove how ads are served and if it's are done illegally (e.g. by creating an ad account and then testing how their ads are served).

Will they still try to skirt the laws? Of course.


It doesn't yet work on Motorola devices.

It is going to become available on selected Motorola devices at some point in the future.


Fairphone is much further from meeting the requirements and have made it clear they're uninterested in providing proper updates or strong security. There will repeated official statements from the GrapheneOS project of Fairphone not being our OEM partner by clarifying it was a major OEM and that it specifically wasn't them. There's an article published at https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-stand... with details on how what they're providing isn't what they say it is.

You are flatly wrong. These countries are internationally recognized sovereign nations and members of the UN. They have independent, often conflicting interests and foreign policies. Meanwhile the US bases are held under formal leases, not through force.

Wero extends iDeal in that it comes with its own app/wallet and user account service. A bit like Paypal.

A step backwards, in my opinion. I'm not sure what this system adds that sharing an IBAN doesn't, but then again Tikkie's conquered that market pretty quickly for some reason as well and each bank has had to copy that feature individually.


All of these have to be told light-hearted, as observational "jokes". Not like you are actually annoyed. You're just making light of a situation.

"I guess the bus is just never on time here, huh"

(Stuck in line at the grocers) "Friday evening rush-hour"

Same kind of thing with whatever you are observing, at the Doctor, in the gym, waiting for the light to turn, etc, etc.

It's all shit jokes if you can even call them that. But the purpose isn't to start a standup routine, it's to share a situation with a stranger and open up the floor to conversation. You are basically just indicating to a stranger: "Hey, I'm open for conversation", they can then choose to respond or just ignore the remark. Then you go from there.


> /e/OS is Android

So is GrapheneOS


If you personally know Iranians (Persian, Azeri, Armenian, Kurds, Assyrian, Arab, Baloch, Tajik, Afghan etc) living in Iran or if you have connection with the land, that's fine. Otherwise, I find this kind of "obsession" a bit disturbing to the point of justifying actions of unhinged leaders in a very avoidable, unpopular, & potentially devastating war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior

Lineageos supports signature spoofing for microG these days! It did take them a long time to come around but they did in the end.

Have you been using it? How useful do you find it?

> Netanyahu committed genocide

No he didn’t, you made that up.


"This is the most used AI chatbot in the world!" "Who uses it?" "Other AI chatbots!"

Exactly!

If you can use GrapheneOS, good for you but what /e/OS offers is:

- Usable Android with your usual Android app (banking, etc) - No data sent to Google by default - Easier interface with nearly no bloatware - Available easily on many smartphones, including older ones - Extending the life of some smartphones

The price to pay is:

- Some Murena cloud bloatware - Android security patches are sometimes delayed - Security is not on par with GrapheneOS

If your main concern is protecting your privacy from Google and extending the life of your smartphone without breaking a sweat, /e/OS is probably the best option.

If your main concern is protecting against state actors attacks or very specific threats, then GrapheneOS might be better.

/e/OS works really great for non-techie users. I’ve done it in my family.


Semantic web is for computers to read data from your website. WebMCP is for interacting with your website.

Using URIs as identifiers and RDF as interchange format, makes it possible for LLM's and computers to understand well what something really means. It makes it well suited for making sure LLM's and computers understand scientific data and are able to aggregate it.


There is when you have a phone that isn't a pixel.

> And can’t go over 28mph with pedal assist. Or set the pedal assist limit at 20mph if you’re feeling especially conservative.

That doesn't seem _that_ conservative, honestly. Lots of places have a 20mph/30km/h limit for _cars_ in urban areas.


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