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In the GrapheneOS environment, people usually mention Curve for NFC payments. I haven’t used it myself, but it looks a lot more mature than Walt is right now.

Also, how European is a solution that still is backed by Visa and Mastercard?

File browser quantum allows for file sharing, supports Authentik through OIDC, and doesn’t mess with the data on disk.

In computational biology / biotechnology, LLMs are being trained on biological sequences and can then be used to generate new genes or genetic variants. These genes can be placed into bacteria who are then fed with e.g. sugar to make them produce various valuable molecules from renewable resources instead of from crude oil using conventional chemistry. There is also work on enabling plastic biodegradation this way.

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If you are into custom ROMs, you probably don’t want to get a recent OnePlus phone

LOS can also be a good way to get updates way longer than what the phone’s manufacturer will provide them for.

No, it uses the WebView that comes with the operating system to minimize memory usage.

Telling tall tales about your height? Not a sign of greatness

I am very happy with Netcup. https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps

Ah, missed the line in the article about secondary tariffs. Thanks for pointing it out to me. A 100% tariff on China and India until they stop importing Russian oil would indeed be very disruptive

What I’m missing from the articles is putting the potential consequences of the threatened tariffs into context. In 2024, Russian imports into the USA were 3.27 billion USD, whereas the GDP of the Russian economy in 2024 was 2.17 trillion. Even if there is fakery in the reported GDP, exports to the USA are likely less than 1% of the Russian economy

You can sign git commits using SSH keys, including the one you use to connect to GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg. These sites also support verifying the signature.

German soldiers can refuse orders under certain conditions (e.g. if they against human dignity)

I prefer KeePass over Bitwarden because it is just a simple database file, less that can go wrong (no server component).

I am the original author of the Rust library for decrypting and modifying KeePass databases.. The current best implementation of KeePass, KeePassXC, is written in C++, so there could theoretically be security-relevant memory corruption bugs in it (though the developers of the project are excellent and I don’t think it is super likely). Rust is a language that does not have that class of issues by design, so I thought it would be interesting to see how far I could get. So far, I am still having fun and adding features bit by bit, and it is quite cool to me to be able to write one codebase that deploys to Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android (potentially iOS), and any modern web browser.

Our son is fortunately very relaxed, he eats and sleeps a lot so I can get some coding done while he is sleeping. Germany has decent parental leave, so my partner and I are both not working the first two months of his life.

Thanks! Our son is a bit less than a month old. The wife, our son, and https://omnikee.github.io/ are three different projects 😂

I’m taking care of a newborn and doing some FOSS work, so that project has been deprioritized for now 😅

I am administering several other docker servers and a k8s cluster from the command line, so I’m well aware what I’m missing 😀 - in this case, I was hoping for a higher wife approval factor, which is at least partially there.

Thanks for the portainer on unraid tip. I set up portainer itself yesterday but will have to get around to migrating the 30 or so already deployed containers to it.

Since it doesn’t come installed by default on a fresh system, my guess would be that you won’t break anything fundamental, but this is pure speculation.

Yeah, I’m currently running unraid on it because I wanted a hands-off maintenance experience.

While it’s nice to get started, I’m really missing even intermediate Docker features such as support for compose files (so that there is some grouping of main services with the database instance that supports it, etc). Still, it’s been working reliably for the year that I’ve had it.

Edit: I have tried the Docker Compose Manger plugin but didn’t find the experience an improvement because of the way the YAML editing works

Is keeping the servers where they currently are (or with a friend) an option? Then you could just VPN into it from abroad.

If that isn’t an option, I’m currently running a homebuilt NAS off an Intel N100 Mini-ITX mainboard and I’m impressed with how many services it can run simultaneously, including Quick Sync Video for hardware transcoding.