Fair, this is just by far the cheapest per GB in my experience and I don’t have any privacy concerns since I encrypt everything before it leaves my server. But to each their own

I backup my whole NAS to AWS S3 glacier deep storage. I use rclone to encrypt it client side and perform incremental syncs. It is slow and costs extra to pull the data out, but I pay roughly $2/mo for all of my data to live there

Just recently migrated from Ente to Immich. Immich is much nicer, more consistent, friendlier to self host, and less buggy in my experience so far.

So age verification I.e. completely deanonymized internet usage. Fuck these privacy destroying laws

It’s as if a country banned imports from occupied France and Eastern Europe but kept allowing them from Nazi Germany proper. History will not look kindly upon the governments of the world today and the ways in which they’ve aided and abetted genocide. I miss the Eastern bloc

Games On Whales offers this functionality, would be cool if it integrated with something like this or GameVault

?? Containers can be ISO 27002 compliant, they don’t have a control against them to my knowledge

I’ve been using Calibre Web Automated on my server and it works nicely, no issues so far and addresses the shortcomings for self hosting pretty well

FOSS and copyleft: I want software built for the good of the public, with good intentions. Anything with corporate licensing us off the table, and ideally so are non-copyleft open source programs as corporations will hijack them for their benefit and privatization.

UNIX Like: It is my preferred workflow for development and everyday use. The windows paradigm is messy, convoluted, and inconsistent by comparison.

Fast, free, customizable: all nice to haves connected to the big two above

The system of capitalism is quiet violence every day, a pervasive exploitation of the working class and marginalized social groups. To fight back against it requires violence because this system was created and is enforced by violence. I’ll never hand-wring about somebody suggesting this obvious route of struggle against the systems of oppression, this form of self defense, when we watch social murder and direct violence committed by the capitalist state happen every day; nor should you.

I think that’s a silly thing to say given that the arch wiki is the most comprehensive source of up to date technical Linux knowledge available to everybody. If you mean support for people on the distro itself, it does explicitly market itself to people who are already knowledgeable and willing to be their own support, so idk what you’d expect

Lenovo is the largest laptop manufacturer in the world by market share, and they’ve offered Linux preinstalled on many laptops and desktops for at least a decade

Love Said, great essay. I will say though that the Khalidi foreword was frustrating. So much ink spilled about the “unrestrained violence some Palestinian groups advocate” and “unproductive opposition to normalization by some Palestinian youth” (paraphrased). This rhetoric only serves to undermine the just and correct line of armed resistance that Palestinians have taken against the genocidal settlers on their land, and concedes so much ground to the invaders for no benefit, just some perceived pragmatism. How they can criticize the PA’s spineless collaborationism while also having venom for the active resistance and self defense exercised by Hamas, PFLP, PIJ in Gaza, I cannot comprehend.

Are you trolling or just this ignorant? If you’re referring to the US laws on this, a PIN can’t be required from you. Any biometrics can. So a PIN already protects you from the authorities using their legal route to get into your phone via your compliance.

Even the premise that LLMs write as good of code as a human today is marketing BS. I work in software, I’ve seen what Claude code does when set loose on our repos already. Its output is unreliable, inefficient, doesn’t meet security standards, and always requires manual intervention to bug-fix. It produces worse code much faster

Replicating this on Linux would be as simple as ln -s to make a symbolic link

I’d use the term Machine Learning to avoid the baggage of what AI implies/promises. But ML has tons of real world applications that other tech can’t solve. I view it as the best tool for fuzzy or approximate data. It’s used in statistical modeling, which can be applied to the automated generation of potential new drugs or proteins. ML can be used in image processing, with image recognition being a huge use case, as well as real-time upscaling like DLSS. And it can be great for Speech-to-Text, natural language processing is a difficult problem to solve but ML approaches do it fairly consistently. These are applications that can generally tolerate the sizable margin of error that a statistical model inherently possesses, either by not being mission critical or by being designed to get reviewed by human experts; I don’t think ML should ever be applied to areas which need guaranteed precision or accuracy. Also note that of all of these examples, only one uses an LLM, and none vie for the title of “AGI” or claim consciousness or intelligence lol. So that’s why I avoid the term AI. ML can imply some of the same stuff but it hasn’t been buzzwordified the same way

Damn it’s like they don’t want the system working at all, that’s so convoluted and unnecessary

Proton mail doesn’t require a phone number

I find it especially egregious that they’d use that metric as justification when most of these tech companies have internal LLM usage quotas you must hit lest you be reprimanded or fired. So you’re forced to use the tool despite its garbage results, then that very same usage is quoted as reason for losing your job