QRP Labs stuff is great. I have a few different units that really got me into digital.

I absolutely love the term clankers. It’s the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.

I like this solution because I can have the need filled without a central server. I use old-fashioned offline backups for my low-churn, bulk data, and SyncThing for everything else to be eventually consistent everywhere.

If my data was big enough so as to require dedicated storage though, I’d probably go with TrueNAS.

I main Fedora 42 KDE and NVidia. Drivers are definitely not out of the box, but I found them easy enough to install by adding a repository. Just a data point for consideration.

I too heard he was a Republican.

Awesome! Thanks.

How was memory use actually reduced? I read several articles on this, but I didn’t see anyone talking about how they achieved this.

My experience with childhood computers conditioned me to close everything instantly when I’m done with it even if it means I might have to reload the page later.

I thought they specifically take anti-fingerprinting measures by default? Is this not true?

No, that’s God‘s healing petrol. Can’t possibly be correct.

Unironically, yes. That’s not nearly as common sense as you may think. There’s no such thing as idiot-proof steps. To some you may very well be a pro from that alone.

I never understand this mindset because a person who is technically skilled like this is exactly the kind of person who wouldn’t struggle with Linux.

They’re already the kind of person who would be an excellent Linux user. I can only imagine that, for whatever reason, they’ve grown emotionally attached and are simply too stubborn to consider anything else.

Until the next re-bloating update where your settings get reverted and services re-installed.

Being good at de-bloating (as you may very well be to do that in a few minutes!) is an anti-skill that shouldn’t have to exist.

Then use decentralized links or hashes, which is what IPFS uses to identify content. A character limit doesn’t solve this problem fundamentally. Indeed, it’s been a tough problem to solve for decentralized services.

I’m concerned about the large amount of low quality, vaporware/crypto applications built on IPFS which is the same core technology used here. It’s concerning how many clicks it takes to get technical specs for the underlying work, like libp2p for the network layer, which itself espouses only vague ideas on its main website that seems to focus a lot more on presentation than technical merit. Even the GitHub admits that the spec that most of these apps are relying upon is, well, unspecified.

Your project source downloads and runs an executable. That’s a little bit SUS; it would be much better if you compiled/built this core code as part of your build process, else, it’s not much in the way of source code, no? But, it works. It seems to delegate just fine, and few understand how to actually talk IPFS directly. But, this is the most important part!

I think the biggest tell that IPFS borders on vaporware is that there’s very little discussion about concrete specifications and the main problem faced by all DHTs: how you get your data to actually stay hosted on the network over time. These ideas are not new, and you may be better served building your app on technology that has spent vastly more time understanding the fundamental problems.

https://specs.ipfs.tech/

This is how you write a spec without actually writing a spec. And I’ve written a lot of specs.

https://geti2p.net/spec

This is how you write a spec. Excruciating detail of what actually gets sent over the wire at different levels of the design starting from the very bottom.

Anyway, just my 2c. It’s cool you’ve got functionality at this level and that’s commendable, but I feel it’s built on shoddy foundation of an immature technology. At least it should be easy to migrate to something else in the future as the distributed technology is offload to a separate binary anyway.

Note: Various edits for clarification and to ensure I focus on the code and not the human.

Why the fuck would I want a browser with AI?

And here I am adopting abandoned ports on FreeBSD and packaging applications that I didn’t even write as a hobby.

Surely. We’re doing a lot to discourage innovation, education, and the development of technical skills.

Discord has become really annoying to use with all the ads. I confine it to my browser because I don’t trust it.

With that said, I used to run Flatpak version and it never had this issue.

There would be people on Lemmy still using a 386. Of course.