First I used was dial up. My first recollection of using it was to browse my local kids tv network website.

I think RAG will be surpassed by LLMs in a loop with tool calling (aka agents), with search being one of the tools.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

Converting free text to standardized forms such as json

Like first gen raspberry pi?

Makes me wonder how close one can get to a modern day CPU, using an of the shelve FPGA

Depends on what the meaning of life is

You can ping yourself

The manual copy is a bit annoying, but in the end it’s maybe 10 minutes of work. Start the transfer in the evening, it’s finished in the morning.

I’m wondering if there’s a program where anyone can upload files, but can only be viewed and downloaded from the server by authenticated users.

Email does that. Anyone can send it to your mailbox, only you can download it.

I have 5 copies of all my files on 5 devices, synced using syncthing with staggered file versioning. 2 of those are with friends and family who let me put a thin client at their place.

To protect against me misconfiguring syncthing, or some bug deleting all copies, every 3 months I manually make a copy and put it on a hard drive into a fire resistant safe.

Instead of, or in addition to, DNS filtering is also easy (1)

A recent EU workgroup on this spend 50 minutes discussing the implications on the “metaverse”.

These people really have no idea how technology works. They just know the marketing of the big few social media companies.

Someone should tell them about IPFS.

Making laws with the intent they will be broken is different from having an understanding they will be broken.

The consequences are the same, even if intent differs: those breaking the rules, in this case not giving personal information to a 3rd party, in the other example speeding, are criminals.

If someone hits you because they love your, or they hit you because they hate you, either case you’ve been hit.

Regulation doesn’t always have to produce absolute prevention

Making laws with the intent that they will be broken, has the additional benefit that almost everyone is a criminal, ready to be re-educated.

I’ve already lived this way in the DDR. I do not recommend to others.

Video games are an exception though, right?

I don’t use those, no

The EU, like Texas, Florida, etc wants age verification on porn websites. To “safeguard children” ofcourse.

They pinky promise that the surveillance machine they’re building will never be used for harm!

The benefit of OSS, to me, is that it’s not a black box. You see where your data goes, you get it to interact with the rest of your setup the way you want it (automation, backups, notifications, etc).

Closed source software, pirated or not, puts unnecessary limits on what I can do with my devices and my data.

Reminds me of https://wormhole.app/

Yes, all the time