First time ever I made something that uses Redis

«Разработка продолжается»: Ubisoft — о состоянии ремейка Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Компания также опубликовала три концепт-арта оригинальной игры.

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@prologic@twtxt.net its not.. There are going to be 1000s of copy cat apps built on AI. And they will all die out when the companies that have the AI platforms copy them. It happened all the time with windows and mac os. And iphone.. Like flashlight and sound recorder apps.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. : youtube

❤️ 🎶: Till the End of Time by Car, the garden

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

Early Black Friday Deals: iPad 10th Gen for $349 ($100 Off!)
Amazon is back with more great early Black Friday deals for Apple products, this time they’re taking 22% off the iPad 10th gen price of $449, selling the latest model iPad for just $349. That’s $100 off Apple’s standard retail price for the same iPad! The iPad 10th generation features a modern design, 10.9″ Retina … Read More ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.8.0 beta release!
It is exciting to be able to announce the immediate availability of the beta release of Openfire 4.8.0!

It has been 667 days ago since we released the 4.7.0. That was the last time that a release was made from the same source code branch. And, that shows: we have closed almost 180 issues against this release! I’ll reserve the details for a blogpost on the 4.8.0 (non-beta) release, but some of the highlights are:

• We’ve dropped support for Jav … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - 5 mile progression: 5.01 miles, 00:09:00 average pace, 00:45:10 duration
was hoping for a rain, mist, or whatever but alas it did not happen. comfy run and talked with several people in the park. exchanged pleasantries with the older gentleman i see all the time. had to run in the grass towards the end for some kids on bikes who never passed me. must have been going fast!
#running

Hey Apple, it’s 2023 - about time to start supporting the content indexation of markdown files in Spotlight out of the box, don’t you think?

Wine lovers thirsty for ‘genuinely good’ no or low alcohol option, as search continues for perfect drop
Alcohol products for those keen to stay sober have gone from niche to mainstream in a short span of time. But connoisseurs say finding such a drop replicating the mouth feel of real wine is like searching for “the holy grail”. ⌘ Read more

Today, while being in the second home over the weekend, I finally installed the 5G router setup (ZTE MC801A + GL.iNet Beryl AX). Now my home server (staying in this flat because it has a good place here) is behind a cellular 5G connection. There’s running nothing important on it, but let’s see how reliable this new setup will work over a longer period. Today so far all works fine. And if there will be problems, I still have a few months time to find solutions. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de time to write your own browser? Or at least a fork maintained outside the EU?

time to tackle all that clutter

Deals: Save 10% on M2 iPad Pro 12.9″, $60 Off AirPods Pro, 43% Off Beats Studio Pro Headphones
Amazon is offering some nice deals again today on Apple products. This time we’ve got a nice 10% discount on the latest iPad Pro 12.9″ model, $60 off AirPods Pro 2nd gen, and a whopping 42% off Beats Studio Pro headphones. Check out the deals below! M2 iPad Pro 12.9″ for $989 Amazon is taking … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/11/01/deals-sav … ⌘ Read more

My October ‘23 in Review
Another month has come and gone, time to take a look back. ⌘ Read more

Introducing the GitHub transparency center
It’s time for our biannual transparency report, where we share how we approach content moderation and disclosure of user information. This year, we’re introducing the transparency center, a new platform for our transparency reporting data.

The post Introducing the GitHub transparency center appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

The last week was really rainy, so I didn’t leave the flat much. And now walking at sunset time, everything looks so pretty. ⌘ Read more

Watch YouTube Without Ads with FreeTube for Mac, Windows, Linux
YouTube is the webs most popular video site by a long shot, practically serving as a television replacement for millions. But as any Youtube viewer knows, the ads can be very aggressive and there are times where you’ll have to watch a 30 second ad before you can watch one minute of content, which is … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to gain insight into your project contributors
We’re excited to share with you the contributors Action! At GitHub, we maintain several open source repositories and have developed this Action to empower maintainers to measure how many new and returning contributors and contributions have occurred over any given time period.

The post How to gain insight into your project contributors appeared first … ⌘ Read more

Deals: $100 Off M1 iPad Air, Discounts on iPad Magic Keyboard, Apple Pencil, & More
Amazon continues to offer excellent deals on select iPad models, this time offering the M1 iPad Air 5th generation at $100 discount. Combine the M1 iPad Air with an also discounted iPad Magic Keyboard, and a discounted Apple Pencil, and you’ve got yourself a full fledged iPad setup, for far less than the retail price … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/23/deals-1 … ⌘ Read more

No hello
Thanks to Tim Hårek Andreassen, I finally have a link I can send my coworkers whenever they send me a “Hi”, “Do you have some time?”, “Can I call you?” instead of asking their question right away or even just mentioning the topic. And there’s also a German version, great! ⌘ Read more

Get a Personal Update from Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac
Siri has a neat largely unknown feature called Personal Update, that, when requested, will give you a summary of information from various apps that you may find useful. Specifically, Personal Update will give you the weather forecast for the day, whatever your calendar events that day are, your reminders, an travel time estimate to locations … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/11/get-a-personal-update-from-siri-on-iphone-ip … ⌘ Read more

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Security Advisory: High Severity Curl Vulnerability
The maintainers of curl, the popular command-line tool and library for transferring data with URLs, will release curl 8.4.0 on October 11, 2023. This version will include a fix for two common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), one of which the curl maintainers rate as “HIGH” severity and described as “probably the worst curl security flaw in a long time.” In the meantime, you can prepare ahead of exploitability details being released … ⌘ Read more

photos: Making Time ∞ 2023 (feat. Jamie xx, Avalon Emerson, Helena Hauff, DJ Koze + more)
This year’s Making Time ∞ fest went down last month across five stages at Philly’s historic Fort Mifflin, and it boasted one of the most adventurous + diverse (and best) lineups around in 2023… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

I just lost ¾ of a really good blog post by typing :q! without thinking and I’m having a really hard time rewriting it.

My September ‘23 in Review
Now September is over, and it’s time to take a brief look back at the past month. ⌘ Read more

The last time we played #ldjam, we made a cute little the-making-of blogpost.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/timeslime/timeslime-the-making-of

…but I just found out that all of the gitlab CI artifacts have expired; so the in-progress links are dead.

The game is still playable at https://timesli.me/ though.

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Pinellas County - Base: 7.25 miles, 00:10:21 average pace, 01:15:03 duration
it was alright. had to wait too long each time i crossed 113th, the second time the blood rushed to my head and made me a bit nauseous so walked that off.
#running

More data contradicting the existence of “echo chambers”. As I’ve argued many times before, the concept of an echo chamber or information bubble is not real. The podcast below is an interview of an author of a study where they actually intervened and changed the information diet of 20,000 people (with consent!), then surveyed them after three months. They observed essentially no changes to the study subjects’ beliefs and attitudes. They also observed that the typical person, while they tend to gravitate towards people with similar political leanings, only get about 50% of their content from such like-minded people. They get the rest from neutral sources and maybe 20% from non-like-minded people.

Varied information diet + No change in attitudes when information diet is forced to be different = no echo chamber.

Listen to the podcast episode here

Docker’s Journey Toward Enabling Lightning-Fast Developer Innovation: Unveiling Performance Milestones
Learn about Docker’s focus on performance and walk through the milestones of the past 12 months, including 85x improvement in upload speed, 71% reduction in build time, and a 5,800% increase in streaming speed. ⌘ Read more

Catching COVID-19
So far, I had been spared from COVID-19. “Had,” focusing on the past, because now it has affected me, or us, after all. We had to cut short our vacation, which I used to share little glimpses of here on the blog. We quickly went back home, wearing masks the whole time and hoping not to infect more people. ⌘ Read more

How IKEA Standardizes Docker Images for Efficient Machine Learning Model Deployment
Learn the vital role Docker plays in MLOps (machine learning operations) at IKEA. We explore how Docker and Seldon-Core work together to turn a convoluted task into a streamlined, agile operation, and how you can harness real-time metrics for profound insights. ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: Funding
As promised in our ‘State of Snikket 2023’ overview post, and teased at the end of our first update post about app development, this post in the series is about that thing most of us open-source folk love to hate… money.

We are an open-source project, and not-for-profit. Making money is not our primary goal, but like any business we have upstream expenses to pay - to compensate for the time and specialist work we need to implement the Snikket vision. To do that, we need income.

T … ⌘ Read more

Haunted House
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As sweet Philippine mangoes touch down in Australia, who is buying them?
The carabao mango, also known as the “Manila mango”, is being imported fresh to Australia for the first time in about two decades. ⌘ Read more

DockerCon Workshops: What to expect
DockerCon 2023 will be held October 4-5 in Los Angeles. The program is now online so you can plan your experience by day, time, and theme, including AI and Machine Learning, Web Application / Web Development, Building and Deploying Applications, Secure Software Delivery, and Open Source. This year we’re offering talks, workshops, and panel discussions, plus the usual vibrant DIY hallway track. Here’s a preview of what to expect in our workshops. Register now! ⌘ Read more

I think about 8pm is the ideal time for sunset.

After some cold and rainy weeks, it’s a quite warm and sunny again, but probably for the last time this year. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, it’s true. Thing is, Linux as a desktop operating system sucked in 1996 yet I adopted it then anyway because I wanted nothing to do with MS anymore 😆 I know it’s not for everyone but I’m pretty tolerant of a less-than-stellar experience if it means I can be free of big-company garbage.

I haven’t tried a Linux-based smartphone OS in a long time so I don’t have any idea how bad/good it might be. I figure when I finally break down and get a new phone I’ll experiment on my current phone.

@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net F-droid. Getting APKs from developers you trust and side-loading them. Some flavor of Linux. Some distro of the open source parts of Android.

There are lots of options. Bit by bit I divest from anything that’s distributed from Google Play. With my latest phone I find and download APKs so that I could have the app without all the Google crap woven through it. By the time I need to replace this one I’ll be fully free of Google Play. Most of my apps come from F-droid now. You can a perfectly functional phone/pocket computer unless you’re addicted to installing dozens of corporate apps.

@jmjl@tilde.green I’m sorry that I’m not super knowledgeable about alternatives to jmp.chat but I’ll tell you what I know.

You’re probably right about jmp.chat not working for you, at least as it is now. You can only get US and Canadian phone numbers through it last time I checked, so if you’re not in either of those countries you’d be making international calls all the time and people who wanted to call you would be making international calls too.

I’ve seen people talk about using SIP as an intermediary: you can bridge SIP-to-XMPP, and bridge SIP-to-PSTN (PSTN = “packet switched telephone network”, meaning normal telephone). You can skip the SIP-to-XMPP side if you’re comfortable using a SIP client. I don’t know very much about SIP or PSTN so I am not sure what to recommend, but perhaps this helps your search queries.

There are a fair number of services like TextNow that let you sign up for a real telephone number that you can then use via their app (I wouldn’t use TextNow–they had tons of spyware in their app). I don’t know if that kind of service works for you but if it does perhaps you’d be able to find one of them that isn’t horrible. This page (https://alternativeto.net/software/jmp-chat/) has a bunch of alternatives; I can’t vouch for any of them but maybe it’s a starting point if you want to go this route.

Good luck!

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, I’m still with jmp.chat, and still very happy with them overall. Their beta period ended and their pricing increased a bit, so that’s worth a bit of consideration. I also managed to get one of their eSIMs. I’m slightly less happy with that aspect of their service, though they seem to be actively working on improving it and I knew in advance this was an early beta kind of thing and likely to have issues.

The only unreliability with calls that I’ve noticed was traceable to the unreliability of my own internet connection. I’ve confused incoming calls by simultaneously making and taking calls from the computer and the phone, but I think it’s understandable that problems might arise and that’s not a real use case for me. Once or twice I did not receive a text transcription of a voice mail, but the support is usually quick to address things like that.

I host my own XMPP server and have for a good decade now, and that’s what I use with jmp.chat. I can’t speak to the quality of their hosting options.

Group texting works fine for me if one of the other parties initiates the group text. I haven’t tried to initiate my own group text in well over a year; last time I did, it didn’t work. That may or may not be a problem for you, and it may or may not have been fixed by now. Worth investigating more if it’s important. I should also say I’ve only ever used group texts with 3 participants, and can’t speak to what happens if there are more nor whether there are upper limits.

Group texts don’t use MUC. Rather, they use a special syntax in the JID, something like “+1XXX,+1YYY,…,+1ZZZ@cheogram.com”, where the + and , are required, the XXX, YYY, through ZZZ are the phone numbers (no dashes or other special chars just digits), and the @cheogram.com at the end is required.

I recommend the cheogram app if you’re on android. It has a lot of nice features on top of the Conversations base. I use gajim on my (linux) computer and it works well with jmp.chat.

I’m happy to answer other questions if you have them!

Brett Lee, avocados, and India: Could this trade deal prevent a future ‘avoglut’?
It’s not the first time Aussies have put all their hopes on Brett Lee, but this time it’s avocado growers hoping to get a taste of his consistency in India. ⌘ Read more

In my second apartment, I really like sitting in the winter garden (more some kind of balcony or loggia but with windows) in the evening and looking outside. The neighbors aren’t very close, and you can see the sky well. It’s very relaxing to sit here in the dark, thinking and enjoying the time. ⌘ Read more

I saw a report today that the number of wrong-way driving incidents in the UK has risen by 13% in the last year. As an American who drove in England for the first time this May, I’d like to officially apologize for my contribution to 12 of those 13 percentage points.

@New_scientist@feeds.twtxt.net No, Google does not predict this. “Google AI” has been self-promoting like this for decades. Remember when they used to brag that they could predict the onset of flu season weeks before it started? That silently went away because they got it badly wrong many times and people caught on to how bad their “predictions” actually were.

They can’t stop themselves. Anything about AI coming out of big tech companies these days is marketing, not real, and certainly not science.