jarfil

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 7 hours ago

GOOD Regulation can be good: like, not selling contaminated food to the public.

BAD Regulation can be VERY bad: like, requiring hospitals to use middlemen who negotiate medication pricing with insurance providers, and whose only goal is to steadily increase the "savings" to insurance by increasing the "prices", then requiring hospitals to "forgive" most of it to the insurance, while people without insurance get a bill for 1,000,000% the real cost.

Unfortunately, the US has seen bipartisan support for the latter kind, and recently has been slashing the former.

Shifting the point of view might be a good idea.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Based on this:

Hassan Abedini, deputy political head of Iran’s state broadcaster, said Iran had evacuated the three sites some time ago.

“The enriched uranium reserves had been transferred from the nuclear centres and there are no materials left there that, if targeted, would cause radiation and be harmful to our compatriots,” he told the channel.

The International Atomic Energy Agency also said Sunday morning it had detected “no increase in off-site radiation levels.”

...this other one would make more sense now:

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

TLDR: It's a mess.

Back in the day, I started migrating notepad stuff to Markdown on a Wiki. Then on a MediaWiki. Then DokuWiki. Then ZimWiki. Then Joplin. Then GitHub Pages and a self-hosted Jeckyll.

Each, single, one, of, them, uses a slightly different flavor of Markdown. At this point, I have stuff spread over ALL OF THEM, much of it rotting away in "backups to migrate later". 😮‍💨
I've been considering "vibe coding" some converters...

As for syncing... the Markdown part is easy: git.
Working with a Markdown editor to update GH Pages, was a good experience.
Having ZimWiki auto-sync to git, was good, but didn't find a decent compatible editor for Android.
I switched to Joplin lured by the built-in auto-sync options, but kind of regret it now, when it has a folder with thousands of files in it.

Obsidian is not OSS itself, but has an OSS plugin to sync to git.
I've read that using Logseq alongside Obsidian should be possible... and was planning to test that setup, keeping Obsidian in charge of sync. Possibly with GitHub/Jeckyll, git-lfs for images and attachments.


PS: assuming one could have working back-and-forth converters for the different Markdown flavors, and everything stored in git, then one could theoretically use git hooks to convert to/from whatever local version used by a particular editor.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

The Play Store has become way more restrictive, they've purged tons of old and/or "inactive" apps... including some I happened to have bought some time ago.

It's made me even more of a fan of F-Droid.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

replacement cycles for phones extending past 40 months

Rookie numbers. Unless disaster strikes, I fully expect to ride my current phone for the 60 month official support period I was promised.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago

Another one to the list:

Google Flagged Parents’ Photos of Sick Children as Sexual Abuse

Google uses Microsoft’s PhotoDNA screening algorithm

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

BTRFS, with periodic snapshots and scrubbing, in RAID 1, only accessible remotely.

Just saying, that can be a "2".

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Works on Android:

  • The Play Store exists
  • All apps run in secured containers
  • Sketchy* apps run in VMs
  • Rooting disables banking and security apps

(* including all versions of Windows)

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's not Israel or Iran or whatever, it's the region itself:

  • Main land bridge from Africa to the rest of the world
  • Scarce in basic resources like water and arable land
  • Lately, plentiful in oil, which everyone wants some of

Add to that some religions where everyone can go "but before that, you [insert aggression]" for thousands of years back, and it's no longer about any dozen of countries.

Rather than ask "who is a greater source of instability", one should ask "which country is a source of any stability".

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Hm, makes sense, but I feel like we're still missing something.

I saw comments about Durov, similar to this investigation, maybe around a month ago.


With the xAI partnership news, I looked into it and found this nice thing:

In Telegram, you can clear them one by one, or date ranges, or use disappearing messages, but this tool still found some I had missed.

(Disclaimer: I got pulled into Telegram by some friends leaving WhatsApp with the policy changes of 2021, my threat model is less one of FSB, and more one of indiscriminate AI siphoning for ad targeting)

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

people who advocate for animal welfare tend to also be more outspoken against human suffering

If I got a cent for every time I've heard an animal advocate say "I love animals, I hate people"... I'd have a couple bucks already. This thread seems to count towards that.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This isn’t a zero-sum game you can help people and the animals at the same time.

Prove it.

Show me how you get the resources to do both. Animalists are high on saving whales, kitties, puppies, etc. while letting their neighbors die home alone, or worse... when not directly saying "I love animals, I hate people".

Please leave this thread and post articles about human suffering

No, I think I'm right where I should be. I don't doompost either.

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