Alas my game PC is going to stick with Windows due to bad state of VR in Linux :/. And therefore one day it might need to update to Windows 11.

In particular if you have a headset that is not Valve Index, though apparently with Meta Quest one can use ALVR, as long as you get the actual games running.

Indeed, warranties usually don’t cover misuse anyway.

Then there are the cases where you want the LLM to actually interact with the page, using the current web page state and your credentials.

For example, one might want to tell it to uncheck all the “opt in” checkboxes in the page… And express this task in plain English language.

Many useful interactive agent tasks could be achieved with this. The chatbot would be merely the first step.

I haven’t done it, but you could try socket activation.

Then you certainly shouldn’t! But if I have one icecream in my hand, I’ll much prefer go to the self-checkout instead of queuing to the register.

One local store also has a hand-held scanner/terminal you can use while shopping. I think I could do big shopping with that as well, it’s less of a chore do it while shopping. Previously I had only seen those at wholesale stores for businesses.

I think the main problem is that Chromium still contributes towards the browser engine monoculture, as it is bug-for-bug compatible with Chrome. Therefore if you switch to Chromium, it’s still enough for the web sites to test for Chrome compatibility, which they will, because it has the largest market share. Users of competing browsers suffer, further driving the lure of Chrome (or Chromium).

On the other hand, if people switched to some other engine, one that does not share the same core engine or even the same history, this will no longer hold: web sites would need to be developed against the spec, or at least against all the browsers they might realistically expect their customers to use.

I highly doubt businesses would have been this fast in making the switch.

Well that’s exactly the worry. Why shouldn’t it be? It is their business and livehood.

Apparently Lapce has remote development as its core feature. But I only (re?)learned of it today…

How didn’t tramp work out for you?

It still maintains their market position, which has value. For example, you might not visit other sites because they don’t have the content you want (and the content stays on YT because they have the viewers), or you might even share YT links to other people.

Yes, just mount to /mnt/videos and symlink that as needed.

I guess there are some benefits in mounting directly to $HOME, though, such as find/fd work “as expected”, and also permissions will be limited automatically per the $HOME permissions (but those can be adjusted manually).

For finding files I use plocate, though, so I wouldn’t get that marginal benefit from mounting below $HOME.

My /home is also on a separate filesystem, so in principle I don’t like to mounting data under there, because then I cannot unmount /home (e.g. for fsck purposes) unless I unmount also all the other filesystems there. I keep all my filesystems on LVM.

So I just mount to /mnt and use symlinks.

Exception: sshfs I often mount to home.

But how many use it for browsing, which I imagine this data is from?

Thanks!

The mention was at about 12:06, in the form that OLM breaks down at about 50 users “give or take”, so it’s not really a limitation imposed by the system itself and it would be difficult to impose it. I doubt this is the experience of all Matrix e2ee users at least at that exact point, but e2ee has always had some growth pains, so there could people with those issues; on the other hand few large rooms are e2ee to begin with, so experience on those is limited. E2ee also requires the users to be more mindful about their data as in not to lose their private keys, and these problems probably increase linearly as the room size increases.

I didn’t notice any claim of rooms larger than 50 becoming public.

I’ve only heard a second-hand info about it, but apparently one local policital party uses e2ee in Matrix with hundreds of people in the room, so that should be a proof that the encryption is not limited to 50 users—and this info sounds just as well founded as the information provided by the video ;).

The guy carries on stating that pretty much all of the huge matrix rooms are not end-to-end-encrypted, and I have no reason to doubt that. Personally I see little point in having such large rooms encrypted anyway, because if you have a large room you will also likely have very relaxed checks on who gets to enter it (e.g. it could be completely public), and if that’s the case, then so can any party who wishes to monitor the room join the room as well. E2ee won’t be protecting those cases. (While at the same time you lose server-side search feature and efficient notifications, though at least the latter one is being fixed with out-of-envelope notification data—which again leaks a bit more metadata…)

The video also makes it sound like that if you have a Matrix Home Server in the network, it’s going to end up hosting CSAM. This is only the case if one of the users of that HS are in a room that has the content, so it’s not like it will just automatically get migrated there. I imagine vast majority of Matrix Home Servers have limited account creation abilities (e.g. companies, personal home servers, organizations, etc), eliminating or at least highly discouraging this kind of issue.

Btw, the video makes an excellent point about the Matrix CDN issue, which is being fixed currently as well (that change is already merged to the matrix spec), by requiring authentication. Next steps is going to associate media to messages, making this kind of thing even more strict. All this means IRC bridges will need to start hosting Matrix-side contents by themselves, though…

Because encryption doesn’t work for rooms over 50 people, so any room over that size is public by default.

By public you mean non-encrypted? How does that work? When you create a room, you default to encryption, and there is only one participant (the room creator). And you cannot turn off encryption, so what then happens when you get 51 participants?

Also existing non-encrypted rooms are never automatically switched to encryption, so the switch must be explicit. Does it refuse to do it if there are more than 50 participants?

I’ve never heard of this limit nor was I able to find info about it (so a link would be great), but there could some factor that increases problems as the number of people increases… Perhaps 50 is some practical suggestion for the maximum number of people to have in encrypted sessions?

Am I to understand correctly that if you are running Gtk+ apps in the Gnome compositor, you get this working, but if you are running non-Gnome compositor with Gtk+ apps, it will not work? Or is it independent of the compositor?

You should have backups. Preferably also snapshots. Then rm will feel less scary.

If you want to have multi-host redundant storage at home (via e.g. minio or ceph), S3 is a pretty good protocol to provide it.

S3 is nice in the way it’s not a file system so it can have relaxed semantics, while also providing secure access to individual files over HTTPS via URL signing.

Some people seem to be stuck in the idea that S3 means cloud hosting. Not sure if that was your view, but it’s worth spelling out sometimes.

Moving away from Discord can mean you need to stop interacting with the community using it. My personal examples are: Tilt5, Makera, Turbo Sliders. In the these cases Discord is also the way to access support for something you’ve paid for.

Getting thise communities to move into something open (e.g. Matrix) can be a tall order.

That was a Firefox bug, based on one comment in the Bitwarden isue tracker . It should be fixed now in Firefox 116.