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Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Ah yes, the bizarre mental place of being a european and having a social net that extends past public libraries, a strange condition indeed.
Helsinki still has classic public libraries, so kids wanting to study in peace can still do that plus having the opportunity to meet people and engage in other activities that might be difficult at home, like practicing an instrument.
The notion that a knocked-over person is best supported by a library sounds quite strange from my perspective. A person struggling needs first and foremost to shelter, food and access to hygiene. Libraries do not provide any of that. They do provide a quite place to think and work and access to public information with newspapers and internet access, but a good shelter and a smartphone provide this too.
I think Finland (and many other countries) provide enough support to relieve Libraries of being a first address for struggling people, while still maintaining these libraries for what they are really needed. Oodi and similar projects existing does not take that away and I'm surprised you think it does.
Comment · 10 months ago
What about the benefit of there being enough addresses?
Comment · 11 months ago
I can, just recently Windows update installed a firmware update to my network card (without asking) and made it unusable on both Windows and Linux. I had to run a manufacturer tool to get the network adapter to work again.
Comment · 1 year ago
In my perspective it's not that complicated. I'd like to have a good life and I would like for every other human on the planet to also have a good life sustainably. I think it's a rather optimistic vision.
Comment · 1 year ago
NixOS does enables this to a degree, for example with nixos-mailserver[0)].
It would be nice if it could enable people with little sysadmin experience to self-host easily, but right now the bar for using NixOS and configuring these projects is still pretty high. Still, with enough work I imagine it could be possible.
[0] https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver
Comment · 1 year ago
Curious, I just learned about hash rings last week when setting up the ironic openstack service [0].
[0] https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/_modules/ironic/com...
Comment · 1 year ago
Another CalDav server I can recommend is Radicale.
It's written in python and designed in a pretty modular way,
enabling authentication and authorization (and more) plugins.
Data is saved in plain text files and I track/backup it using git.
Over the time I've accumulated some interesting modifications:
- Authentication runs with pam on the host system.
- To enable sharing of calendars I run a periodic script symlinking the calendars to all authorized users. Unfortunately this suffers from combinatiorial explosion.
- Using a rights plugin with custom CalDav Attributes and a modified web plugin I added support for access Control Lists.
- To enable public calendars you give read permissions to the `public` user using ACL. Then a nginx hack gives blanket acces for read operations:
location /public {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:{%RADICALE_PORT%};
include proxy_params;
proxy_set_header Authorization "Basic {%RADICALE_PUBLIC_AUTH%}";
proxy_hide_header Authorization;
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin * always;
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, OPTIONS, PROPFIND";
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Depth";
limit_except GET OPTIONS PROPFIND { deny all; }
}
I should probably write a blog post about the setup.
Comment · 1 year ago
I really like quadlets as they enable using containers like normal system services.
That said the UX for rootless containers does not play well with this conceptualization.
Normally system services run as system users in the system systemd-session, but for rootless containers the services reside in the user systemd sessions of the system user. I'd love to be able to run rootless quadlets within the system session.
Comment · 2 years ago
In my observation something paradox happens when teachers use LLM-Detectors to fail their students on dubious detection probabilities.
The teacher accuses the student of using the LLM to perform the task they are assigned. This entails not properly understanding the assignment and presenting an accomplishment which has not been achieved by the student themselves.
On the other hand the teacher using an LLM tool also do not understand the reasoning of the decision and present often present them as their own judgement. A judgement that has not truly been felled by the teacher because they do not use the tool for understanding but for deferring their responsibilities.
In doing so the teacher is engaging in the same act of (self-)deception they are accusing the student of: presenting an achievement not truly reached through their own understanding, even if the situation necessitates it (non-deferrable learning vs. non-deferrable decision).
The use of LLM-detection in this way thus mirrors the very problem it seeks to address.
Comment · 2 years ago
Unfortunately the essays of your students can not be found on gutenberg.org. You have to try evaluating only the text and it's context to guess what's LLM-generated.
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
The first thing that comes to my mind is a quantum state of 36 qubits represented in 64-bit complex floats.
Comment · 3 years ago
In this case I think it is important to distinguish nix (the package manager)
and nixpkgs (the popular package repository / distribution used with nix).
Packaging python applications with nix is doable, but you have to specify the exact versions of your dependencies and for that you can't easily use nixpkgs.
Nixpkgs tries to keep a minimum number of packages (like Arch or Debian as well), so each of the dependencies will typically only occur with one minor version for each release of nixpkgs.
We could still use the nixpkgs to build our application but we have to override each of our dependencies to the right version, but that approach can get quiet tedious for a large number of dependencies.
Fortunately there are tools to automatically generate your dependencies from a requirements.txt such as mach-nix or pip2nix.
I've reread your comments and agree now understand that you are not talking about providing social net basics but providing the service a library provides. So I'll stop with this point.
I was probably confused by the statements (emphasis is mine): > These are not quiet places to study or get (back) on your feet
Your anser (is this a joke) to: > Why would somebody wanting to escape a high-risk environment, or some knocked-over adult go to a library?
Having understood this it is clear why the rest of my comment makes no sense as a reply, as it is about a certain profile of needs that we both agree libraries do not need to fulfill.
I do think that libraries provide things that a shelter and a smartphone can not give, like a quite place to study that is not your home, perspective that you might not have or know how to find, and using my (aparently limited) empathy I'm sure I could come up with many more.
If you wouldn't mind I would like to know what in your opinion are the essential things a library provides.
I also still don't understand why Oodi existing is supposed a problem. Are you afraid places like Oodi will drive classic libraries out of existence or are you aggravated because you consider it unnecessary (or even counteproductive) spending?