BastingChemina

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not being able to install Graphene OS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Astronomer hate this simple trick to ruin all observations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Fairphone is minimum 8 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

More specifically SpaceX got a contract to bulls the moon lander for NASA.

So SpaceX is going to land in the moon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I would add: do these steps in this specific order.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I think apple used to be a generic term for fruits.

It is especially apparent for exotic fruits, for example here is a list of fruits from the Caribbean, none of then are related to the European apple:

  • golden apple
  • wax apple/rose apple
  • pineapple
  • sugar apple
  • custard apple
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, I think we pictures are becoming a valuable as text and it is fine, we just need to get used to it.

Before photography became mainstream the only source of information was written, it is extremely simple to make a fake story so people had to rely on trusted sources. Then for a short period of history photography became a (kinda) reliable sources of information by itself and this trust system lost its importance.

In most cases seeing a photo means that we were seeing a true reflection of what happened, especially if we were song multiple photos of the same event.

Now we are arriving at the end of this period, we cannot trust a photo by itself anymore, tampering a photo is becoming as easy as writing a fake story. This is a great opportunity for journalists I believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

For 3D printers I think prusa is the bramd that can be trusted with quality.

They are expensive but made in Europe and very reliable out of the box. I've been printing tons of parts for the renovation of my house and tools organization with no issues. I just start the print and come back once it done. Now I even do it remotely from work.

Compared to my brother who had a Ender 3, tinkered quite a lot with it but was constantly baby sitting the prints and eventually just gave up on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Opinel is amazing too for knives. Their pocket knives are cheap, sharp and easy to sharpen and durable.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I really don't have much knowledge on it but it sound like it's would be an actual good application of blockchain.

Couldn't a blockchain be used to certify that pictures are original and have not been tampered with ?

On the other hand if it was possible I'm certain someone either have already started it, it is the prefect investor magnet "Using blockchain to counter AI"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think a fork happening in a few years would be great, right now the app still need a bit of polishing but they are quickly improving it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, having a purely non-profit foundation from the start would have been better.

But, for me, it is still a better option than Signal or Matrix for messaging.

Signal is great but they need 10s of millions every year of donations. It means that they rely on the generosity of wealthy individuals to keep going. I'm worried it is not sustainable.

Matrix is better on this aspect since everything is open source, but the UC is not great on my opinion and I don't fell comfortable switching to it for regular contract with family and friends. To be fair it's been a while I haven't used it so I downloaded Element but I am blocked on the account creation (the verification email is not arriving).

To compare I tried creating a new account with SimpleX and in less than a minute I was ready to chat. They rely on investors for now and don't have a clear business model which is worrying but they are developping fast this way and being fully open source anyone could fork it at any time. The UX is great despite being heavily focused on privacy and security and have features that no other app have, you don't need an email or phone to chat and if they ever start to enshitify someone can fork it.

Do pragmatically I think it is the best alternative right now and I am curious to see how they evolve.

 
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