srinathkrishna

This is fascinating! I've been meaning to set something up on a spare rpi for this and I hadn't heard of yacy before. Thanks!

I empathize with that kid - his intentions were probably good but I'm pretty sure he didn't know this would have sent email notifications. Even if he had known, kid wouldn't have known that it is a bad bad thing. :D

Kid probably was creating a PR to brag tomorrow in school!

Ah, foobar2000 - had such fun with that app back in the day!

Just wanted to share my appreciation for not just this post but all your work in recent times! Been following your trail since your post about Google promos and the set of useful projects you've been working on since then.

What's pretty annoying is that users are providing free QA for Google!

I do remember the whole debacle that happened at DEFCON and people got fired for presenting something on stage.

Agreed, there's a lot of interesting stuff that came out of the Security (or related orgs) at Salesforce. Red team tools, chaos tools and JA3 which we use at my current work as well for SSL/TLS fingerprinting.

I feel for the team working on this at this time. I hope this doesn't end up accelerating the culling off of Heroku by Salesforce. One of the smartest and nicest bunch of folks I've worked with.

I have been very stoked with color epaper since the mirasol days and alas nothing has materialized yet out to the mainstream. Looking forward to see how this pans out.

Curious to know your team size and engineering challenges with building this on Chromium. Also, did you consider WebKit or Gecko?

Has anyone gotten Wayland working consistently with Nvidia GPUs? I tried it a while back and I faced a lot of issues getting it working.

I'm guessing things are better now but would love some signals before I try this again.

At least let people change the hash function to MD5 to give them a chance! :D

I was expecting the hash to be MD5 to at least give people a chance! :D

I've long marveled on of my ex-colleagues graphviz-fu. He'd whip out a new graphviz online doc and explain an architecture through it. Helped a ton during the pandemic as we were all remote.

That was such a fun nostalgic ride! :)

I used to work on UMTS networks about a decade back and fresh out of college it was quite daunting. At that time I wanted to study an opensource implementation to gain more understanding but I couldn't find any. Glad to see this in the present time

Excellent idea to sync Whatsapp. Do you use any means to read your Whatsapp chat history on other devices - say your laptop?

I've been using Syncthing for the past few days and it has been working flawlessly. One thing I haven't tried is syncing between Windows and UNIXes (macOS/Linux) - does anyone have experience around this? How do permissions work?

I definitely acknowledge your feelings and having a young kid can absolutely push the limits on parents.

Have you considered outsourcing childcare? Doing that would definitely make both of you have more time for you both and even a single meal together can do wonders. I myself have a 1 year old and this has helped me and my wife to spend more time with each other. There are days when we'd take a couple of hours off to grab a quick brunch. I'm told kids get more independent as time progresses but we as parents will need to encourage that more as well. As much as it's difficult with a child who is very clingy, I think sending them to day care albeit for a few hours every day could make them more independent and could give you a breather.

https://obsidian.md has served me very well. It's not open-source but the community on discord and the forums has been amazing and folks are very responsive to feature requests.

#+begin_rant

I've been very very skeptical about Roam - I appreciate the sentiment behind it and the fact that it's making more people aware of networked thought but the marketing around it has been insane. Especially investor Twitter is raving about it for many weeks now about how the tool is a savior. It's almost as if they're doing it to increase user count to Roam to justify their investment, which is likely.

It often misses the point here - the idea of networked thought and note-taking is the key here. If you have the time and means to do it, you can always do so using something as simple as text files too.

Something that's as critical as a note-taking tool, the first rule of thumb should be - don't lose data! Agreed, it was the readwise integration that messed things up here but the snapshotted database approach has its own perils in the long run too. For the most part, one does not need constant sync-ups. And Roam doesn't even have a mobile app today - which means that most likely folks are just using their laptops to add notes.

If you're just starting out, I'd recommend using [Obsidian][https://obsidian.md] or if you have a little bit more time, explore the world of emacs via [org-mode][https://orgmode.org].

Roam might be a success or might not be :shrug:. Use something that works for you and your workflow. Don't engage in productivity porn and lose many hours.

#+end_rant

It's a huge coincidence that I'm beginning to enter into the world of emacs owing to org-mode after being a vi(m) user for about 15 years now. Of course, I'm doing this with evil mode which I'd say gives the best of both worlds. vim's editor keys are much more intuitive and easy on the hands than emacs'.

Hoping to eventually learn more of org-mode and use it more diligently.

Been using it for a couple of hours now. I'm sold with the PDF excerpt feature. Reading books and papers is going to be fun!

Can you elaborate on the data residency aspects? It's mentioned that all data is stored on the iPad. Do I need to have an iCloud storage account eventually as I accumulate more notes?

Been following your journey and I was waiting for the free tier. A free form note taking app is something I've missed and I think muse would perfectly fit this.

Quite the natural evolution since TrueNAS has traditionally been a BSD box and they've invested a lot of time in ZFS. Happy that this will carry over to FreeBSD.

Now, only if Windows would also have some sort of support ;)

Thank you! :)

This is fantastic. I fetishize learning and I'm quite envious of the stuff that you got to learn. For me, the ability to learn hard things is what a PhD trains you for. Yes, it's not financially rewarding in the first few years of your career but with the right tools, mindset and some guidance from peers and one's advisor, you can put a PhD to good use.

That said, I'm not a PhD. How do you recommend one learning multi-disciplinary skills these without one?

Could you explain more about why one should not use JWTs. We use it for a very esoteric one shot use case for microservices auth and it perfectly fits the bill by not requiring us to maintain a lot of state.

Simplicity is one of the main traits of Python. It’s conducive to prototyping and GTD in a quick fashion. Libraries like scikit and pytorch have also helped developers build larger solutions using smaller building blocks without worrying too much about implementations.

Python suffers from serious performance constraints nevertheless and productionizing an ML service that requires real-time analysis is going to take some effort. For such systems, folks usually tend to lean towards a hybrid stack.

I’d have loved to live in that era. :(

I bought a refurbished x230 off newegg a couple of years back and haven't had any issues. I in fact upgraded the RAM as well and the battery life has been pretty solid as well.