Skip Navigation
Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see.
  • Sorry. The topics I know about and find something to share are the same for lots of other people and literally always someone beat me to it.

    Plus I get anxious thinking that I'm gonna have to reply to a lot of people.

    But thank you to all of you who do post.

  • OSS Read-it-Later service Omnivore sells out to AI startup ElevenLabs
  • They have their own reader app focused on their voice technology. Probably the plan is expand it to a read-it-later app similar to what omnivore is, and charge a subscription for ir. Similar to readwise but more focused on voice, I would think that's the plan.

    Remember that so far nobody is making money with "AI" other than NVIDIA so they are starting to do these far out or whacky pivots to seek monetization.

  • OSS Read-it-Later service Omnivore sells out to AI startup ElevenLabs
  • Everything that exists as it is now will remain open source. More than bought the developers seem to have been hired by eleven labs and most likely have been working there for a while, so they are actually taking their know how and experience there more than taking the code itself.

    That's how it looks like to me.

    Another possibility is that the eleven labs reading app has portions licensed as agpl, the ones taken from omnivore.

  • A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers
  • Not about code security (even thought that is certainly important by itself). Sanctions are about political and economical isolation, is not that you don't trust their companies, is that you want to unplug them as a punishment.

  • In a First, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women
  • The post-incel reactionary trad movement is just getting started. I just hope that there's less men into it that it seems and they are just very noisy, because if not then we are about to get bitten on the ass like we have no idea. I do fear for future society.

  • PSA: Don't just eat peanut butter
  • Damn, not regularly but a few times I have ate that much peanutbutter in less time.

  • Filen cloud
  • Been using it for years. Wasn't perfect and still isn't, but it certainly has improved lots.

    Main issue at the beginning for me was some sync issues caused by the local apps. Those have been solved.

    As for the speed I really couldn't tell you, it seems fine to me, but I

    1. Don't really have a super fast connection and

    2. Don't upload or download lots so I rarely need the top speed.

    Just to say a number uploads for me are around 6MB/s and download around 10MB/s which is my top speed, but I live pretty far from Germany where their infra is located.

    For the price I think the service is great, and regardless of price the web client and Linux sync client are some of my favorites. Android app is serviceable but definitely needs work. I don't know if they are still just the two or three guys that they were some time back or if they have expanded since, but development is slow, take that into account, so improvements arrive but take time.

    I think my final judgment would be to tell you that since about 2 years ago it's my main cloud. Probably proton would be the only that would replace it, but obviously is more expensive and not really too interested in Linux users, so I don't see that happening soon.

    I would recommend you to test drive with a free account, it has the exact same features as paid just with a small amount of storage space.

  • Proton CEO comments about proton drive client for linux
  • That's a shame. I was actually holding off on getting unlimited until there was a native client. I was just last week testing Celeste from flathub and it works but is kind of limited and I would very much prefer an official client.

  • Self-confidence
  • You need to find better podcasts to listen.

  • What Podcasts do you listen to?
  • The one I listen the most and for the longest is No such thing as a fish.

    Other that that, Better Offline, Darknet diaries, Money Stuff, Search engine, a local politics one that I disagree with but I use to be aware of what my local conservative pseudo fascists are arguing about.

    And not so regularly many others whenever there's an interesting episode.

  • Is land inclination included in area calculation?
  • I don't know the precise answer, but I do know this:

    1. Often the kind of measures that are about something vast and complex (like population for example) are really good approximations, not completely exact numbers. So maybe doesn't matter because the number itself is not trying to be 100% accurate.
    2. As far as I know those measures are made from the top down view, like with airplanes or satellites, so no it would not include inclines. To include inclines in a precise way it would have to be measured each one on the spot, which is not the way that is done. There are almost no field surveyors these days, again, as far as I know. And to include inclines in an approximate way takes us to point 1 again so it wouldn't matter much if there were a small difference.
    3. Why would we do that? Almost everything we use land for requires it to be horizontally flat, so we flatten it. For example, an irregular coastline doesn't matter because we can use the crevices and irregularities to fit in more boats or ports or beaches, since the sea is horizontally flat and that is what really matter to us. But if there's a hill with a greater area because of the steepness of it we cannot fit more houses or warehouses of streets. We have to flatten it first so we gain noting from it being inclined.

    So form my point of view it would be almost as if we tried to include the sides of a ravine or gorge in the measure just because technically it is area space.

    Sorry if I cannot give you an exact answer, but I wanted to comment because you raised an interesting point that made me think.

    Cheers.

  • What is your niche knowledge?
  • official 'very cool post'

    so much interesting stuff in here

  • Why Democrats can't stop talking about Project 2025 - Washington Examiner
  • Neither Trump nor his campaign have direct ties, though many former officials and staffers contributed to the project.

    So people he hired because of ideological alignment then writing the ideological thing is not a direct tie?

  • After 14 Years of Cantarell, GNOME is Testing a New Default Font
  • one of the first things I do after every install is switch to inter, this will save me a minute every couple of years so I agree

  • I modded a scanner to into a camera, this is 'Eik'
  • I don't understand what is it you did but I'm glad you did it because this looks amazing

  • STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Hands-On Impressions - Good Hunting, S.T.A.L.K.E.R
  • Can't wait. Also really appreciate the fact that in my third world country it seems to be priced very fairly, instead of the usual "Original USD price converted + 20% more just because fuck you".

  • YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
  • premium just removes the ads. I would pay for and use google services that removed the tracking and spying too, or only. that will never happen because the spying is the point. good luck paying to the people that also spies on you and gaslight you about it.

  • X is about to start hiding all likes
  • it would have been so much cheaper to just start the xchan imageboard from scratch instead taking 4 years turning twitter into it

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — The Time of Opportunities Trailer
  • Hey thanks, no apology needed. In fact, I think you are making me think about giving the original another go now that I know about those mods.

    btw i didn't know that it was based on Roadside Picnic, haven't read it, but I have in my reading list since I saw it mentioned in HyperNormalisation. Thanks.

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — The Time of Opportunities Trailer
  • Thank you for such a detailed comparison!

    It seems that they are largely different in many aspects, but probably similar in the ways I most enjoy of a game. I actually tried to play STALKER once a long time ago and never really clicked for me, in part because of the same reason you mention, it was very wonky and didn't run well at all, but I am willing to give this one a chance given that the same happened to me with the Metro series. One of my favorite parts of metro was the Caspian desert in exodus, which I would say is kind of an open world map, so maybe I can hope that this one captures me in the same way.

    Thanks for the response, and let's hope this will be a great one!

  • 0xb 0xb @lemm.ee
    Posts 0
    Comments 38