Tutanota is now Tuta

https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-is-now-tuta

While whether LLMs are intelligent or not is still hotly debated. I think the author's thoughts are very interesting.

This is crazy to me. You can read in a stream of meaningless numbers (tokens) and incidentally build a reasonably accurate model of the real things those tokens represent.

The implications are vast. We may be able to translate between languages that have never had a “Rosetta Stone”. Any animals that have a true language could have it decoded. And while an LLM that’s gotten an 8 year old’s understanding of balancing assorted items isn’t that useful, an LLM that’s got a baby whale’s grasp on whale language would be revolutionary.

Then they know who's the poster (you), they can know your username if they want to. A lot of people use the same username in many places, so unless you use different usernames in different social media, it's still valuable data.

If not that, seeing how the content spreads through social media and analyzing the reach is interesting data by itself.

For brewers like v60, aeropress, hario switch, orea, they're typically very easy and quick to clean. The coffee grounds are being held by the paper filters. Just toss the filter and coffee grounds to the bin and rinse the brewer. With aeropress you just need to rinse the plunger.

In terms of time. It really depends on the brewer and pouring method of choice.

With immersion brewers (aeropress, hario switch, pulsar, etc), longer steep time usually means tastier brews, but it's not mandatory. 2-3 minutes is normally fine, but there's an aeropress recipe where you steep for 9 minutes. Immersion brewers are typically very forgiving and can give you tasty cups of coffee consistently. You can just set a timer and then clean your grinder or prepare breakfast or doing something else in the mean time haha

With percolation brewers (v60, orea, kalita, april, etc), you might want to do multiple pours to get the taste you want. For example, 5 pours of 50ml. So you don't just stand there doing nothing. There are plenty of different recipes with different pouring structures that can give you different cups of coffee. Great for experimenting.

And what does "normal coffee maker" mean in this context? Espresso maker? But normally strong or weak coffee depends on a lot of things. Coffee to brew water ratio, roast level, water temperature, etc.

Wrong sub, but the book sounds interesting.

For local gallery. Simple gallery is better.

But for searching your photos, Google photos is still pretty great.

Get the Baratza Encore ESP, or Fellow Opus.

There's the 5$/month option available if you don't search more than 300 times a month.

Brave might not be better.

https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

Domain registrations are not free. It's an annual fee, I don't think any company will give those out for free. I can recommend using https://www.namecheap.com/ for domain registrations.

They removed 'don't be evil' from their code of conduct 5 years ago.

https://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/

Used thinkpads (like the T480) are a great choice.

I use Manjaro Cinnamon on mine.