This sounds like a terrible deal, especially if it involves a flood of immigration from India
Readit Newspidgeon_lover commented on India and EU announce landmark trade deal bbc.com/news/articles/crr... · Posted by u/Palmik
pidgeon_lover commented on Why IRC is better than Real Life (2000) everything2.com/node/e2no... · Posted by u/jskherman
I don't get IRC - it seems to be antiquated unencrypted live group chats, with no usable clients. Group chats are useless for finding information and for communicating in between 10 ongoing conversations.
Web forums make sense and are searchable.
pidgeon_lover commented on Intricuit: A touchscreen add-on for Mac laptops intricuit.com... · Posted by u/nvahalik
It looks a bit like an IR scanner attached to glass, and quite a nice form factor for one.
Does anyone know of a similar product that would work with actual computers (Windows, arbitrary monitors), not just fruits?
pidgeon_lover commented on Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels noclip.website/... · Posted by u/ivmoreau
I wish there were some of the Metal Gear or Monster Hunter maps.
pidgeon_lover commented on Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle tailscale.com/blog/tailsc... · Posted by u/Quizzical4230
You can also run Syncthing on a jailbroken Kindle. That opens up a world of possibilities!
I've been experimenting with Syncthing on Kindle (https://github.com/Darthagnon/syncthing-kindle), but have had no luck seemingly because the Linux kernel included is too old and doesn't support network connections, or because the CPU is too weak.
Is there a project other than the one I forked?
pidgeon_lover commented on Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes lite.localcafe.org/... · Posted by u/fullstacking
It's pretty sad how there doesn't seem to be any decent free options for websites which are easy to use. Squarespace and such cost a fortune which isn't worth it if you aren't trying to run a full ecommerce site. Plenty of services offer free hosting of static content but don't have any way a normal person can use them. Having to use a static site generator is too hard for non programmers.
I'm just surprised we haven't seem some app that can act like a wordpress admin page but generating a static output you can host for free or very cheap somewhere.
Frontmatter CMS is a VSCodium plugin that works as a somewhat user-friendly CMS for the likes of Hugo. https://frontmatter.codes/
I set it up for my brother to run his static blog, and it's quite good if you like that kind of thing. There are some quirks where it gets confused if you rename mycoolarticle.md, so I still prefer using notepad++ and git and CLI for mine.
> Can install any version of Python
Does "any" version include custom homebrew builds of Python, e.g. backports of Python 3.12 to Windows Vista/7?
pidgeon_lover commented on Why Nigeria accepted GMOs asimov.press/p/nigeria-cr... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Because GMOs are superior
No, GMOs are hazardous and inferior
pidgeon_lover commented on Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023) tosc.iacr.org/index.php/T... · Posted by u/pona-a
Signal is not an alternative to Telegram. It is an alternative to other mobile-phone-only instant messaging platforms like Whatsapp or Briar. All of these lack desktop clients, while claiming security and maintaining exclusivity to the backdoored platforms of Android and iOS.
Telegram has functional standalone desktop clients.
pidgeon_lover commented on Testing “Exotic” P2P VPN blog.nommy.moe/blog/exoti... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Regarding peer to peer VPNs:
I want to access homeservers and LAN videogames.
I was testing zrok [1] until they went paid, then I went to ongoing experiments with Lanemu [2] (a bittorrent-based P2P VPN) and Anywhere Lan (AWL) [3].
So far, the best is AWL - it actually works, peer discovery is fast, and it gives you mDNS-style domains for connected machines; using it is very similar to Syncthing. I wish the peer discovery in Lanemu worked better, as it works all the way back to WinXP. I made a custom build of AWL that works on Win7 (https://github.com/anywherelan/awl/issues/174)
[1]: https://zrok.io/ [2]: https://gitlab.com/Monsterovich/lanemu [3]: https://github.com/anywherelan/awl