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nycki

@ nycki @lemmy.world

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  • Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI

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  • this is not technology

  • What an unprocessed photo looks like

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  • Good post! Always nice to see actual technology on this sub.

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    US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

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  • Not about technology.

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs

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  • code editors might have the features you want, and its easy to repurpose a code editor into a notes app.

    sync a folder between your devices (syncthing is great for this) and put markdown text files in it. I like to call this folder "Memo" since its like writing letters to myself.

    edit the markdown using VS Code (desktop) or Carbon (android). I haven't tested whether Carbon can do this, but I know in VS Code, you can reorder a list with keyboard shortcuts.

    click anywhere on a line of text, then hold Alt and press Up arrow, and the text will swap places with the line above it.

    edit: Syncthing and Carbon are open source. VS Code has some proprietary code added by Microsoft, but none of it is relevant to your use case, so you may prefer the fork called Codium.

  • Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?

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  • "personal" and "trustless" seem sort of at odds here. you want personal data, so you want personal storage.

    what I recommend, if you have the time and energy, is to find another self-hoster you trust and be "backup buddies" with them. set up remote file storage on both your networks and send your backups to the other person's server.

    if you can't find another self-hoster, then find a friend or family member you trust and mail them your backups on a physical disk.

  • [Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite?

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  • 11ty is my favorite! cross-platform, good defaults, built-in tag support, and just generally good learning curve.

  • Best tool for creating a basic business website

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  • My favorite static site generator by far is Eleventy, which you can learn by reading their sample code at eleventy-base-blog. It uses NodeJS which runs on all major platforms, and it generates plain old HTML that you can put on any static host. I played with several of the generators on the Jamstack list, and decided that this is the one I'm most comfortable recommending. It has a very high power-to-effort ratio, you can do some really useful stuff with very little knowledge. I'm using it on my personal site, https://nycki.net/, to automatically generate a "navbar" on every page, plus an RSS feed for my blog. It's also nice for generating "prev/next" links under articles.

  • Why are all the questions here so negative? Why not ask new and interesting things?

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  • Thank you, that makes some sense.

  • If you could reroute all the money spent globally on Generative AI right now to another single technological endeavor, what would it be?

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  • the closest thing on android right now is an app called Termux, it simulates a linux scripting environment with several languages (including C, python, and javascript), and it can be programmed to do anything an app can do (including blink the LED).

    but c'mon, that should be standard. also phones should come rooted.

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    nycki @lemmy.world

    Why are all the questions here so negative? Why not ask new and interesting things?

  • If you could reroute all the money spent globally on Generative AI right now to another single technological endeavor, what would it be?

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  • how about pocket computers with the power of a smartphone but the common sense usability of a goddamn graphing calculator? i'm sitting on a magic rectangle with more computing power than the apollo mission and it doesn't even let me blink the LED without installing an app?? these things should legally have to come with a scripting environment.

  • How to get a 5 yo started in (useful) computing?

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  • maybe something like a Raspberry Pi and set him up with html? html and js is still a great way to learn, you get immediate feedback!

  • Does Lemmy have an ghost community problem?

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  • Yes, we have ghost communities. No, it's not a problem. We're not here to entertain you 24/7.

    The Reddit communities that drove the most engagement were also the most toxic. The good part of Reddit was, and to some extent still is, the slow-moving communities that act as magnets for scraps of obscure knowledge.

    Have patience.

  • What are some portable devices that smart phones haven't replaced?

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  • I carry a spare usb stick and some low-capacity microsd cards, because sometimes its just easier to hand someone a file the old fashioned way.

    Sometimes I do play games on my phone, but whenever possible I use a usb or bluetooth gamepad, because touchscreens aren't supplanting buttons any time soon.

    And of course the Steam Deck is my favorite gizmo, not just because it can run every PC and emulator game, but also because it doesn't have any bullshit preventing me from installing mods. If phone modding was easy and accessible i'd be willing to spend more on a phone.

  • Do you consider the right to be forgotten a human right? Why or why not?

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  • Where do we really stand on supporting reddit migration? We want to get people off corporate social media right?

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  • We need to build a space for them to migrate into. Most of what I see on Lemmy is, frankly, whiny. If we want to grow we need to set a better example.

  • What was your earliest experiences with the Internet like?

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  • I remember downloading grainy Quicktime video files from people's homepages. We didn't need YouTube then and we don't need it now.

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  • I like to say that Star Wars is to fantasy what Discworld is to sci-fi. Star wars is swords and sorcery in space, and Discworld is ethics and robotics in middle earth.

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  • you may want to be careful how you word this; if you focus too hard on a specific culture then you inherit that culture's biases. I don't think english language sci-fi novels are known for their racially and sexually diverse fandom, for instance.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Is there a community where I can get news about technology as in science, as opposed to "drama involving tech companies"?