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Bring Affinity Suite to Linux Sign the Petition in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Yea I got it working. From what I see everything works except it doesn’t remember your settings. But I can live with that.

Bring Affinity Suite to Linux Sign the Petition in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is a wine branch that can run Affinity just search for it

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Bring Affinity Suite to Linux Sign the Petition (chng.it)
 

Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's the idea. Let people build their own lists and share them.

Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

lol that's fair. I'm just brainstorming here

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Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? (lemmy.ca)
 

For context I created a video search engine last year, I shut it down and put the data online. You can read about it here: https://www.bendangelo.me/2024/07/16/failed-attempt-at-creating-a-video-search-engine/

I put that project on hold because of scaling issues, anyway I'm back with an other idea. I've been frustrated with how AI slop is ruining the internet and recently it's been hitting Youitube pretty hard with AI videos. I’m brainstorming a tool for people to selfhost:

Self-hosted crawler: Pick which sites/videos to index (blogs, forums, YT channels, etc.). AI chat interface: Ask questions like, “Show me Rust tutorials from 2023” or “Summarize recent posts about homelab backups.” Optional sharing: Pool indexes with trusted friends/communities.

Why? No Google/YouTube spam—only content you choose. Works offline (archive forums, videos, docs). Local AI (Mistral) or cloud (paid) for smarter searches.

Would this be useful to you? What sites would you crawl? Any killer features I’m missing?

Prototype in progress—just testing interest!

Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it just works and you never have to use the command line.

Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I would say Ubuntu is the next best distro (if you want stability and easy of use)

How likely you believe that Fediverse could accomodate EU citizens if US big tech leave the EU? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Totally agree. A lot of negative people here that will push away the average person. I’m talking about political fanatics of course. Maybe some subs need to create a no politics rule.

Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Mint is the best flavor of linux. I recommend it.

The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago (15 children)

A big problem is too much politics, feels like politics is always brought up even in posts where it's not the topic of discussion. Just look at this post. Then if someone disagrees with your view they'll attack you and then they'll claim they "are on the right side". People have forgotten the golden rule.

Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments in c/byereddit@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

Usually the admins will undo the delete, so it's probably not worth using.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Flutter apps are good but from the UI perspective have their own limitations, you essentially rely on premade UI components and if they don’t support a method you need you’re stuck. And I’ve seen some flutters behave weird. I would build a prototype before committing to it.

YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy in c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Celestine Prophecy (2006) (youtu.be)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee
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The Celestine Prophecy is a 2006 American film directed by Armand Mastroianni and starring Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, and Sarah Wayne Callies. The f...

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Toronto developers are getting desperate as no one is buying condos anymore (www.blogto.com)
 

Condo sales numbers in and around Toronto have taken a drastic tumble so far this year, and now that the market is starting to lean towards buyers ...

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TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
 

TikTok is taking the US government to court.

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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
 

Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

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Snikket is a simple, secure and private messaging app (based on XMPP) (snikket.org)
 

For self-hosting though, the project I work on - Snikket - uses XMPP but has all the nice modern things you'd expect ready to go right out of the box, more like a Matrix (Synapse/Element) setup. Probably the biggest thing missing for Snikket right now is an official web app (we currently have Android and iOS apps).

My personal feeling is that if you're looking for something a bit more extensive, "team chat" style (such as Discord, Slack, that kind of thing), you're better served by Element right now. However if you're looking for something lightweight and simple for personal messaging in a group of family/friends (e.g. to replace WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal) then XMPP via Snikket is a great choice.

  • The above is copied from someone else. Anyone have any experience running this for family / friends?
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You have a visitor (lemmy.ca)
 
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Signs you're getting old? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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  • My knee still doesn't feel right after that hiking trip two weeks ago.
  • I started listening to really old music.

Have I crossed the threshold?

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Young people in Britain aren’t bad at learning languages – but the school system doesn’t make it easy for them (theconversation.com)
 

There isn’t much lesson time for international languages.

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Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments (theluddite.org)
 

An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.

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I'm Starting A Search Engine For The Fediverse (lemmy.ca)
 

Hey everyone,

This isn't an announcement, just wanted peoples thoughts on this.

I think everyone knows searching the fediverse can be better. Googling doesn't work too well, etc. So I wanted to do my part and help out.

Indexing all posts, etc is quite a lot to handle, so I wanted to start small and just focus on video search. I've started indexing videos from Peertube and other video websites. (Even YouTube but this could be removed to just focus on independent sites)

I know Peertube has their own search engine for videos. I will be reaching out to them. Compared to my site I'm planning it'll have other video sources and be easier to use.

So that leads to feedback from you guys.

  • What do you think about indexing videos posted on the fediverse and other independent platforms?
  • Are there similar services?
  • Am I just wasting my time?
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