pixelpop3 @ pixelpop3 @beehaw.org

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I recently started using TriliumNext (Trilium's active fork) as a personal knowledge base for work and it's really cool.

One thing I didn't expect is the multi-user editing feature means I can leave it open on multiple computers (and open it on others) and all the open copies are updated in real time (and it opens to exactly where I had been) so I don't have to think much about merging edits or saving work before changing locations. I was very pleasantly surprised by that.

My job has me jumping around computers a lot with various amounts of downtime in different locations and I want to continue at home etc. Being able to just browse to my server and be exactly where I was in Trilium is perfect.

I was basically looking for how to run LogSeq entirely remotely as a PKM (without touching work computers). You can self host LogSeq but it still runs locally so you have to sync each time and other issues. Trilium is what works best for me.

Another interesting option I came across is silverbullet.md

Would literally buy an electric VW Beetle at this point for the lulz

Doist is very much remote work and there were a lot of stories about them and how they operate during the pandemic because they had been doing it for so long. Global headquarters are in Portugal and CEO lives/works from Italy from what I can tell. They have offices/legal presence in many countries.

Founder/CEO was born in Bosnia, grew up in Denmark, started todoist during college, used a startup incubator in Chile, later moved headquarters to Portugal, now gives lots of talks about internet entrepreneurship in EU.

From Linkedin:

I joined The Kroger Co. - America's largest grocery retailer - in 1978 as a part-time stock clerk in Lexington, KY, working my way through college (go Big Blue Nation! #UK).

He lists his degrees from UK as BAs in Finance and Accounting and MBA in Accounting.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/volodymyr-zelensky-trump-europes-moment-truth

There has been a lot of personnel churn so it could have been a lot of things ranging the spectrum of run of the mill goofs by staff, goofs by people coming into new roles ranging all the way up to insider activity by staff or vandalism by fired staff (very common). Or it could be a failed attack by adversaries NIH has always been a high priority target for state sponsored cyberattacks.

One thing it is certainly does not seem to be is deliberate action by the Administration otherwise it would have gone fully down and would have stayed down.

Historically speaking, Rome didn't really have anything like States as we know them, and Caesar/Augustus weren't out there pushing idea that the central government had grown too large and needed to be dismantled with power returned to the provinces.

Technical discussions on other sites have suggested it was likely a simple goof on a firewall setting update since DNS had continued responding over TCP throughout the outage but not UDP. In any case it's all fixed now which would not be the case if it had been deliberate. Occam's Razor still applies.

How do you go on strike against a government if you are not a government employee? And what would it even mean to boycott your own government?

What sorts of direct action do you think could be viable?

So what do you expect anyone to do about it? Sure, journalists can write and write.

All we have is voting and that is off the table until 2026. If it still exists.

I don't mean to be rude but the call to action of this article is nothing more than "be afraid". Being afraid doesn't stop this.

After O'Connor died, there was a discussion on The Political Junkie podcast where they were talking about her autobiography and in particular, about Bush vs Gore and what they were actually thinking about that case. And it had more to do with the whole maze of where things go depending on which contingencies (i.e. what cases happen next between Bush and Gore).

So according to her it was more about the structure of the laws and government than the decision itself. Which I don't think is something that Cannon is dealing with. Cannons is a trial court judge. The questions at the Supreme Court are more about structure and function of the government.

I thought it was really interesting how Trump is a weird corner case because he's never held any offices listed. Almost all other presidents have taken the oath prior to being sworn in as president for one of the offices explicitly listed.

I haven't tried it, but I am interested. The main feature I'm looking for is hands-free use (reading messages aloud, replying, responding to commands). This doesn't mention any of that but I might give it a try.

In the old Android Auto you used to be able to just turn it on and get all those functions but after Google got rid of that and keeps changing how we use phones while driving betwwen apps they keep cancelling, the only thing I know to access it now is to turn on Google maps with navigation to a destination which is pretty freaking annoying when all I'm doing is driving back and forth from work and I don't need all Google Maps commentary about which turn I should or should not be taking or that I'm in the parking lot rather than driving into the front door.

Edit: I installed it. I first tried to find it on F-Droid, it wasn't there which seemed odd. So I installed it from Play Store. It's a FOSS frontend that requires you to sign up for damoov account. Basically it seems to just be a demo app for damoov API. No idea what damoov is and what they're doing with the data. Based on what they mention in Play Store and the startup screens, my guess is they are an API intended to be used by insurance companies to develop apps that monitor policy holders.

Do you use a VPN? I've noticed a lot of cdn's have become very hostile to VPNs over the last year. Initially I blamed the VPN but I'm pretty convinced it's the cdn's at this point*.

*This is because I started using a private linode server as a tailscale exit node and boy does the internet hate that IP with a passion. Toggling between using that and my home computer as exit nodes is somewhat fascinating. The web is so rude when I browse from my linode box. So... now I use the linode exit node to let the jerks take themselves to the curb. Anyway images not loading randomly is one of the telltale signs of a jerk website. It even happens when using Google One VPN or Cloudflair's WARP+ nowadays. Switch them off and use my residential IP exit node and presto it all works again.

The Supreme Court is currently working on cases that are about overturning precident that allows administrative agencies to make policy that strays from the letter of the law. So my guess is Meta lawyers see a chance to say "there is no federal law that prohibits making profit off children, so this administrative rule is unconstitutional". Something like that (I am not a lawyer).

I am a very, very long time Firefox user. Brave probably has a case for getting Chrome users to consider switching, but I've never encountered any compelling reason to consider switching from Firefox to Brave.

That Online Corpus of Founding Era American English seems like a pretty cool database. This is five years old (pre ChatGPT) and seems to have relied on manual search (which itself seems like a vast improvement). I wonder whether large language models are being built to assimilate the entire dataset to answer questions about "original meaning" nowadays and how close to useable they are. It would be even more compelling to have longitudinal versions that can identify when changes in meaning occurred. "Based on all existing written words, it didn't mean X at that time and that meaning first appeard 60 years later." Newspapers and legal rulings/documents seem like relatively convincing data sources that have been well curated and relevant to the task. Particularly since SCOTUS post-Scalia has become even more insistent about original meaning. I don't think it works well post-hoc but it will be interesting for these things to be interpreted when presented as arguments in new cases.