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Thank you! I dont knoe if UnionPay would be better, but I did not know about it, so thank you for mentioning it!
Are there any up and coming alternates that someone in the US can use? Would love to support something beyond visa/mastercard. Or Paypal/google pay, etc. Wero not yet accessible, Taler seems to have no providers yet?
I think its budgeting features are lackluster, but I have highly enjoyed gnucash for tracking my expenses, incime & where everything goes.
It's all manual more or less, and you do double ledger accounting, so all the money is accounted for somewhere.
This looks delicious, and about my speed. Thank you for sharing!
This looks amazing!
Not reallt cooking... But I like making hoshigaki (dried persimmon essentially)
This looks awesome, and I'll explore it a bit. I love this being open source, and it looks very clean.
I'm going to pull a prior post, because I think ALL could be potential improvements for your utility. Feedback mainly sensible for Kana, but it could be applied to kanji with significant effort.
I like these resources for practicing kana:
- https://gohoneko.neocities.org/learn/kana
- it's like most other "type what you see" quizzes, but I like that it has a good selection of handwritten fonts that normalize different strokes/styles, so you can practice identifying the character written a number of ways
- https://studykana.com/practice-reading
- just a typing test. Gives you an excuse/motivation to try to go fast. I wish it had more words, or a way to upload a word dictionary, etc. (I think your app already includes a time test but I havent yet explored. I like that the above link isn't multiple choice)
I would LOVE for it to detect when you commonly confuse two characters and then offer to give you a short drill of just those characters to reinforce.
OR if you could have a "good probability" of including easily confused characters in the multiple choice. Me/nu, wa/re/ne, chi/sa, can be easily confused. I havent done drills in a long while and I know roughly the shape I'm looking for, but would stuggle to differentiate some of these cases. With 3 multiple choice - odds are good I can guess whichever is present.
Does anyone use Blaze? ( https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze )
I always thought it looked promising, even supporting peer-peer transfer, so in theory if you are transferring to multiple destinations multiple folks would seed.
Edit: ah, ni commits for the last 2 years
So, I'll start by saying that I think FUTO may have changed their messaging on their website TODAY Regarding this. They now have three split sections,
- what they develop/fund
- "sponsored grants" (logos used)
- "donations, ~60K" (logos not used)
That seems more sensible if they have small donations to OSS efforts or individuals who maintain them. It would be excellent for every group listed to review if they or any developer received donations from FUTO and publically decry falsity (as the 3 in the article mentioned)
Videos:
I don't know Yarvin, don't know shit about him. But wikipedia entry on him is not heartwarming. It does seem an odd choice to have the two videos posted by FUTO. The one is fairly mundane, but the interview with Rossman is just strange as hell in general, and disconcerting. rossman mostly just seems uncomfortable as heck. And Yarvin seems like an insufferable know it all who wants to explain everything and not give anybody the chance to complete their thought.
So I'd say endorsing this video is a dark side to FUTO. It should have been easy to stay mostly apolitical and focus on ownership and software. Not conversations about the efficacy of monarchy.
FUTO manifesto/open source:
I can at least palate that a group could think that open source is not working. There are successes and failures. Linux is a great success. Android is becoming less so as it is dominated more by vendors & Google. Talent, resources, time is continually sunk into would-be inferior software at companies. Those softwares that have closed source, harvest our data, and ultimately don't have our interests in mind - are often more polished, and attractive to the majority of users out there. One or two people primarily heading an open source repo can often make an awesome competitive software, but perhaps not as polished and with the threat of losing time to maintain it, archive the repo, etc. In that regard, offering optional licenses to pay base wages to attract talent while still letting you verify the code you execute - could still be appealing if successful.
I believe in FOSS, and will embrace & use it til I die, but I'm willing to entertain they have a difference in opinion on what will most advance our interests.
I'll take a look at the interviews later tonight.
A few minor items stuck out as a bit disingenuous to me:
The donation page that FUTO used includes this explanation: “This offer is for individuals, and may be available to small organizations on request. Commercial entities wishing to be listed as sponsors should inquire by email.” It’s pretty clear that there are special instructions for institutional donors who wish to receive musl’s endorsement as thanks for their contribution.
It DOES say that, but literally only for the "monthly contribution > 150 section. For a one time grant of 1000 dollars, it doesn't appear to say anything.
FUTO appears to list efforts it has donated to (and use their name/logo), under the title, "Our sponsored grant programs". Which to me seems more of a semantic argument of whether they can say they've donated to something or not.
The inclusion of a logo without permission is a good critique, nonetheless. Likewise, if they are lying about donating to some of these projects, that is a problem.
- The author makes a point of complaining about a video posted to odysee. There are not many great options for posting videos outside of Youtube. That FUTO would post videos to multiple other youtube alternatives, including odysee and peertube does not seem like a surprise to me. Not saying anything about the video though, until I've sat and watched.
Thanks!
Telemetry: I was able to find it, but it was already disabled. Maybe i noticed and unchecked it when I initially setup.
Donate button: Ah, I see where you mean. Interestingly I do not see it when accessing from my mobile device, either as a mobile site or requesting a desktop site. But when accessing it from a desktop browser I do see it in the bottom left.
A quick test shows ublock origin can block the element from showing. I believe that even if the user donates, it is not sufficient to hide this button, and the user must opt to pay for Kavita+ which is a subscription, not a one time license/etc, and forgoing it may lock other features a user is interested in.
https://wiki.kavitareader.com/donating/ https://wiki.kavitareader.com/kavita+/
I've been running Kavita for a year and a half +, and honestly cannot tell where the donate button is, other than going into the settings and clicking the "kavita+" selection. Maybe I'm oblivious. Can you share what you're seeing? As well with the telemetry option?
The release tags cannot be changed or removed from the commit they were applied to. You cannot reuse a tag.
Immutable releases include protection against repository resurrection attacks. Even if you delete a repository and create a new one with the same name, you cannot reuse tags that were associated with immutable releases in the original repository.This one for me too! I've been very happy.
I try to minimize use of browser extensions, but i have the phone & desktop application. Nextcloud/whatever you run for syncing. I also back up those files through rsync to encrypted volume in a cloud provider (so double encrypted), so that if the worst should happen, I can still access the last version.
It's worth noting that you can manage OTP through it. When you add to your phone's OTP manager, you can also add it to Keepass, so you wont be up shit creek if your phone dies. Personally I would make a separate volume for your OTP, so you retain dual verification, even if someone should gain access to one of the two.
You misunderstand; regardless of what is shown to other users, the folks running the service know your number, and that you desire using encrypted chat.
I don't think innovation in the space is bad.
But I do think its complicated by distinction between where the energy comes from, how we get it, and how its stored.
We are largely pursuing electricity, which although imperfect, has the advantages:
- inertia of electric cars
- we already have an (imperfect) distribution system
- the source of that power can be changed.
distribution & competition
Gas has huge market share in part due to the fact it has a huge distribution system in place. If we use hydrogen, or something else, then scaling up production, getting it where it needs to be, and having the right new/clean equipment to get it into your car all has to be worked out.
If we have multiple competing technologies, then the user base is fragmented, and its difficult to trust that you will reliably find energy for road trips outside your normal stomping ground.
We have electricity almost everywhere, and many modern cars can be charged slowly even via 120VAC. So IMO it is the most likely candidate to compete vs gas, but would be invigorated by minimizing competition to encourage scaling fast chargers as "the choice".
source of power
Electricity & batteries are (and store) the energy used, but where the power comes from is a different matter. Some places may source it entirely from renewable energy, some may source it from coal, or gas, etc. With electricity as the medium, we can phase from non-renewable to renewable as we improve. The ability to not care where power came from is quite powerful. If you have an alternate fuel that is 0% emissions, the electric cars can also benefit from it. All of that can happen behind the scenes with end users none the wiser.
imperfect
Electricity is far from perfect. The grids are probably undersized for fullscale use. Conversion, tranamiasion, and storage of electricity leads to Significant losses. Cold temperature impacts the battery. Mining for batteries, battery disposal/renewal etc. There's a lot wrong.
But it's what we've got so far that seems like it has the potential to break the stranglehold that gas has, and would still allow for innovation in where the energy comes from.
I'd say the two are different but related.
Seems OP is discussing the loss of anonymity, but the below ARE privacy concerns:
- Someone obtaining my number who does not absolutely need it
- Someone knowing who I am, and knowing I do or do not use a service
Granted that it is difficult to completely obfuscate some aspects of your identity.
2FA is important, but if you use your phone number for anything, you have no idea how long they retain it, how they directly use it, if they sell it, etc. A real phone number can be mapped back to you trivially.
It should be standard to offer TOTP codes that can be used via an authenticator app, hardware key, etc. Aome places do, many do not.
But at the end of the day, they typically don't ask for your phone number because they want to give you security, but rather as a proxy to ensure you have a unique identity. Most people will have only one phone number, and it will be more difficult / costly to get additional ones than burner emails, etc.
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At least from the wikipedia article, seems UnionPay can be used wherever Discover is accepted, as they have an inter-operative agreement.
It's true it is an alternative, but it doesnt seem like a beneficial switch either.