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0xCAFE , 28 days ago to Technology in New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds

This does not sound sustainable at all.

0xCAFE , 2 months ago to Fediverse in George Takei looks like good company on the Fediverse, agreed ?

I'm confident his announcement to "leave social media" was an April Fools' joke.

0xCAFE , 2 months ago to Technology in Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner

I know what you mean, but I think private chat and public posting are quite distinct. They'd destroy a lot more trust if they sell private messages compared to what they did with Tumblr. Especially if they continue to push local bridges, where they won't be able to read any message (you still have to trust them obviously).

0xCAFE , 2 months ago to Technology in Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner

Well that's some news. If they're good news we will see. I'm a Beeper user but never heard of Texts (stupid name) before, which seem to share the same misson as Beeper. Texts was purchased by Automattic last year (according to the Beeper blog).

What does that mean? Automattic punches with some weight in the chat space now. In general I don't like it if big companies buy small products. However Automattic still seems to bet on the Fediverse, so maybe if the teams from Beeper and Texts can work together on a Matrix-based, open source chat application, we could get something really good.

I've mixed feelings about this whole thing, some shy optimizm, some less shy pessimism.

Well, time will tell.

0xCAFE , 2 months ago to Technology in Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner

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0xCAFE , 3 months ago to Privacy in Legit or no? yep.com

They're talking too much business to be a 'private' search. They don't make any effort to explain how their search is private at all (except the 90/10 share model).

0xCAFE , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Fedify: a fediverse server framework in Deno

This looks pretty cool!

0xCAFE , 5 months ago to Technology in Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C?

I can't speak for the BOOX Tab Ultra C directly, but I'm interested in opinions on it, because I'm thinking about buying one as well.

I have the BOOX Note Air though. Overall, I really like it. I use it to read books and learning material, do math exercises and occasionally to draw. I love that it's smart (full Android, download any app) and dumb (slow, grayscale, don't get distracted easily) at the same time.

Technically you can use it for browsing the web, however I wouldn't recommend it. It' too slow if you want to hop between different sites. It's only comfortable if you access a specific site to read on for a while. I hope the BOOX Tab Ultra C is faster (I mean it should), but if the web is one of your main use cases, I'd rather go for a proper tablet. Even if the ePaper screen is relatively fast, it's still too slow to be fun. Since you're already experienced using ePaper screen, I'm confident you can judge that for yourself though.

My motivation to get an upgrade is mainly the Note Air quickly slows down when drawing anything semi-complex or above. I can recommend it for reading, taking notes and (limited) drawing. For anything else, I recommend a tablet instead.

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0xCAFE , 5 months ago to Matrix in UnifiedPush support has been announced for Element X, and NeoChat

That's good news, very nice!

0xCAFE , 5 months ago to Privacy in Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox

It's not like they'd develop a new engine for iOS. They already have one which can now be used for iOS as well -- but not everywhere.

0xCAFE , 5 months ago to Privacy in Is there a search engine that filters out cookie wall and paywall pages ?

Yeah, agreed, Marginalia's more suited to discover small-web type of content.

Another thing that'd be better as a daily driver, but requires manual curation, is to filter out specific domains in your searches. Brave supports that with the Goggles feature, Mojeek calls it Focus. AFAIK Kagi too has a similar feature.

I don't know any search engine that's able to fully exculde paywalled content though.

0xCAFE , 5 months ago to Privacy in Is there a search engine that filters out cookie wall and paywall pages ?

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but Marginalia (https://search.marginalia.nu/) focuses on non-commercial and text-based content.

0xCAFE , 1 year ago to Privacy in Privacy Search Engines

Mojeek has it's own index. DuckDuckGo, Qwant and Brave have a partial index mixed with meta search results.