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I'd love a local offline alternative, maybe I'll get AI to build it for me

Not trying to be snarky but what is offline dropbox more than a directory?

Syncthing? I'm taking 'offline' to mean 'not requiring the internet', which means you can have plenty of computers!

I use seafile for this. Some people dislike that it has proprietary storage but you can backup from a fuse mount

Samba share?

Old technology still works, even if it is old!


Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not.

And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups.

I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.


iOS has native support for SMB in the Files app

Turning on SMB is usually just a click of a button, even macOS supports it

Any user technical enough to be able to set up an S3 bucket, Syncthing, Nextcloud or this "Locker" tool from OP can also set up an SMB share

I was responding to the above thread, where sharing files on an offline network is being discussed. Backups were not mentioned as a requirement.


Yea, boy, you’d like to think.

But sharing a folder on my Mac with my wife’s MacBook has been a Google diving, arcane command line headache.

I would have thought sharing the folder, and marking ‘everyone’ for all the read/write modes would be enough. But, no.

I guess with APFS it’s a lot more fiddly. It’s not intuitive, and not in the info panel.


Samba, rsync, sshfs, even fusefs... but there's seemingly nothing that can keep your files yours across your own devices without extensive hacking/setup, suspicious EULAs, MitMs, etc. We can build it, but normies can't

I'd argue that as soon as Camacho became aware of Not Sure's IQ test, he reached out. He didn't call on him before because he didn't know he existed (and/or he wasn't around), so he couldn't have helped prior.

If Trump spots a mentally capable person that is also stupid enough to eat his slop (or evil enough), he gets a job.


> If Trump spots a mentally capable person that is also stupid enough to eat his slop (or evil enough), he gets a job.

Isn't that a bit like a wooly mammoth? In theory it could exist but in practice you're not going to find anybody that is both mentally capable and at the same time stupid enough to eat his slop.

That leaves evil enough and there are plenty of those...


There are plenty of intelligent people that are willing to ride on the back of the Trump regime. That seems mostly to be the problem, in fact.

Whoever suggested that using Tariffs to provide a handle to move stocks that they could use to trade, I very much doubt it came from Trump. That was provided the means to keep all the greedy grubbers in the Republican party onside whilst they hid Trump's involvement with Epstein so the train could keep running.

Musk is evil. But he's clever, he knew to over pay for Twitter so he could use it to help swing elections and put himself in political power. He failed to get the response to his salute he expected, and knew enough to slink off into the background (or listen to his advisors telling him that). Amazingly he's still making money hand-over-fist from USA's regime. You'd think standing on a dais and thinking you're Hitler reincarnate would have been enough to make tax-payers rise up; clearly not.

They've absolutely destroyed USA, there is no Constitution now, there's not even lip service to war crime treaties. But there's a lot of intelligent people onboard that we underestimate at our peril.


> he knew to over pay for Twitter so he could use it to help swing elections and put himself in political power.

I currently believe this was accidental on his part, that he was manoeuvred into overpaying by the previous owners.

Nevertheless, I would still count Musk as "intelligent". Not as intelligent as his boosters like to claim (obviously, given the boosters treat him as a god amongst men), but intelligent.

> You'd think standing on a dais and thinking you're Hitler reincarnate would have been enough to make tax-payers rise up; clearly not.

Well, they literally did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Tesla_vandalism


Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

There is Musk, like you said, and there are also Adelson (certainly an important influence on Trump's support for Israel's continued Gaza onslaught), the less-well-known Timothy Melon, and others still. Here's a list:

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-feud-2024-electi...

and they're pretty bad news. But - Trump is not unique in being ridden by interested parties, and in particular, powerful donors or groups-of-donors. His predecessor, Biden, used to be known as "The Senator from MBNA" (That's the large credit card company based in Delaware), due to his devotion to their interests:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/senator-mbna-byron-yo...

and his winning presidential campaign had plenty of funding from Billionaires, although not in such individually high numbers; and from the financial sector more generally:

https://www.investopedia.com/top-donors-to-biden-2020-campai...

and we could go back and look at how Obama's cabinet was pretty much picked by Citigroup:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/15/wiki-o15.html

etc.

Also, looking at war crimes and crimes against humanity - the US has done worse than it's doing now, in the past, even if we count Gaza as the responsibility of the Biden and Trump presidencies. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, East Timor indirectly, all of its South America meddling... yes, there used to be more lip service to the avoidance of international crimes, to the avoidance of outright unprovoked aggression, to the UN, and Trump has stripped most of those remains away, I'll grant you - but he stripped was was rotten and fractured already.


Google tried that and there's still some blood on the wall

Time since paying Google customers had to resort to social media outrage to obtain decent resolution: 0 days

Good luck to you


or Microsoft Copilot for .NET Core

.NET Core does not exist anymore: it was renamed to .NET with .NET 5.0 (skipping version 4.0):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=.NET&oldid=134276...


That's because .Net 4 has been the .Net Framework's current version since 2010. It's basically the same reason they never made Windows 9.

They dropped the Core designation because they're still trying to encourage people to migrate so they can take .Net Framework out behind the shed where Silverlight went. v5 was a convenient time to start that whole process of re-integration.


> That's because .Net 4 has been the .Net Framework's current version since 2010. [...] They dropped the Core designation because they're still trying to encourage people to migrate so they can take .Net Framework out behind the shed where Silverlight went.

Good points/considerations.


Why is spectacular in quotations? I keep seeing this in headlines, is it because they're quoting a single word?

It’s a BBC journalistic standards thing; the BBC doesn’t want to express an opinion about the image, they are relaying that as a quote from someone about the image. The word “spectacular” is attributed to NASA in the article.

It's lazy "editorializing"

Quite the opposite.


Whenever I read stories like this about how hard it is for US people to keep getting the little they've been getting I think of people on the other side. It takes an evil compliance to be the Karen in this article. Zero empathy, zero compassion, you're a row in a spreadsheet. If they'd start caring a little and standing up to what is very obviously wrong, the US would be a much different place. Apply that same logic to "the deep state", military men, etc. It's pretty crazy how much of their situation is their own making, yet they'll happily blame the other side.

To an extent, I agree. At the same time, Karen may be in a similarly desperate situation. While the morally correct position would be to stand up to what is obviously wrong, Karen may need the paycheck to feed her kids. Karen herself is a row in a spreadsheet that the powers that be could replace in a heartbeat.

I'm not suggesting that this is any reason to support evil policies but I try to be sympathetic to struggles I may not be aware of.


This is not a US thing, this is a bureaucracy thing. You can enjoy that worldwide (at least in every "civilized" country).

I can confirm this from France.

We have no idea what "Karens" life is actually like. I can think of about 5,000,000 scenarios that make her the more empathetic person in this interaction. People need jobs, government jobs are low paying but secure. This woman isn't making $100,000 a year just to say no to blind people, she very likely could be just scraping by as well, working in a call center, in a soul destroying government office, getting what little she can without a college degree she has neither the money, nor the time to complete. Maybe she worked hard and paid harder and got the degree and then it meant nothing. Very likely her boss and her both know she is eminently replacable. If she stands up she will be the single blade of grass getting chopped by the implacable mower.

What I'm trying to say is yeah, she could've taken the risk and stood up and said something. He could've beared the pain and sent the correct documentation. He knows the process by now, he had to have known exactly what he needed to send! And yet he chose to needlessly inflict harm on someone who's choice it wasn't theirs to make. The reality of jobs these days is not a give and take, let's all make the world better by democratizing our decisions type world. It's much much worse.


Karen is forced to respect the law. The law around benefits is absolutely full of this exact bullshit in the US, because of 50 years of people screeching about "Welfare queens" which was an invented thing.

It doesn't matter what Karen thinks or wants. It doesn't matter if Karen believes the disabled person or not. It doesn't matter if Karen is physically capable of complex thought or not. If Karen breaks the rules for you, you will end up losing your benefits anyway, possibly forced to pay them back, and Karen loses her job.

Public sector employment pays terribly. People don't really do it because they enjoy it.

There is literal law all over that says "This information can't be in an email for privacy reasons". It's not policy, it's law.

Stop harassing low level bureaucrats and learn some damn civics.

Similarly, when I was a cashier in a grocery store, I had zero ability to refund you, to fix a problem, to bend any rule for example to help you with your WIC process, which was utterly miserable. Oh sorry the pamphlet this week says X bread is the only approved one, it doesn't matter that it causes your child GI distress, nobody is allowed to change it.

Vote for people who aren't trying to hurt disabled people and you will have fewer disabled people being hurt. Stop screeching about "Fraud" that doesn't exist if you want it to be easy for people to get the welfare they need.

All attempts to battle fraud will inherently add friction to the process. Find an optimization point that isn't so hostile to human beings.


Maybe, you'd be absolutely rolled by fraudsters in the opposite case.

In the age of AI of course not, AI is your QA

It's not a fine it's a fee


I'm amazed Microslop let us keep GitHub this long. Probably because they're training AI on it? To have a direct line to developers? I don't see why else they would've bothered with something that was so anti everything they stood for


What does Microsoft stand for?


Making Incrementally Crappier Repositories, Operating Systems, Office and any Future Technology


you misspelled MicroSlop


Control. Gatekeeping. Profits. Proprietary technology. Licenses.


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