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[–] otl@hachyderm.io 2 points 10 months ago

Might be closer than you think. The White House is just using Instagram right now: https://www.whitehouse.gov
(See section “featured media”)

@stockRot @technology

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 2 points 10 months ago

If you've done any programming, you could hook up a script to fdm (https://github.com/nicm/fdm).

Rough logic, for each message:

* match body with several timestamp regexps
* parse matched messages
* find dates in message body
* parse final match
* discard message if that is date earlier than now - x days

@Pantherina @linux

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 2 points 10 months ago

Super interesting story - thanks for sharing. Helps getting perspective:

> the data centres proposed by Conifex would have consumed 2.5 million
> megawatt-hours of electricity a year. That’s enough to power and heat
> more than 570,000 apartments

@Wiitigo @technology

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A link to the video could be shared via ActivityPub.
The video would be loaded over HTTPS; we can verify that the video is from the white house, and that it hasn't been modified in-transit.

A big issue is that places don't want to share a link to an independently verifiable video, they want you to load a copy of it from their website/app. This way we build trust with the brand (e.g. New York Times), and spend more time looking at ads or subscribe.
@stockRot @technology

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Fax machines are still used in healthcare!
There is an overwhelming amount of healthcare admin where software could help.
Computers are designed for messaging, data manipulation, deduplication... stuff that people are drowning in because the existing software sucks or doesn't exist.
Yet we see pie-in-the-sky "AI" (LLMs? who knows?) projects being funded.

(I worked as a manager at an Australian general practice. Assuming the US is similar? )

@technology @throws_lemy

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 9 points 10 months ago

@Pantherina You might be interested in looking into the Plan 9 operating system. The original designers of Unix (on which Linux and BSDs are based) created the OS with lots of interesting ideas built into the core of the system, rather than bolted on afterwards. No root, userspace drivers, others you mentioned are explored.

Take a look: https://p9f.org

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 4 points 10 months ago

@wwwgem Totally agree! :) One of the coolest things about Linux for me is learning about all the different approaches to systems and applications.

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@friend_of_satan @wwwgem That got to me too the more I used Linux. BSD (OpenBSD specifically) clicked much more for me. Not that it’s any less customisable, but the BSD culture tends towards favouring defaults and refining existing software rather than limitless configuration and novelty. I’ve generalised here but I do have this kind of feeling.

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 2 points 10 months ago

@Canadian_Cabinet @possiblylinux127 @slacktoid Keep in mind that not all users are the same. For example, maybe some people find firewall configuration expressed as text in a file clearer than a GUI. My grandmother loves her iPad. I love my OpenBSD laptop. I find the iPad relatively user unfriendly - “I can barely see or control what my own machine is doing!” - but my grandmother would find my OpenBSD laptop very user unfriendly too - ”How do I see my family photos?”

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@Vendetta9076 @InformalTrifle A system to centralise the management of mobile devices like iPhones and iPads remotely. Usually used by companies to provision devices automatically and dictate apps can be installed and have email/calenders etc. configured automatically.

See also https://it-training.apple.com/tutorials/deployment/dm005

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@skullgiver Oh wow thanks! :) One program syncs my home Mastodon timeline, with all replies, to a Maildir. Dovecot serves that over IMAP. Sending involves a custom SMTP server which reads the mail message and creates a post from it.

For Mastodon it was all about converting statuses (toots? Posts?) into RFC 5322 messages. Using the status’ ID as Message-Id in the message header is handy. Mail clients do the heavy lifting of rendering threads thankfully!

[–] otl@hachyderm.io 1 points 11 months ago

@demesisx @UmbraTemporis Yes seems like picom is designed with resource-efficiency in mind. And actively developed: https://github.com/yshui/picom

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