Very happy with my new #PineTime#smartwatch. Shown in the photo is my preferred watch face style out of the default available options, a retro Casio face. Thank you to @PINE64 and the wider open hardware and software community! I'm going to test out the sleep tracking tonight while connected to #Gadgetbridge and upgrade the firmware as soon as I get a chance.
I've been unsure about installing proprietary, tracker-filled banking apps and the like on my #LineageOS#mobile.
I've decided the most practical compromise is to just throw them all into the work profile using the #Shelter app, where there are no contacts or personal files. If an app isn't being used, I also freeze it.
It's working well, though the process has changed/reverted some of the settings in my main profile, such as tap to wake and notification sounds. Anyone else experienced this?
@eliasr Yes, it's a good point. It's definitely worth speaking up. I used to do this with my previous bank because they were increasingly pushing people towards their app and away from the card reader-type devices, which people without newer smartphones must rely on to do any online banking. The particular issue I had was that their app just wouldn't work on LineageOS. It would launch but I could never complete the registration.
@eliasr@karlemilnikka The danger of Google being a popular mobile software and hardware producer, similar to Apple, is a connection I hadn't fully considered. I certainly agree this is dangerous, especially if Pixels eventually push out other popular hardware for Android, such as Samsung mobiles and tablets.
This is a great piece by @micahflee about the significance of supporting ephemeral usernames in @signalapp and the challenges #Signal faces developing the gold standard of private messaging apps.
If you keep hearing about AI, ML, GPT and LLMs, and you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, I wrote a post about locally hosting your own LLMs using Ollama for added privacy and control. I provide examples of getting help with coding, generating image descriptions and (of course) generating stories about a dog named Fido...
@trimtab I haven't done any proper benchmarking with the GPU, but generally speaking, with the smaller 7B models (mistral, llama2) the responses were pretty quick, with barely any delay. With the larger models (dolphincoder etc.), I noticed the increased delay, but nothing to complain about.
I've been playing around with locally hosted #LLMs using the #Ollama#CLI tool. I've mostly been using models like mistral and dolphin-coder for assistance with textual ideas and issues. More recently I've been using the llava visual model via some simple #Bash#scripting, looping through images and creating description files. I can then grep those files for key words and note the associated filenames. Powerful stuff!
Some tasks take too long for us to want to wait around for them to finish, like when you want to power down your computer and go to bed. So schedule a shutdown...
I'm curious to know how others version control their private configuration files / docs / wiki. For now, I've created a #Gitea#Docker stack on my home network. Instead of copying the files I want to track into another folder and pushing from there, I've created hard links. Any other suggestions? #git#config#versioncontrol#linux@gitea
@alto@gitea Fair enough. I use GitLab for anything that's public / non-sensitive, and it's great. I just feel more comfortable hosting sensitive stuff locally where it's behind a firewall and not exposed.
@alto@gitea No, I don't believe I would be able to self-host the email service I use, even if it was an option, nor would I want to due to the complex nature (as I understand it) of hosting and securing your own mail server to the same standards as the better providers out there. My email is end-to-end encrypted and I trust the provider. The way I see it is you have to trust some providers. It's just about choosing them carefully.
Just when I thought I couldn't go wrong with some simple print() lines, I find my script flushes them when exiting, defeating the purpose of their placement in the script. Now I need to get a grasp of how to appropriately flush. Every day's a school day... #python#coding#scripting
@thunderbird I find the genre, artist or album doesn't really matter. The more familiar I am with the song, the more likely it is it'll become background music and I can focus on work. My recommendation is Carpenter Brut's 'Trilogy', for all my fellow 80s dark synth fans out there.
Every time I think I'm pronouncing #SIEM correctly, I hear it pronounced the other way and I doubt myself. Is it "seem" or "sim", or is it just preference? #cybersecurity
