Let's say you're using GrapheneOS and saving a device backup to a home server. You can wipe the device as the Journalist in (link above) did while entering the country, and restore from your backup after moving through customs.
I'm aware this is a technical soln to a social problem, but depending on the outcome of the case in (link above) I do think it's workable.
"What I had been calling “Linux knowledge” was actually two different things bundled together: understanding of how systems work, and familiarity with where things live on a particular filesystem. The first transfers perfectly to NixOS. The second becomes largely irrelevant, and whilst that felt like a loss at first, I now think it is fine. Knowing that configuration files live under /etc is useful context, but it is not deep understanding. Deep understanding is knowing what the configuration does and why, and that knowledge is entirely portable."
Particularly:
>> "familiarity with where things live on a particular filesystem."
Taken in context with mightyiam's quote:
>> "because I get to keep it, share it across multiple computers, "
It seems to me like a primary advantage of NixOS is that familiarity with where things live on your particular filesystem is made to be portable across machines, and not a constant beachead.
Today I vibe coded a webapp that is simultaneously capable of being hosted for free on github pages, uses a 22mb model (small enough to run in browser) to do semantic search across any 2 pdf's uploaded, and only took 1 working day to build.
- you don't come back every month for the next three years advertising the same job without hiring anyone for it
Placing a $100 bounty for anyone who can extend the "HN Hiring Pro"(1) extension with an adjustable filter to remove posts by companies that also posted last month, 2 months ago, etc.
This could be a product. I'd pay for an app that fwd'd messages from other apps and gave me a wikipedia feed to scroll on the elevator / other places where the phone is a social respite
The only AWS service I still use is SES, for sending emails from client applications. Surely that can be self hosted? Can anyone reccommend a competitor?
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Let's say you're using GrapheneOS and saving a device backup to a home server. You can wipe the device as the Journalist in (link above) did while entering the country, and restore from your backup after moving through customs.
I'm aware this is a technical soln to a social problem, but depending on the outcome of the case in (link above) I do think it's workable.
Would anybody be interested in contributing?
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