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I am sympathetic to the sentiment, but the argument does not hold water.

> the fact remains some of my money can end up empowering politics I find repugnant

are you paying taxes? are you using gasoline? are you paying for amazon?

Some ratio of your money will always go toward something you hate. The big question is: is for a mulvad subscription that ratio bigger than for the alternative? The next question is: how is the ratio for things you like?

> America was supposed to be the next step of humanity, a new land stripped from the ills of the old wor

wat

i switched from bambu a1 combo to snapmaker u1 and i am very happy. I installed paxx12 custom firmware, and now i am even happier.

> Swift --(claude)--> Plasmoid --(claude)--> CLI --(claude)--> Rust-Port --(claude)--> Intercal

Is this the human centipede of programming?

>> People had this "why you probably can't run a GPT-4 (or even GPT-3.5) class model on your MBP anytime soon" conversation before.

that sounds like a win-win to me.

on one hand 95% of users get an improved experience. While a competitor gets the chance to build a business for the remaining 5%.

<10 Stars is a strong signal, that a repo is not relevant to anyone except maybe the maintainer. This fact does not change even if other repos have bough 10.000 stars.

i am building yet another ai powered language-learning app. user uploads random texts, and the ai gives grammar and vocab hints, so the user can try to translate it on their own. Basically google lens, but without the final translation.

ironically the difficult part wasnt the OCR or the textanalyses, but finding the exact position of the text in the input image.

when i did openscad, i just did a minowski hull with a 4sided bipyramid (aka rotated cube) to get chamfers for my cubes.

bonus: minowski hull with a round pyramid adds chamfers in the vertical and fillets in the horizontal, which is what i want for 3d printing most of the time. additionally it closes small overhangs, and it makes fonts smoother (i.e. fonts don't extrude in a 90degree angle, and get 45degree instead, and print better on vertical faces)

disclaimer: I havent used openscad for about a year and my memory may be fuzzy

edit: i am not saying minowsky hull would directly solve your problem, but maybe the algorithm gives you inspiration to solve your numerical issues

> I don't think open source can get a big market share but it can give you a nice niche market of tech enthusiasts

companies and governments in Europe start embracing digital sovereignty. Governments start to realize, that US corporations lie, when they say they won't spy on governments officials.

I am not saying, that Europe WILL increase opensource and sovereignty, but odds are good, that a cultural shift away from US-dependence will happen soon, which would include embracing of Opensource

did you have issues with banking apps, authenticator apps or outlook on workprofile?

I ask, because when I was using cyanogenmod a hundred years ago, banking apps were a major pain. And now I am using outlook on a flagship with stockrom, and outlook on workprofile is still a major pain, and I can easily imagine, it working even worse on grapheneos.

is this whataboutism?

Yes. You have to treat the model like an eager yet incompetent worker, i.e. don't go full yolo mode and review everything they do.