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ruune··on 2023: The Year of AI
With almost every AI story I read on here (granted, I don't read that many, I find them quite boring), the top comment seems to be something like "you can do the same on your machine, see ollama". Case in point, your comment was the first one listed for me. So the interest for running LLMs on here seems quite high. Don't know why your post didn't catch anyone.
ruune··on I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"
Probably because no desktop OS I know of randomizes MAC addresses by default. How many people are gonna enable that manually? At least android (and I think iOS) default to random addresses
ruune··on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011)
E-Mails from big cooperations become increasingly "du". Sometimes it's still weird, but overall everyone got used to being on "du" basis with big faceless cooperations. I don't really notice anymore.

That being said, I'm young enough to have not really experienced a time when it was unheard of to call someone you don't know really well "du". I'm only learning from this thread that it seems to be a fairly recent development.

ruune··on Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service
I haven't tried it, but I understand the Strava integration as optional. You can source your data from Strava and then use it on its own. Might've misunderstood the readme though
ruune··on Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
How is "Jaggi Enterprises LCC" involved, where for example the terms lead to?
ruune··on Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
Apple previously didn't have any problems making breaking changes to their stuff, they even switched their whole CPU architecture and said "deal with it". If E2EE was really a concern to Apple, they'd implement it. Push notifications just have the convenience of even technical people often not knowing that most of them are routed directly through Apple/Google. So how should your average user know? It's free data and nobody complains about it how they would with messengers eg
ruune··on Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
Discord does have an okayish search feature which gave me a desired answer most of the time I joined a server because of a particular program I had. Enormous downside being that you have to guess the previously used wording if you don't have an error message or something.
ruune··on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
They go through Apple. iMessage only works on MacOS, so they probably just hook into the regular stuff MacOS provides

https://texts.com/faq

ruune··on Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
Lightweight often just translates to less features. Unless you're rewriting a truly bad piece of software, you're "lightweight" alternative will be just as heavyweight when you're done reimplementing everything
ruune··on Minosoft: Open-source Minecraft client, written from scratch
Definitely Docm77, I'd also throw Ilmango or just the Scicraft people in general in.
ruune··on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
Also don't forget the Open part in the name that they seemingly dropped as soon as there was actual money to be made, giving reasons why they couldn't open source GPT3 which they themselves threw under the bus by later releasing ChatGPT
ruune··on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
Wasn't convinced I'd watch a movie about it, but with Joseph Gordon-Levitt I'm in!
ruune··on Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V
I understood Nordic as a company immediately, however I did not know this Nordic. The first Nordic that came to mind was now called THQ Nordic, which I figured couldn't be what was meant. So after a lot of confusion I now know this semiconductor Nordic
ruune··on How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet
The idea and sentence work just as well if you remove "blockchain-based" part. Where is the advantage using complicated things when easy things work just as well?
ruune··on My website is one binary (2022)
Author wants to understand and control the whole toolchain used to build their website (of course excluding most basic things like CPU architecture up to the programming language), because they want to be able to fix it themselves and want it to work in 10 years too, so not relying on others. They tried Hugo, didn't like it because of that, writing plain html was too much work, so they built a single binary dynamic site generator with a webserver themselves
ruune··on My website is one binary (2022)
It's not impossible, but I definitely found myself losing my line while scrolling left
ruune··on Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
Wouldn't jump to conclusions that fast tbh. BILD, Springers biggest brand, might be comparable to Fox, but Springer has more reputable stuff too. Politico was bought by them too
ruune··on Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
Check out Mint's Warpinator [0] too.

[0]: https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator

ruune··on Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
It's a fork, says so in the GitHub description
ruune··on Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
There's also QNearbyShare [0], a CLI implementation for Linux, which sadly can't send to Android yet, but receiving works just fine

[0]: https://github.com/vicr123/QNearbyShare

ruune··on YouTube wants to get you watching more news from 'authoritative sources'
Just wanting to add that this might just be perception. The most harmful bubbles are the ones you don't realise you're a part of
ruune··on Ask HN: What outdated tech are you still using and are perfectly happy with?
My Google Pixel 4a. I don't think it's outdated, but ask Google about that

Also my laptop that has no Windows 11 available for it because 7th Gen Intel isn't good enough anymore. I don't think it's outdated, but ask Microsoft about that

ruune··on Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN?
Would require updating the page with JS

Edit: HN does in fact have things that change without reload like voting, so I take that back, good idea

ruune··on Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end
Web scraping [0] and grabbing the googlevideo stream from there [1], at least in the case of invidious

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidious

[1] https://docs.invidious.io/faq/#q-what-data-is-shared-with-yo...

ruune··on Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police
I'd like to lower the Germany part to "okay". German police, and related to that secret services, have maybe not systematic but serious problems (racial issues, corruption, etc.). Public perception isnt great and any sort of internal investigation into these problems is being prevented. Of course the US is on another level, as they are so often, both positively and negatively
ruune··on Skyvew – View and share Bluesky threads without needing a Bluesky account
Would really like to try it if you still got one :)

Edit: rune ruune.de should work

ruune··on Questions to ask a teenager to start an important conversation
Akshually the Guardian is published in the tabloid format now iirc. But that's not really the meaning of tabloid being talked about I suppose
ruune··on Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
Afaik Thunderbird has no Mozilla-Money anymore and is now entirely backed by donations. But please correct me if I'm wrong
ruune··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
If it's important but you got time, you could always save the packets and crack them when quantum computing comes out for consumers. You have to wait a couple of decades probably, but maybe it's worth it
ruune··on Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom
And smartphones aren't getting smaller either
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