@heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 7mo ago

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@Whinery @Uair @linux Chiming in on this, I've used Proton VPN on Linux Mint for a few years now. It works pretty darn well. Once/if you have a Proton account, you can follow these instructions to install it: https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-ubuntu

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

What an amazing moment. With my eldest kid, we were able to watch together, live, the launch, and now return, of Artemis II.

Generational moment. I'm feeling blessed we could share this together.

#space #artemisII #artemis2 #blessed #happy

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

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@Waterfox@mastodon.social Is the new integrated adblocker going to come to Android too?

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 9mo ago

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@unlofl@mstdn.social @TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social Absolutely phenomenal that, apart from the OP toot going viral again for other reasons recently, your own toot adds another layer by referencing Pocket. Unintended masterpiece.

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 4mo ago

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I actually love Waterfox too. I've donated to them in the past and all. But this is a pretty worrying downward trend.

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

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More than that though, they're building it "properly" with skills, roles, use of MCP servers, etc. Again, they're smart people who know how to do a good job. But they're hitting the classic case of sometimes the agents just "do stuff" that's outside of what they've been carefully asked to do regardless, so more and more work is needed to contain them better. I'm reminded of this evergreen xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1319/ The fact that this is the hover-over text for this comic is also hilariously relevant: 'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'. #antiai #ai #aislop

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

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I remember as a kid in the 90s being fascinated with the idea of high-speed internet coming from satellites, available globally for people for free or at least cheap enough for most people to have. And although the tech is very different in some ways from how the books in the 90s thought it might look, we now largely have that! And as far as I can tell, the actual people (the vast majority of the workers) in both Starlink and SpaceX seem like decent people with hope and determination to simply do a good job! And yet, the person/people at the very top of SpaceX and Starlink does and says things day by day which just squashes my ability to retain that childlike joy at what this tech is and can be. There's not much to this post. Just a bit of a rant to get my thoughts written down somewhere. Wrangling with trying to keep joyful and optimistic feelings in a world which, currently at least, is doing all it can so people don't feel that way. #space #joy #starlink #tryingmybest #retainingwonder

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 4mo ago

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Links (in case anyone is interested): 6.6.13 release notes which details being dropped by Startpage and starting to use 1.org.15 years of forking, blog post which is one of the non-Reddit sources of the Dev detailing funding issues ("There have been a few months in the red recently").Comment by the Dev on the GitHub discussion around the new inbuilt adblock. About halfway into it is where the Dev (again, at least they're being transparent and honest) discusses the technical how's and the financial why's of ads being let through by default on the default search provider (still Startpage at the time of the comment).

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

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One thought is whether Starlink should become a globally-owned service contributed to by countries around the world. If it's going to both benefit people globally (or should, at least), and is also going to impact people globally (so much more can still be done in future to lower impacts on night sky viewing), the ownership should be global too, rather than being limited to one country (and even then mostly one man in particular). It could help with pricing if it was seen as a service worth supplementing rather than a purely commercial enterprise too. Unlikely to happen for so many reasons, I know. Just another thought rolling around in my head. Not even sure it's a fully developed thought, but, curious to hear from others. #space #starlink

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

The more time passes, the more convinced I am at the importance of people owning their own personal computer.

Laptop or desktop, doesn't matter. But having a machine that you own, or at least a shared family computer, is, if not a right, then at least a privilege we should fight not to lose entirely to rented cloud compute.

Looking over the past decade-ish, I don't think this can even be called alarmist anymore. It really feels like The Powers That Be are trying, little bit by little bit, to make decentralised compute directly owned by end users more and more unattainable. More than that, particularly lately it also feels like they're not even bothering trying to hide their goals like they used to, which is the real slap in the face.

(I'm also not going to pretend that I'm the first person to have this thought. It's just been hitting me hard enough lately that I've needed to put it out there somewhere, myself.)

#pc #personalcomputer #ownyourhardware

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Is there something blocking Proton VPN on Linux for updating Vivaldi?

A month or more ago I set Proton VPN up on my Linux Mint (22.2 Cinnamon) with Kill Switch enabled. Everything is forced to go through the VPN connection on my laptop. The only real issue I've had with this since setting up is updating Vivaldi via either sudo apt update or the Update Manager: Vivaldi, installed via the Vivaldi Deb repo, times out consistently.

It's the only application that has this issue updating through the VPN (regardless of which server I'm connected to). It also has no issues updating the moment I turn off the VPN and kill switch, so it really seems like repo.vivaldi.com is blocking updates from connections via Proton VPN?

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

Watched the Artemis II launch live from here in Tasmania. So cool. Best of luck to the crew for the rest of the 10 days!

#artemis #boldlygo #artemisII #artemis2 #space

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 6mo ago

Super excited for Artemis II launch soon! Best of luck to everyone involved!

If weather holds, first time humans have been back to the Moon's influence in over 53 years.

#space #artemis2 #artemisII

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

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@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Fails with all Australia servers I tried in recent memory. Just tried again tonight, confirmed for Australia servers 306, 314, and 366. Downloads a couple MBs, stops, tries again, stops, tries again, errors out and tells me my internet is the issue (even when I'm happily updating all other software, and Vivaldi works too only once I turn off Proton VPN).

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Heartkey @heartkey@tech.lgbt

· 5mo ago

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@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Haven't tried another country yet but it seems some Aus servers do work... Australia server 147 seemed to, just now, when 304 did not.

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