Fediverse, no idea, maybe you’ll get some responses from this thread since lots of such people are looking for work. I would probably try Hacker News freelancer/available threads (first business day of each month) or even post on Craigslist if you’re in the right area.
December HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108940
Unpopular opinion: it’s hard to beat youtube.
Sounds like HBM. Also often the bounding factor is heat, thus dark silicon.
The G Play 2024 didn’t have 5g and people say that’s significant. I got the G Stylus 2023 which was $250 at the time, so I’d consider it midrange. It’s fine, I don’t need a fancier phone. NTN (non terrestrial network i.e. satellite) text comms is the next interesting feature. Currently only in flagships so I can wait for it to reach budget phones.
One is Susan Monarez, a former director of the C.D.C., who was fired by the White House in late August after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to remove her from her position and she resisted leaving. The other is Dr. Debra Houry, a former chief medical officer of the C.D.C., who quit partly in protest over the firing of Dr. Monarez.
I doin’t know anything about either of those, but Monarez was apparently appointed by Trump then fired a month later for resisting RFK idiocy. A good way to go but a not so promising way to enter.
If none of the online and similar stuff works, it might be time for the family to file a missing person report. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agre about a guy who disappeared like that. He was eventually confirmed to be ok, but had apparently decided to go off the map for personal reasons.
There was also a medical researcher whose name I’ve forgotten, who also went dark iike that. Her family eventually found her and she said oh, she hadn’t been up to much, and just didn’t realize that anyone was looking for her. She did some well known work connecting allergies with cancer but I haven’t been able to identify her through a few web searches. Anyone remember?
Added: aha, found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie_Profet
See also: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201205/the-mysterious-case-the-vanishing-genius
Added 2: Oh my, I didn’t know the whole story. Profet apparently had physical and mental health issues, possibly schizophrenia, and she gradually pulled away from people who knew her, rather than suddenly vanishing. After she had been missing for years, the article above found its way to her and she contacted her family. IDK what if anything she has been doing since then, but she appears to still be around. She reminds me a bit of John Forbes Nash, mathematician who was the subject of the book and movie “A Beautiful Mind”. https://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/missing-biologist-surfaces-reunites-with-family.html
Still here, still masking, still avoiding crowds, still uninfected.
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Anyone know if gitea and forgejo are affected?
Person rebuilds an N900 to use a battery eliminator and replace the micro usb port with USB-C, and then sets it up as a media player. Ok but why bother?
It’s still useless as a phone, at least in the US, because the 3G network is dead. Sigh. Its UI was also hopelessly slow, as was the later N9’s.
Thanks, yeah, I’ve been using Ublock Origin plus some local DNS blackholing when browsing on my laptop, and will do the same on a pi if I use one.
Maybe I’ll now see if I can figure out if something is misconfigured on my 400, instead of buying a 5 or 500. I have some FOMO because of expected further increases in ram and ssd prices, but meh.
The pi 4 and pi 5 both have 64 bit cpu architecture, though it’s sort of possible that the 400 has a 32 bit OS (I just used the default one). Maybe I’ll check into it and see if I can run an OS that I’m sure is 64 bit. Thanks!
Ah, oh well, thanks for the effort with homedepot. Yeah all sites on the 400 were bad, but homedepot was especially bad. I guess aliexpress is also pretty bad so if you can view that, it’s a good sign ;).
If you’re in the US, can you homedepot.com on your pi 3? How much ram does it have? That was interesting to hear. Thanks.
Thanks, I actually never tried Firefox on my 400. I only tried the built-in Raspbian browser which I think might be Chromium based. The 400 has 4GB of ram which should really be enough to view any reasonable web page, I hope? I mean just the one page, not 100 open tabs at the same time. Anyway, the 500+ has 16GB of ram, and I browse a lot right now with an x86 laptop with 4GB. So whatever the problem with the 400 was, I don’t think it was ram per se. CPU too slow, SD card too low, browser too slow, some combination of the above.
I got the 400 for purposes unrelated for browsing and it worked fine for that. I only tried browsing a few times and it was awful, so I just didn’t use it for that. But now I think of migrating from my laptop to a Pi 5 or 500, so have to ask about this.
That’s good to hear, thanks. I wonder why the pi 4 is so bad. It’s much worse than my lower-midrange mobile phone, for example.
Lol oops, thanks.
Thanks, I appreciate it. The 400’s built in browser was unusable and I never got around to trying Firefox on it. It didn’t occur to me to try another OS distro. I just used Raspian (what the box came with) and I’ll presumably keep doing so. But the 500’s faster cpu, more ram, and SSD, should all help.
A reddit post I saw suggested Firefox was slowed down due to a ton of small disc writes to the SD card. Maybe it’s better with the SSD.
Do you have to disclose 5 years of social media to get that?
This looks interesting but it’s horrendously long and my eyes glazed over (need more coffee…). Is there a shorter description of what it does? I.e. what are the keys used for and how are they generated? What is it that’s getting encrypted? It sounds like it’s supposed to be E2EE for PM’s. A two or three sentence description saying how the E2EE works and how the private keys are stored would be very helpful.