As a heuristic, I look at the commit dates to see if it’s still being maintained. And lately I look at the commits themselves for evidence of AI use. Then I’ll maybe do a web search for discussions to see what other people/the community has to say about it.

Gnuhealth looks like it may be dead (or at least the repo I found hasn’t had a commit in many years). (Nvm, they moved to codeberg which is a positive signal, IMO).

I think it’s illegal to use Reticulum over amatuer radio because it’s encrypted?

LoRa is very low bandwidth, only suitable for short text messages. Radio frequencies are heavily regulated, easy to triangulate, and can be shutdown. People could build a higher speed, planned WiFi mesh; hops just have to be closer. Neighborhoods could build cat6 and fiber into meshes if they wanted to as well.

I’ve done this (asked a frontier model red team my server), and it just gave me false alarms that I went investigating and weren’t really issues (would’ve been an issue if I had a very specific configuration, but not generally). They produce a lot of noise, so you still have to somewhat understand what you’re looking at/for. It didn’t find any legitimate issues, which is good I guess.

Governments are captured by these companies. Any regulation would undoubtedly benefit these companies at the peoples expense. Right now, the best solution is probably open research and open weight models to keep the field level.

Proton can’t read your mail (big “*”); it’s decrypted client-side. Feeding it to their LLM would violate that. I’m unsure about their other services.

I don’t think Qwen 27B would make much sense. I’m pretty sure Deepseek is cheaper to serve at scale (because of the small active parameter set) and is “smarter.” At least that’s what is reflected by 3rd party provider pricing on Openrouter.

Reliable Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar and Contacts integration

I think this could cause major problems for privacy guarantees.

IIRC a lot of big tech are lobbying for these laws. Raises barrier of entry for competitors, and makes it easier to harvest more accurate data from users.

New EVs are something like $10k more expensive than comparable ICE vehicles, so there are some Chevrolet and Nissan models for ~$30k. The divide is probably even closer for used.

My favorite way is Borscht. They’re pretty good grilled, then cut up, and put in salad too.

I don’t really store stuff like this (well, I do use immich). If I really cared about this kind of stuff, I’d probably self-host, but encrypt archives and backup to cloud storage. For small files (e.g. documents/text), I used to use Syncthing, since it was unlikely that all my devices would get destroyed at the same time, but now I just use Proton Drive since I’m already paying for email and VPN.

A project like this would need to be open source, and encryption needs to happen client-side for trust.

Docker (and in my case, TrueNAS apps), with a single data volume to backup makes things a lot easier.

Had similar thoughts this morning. I think it’s clear that many countries are going to head down the Great Firewall route; which is now very effective. It’s so hard to bypass and risky that most people don’t attempt to. As more countries implement these measures, and the list of countries/datacenters where people can set up XRay proxies (for example) shrinks, it will be easier to detect and block. I imagine if ad-hoc meshes became popular, then they’d be shutdown too. The problem is more political than technological.

“Small,” non-generative, BERT-like models, would probably be more appropriate.

Anthropic does sentiment analysis with regex in Claude Code though ¯\(ツ)/¯

Been thinking about trying these and crypto for online payments. For in-person, cash is fine for most things (barring cashless kiosks like EV chargers).

IIRC, there are few places in the US where it’s legal to just plop an RV on an undeveloped lot and live in it all year. I.e. you need a proper well and septic at the least (these are expensive). Many counties also have laws specifically to prevent people from doing this (I.e. only allowing camping on your land 14 days in a 30 day period). Many people break these laws, but they do exist.

It can be cheaper, but only if you give up a lot of conveniences. I.e. you can boondock on BLM if you move every 2 weeks. Would want solar, a large battery bank, and probably a backup generator. Will want to always be conserving power, fuel, and water. If you want to camp with hookups all the time, it would be more expensive than an affordable apartment.

Is it people deleting specific posts, or people deleting their accounts? I do find it kind of weird that when you delete your account, it deletes all the data you contributed. Maybe it’s the right choice though, IDK.

Would Mastodon and forums not be considered social media?

The trend I see are the Mac Minis with a lot of unified memory. These are typically very well off people though. Prices for even old GPUs like 3090s are ridiculous now. I don’t think connecting 2 machines over Ethernet would work well, but putting 2 GPUs in a single machine does.

I think they know it’s a somewhat viable option and is part of the reason they’re doing the hardware cartel/circlejerk thing.

TIL LibreWolf randomizes some fingerprinting targets.