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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As long as most rooms of the entire matrix network are replicated on the matrix.org homeserver

Is this a dealbreaker for people though?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can AI reliably tell if a cat is longer than a banana yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Never heard "JAQing off" before, that's good

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

Do you put that in a custom prompt, or save it for times when you really want a good result?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)

Once set up I find it OK as a user

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

This story marks the loss of another revenue stream for Mozilla. Their business is increasingly reliant on Google's search deal for money, and if that money stops, they'll have to face that same reckoning. For example, they won't be able to afford paying their CEO millions of dollars a year any more.

I think they should start repositioning themselves now as an activist organisation that is fighting corporate interests trying to control the internet. If they can do that, I think a lot of people would pay to use Firefox

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Enough internet users are familiar with the adage "if a product is free, you are the product", through personal experience

I'd be OK with paying for Firefox if it meant that it was stripped of all association with advertisers. And presumably, if Mozilla were freed from that association, they'd be able to make a stronger case for how they're protecting a free internet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Mozilla should fire their non-technical staff, strongly make the case for how they're fighting for a free and open internet, and use a subscription model for Firefox to pay the bills

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

OpenWrt with AdGuard Home is one option. Big fan of the former, haven't used the latter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I just watched the 1972 ad.
It's weird they used a mechanical grating sound in their background music

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Devil's advocate: would you use the present tense for the original Batman, or the original Star Trek?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I was suggesting using your own binhost as an alternative to distcc.
If someone's considering distcc, presumably they've already decided not to use the public Gentoo binaries, and want to do the compilation themselves

I think that’s more for when you have multiple machines (that would use the same USE flags) and you only want to have to compile once.

One issue with distcc is some of the build operations can't be delegated. If you want to minimise resource usage as much as possible (e.g. on old hardware) and want to compile yourself, then running your own binhost makes sense.

 

I came across one or two classical covers of rock songs over the years that stuck in my head.
Finding another one just now, I decided to hunt down a few more, and this is the list I came up with:

King Crimson - Court of the Crimson King - Mitteleuropa Orchestra
Tool - Forty-Six & 2 - Vitamin String Quartet
Metallica - One - Viola da gamba solo
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water - Japanese traditional instruments with orchestral backing
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Led Zepellin - Kashmir - Yamato String Quartet
... and another version by London Philharmonic Orchestra

ITT: share your favourite rock covers that use classical or traditional instruments!

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