Been using the secure knot for 2-3 decades by now

The other day i was thinking how back then, in police/detective stories, the idea of “the perfect crime” was a repeated one, through convoluted machinations the criminal in question managed to fully avoid getting caught and paying for his crimes. Then as the years passed i realized all they needed was to be rich, they get away daily with crimes much more severe than any stuff that would put us in prison for life. Yet again i remember Benedict on The Last Action hero going “Because in this world, the bad guys can win!” and he was right all along…

Oh yeah, he will get away with it, he very much shouldn’t and i dearly wish he didn’t, but he will, unless the world changes extremely drastically in a hurry he will…

Basically they’re sticking GenAI as deeply as they can into every recess of the OS, to everybody’s protest, which is actually driving a push for people to move away from Windows, they’re doing the best advertising for Linux we’ve got in ages

MUCH prefer AnySoftKeyboard as it has niceties like easy switching of language on the fly, arrow keys and other stuff like that, i just wish the autocomplete was not worse than not having any as it actually wastes your time showing you whatever incorrect and extremely unlikely suggestions it wants instead of something that actually follows what you’re writing

Edit: Archive of the page

I keep meaning to learn Forth since reading the Wiz Biz books ages ago

The sad thing is that this is exactly how they think, have seen it myself, extremely “If you’re not with us you’re against us” mentality

I had never heard of Open Desk before, what do we know of this suite?

Looks like this works regardless of that

That has been the plan from the start

You just have zero guarantee that the answers will be real

And the Internet Archive too

It’s been a couple of years so don’t recall the details or the name of the thing, but it was something that went through every comment you ever posted and overwrote it, even past the 1000 messages limit, but got crippled after the API stuff actually got implemented, no idea if it still exists or if it’s usable

Never use free VPNs

And i continue not regretting deleting everything i ever posted on Reddit for 17 years when i left them during the APIcalypse fiasco (yes, i imagine it’s all archived somewhere anyway, but at least it’s not there for them to use at this time)

Checked, the ACTUAL paper does mention how to transmit it, as microwaves, haven’t read yet beyond the abstract (got some stuff pending to do) but at least it mentions a method

It is very possible to have a full smart home setup with zero dependence on Teh Cloudz, with fallback to physical dumb switches when something goes wrong, but from what I’ve seen it’s far less effort to have one that depends on external stuff

After installing it, a tiny but relevant point is to get a nicer icon that “app name in a square”, Organic Maps had a nice, RECOGNIZABLE icon, CoMaps will be glossed over when looking for it a bunch of times because of it’s super generic one. I imagine it’s coming since they’re just starting but hope that someone does have it in mind.

Thanks!

Given that as i mentioned elsewhere i did not separate the /home into it’s own partition like I’ve been doing since the 90s, formatting this thing right now would likely lead to losing stuff, i need to organize the files first before i do the nuclear option: A full reformat/reinstall. If that makes no difference in the end, I’ll have to consider the possibility of getting a new one. No idea how long will each step take so not the foggiest on when will i do each thing, and that’s even without taking procrastination into consideration… 😅