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blackboxwarrior

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  • privacy recommendations for a digital journal?

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  • Obsidian is closed source - if I shift away from my current system I’d prefer something open source.

    Out of curiosity, any ideas why so many people around FOSS/linux spaces recommend obsidian, despite it being closed source?

  • privacy recommendations for a digital journal?

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  • I do keep a physical journal on me, and I love it! It’s great for sketching, mapping out thoughts with others, and quick writing on the go, but it doesn’t fit this use case.

    Given the volume of writing I do, I don’t think hand-writing is feasible. The last few years average out to about 2000 words a day, and most of it is done on computers where I can comfortably type for long periods, and much faster than I could write by hand.

    In addition, I need something queryable. Beyond just a ctrl+f search across my notes, I embed all of my notes and store in a vector db so I can group by semantic similarity.

  • privacy recommendations for a digital journal?

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  • I find it convenient to be able to write notes on whatever machine I have with me at the time - desktop, laptop(s), or phone. If I only had one device I used, it would be easier to keep a backup on local storage. With multiple devices I prefer to have up-to-date notes on each device, and so I've leaned more towards remote storage and peer-to-peer file synchronization. This does add some security holes, but it's acceptable within my threat model. Frankly, I've never used local storage across multiple devices because I don't know how to do that, if it can be done with Borg but I will check it out!

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  • Thanks a bunch for the suggestion, I will definitely check out Joplin's E2EE syncing. I guess I should have been more specific; I'm looking more for a way to store and synchronize notes, rather than a tool to edit them. Given that my notes are all nearly all text, most of the time I edit notes using vim or vscodium.

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    blackboxwarrior @lemmy.ml

    privacy recommendations for a digital journal?

  • What IDE do you use and why ?

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  • VSCode! I’m yet to find another editor that runs as smoothly on remote machines. Zed has been getting much better at this, but it’s still too buggy to consider a switch.

  • Is too much self-awareness bad?

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  • I think self-awareness can be a really positive tool to break yourself out of restrictive situations and thought patterns that may be causing you harm. I’ve found this to be true in my own life, with journaling in particular being one of the most beneficial kinds of self reflection. It’s gotten me out of bad relationships, living situations, and addictions.

    That said, self-awareness that stares at a wall of things-you-can’t-actually-change can definitely be depressing.

  • Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces

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  • Same here. Such a jarring and upsetting way to start a morning

  • Running local LLMs for privacy as an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc.?

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  • didn’t even downvote, i suspect taking time to explain something you disagree with in a nuanced matter is more effort than most people would care to do

  • Running local LLMs for privacy as an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc.?

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  • “respect your privacy” is a vague buzzword phrase, and for a post about local LLMs linking a client that calls APIs which log user data is unhelpful

  • Running local LLMs for privacy as an alternative to ChatGPT, MS Copilot etc.?

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  • Ollama used to be Facebook's proprietary model

    Just to be clear, llama is the facebook model, ollama is the software that lets you run llama, along with many other models.

    Ollama has internet access (otherwise how could it download models?), the only true privacy solution is to run in a container with no internet access after downloading models, or air gap your computer.

  • Recommend me good e-reader

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  • I've been extremely happy with my boox go 10.3! Crazy long battery life (on the order of months; no backlight and i keep wifi off), amazing reading experience (looks basically indistinguishable from paper) and writing experience is good enough as someone who doesn't write often on it.

  • Office dwellers, what software/website or system do you use to keep track of tasks you need to do?

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  • I use jira software for task management! It’s just me on the team, so it’s maybe a bit overkill, but I’ve found scrum / sprints to be massively helpful in prioritizing important work.

    It sucks jira is in the cloud, but I’m yet to find an open source scrum system with the same features. Taiga.io comes close, but i don’t yet have a reason to switch; i’ve been using Jira for two years with no issues.

  • What is a recent(or maybe significant) thing that you learnt to do(or taught someone else to do) that was pretty good and think more people should know of or try out?

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  • i’d love a reading list! i have read a bit of marxist-inspired thought but never much marxism itself

  • [TW] Dating

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  • I’m sorry to hear you’re going through this qt, it can be really tough. I found myself in a similar spot when I transitioned and moved to a rural area. It’s been two years since then and i’m extremely happy in a T4T relationship.

    On “feeling like a freak,” yeah, I get that. It sucks to feel that way. Part of that perception changes with time as hormones do their thing and you fit more into a feminine role… part of it doesn’t go away. I think it’s important to realize that if people are around you and being friendly they likely don’t think you’re a freak, and acting as if they do will just make it awkward. You’re not a pervert for being trans and liking cis women. Be confident and love yourself.

    Feel free to reach out if you need someone to talk to <3 all will be alright.

  • Where to find reliable reviews/ratings for movies?

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  • I find that rogerebert.com ’s reviews are pretty solid. I use that for a quick tool to decide if I want to watch something - I don’t think i’ve ever been disappointed by a film they rated 3.5-4 stars.

  • Zed on Linux is out!

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  • I am BEGGING for any editor other than VSCode to have decent remote development. I want to go open source but everything I've tried (remote-nvim, distant, tramp, vscodium, etc.) just doesn't cut it.

  • How do you navigate loneliness when striving to break free from societal norms?

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    blackboxwarrior @lemmy.ml

    How do you navigate loneliness when striving to break free from societal norms?

  • Why people gave up using linux?

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  • If you’re committed to word-style documents instead of LaTeX, pandoc is a great way to convert between word and the style of your choice (for me, markdown). I made a bunch of additional scripts to assist in conversion between the two.

    That said, LaTeX is often a better choice. I’ve settled into a combination of overleaf / git / vscode / LaTeX that keeps my collaborators (and myself) happy.

  • Why people gave up using linux?

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  • I gave up on linux because it made academic collaboration difficult as a grad student. I spent too long trying to make a system to bridge the gap between mac/windows and linux, and not enough time on research. Professors don’t care that you use arch btw, they just want results, and will not be forgiving if you explain that linux is what’s slowing you down.