utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.ml Posts 1Comments 627Joined 3 yr. ago
Bonus : f*ck noise! Protect yourself when you are learning from distractions. There are myriads of things begging for your attention. Brush them off then in turn shape your environment so that you actually have a chance to learn. Learning is challenging, by definition, so you MUST make sure nothing and nobody gets in the way! Because plenty of people here have a technical side, here is a tool I built as an example https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/online-hygiene/src/branch/master/index.js which gives me daily quota of Websites I can visit, or not, and when.
When during your life where you at peak learning rate?
Was it as school? Uni? If so, what did you do differently then? Can you still do it now?
I'll give few examples that honestly in retrospect are absolutely obvious and yet, few people seem to still do it :
- have a trusted teacher/mentor who can pinpoint your flaw
- do exercises that test your knowledge rather than read and assume you know
- repeat said exercises in with varying context and in increasing difficulty
- take notes (IMHO the biggest) that you gradually structure and index
- use said notes when exercises (which are safe spaces to challenge your understanding) gets tough
- have structured goals, namely you don't learn about a topic, move on randomly, but rather have 6 months over a topic
- learn regularly, e.g. weekly occurrence on a very specific topic, again and again for months on end
- last but not least, do it as a group, build, grow and sustain a network of helpful peers whom you are learning from but also helping
So... yeah, none of that is secret nor even complex yet most adults seems to leave THE place to learn and somehow forget EVERYTHING they actually learned. It's nuts.
Also most of that is free. Getting a notepad or a wiki or using documents in a directory on your computer is practically cheaper than a coffee in most places. There is no excuse to note take notes then organize them. Same for regularity and exercises, get a calendar then drill, again.
FWIW that works for pretty much everything, from an abstract field of knowledge, e.g. math, to a physical skill, e.g. welding or ice skating.
you probably don’t want the instance admins handling your payment info
Unfortunately centralized (but I don't think it's possible to do that with the traditional banking system due to gateways) but it's actually very easy to integrate with Stripe.com , as you to integrate yourself might be a day of work at most (source : I did few integration with WebXR as prototypes) but if you, as a self-hosted admin of the platform instance, just want to make it work, you probably only need a working account (to receive the actual money) and you'd fill up only IDs and voila, working.
Now there is also the KYC challenge, not sure how that work as a platform intermediary. Honestly at that point, as someone else suggested with Belgium 2ememain.be better letter user handle that themselves and in Europe with IBAN it's pretty trivial to pay online, no fee.
Might also be worth exploring https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API
Very cool, thanks for the in depth explanation.
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I'm curious. Say you are getting a new computer, put Debian on, want to run e.g. DeepSeek via ollama via a container (e.g. Docker or podman) and also play, how easy or difficult is it?
I know that for NVIDIA you install the (closed official) drivers, setup the container insuring you get GPU passthrough, and thanks to CUDA from the driver, you're pretty much good to go. Is it the same for AMD? Do you "just" need to install another package or is there more tinkering involved?
Impossible to read article. All videos get blocked (privacy reasons, even while "accept all" the 1st video is private...) so I recommend checking instead the article to the research in the description as they host their own videos.
Right... well it's about "organizing the World Knowledge" ... but if for that one has to do literally anything in order to accumulate more wealth, that takes priority.
I'm genuinely concern for anybody who would still have a modicum of trust with corporations the size of Google.
Of course they'll do anything to increase "shareholder value", legal or not, moral or not. That's the entire point of a corporation driven by the stock market.
Yeah I don't think you're addressing what I wrote, you're mixing up my suggestion (to clarify the important part is "or") with DistroBox then more general comments. Might be that I wrote it unclearly but anyway it wasn't what I was saying.
FWIW I did run on old hardware with ratpoison and had a blazing fast experience, much more responsive than "top" hardware back then. So... yes IMHO it's about the wm/de usually, the rest follows. Obviously you can't run super demanding software, e.g. video editing, 3D modeling, etc but that's usually rather obvious.
Why wouldn't Debian run?
Debian is the OS, with its package manager and some applications suggested by default. You can install Debian with X, without X, with a certain window manager or another, etc. So... Debian WILL 100% run, the question rather is WHICH software should you pick that gives the best compromise between ease of use (specific to that person) AND performance (specific to that computer).
PS: to be clear, that's the same for other distributions. There are distributions that specifically target older hardware and that in turn might facilitate the process but usually if you do check how such distributions are done, they are basically Debian (or NixOS or Alpine or whatever) with a specific package selection. It's rare (if ever? counter-example) to have anything special that would somehow "boost" performance for hardware, especially here when it's rather common hardware.
Sure, or containers, e.g. Docker/Podman, especially if there is a Web API available.
That being said, whatever you do, in fine it's about trust. What you are installing can cause damage so IMHO it's more about keeping things manageable while having your actually important data (not programs, downloaded content, etc but rather things you did yourself, e.g. written documents, sketches, configuration files, prototypes, photos, etc) safe even when the system itself is broken regardless of how and why.
educate your family and friends on the risk of voice cloning so they don’t fall for phone scams.
Absolutely, in fact you can easily (clone your own voice, create a new email address like LGTM_butnotop@discuss.tchncs.de and attach the recording where you ask for a Netflix/Apple/whatever gift card) do it as a harmless prank just to gauge how they'll react.
You can find my voice at https://video.benetou.fr/ and elsewhere on the Internet because I did talks are conferences.
I'm not particularly worry by it ... because I expect people who are important to me (family, friends, even colleagues) to be trained enough (because it's not about intelligence) to contact me back (as they have my number, email, etc) if anything serious were to happen.
IMHO it's mostly a problem for basic phishing attack where somebody is rushed to provide information. As soon as the person replies "OK let me call you back" then the whole threat disappears. Well... if the hacker did manage to control your phone number or your email that's a totally different ballgame though but I assume we're not talking at this level.
sshd is like the #1 reason I use termux. Sure, one can "survive" with adb shell but... what a pain. Setup termux then sshd then bring on your toolset, from nodejs to whatever else you need. Making your Android device a "real" computer at last!
outdated
how? Maybe I don't properly understand the difference with obsolete?
Debian... but also to clarify it's not "old" at all. I'm using Debian on my servers, yes, but also on my desktop that use daily, to work and to play video games on, including VR. So... don't think because it's "old" and "stable" it means it's outdated.
Yeay, Debian user here who also left Twitter/X for similar reasons. I was already on Mastodon and Bluesky but didn't make a habit out of it. Leaving the bad platform entirely (and having my data archived and searchable) helped a lot.
Glad to hear they moved on!
I don't but it's quite mature, people have been using it as a replacement for years now.
any advice or suggestion, please do give
I haven't build one so I can't help as much... but I'd be honest from the start by comparing it, head-on, with alternatives (if I understood correctly) e.g. https://github.com/searxng/searxng and simultaneously, because it's federated, make it interroperable with them.