solrize @ solrize @lemmy.world

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No that's not till you're older. Did you have covid? That can cause lingering issues like that. That can improve over time but maybe not completely.

Had no idea even 5 year citizenship for rando immigrants in Germany existed. Maybe I should look into it, hmm. The US is looking bleak right now.

AI has become an abbreviation for "bad" and I wouldn't want that, but yes, I've been interested for a while in building language models into search engines, to give the queries more reach into the document semantics. Unfortunately, naive approaches like looking for matching vector embeddings instead of (or alongside) search terms seems near useless, and just clutters up the results.

I'd be interested in knowing what approaches you're using. FOSS, I hope.

This is for carbon capture which afaict is a total scam? Yeah good riddance. Thx

Yeah thinking back, when we got one here we didn't literally take it outside, we left it in a room with the door closed and the windows open, so the fumes didn't get into the rest of the house much. It stopped smelling after a few days.

CO2 pipelines are a thing? Where does it go?

Leave it outside for 3 days to let the plastic smell dissipate. It will be expanded by then too.

The saying about ATF was that it sounded like a convenience store rather than a govt agency. I guess adding drugs just makes it better.

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I used Squirrelmail briefly. It had a minor security bug which was easy to fix, but when I reported it to the devs, I couldn't convince them that it was actually a bug. I decided that they weren't paranoid enough to be working on that type of software, so I stopped using it.

Currently I'm not self-hosting email but am using mxroute.com which has a FOSS mail client that seems ok. I can't check right now what it is, but maybe later.

Fastmail's webmail is pretty good and they said something a while back about releasing it as FOSS but idk if that has happened.

Right now I mostly use Thunderbird rather than webmail. It sucks in many ways but I've had too much going on to pursue alternatives.

I think Google got it right early on when they realized that email clients should be backed by a serious search engine. The search features of a typical IMAP server aren't enough and the one in Thunderbird is crap. So I think this is an area where FOSS clients could use some work, if it hasn't already been done.

Swamp coolers increase humidity not decrease it. You put water into them and the vapor goes into the air. AC is the opposite, it condenses water from the air and that's why the drip tube is there.

Might get an SSD for my laptop. Resisting new computer. Must ... resist...

The forums I've enjoyed the most didn't have voting and I'd rather that Lemmy just shut it off. VBB has a "thank" button you can click on posts, but they still show up in chronological order. That's less gameable and less subject to outrage amplification and similar social media hazards. This isn't Facebook and we don't need to reproduce Facebook's evil.

Yeah I'm not mercantile enough to go around doing stuff like that, but I understand the thought. I don't NEED another laptop. It was tempting, but I can keep making do with what I have now.

Added: I probably should buy a new SSD if there are still some affordable ones out there. I could use it, will probably need it, and prices have been going up since even before the tariffs.

There is still some Lenovos on sale at bestbuy and it's a little bit tempting to buy one due to FOMO if the prices might suddenly go up. I considered it earlier in the year, but moved my stuff to an old Thinkpad T520 instead and am using that right now. I think I can stay with the T520 for now.

"We spared no expense".

You might give Go (Golang) a try. It's lighter weight than Java, pretty fast, and easy to use.

Trump & co want a recession. If the current measures somehow don't cause one, they will think up new stuff and do whatever it takes.

I doubt that a rando like me posting a comment on Lemmy will flip the whole US economy like that :).

They now say 45%, lol. They're in the tank?