Yeah, and I’d say it’s a bit questionable whether California even has jurisdiction over revelations from God himself.

Also, I don’t think it does networking and app stores 😄

Nervig wie manche Journalisten partout keine Hyperlinks einbauen.

Hier gibt’s die Studien/PDFs: https://www.v-dem.net/

Interesting. Thanks for the info. I’ll re-think whether I recommend it to random people around the world, then.

In Germany it’s great. I’ve been using it for many years now. But we have some good/strong hacker organizations, digital sovereignty and privacy groups, nonprofits and some generous IT companies. Maybe it’s random private individuals in other countries and they’re not as reliable.

Seems right now there’s something going wrong anyway. I don’t think the amount of “offline” servers is normal. And a good amount of them isn’t even offline, but still answer my DNS queries.

After a few “Delete junk” commits, “Broken”, “PATCH: Hope this fixes it”, and “Basic Reverse-Proxy”, it’s now at version 1.0.1-alpha.1.
Don’t know what they did to Git. But their “minor commit” touches almost the entire code in their repo. Rest of it (and the general confusion and the edgy commit messages) look to me like something done by OpenClaw.

100% wouldn’t use it.

I think the Tiers work the other way around. But I keep forgetting how DNS and recursive lookup works and I might be wrong.
I don’t think you’re supposed to query Tier 1 servers as a client. The Tier 2 servers would be what people connect to and who do the heavy lifting. The Tier 1 just do the root, authoritative stuff and their custom TLDs for the following network. So we’re not worried about where those are located.

Isn’t it a global effort? According to what I see, they list a bunch of servers in all Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, …Japan?!

I did one DNS query and it took 22 msec with the nearest OpenNIC server and 24 msec with Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1
So dunno… roughly same responsiveness? Maybe OpenNIC is a tad faster? For a proper answer we’d need to do more measurements, though. And with OpenNIC you definitely need to pick a good server, not just any random one. They’ll have different locations, different policies and they’re in widely different datacenters.

Even if you control your router/modem, they still control the other end, it connects to. And some more infrastructure along the path. So i think it depends a bit where you’re going with this. If you’re worried about them doing packet inspection, or logging IP numbers you connect to, I don’t think there’s a big difference. They could do it anywhere. And they’ll likely do it in some datacenter.

A router interfaces with your local network, though. So in theory a router can be used to connect to your internal devices and computers and maybe you have an open network share without password protection or something like that. But we’re talking violating your constitutional rights here. It’s highly illegal in most jurisdictions to enter your home and go through your stuff.

I’ll buy my own router because I can then configure it to my liking. And my ISP charges way too much for renting one. And what I also do is not use my ISP’s DNS service. That’d just send every domain name I open to their logfiles. Instead I use one from OpenNIC

I think the way unclear / ambiguous law works is: It’s almost always used against you. It’s probably up to the attorney general to use it as precedent for what they want to do. Less so for the person at the receiving end of it.

Ja, wir hatten damals auch ganz viele wirklich gute Vorschläge und das meiste davon wurde abgelehnt wegen zu anstößig, zu sonstwas, und nachher einigt man sich sowieso auf den kleinsten gemeinsamen Nenner. Wobei von uns glaube ich niemand auf die Idee gekommen wäre, dass NS-Anspielungen oder Juden-Witze irgendwie unseren Abschluss oder uns wiederspiegeln. Also sowas kam einfach gar nicht erst nicht auf den Tisch. Über die Aussagekräftigkeit kann man sicherlich diskutieren. Ein Edge-Lord in der Gruppe ist wahrscheinlich genug um soetwas anzuzetteln. Also entweder finden dort mehrere Leute so Memes aus der Ecke witzig, was etwas beschämend wäre, oder es ist gutes Trolling. Schließlich hat es das bis in die Zeitung geschafft. Kann beides sein. Ist aber auch ein guter Aufhänger für einen Artikel. Ich wäre allerdings weit mehr besorgt über die Leute mit den White Power T-Shirts.

I’d go with the Debian package. That’s tied into the system. You get nice updates, there’s more eyes on what the upstream developers do, sometimes the Debian maintainers disable things like tracking, fix vulnerabilities in libraries. It’s smaller, less permission issues… It’s just safer and more convenient…

I’ll go for Flatpak once there’s some benefit. For example the sandboxing which is great to have for proprietary software. Or if the package isn’t available in the Debian repositories, and the alternative would be some third-party repo or deb file downloaded from a random website. And in rare cases when I need a specific version and the Debian maintainers are stuck with an old release.

I think it’s a fuck you aimed at the attorney general and whoever phrased these laws. They go into detail in the FAQ at the bottom. (What is the point of all of this? / What if the AG actually fines you?) Using it isn’t the really the point.

Depends. Sometimes you’ll get a PC magazine or blog cover an upcoming laptop and test Linux compatibility. Or someone writes a long Reddit post after they got it, or updates the Arch Wiki. There definitely are ways to learn about Linux-compatibility with new models. We used to have Amazon comments and reviews…Just be super cautious with all the AI bots and fake comparison sites out there.

And it’s a bit more complicated with gaming stuff. Sometimes they’ll add a weird webcam, or unsupported RGB LED controller, or have weird quirks in the firmware. Some other model lines like a business laptop from Dell or Lenovo tend to be just fine and you’ll get 100% Linux compatibility. There’s no guarantee, but any way, after a few Linux nerds blogged about it you should be fine.

Puh, kann man da nicht so nen Papiertrick machen wie die Geldwäsche-Sonnenstudios/Restaurants? Ich melde Insolvenz an, wickle den ganzen Laden ab. Und Kuseng macht an gleicher Adresse unter neuem Namen weiter. Ist dann natürlich total 'was anderes (zwinkersmiley) aber für die alten Verbrechen ist sicherlich keine:r verantwortlich.

Die Amerikaner haben aber nur ein Zweiparteiensystem. Also die können das nur genau einmal glaubhaft verkaufen.

What I do is use externed_openai_conversation from the HACS to hook into my LLM’s OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. That one makes it available via the regular Voice Assistant stuff within Home Assistant.

Not sure what’s happening here. The Ollama page says it doesn’t have all functionality, for example it doesn’t have sentence triggers? And weather forecast is a bit of a weird one in Home Assistant. That’s not an entity (unless you configure one manually) but a service call to fetch the forecast. Maybe your AI just doesn’t have the forecast available, just the current condition and maybe current temperature. Everything else must be specifically requested with a deliberate “weather.get_forecast” call. Maybe that service call and the specific processing is in the official Assistant, but not in the Ollama integration?

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😂 Haha, sorry hab mich grad ein wenig bepieselt vor Lachen. Ich wohn da. Und feier das 😅. “Zum Glück tut man die Sippe hier mit Scheiß-Natur verschonen. Denn Landschaft wird durch Stahlwerk erst zum schuffeligen Fleck. […] Lecker schmorn’ im eigenen Saft, wer hier lebt, der hat’s geschafft. Meine Mudder war Bergmann wie jeder hier, dat is einfach töfte Karma…”

Edit: Ich glaube hinter vorgehaltener Hand sind wir hier aber alle ganz froh, dass wir den Strukturwandel geschafft haben.

It’s fine. I edited my comment to include the link after I didn’t find it anywhere in the post nor anywhere on the dot social webpage.

Is it open-source?! I don’t see any GitHub repo.

Edit: https://github.com/stantondev/inkwell

Thanks for the link! As a short aside for the other people here: Try not to spam developers. That usually achieves the opposite and makes them miserable, when we want them to not burn out, and write good software for us. A thumbs-up emoji is the correct reaction for the average person. Or for the pros - a code-review highlighting specific issues within the code.