milicent_bystandr

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

But for ordinary drivers, it's great.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Thing is, consider Google maps. It's been harvesting data secretly and openly for a long time. I vaguely remember a time when Street View cars were found to be harvesting WiFi information in Australia and their response was, "oops, our engineers made a mistake." Yeah, right.

But, Google maps is an amazing tool. All that traffic info? All those time estimates? Maybe it's worth it. Maybe if people knew what they were providing, and the result they'd get, they'd still be happy to give all that "free" data to Google.

Putting aside the ethics of a company taking (stealing? or shall we call it, pirating?) all the ownership of that knowledge asset, if they make a really useful tool from it perhaps Pokémon players will be glad to have been part of such an epic achievement.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

I presume the idea is to generate a base idea with ai then correct it with real time data.

Like the way go AI has one part to make a 'policy' of moves and a second part to simulate ('read') the results of those moves many steps ahead.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Beware the Great Eye of Google. Ever it roams, ever it watches.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Okay I misread that title as "Casio made a One Ring alternative"

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

True, one person needs an account. You used to be able to do Jitsi - and before it other webrtc calling solutions - with no account at all but now Jitsi also needs the first host to sign in.

But Signal calls, every participant must have a Signal account. The others, I can invite people to join with no account.

"Browser tech"? Just the fact you can make it work from a browser without needing to install anything else. Again, Signal isn't set up for that kind of thing. It's just designed and extended from a different use case.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jitsi. Even zoom and teams allow joining without an account. Good ol' webrtc and browser tech.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Judging by the dumb car videos I've seen on the internet, I think both kinds can!

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

It looks rather short on forks!

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Clearly the cat's name is Fork.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

That is a pretty good reason.

 

I've been playing around with self hosting for file sharing, backups, and a handful of other ideas I might one day get round to. I like the idea of a mesh VPN and being able to, for example, connect a travelling laptop to a 'host' laptop nearby, though my only public ip is a VPS in another country.

Of all the options I found, I liked the look of Nebula most. Fiddly in some places, but it's working nicely for me, and I appreciate some of the simplicity of design.

I'm wondering if people here have much experience of it, though? My biggest concern is over its future. With,

  1. The Defined Networking site focusing on making money off it, and
  2. The Android app doesn't allow full configuration (including the firewall, so I can't host a website from a phone) but - I heard - does if you use Defined Networking's paid service for configuration,

makes me worry they might be essentially trying to deprecate viable FOSS Nebula in favour of a paid or controlled service.

Any thoughts? Insight?

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