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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

"In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools." […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

You may notice that I left out social media so far. Once I publish the browser extension, I might accept PRs for that, but I don't want to see those on my own dashboards.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I made my own new-tab dashboard (somewhat similar to Momentum) that aggregates notifications from all kinds of places, but now I have to look at my ~1K unread RSS articles every time I open a new tab. Fortunately, that number is only from a handful of […] [Original post on kosmos.social]

Site icons with notification badges. A feedbin bage shows 977 unread items.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I'm only commenting on this, because I saw the same post shared by 4 different people on my timeline within a mere hour.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Posting the orange man's latest post, with some snarky comment telling us what an idiot that guy is, proves less about his mental capacity and more about his successful social media strategy that caused you to share his post.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@kmj Wait, AI training has nothing to do with copyright. There's no value in the AI reproducing the exact image, and producing a similar, fake photo is a completely different product. I thought you were talking about removing the watermark in order for someone else to sell the photo or something.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@kmj You just said the market can't work that way anymore, unless we all spend money on protecting that model with intrusive government action. Markets have to change, when technologies change.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@kmj This is actually a great example, where the human labor is still impossible to replace with AI.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@kmj If a press photographer doesn't want their photos used, then they should not publish them for free on the open Web. They should sell the photo to a publication that has value from publishing it first.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@kmj This sounds like what MPAA lawyers would have said in the 2000s.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

> "Local sources reported that a 2.5 million barrel capacity supertanker that was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz illegally was hit 8 kilometers off the coast of Oman and is burning," reports Fars It's weird how blatantly Iranian news are confirming that the vessel was in someone else's […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

This looks like a nice cycling route: www.komoot.com/collection/4008566/-… I participated in the very first Tour de Friends across the alps, many years ago, and it was a fantastic experience. Can't make it to Japan this November, but I'll keep this saved […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@dino I was just looking at Dino releases, and the last one is from April 2025. However, there are 112 unreleased commits in master: github.com/dino/dino/compare/v0.5.1… Wondering why the release cycle is so long. Is there some kind of blocker for publishing all those […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I was happily video-conferencing on Proton Meet from Firefox last week, and now it says my browser isn't supported. The same thing happened to Jitsi Meet a couple of years ago. Is it really that impossible to support multiple browsers, when all of your product is supposedly based on Web Standards?

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

> UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon. > Following the legal progress as announced in the Nitter GitHub project. The XCancel service is resumed. xcancel.com/cdclegal

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Dealing with things in 4 different time zones today. Flat Earth would be so convenient.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

"Hetzner — it's so cheap, it's basically stealing from Germans." www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5GTwBTCQJI

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@heiseonline Ausgang ist nicht mehr offen. Ihr seid zu langsam.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@liaizon And you're not even talking about a German colony by the way. Should East-Afriancs give up writing, because the Germans introduced Latin writing for Swahili?

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@liaizon I'm replying to you insinuating that I don't understand something, which you refuse to explain. If you take your insinuated argument to its logical conclusion, then there's not much left in historic documents to explain much of human history. Are you saying the Romans' accounts about […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@liaizon Look, if you have an actual point to make, I'm all ears. I'm really not a fan of insinuations and hand-waving. I always keep an open mind to everything, and I'll gladly consider any actual explanations for your distaste of his work. So far your *only* point is that the illustration was […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@liaizon You could try with at least one actual point instead of nothing at all. "After the Franco-German War Mützel started illustrating some of the more important encyclopedias of the time" "Mützel's diverse interests also led to his membership of the German Society for Anthropology […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@liaizon Those are very nice paintings IMO. Not sure why you would consider them "fucked up".

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I'm a complete idiot for not properly checking out hledger before last week.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Correction: the EU (a supranationalist governmental organization) is not the same as "Europe". Either way, they're doing their best to continue building moats around large corporations, while crushing small business all across the region […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@andreijiroh.dev @apenwarr.ca That's still very unspecific. I also didn't ask about Cloudflare, which is uninteresting to me. ZeroTier has no issues setting up multiple network interfaces for multiple private networks, while sharing the same client identity/keys across all of them.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@andreijiroh.dev @apenwarr.ca Can you name the specific risks? And how does ZeroTier mitigate them? Is it a WireGuard problem?

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Also, how on Earth do they solely provide remote authentication options, except for passkeys, which I can't really use on my fully FOSS setup?

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Using Tailscale for the first time, in order to connect to someone else's network. Is it really not possible to have the same device/instance join multiple tailnets at the same time?

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@daniel Good that they adopt it, but terrible having to read AI-generated text. It's so tiresome.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Heat brain is a real thing. No amount of hydration is enough to overcome the negative effects of being too hot for extended periods of time. (Not even speaking of the serious health risks for vulnerable groups.)

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Finally had a decent night of sleep, after marinating in my own sweat for a week or so. Got a 18K BTU mini split installed, which cools around a third of the ground floor down to more reasonable temperatures now. Still waiting for a 12K unit to be installed on the other end of the ground floor […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

> Cypriot authorities first introduced financial incentives in 2024 to encourage fishermen to help support a government-backed eradication scheme by removing them from the waters. > Since its introduction, more than 100 tonnes of the pufferfish - which has no natural predators - has been […]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

> Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses > Apple has failed to fix it for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email…

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

This might just be the dumbest #woodworking idea I've attempted to realize so far. Instead of making my first butcher block a reasonable size, i..e. a simple cutting board, I took some laminated oak offcuts from a friend and am currently trying to turn them […] [Original post on kosmos.social]

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

You know the little overflow inlet that prevents water from running out of your sink in case it fills up entirely? I just saw a slightly larger one in a reservoir lake:

Big concrete overflow inlet in a reservoir lake

The same inlet, seen from far away, looking much smaller

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Râu Cao ⚡ @raucao.kosmos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

> Dialog, a private invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, has spent two decades refusing to disclose its membership. > The records sat in Airtable, a commercial database, and included for each participant their membership status, every retreat […]

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