An in-person conference centered around the fediverse is happening this Friday and Saturday at UBC Robson Square in Vancouver, BC.

Put on by reiver@mastodon.social, it is bringing together a number of big names including Evan Prodromou (of AP fame), Dan Supernault (Pixelfed creator), and more!

> 🎉 FediCon is in 1 day!
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>If you already have a FediCon ticket, you should receive this reminder e-mail message.
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>See you there!
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>...
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>🌐 FediCon
>📍 Vancouver (Canada)
>🗓️ August 1-2
>ℹ️ fedicon.ca
>🎟️ lu.ma/p4bbb941
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>🥳 lu.ma/kowist5x
>🥳 lu.ma/reg4appv

I'll be on stage speaking about some of ActivityPub's "hard problems", and what people are doing to fix them. It's a rehash and expansion of a talk I gave at FOSDEM this past February.

Are there threadiverse related problems? I'd imagine so. Would love to include them in my presentation.

FediCon — Fediverse Conference

2 day Fediverse Conference on August 1st and 2nd, 2025

^fedicon.ca

Brilliant Labs is the startup behind Frame, the open-source smart glasses designed for hackers and other creative types. Today, the company is launching Halo, a new pair of glasses that, predictably for the age we live in, are being sold on the back of their AI features. Halo is a wayfarer-style pair (compared to the Panto-styled Frame) and, if you’re a spectacles wearer, you’ll be able to get prescription lenses in more than 100 countries thank to a partnership with SmartBuyGlasses.

Brilliant is happy to brag that Halo includes a camera, microphone and bone-conduction speakers in its slender chassis. A natural pitfall of many smart glasses has been the compromises necessary to keep weight down while still offering enough functionality to be useful. Being able to keep the weight to a trim 40 grams is one hell of an achievement, especially given the glasses have a color OLED display and a battery that promises to run for 14 hours on a single charge.

Unfortunately, instead of a display that overlays onto the lens, Halo "works" by projecting into your peripheral vision. I’ll be honest, these displays are becoming more of an irritation the more I use them, especially compared to models that have prisms inside the lenses.

Brilliant Labs launches its second-generation smart glasses

Brilliant Labs' new smart glasses are the Halo.

^{Daniel Cooper (Engadget)}

In tutti i dosaggi "abbiamo osservato una buona e rapida biodisponibilità", il che significa che il farmaco non si è scomposto rapidamente nell'organismo, afferma Mannowetz. In media, ci sono voluti dai due ai tre giorni perché i livelli di disponibilità del farmaco nel sangue si riducessero della metà, un risultato promettente che suggerisce che la pillola potrebbe essere necessaria solo una volta al giorno se in seguito si dimostrasse efficace nel ridurre lo sperma. Mannowetz prevede che il dosaggio finale che sarà disponibile nei negozi se il farmaco verrà approvato dalla Food and Drug Administration statunitense sarà probabilmente più vicino alla dose più elevata testata, 180 mg, anche se studi di follow-up aiuteranno a determinare la dose ottimale esatta.

Il team di ricerca non ha rilevato effetti collaterali avversi correlati al farmaco. Un vantaggio di un contraccettivo non ormonale è che, in teoria, c'è una minore probabilità di alcuni effetti collaterali come alterazioni della funzione sessuale, della libido o dell'umore.

Male Birth Control Pill YCT-529 Passes Human Safety Test

A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A metabolite has just concluded its first safety trial in humans, getting a step closer to increasing male contraceptive options

^{Hannah Seo (Scientific American)}

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tea-app-leak-worsens-with-second-database-exposing-user-chats/

https://gizopedia.com/jiopc-vs-acer-nitro-lite-16-rtx-complete-guide-to-ai-ready-laptops-in-2025/

L’altro giorno ho scoperto una cosa bellissima, che pare una moda dell’epoca a cui risale, mentre ora invece è roba vecchia e dimenticata… di almeno 3 anni fa, su YouTube… (io come al solito arrivo sempre tardi, e figuriamoci): i “subliminals” per finire in ospedale, in coma, o anche peggio; in ogni caso, per liberarsi […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-07-31 14:21:07

subliminalaggio delle varie fini con musichette e videini

L’altro giorno ho scoperto una cosa bellissima, che pare una moda dell’epoca a cui risale, mentre ora invece è roba vecchia e dimenticata… di almeno 3 anni fa, su YouTube… (io come al solito arrivo sempre tardi, e figuriamoci): i “subliminals” per finire in ospedale, in coma, o anche peggio; in ogni caso, per liberarsi di tutte le responsabilità e le seccature, augurandosi che semplicemente dal fato arrivi, da un momento all’altro, senza fare niente personalmente, del bel meritato riposo!!! 🥰

youtube.com/watch?v=wCjz9rEp1K…

All’atto pratico non è nulla di assurdo o estremo: sono semplicemente dei video con musichette di sottofondo rilassanti (o a volte no), che vanno dal calmo kawaii a semplici rumori ambientali, e un’immaginetta a tema a schermo, cosa che potrebbe lasciare sicuramente in confusione dato il resto del contesto… Nella sostanza, invece, sono praticamente delle ambientazioni sensoriali messe su per favorire quelle che pare si chiamino “affermazioni subliminali“, molte delle quali sono puntualmente inserite in enormi listoni in descrizione al video, e si ricollegano ovviamente all’oggetto dello stesso… 🤯

Queste asserzioni subliminali, a loro volta, in sostanza sono non altro che delle “preghiere atee”, passatemi il termine, dove semplicemente si esprime un desiderio dicendo la cosa in questione al tempo presente, come se fosse già realtà, o al futuro prossimo, come se si ha la certezza che diventerà realtà a breve. Non ho ben capito nella pratica come si usano — se si devono dire a mente, ad alta voce, o che — ma, stando ai commenti (per quanto ci si possa mai fidare dei commentatori medi di YouTube), a differenza delle preghiere religiose, queste qui sembrano statisticamente funzionare abbastanza… (Ho trovato in realtà per caso anche un video che spiegherebbe come si usano questi contenuti, ma non l’ho guardato, vabbè: “This is how you PROPERLY listen to subliminals | law of assumption“) 💣

Ma, ovviamente, il “🦋coma forzato🦋 (ascolta una volta)” è solo la punta della piramide di ghiaccio galleggiante (“iceberg”), e un po’ lo si scopre semplicemente seguendo i video correlati, mentre per il resto è bastata qualche ricerca ad intuito. Da un lato questi subliminali sono usati per le cose più assurde e irrealistiche, come che ne so, avere la pelle pulita, o ottenere bei soldi, o superare gli esami, o in generale avere fortuna… mentre dall’altro, appunto, si scende fino alla morte!!! Ma anche solo di questi “negativi” è pieno, sono tantissimi, tant’è che anche riassumerli tutti in questo post non è il caso… ma, quelli che ho trovato finora li lascio in una lista qui: memos.octt.eu.org/m/SEGBfde5dx…. (Alcuni hanno musiche davvero belline.) 😻

In generale, mi colpisce che alcuni si impegnano molto a creare questi robi… soprattutto 1 (un) canale, che esce praticamente per qualsiasi query relativa al finire in ospedale, “chai’s hospital“, e che purtroppo trovo allucinante, ma ha video per tipo 20 condizioni mediche diverse, terminali e non. Sul morire direttamente si va invece un po’ sull’impossibile, perché, mentre alcuni si fermano al creare affermazioni per avere un infarto o arresto cardiaco (cose che possono capitare), molti altri vanno sul “respawnare” in un’altra realtà o cose di quel tipo, che per quanto sappiamo sono fisicamente impossibili, e quindi probabilmente cazzate belle e buone. Però oh, quelle plausibili sono già tante e sufficienti… 😳🙏

#subliminals

chai's hospital

♡Important Information♡ + + + Hi! My name's Chai and I run this account :) I go by any pronouns. I always prioritize requests! Here's some info if you'd like to request a subliminal: -I only do subliminals that are medical-related/fit the theme o…

^YouTube

https://apnews.com/article/spacex-musk-starlink-china-satellites-759e53143378357ce3af21ca8a6916df

Recently, we reported on LibreOffice, accusing Microsoft of intentionally using complex file formats as a tactic to lock in users to Microsoft Office, hindering open source alternatives like LibreOffice.
Now, Microsoft has banned LibreOffice developer, Mike Kaganski, from using its services, citing an "activity that violates [its] Services Agreement".

According to Mike, this happened last Monday when he tried to send a technical email to the LibreOffice dev mailing list, which is a normal part of his routine, but Thunderbird returned an error saying the message couldn't be sent. His account was blocked upon retry, and he found himself completely logged out of his Microsoft account.....

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in helping him recover it.

^{David Uzondu (Neowin)}

Dal 2 al 9 agosto Sestriere ospita la 15ª edizione del Sestriere Film Festival, ogni sera alle 21 al cinema Fraiteve (ingresso libero). Novità 2025: incontri pomeridiani a Casa Olimpia, mentre il ritrovo per gli “Amici del Festival” sarà al bar QB. L’evento è organizzato da Montagna Italia con il Comune di Sestriere, il contributo del Consiglio regionale del Piemonte, della Camera di commercio e il patrocinio della Città metropolitana di Torino.

Il Festival è un crocevia internazionale per alpinisti, appassionati, registi e fotografi, con proiezioni di documentari, fiction e cortometraggi dedicati a montagne e regioni estreme, raccontando il rapporto tra uomo e natura e promuovendo la difesa dei territori remoti.

Accanto alla rassegna cinematografica si affiancano due concorsi: uno internazionale per registi e produttori che hanno realizzato opere dedicate alle Terre Alte e uno fotografico, aperto a professionisti e amatori. Il pubblico voterà la foto preferita tra quelle proiettate ogni sera. Entrambi i bandi rientrano nel circuito “Spirit of the Mountain”.

Novità anche il concorso letterario “Racconti di montagna - Sestriere Film Festival 2025”, in collaborazione con il Centro Studi Cultura e Società.

La serata inaugurale, sabato 2 agosto, vedrà il concerto della banda della Brigata Alpina Taurinense e la proiezione del film del 1910 “Sul tetto del mondo. Viaggio di S.A.R. il Duca degli Abruzzi al Karakorum”, musicato dal vivo. Domenica 3 agosto sarà dedicata a Pier Giorgio Frassati, in occasione del centenario della sua scomparsa, con il film “Verso l’alto”.

Venerdì 8 agosto a Casa Olimpia Davide Bracco della Film Commission Torino Piemonte presenterà l’esperienza di “Fuochi d’artificio” in Val di Susa. Sabato 9 agosto al Fraiteve si terrà la premiazione.

Dal 3 al 10 agosto l’iniziativa “Cammina con il Festival” propone otto escursioni gratuite con le guide alpine. Programma completo su www.montagnaitalia.com/sestriere-film-festival

Dal 2 al 9 agosto 2025 il Sestriere Film Festival, con gli appuntamenti pomeridiani a Casa Olimpia - ViaggieMiraggi

Appena conclusa la prima edizione del Sestriere Sport Awards Film Festival, si affaccia nel panorama delle iniziative culturali nelle montagne olimpiche la quindicesima edizione del Sestriere Film Festival, in programma dal 2 al 9 agosto tutte le ser…

^{Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)}

A group representing several major airlines alongside travel companies and airports is opposing a Senate bill that would require the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to generally use manual ID verification at security checkpoints instead of facial recognition.

The bill, introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), would broadly restrict TSA’s ability to use biometrics and facial recognition, carving out a few exemptions for the agency’s PreCheck and other Trusted Traveler programs. Passengers may still opt in to the use of facial recognition at the checkpoint.

In a letter Monday to Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the air industry groups said the law was a “step backward” and that facial recognition technology made security screenings far more efficient.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5425633-senate-facial-recognition-travel-security/

FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester
The criminal complaint lists a pink gas mask and a forearm tattoo as distinct clues that led investigators to use third-party software to help make an arrest.

"Technology has transformed the act of being in public," Crump said. "People who engage in political protests need to understand that it's very difficult to do that anonymously."

Since June, 23 people have been arrested on charges connected to ICE protests in Southeast Portland.

KGW News

KGW is the NBC TV affiliate in Portland, Oregon, delivering the latest news, weather, traffic and sports for Oregon and SW Washington on TV, online at kgw.com and on mobile via the free KGW News app: on.kgw.

^YouTube

Trump’s tariffs are aimed at ostensibly boosting US production and fostering a “local for locals” sensibility. Except, it turns out that several American product staples are actually... "Made in Europe"?

Seven all-American products that are actually 'Made in Europe', set to be hit by US tariffs

^{Una Hajdari (Euronews.com)}

But may face competition in its core smartphone segment as Samsung says it’s found a premium handset-maker who wants its Exynos SoCs

Qualcomm working on datacenter CPU and in ‘advanced discussions’ with hyperscaler

: But may face competition in its core smartphone segment as Samsung says it’s found a premium handset-maker who wants its Exynos SoCs

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

In the United Kingdom, cyberstalking is growing at a faster pace than physical stalking, new research found.

Cyberstalking has surged by 70% in the UK since 2012, study finds

^{Anna Desmarais (Euronews.com)}

He will be one of two local children to speak at the 2025 ceremony to commemorate 80 years since the A-bomb was dropped.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/straitstimes…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

In Hiroshima, a schoolboy keeps memories of war alive with guided tours​

He will be one of two local children to speak at the 2025 ceremony to commemorate 80 years since the A-bomb was dropped. Read more at straitstimes.com.

^ST

South Korea has experienced a record-breaking streak of ‘tropical nights’, while Japan saw its hottest day on record on Thursday

Archived version: archive.is/newest/theguardian.…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Japan and South Korea reel from record-breaking heat

^{Justin McCurry (The Guardian)}

I have this cpu and i just upgraded my system from 32GB of ram to 64GB.
Bought new kit thou, and put my old 32GB up for sale..
And than i thought why shouldnt i put that 32GB kit also since i have 4 ram slots to see how 96GB of ram looks like. XD
And when i did that, while my pc was booting, i remembered my cpu only supports 64GB max. So i thought bumer it will not recognise more than that and i will not be able to use it. But shortly i was shocked to see that all 96GB was there and ready for use.
So it isnt true that ryzen 7 2700x supports only 64GB i mean its not small amount but it isnt its limit obviusly..
Since my motherboard MSI B450 tomahavk max supports up to 128GB i think this cpu can also handle it.

But the thing is this motherboard was rated for 64GB max when i bought it. But than new cpus came out and amd sad they will not be supported on this chipset.
But than people started protesting because AMD was advertising this chipset like platform for longevity and were telling that it will be long supported.
So people were angry when they sad new cpus wont be available on this platform.
So AMD changed their descision and made new bios for b450 chipset motherboards so that new cpus will be supported. And also since new cpus support 128GB of ram this motherboard also got support for that but only with new bios if i understood that corectly..

Also the thing with new bios is that if you update to it you will lose support for old cpus, and wont be able to downgrade bios.

But with old bios your motherboard doesnt have support for new cpus.

But since i have old cpu, ryzen 7 2700x i didnt update my bios so with old cpu and old bios how the heck do i have support for more than 64GB of ram.

Its like you just put more ram than its rated on the website and it just works.. XD
Like they didnt expect someone to actualy buy more than max ram rated so noone will notice that we are lying about computers limits.. XD

Wery strange to me, if someone understand what is going on here, be free to explain it to us. 😀

nodebb-plugin-sso-auth0 (4.2.0) works fine, I can use auth0 to login with google or github

but now I have a different site running on localhost:4200, I have tab called Forum that open a new tab window going to localhost:4567
built a small node express server to create a cookie.

so I login to my site on localhost:4200 via auth0 and it creates a cookie for the session-sharing plugin

   res.cookie(CONFIG.nodebb.cookieName, jwtToken, {
      httpOnly: true,
      secure: false,          // localhost http
      sameSite: 'lax',        // first-party in dev
      path: '/',              // send everywhere
      maxAge: CONFIG.nodebb.cookieMaxAgeMs,

    });

Final NodeBB payload: {
  "id": 951566902,
  "username": "theddiem",
  "email": "theddiem@gmail.com",
  "picture": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg1ocJLXRjLY5JH5l7gDBBuWLCuboR7n4pEXkXoxyHn9XvAyx8p_7td=s96-c",
  "firstName": "the",
  "lastName": "dem",
  "externalId": "google-oauth2|106089043025998015329"
}

also if the user is in not registered in the forum at all and used my site to login with auth0 and than go to fourm via navbar link it suppose to register him automiatclly?

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Error: Vapid subject is not an https: or mailto: URL. http://localhost:4567
    at Object.validateSubject (C:\Users\User\Desktop\nodebb\node_modules\web-push\src\vapid-helper.js:85:11)
    at WebPushLib.setVapidDetails (C:\Users\User\Desktop\nodebb\node_modules\web-push\src\web-push-lib.js:59:17)
    at assertVapidConfiguration (C:\Users\User\Desktop\nodebb\node_modules\nodebb-plugin-web-push\library.js:64:10)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async plugin.init [as method] (C:\Users\User\Desktop\nodebb\node_modules\nodebb-plugin-web-push\library.js:32:2)
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cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/21370783

On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to The Associated Press. The facility, a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and AI data center developer Crusoe, would start at 1.8 gigawatts and scale up to 10 gigawatts of power use.

The project's energy demands are difficult to overstate for Wyoming, the least populous US state. The initial 1.8-gigawatt phase, consuming 15.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually, is more than five times the electricity used by every household in the state combined. That figure represents 91 percent of the 17.3 TWh currently consumed by all of Wyoming's residential, commercial, and industrial sectors combined. At its full 10-gigawatt capacity, the proposed data center would consume 87.6 TWh of electricity annually—double the 43.2 TWh the entire state currently generates.
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Because drawing this much power from the public grid is untenable, the project will rely on its own dedicated gas generation and renewable energy sources, according to Collins and company officials. However, this massive local demand for electricity—even if self-generated—represents a fundamental shift for a state that currently sends nearly 60 percent of its generated power to other states.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon praised the project's potential benefits for the state's natural gas industry in a company statement. "This is exciting news for Wyoming and for Wyoming natural gas producers," Gordon said.

The proposed site for the new data center sits several miles south of Cheyenne near the Colorado border off US Route 85. While state and local regulators still need to approve the project, Collins expressed optimism about a quick start. "I believe their plans are to go sooner rather than later," he said.

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

Proposed datacenter would demand 5x Wyoming’s current power use at full deployment.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2960304…

that's it

This post kinda fits (and kinda does not) both !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !privacy@programming.dev. please forgive if it feels out of place.

I used to host a "drive" for my collegemates (and juniors), which consisted of all the courses and related material (lecture notes (official, or what i made), software, code, research articles, assignments, media, video lectures, books, test, etc...). Earlier I used sharepoint (onedrive) which our college had made a deal with ms to get (1 tb for everyone). But at some point sharepoint started "faultering" (while I am almost certain it was not realted to pirated books and stuff, but there was a small chance that it was), and I then switched to proton ( i got a yearly plan with student discount - coming to something around $2/month for mail and 15 GB storage). Earlier this year, I switched to posteo for mail provider (multiple reasons, but one of the primary ones was cost ($1 without discounts), a simple imap setup), but kept the stuff on proton drive. Now my subscription for proton has ran out, and do not plan to renew it.

I am not the only one who does this kinda stuff, but I was first in our department. Other departments (older than us) already had some other long running drives, which essentially become useless when original maker graduates, so new stuff has to be made for each batch. Also, most other drives are hosted on google drive, or sharepoint. I could consider the college sharedrive again, but recently microsoft broke the deal, stating our college was using too much storage (something like 50-60 TiB), and then froze acceess for everyone. this was sorted, with weeks of down time, and our limit decreased to 15 GB (1.5% of previos limit). I do not want that to happen with my drive. I also take some prestige in my drive, because it is arguably the best organised, and has the most stuff (i find many books, if not available, get them from library, or purchase them, then scan and ocr, or assignments, which you are not meant to share with others, but i do mostly because for end sems they serve as practice).

I want a "semi anonymous" (anyone can see/upload stuff without accounts) (semi because tonnes of stuff has my personal identity (name on assignments and tests), somewhat private and "piracy friendly" (so no mainstream stuff like google and onedrive works, especially because i currently do not have a account for either to upload), and non public (or at least, be something like a very long and random url, stuff which will likely not end up on search engine indices). I am willing to pay too, provided, once i get access to drive, others can upload/download stuff without accounts (people will likely not sign up for random stuff, yet another step of friction)(sharepoint was good in this aspect. you could make a public link to which anyone could upload. they did not have edit access (delete/modify existing files) without login, but those operations are relatively rare).

*What I have considered, but can not be done - *

• a private git repo, with some hosted webui (something like forego) - the actual size of stuff is not that large (5gib if consider stuff only related to course work, 80gib if i include other stuff(like offline wiki/stack overflow/other wikis backups)), so i could just get something like a 128 or 256 gib ssd, connect to a sbc (which i would have to buy, but practically a 1 time cost).
• a private torrent
• a google/onedrive, but i compress and/or encrypt the stuff, so they will not practically check content
• our college's existing infra (made by student welfare body), which already hosts tests for some of the courses, and another website, which hosts "some" (barely anything) other resources, likely useful websites, or lecture notes

*Why not possible? *
- intended audience is essentially tech illiterate - many of them do not know much about what files/folders are. they usuallly do not dowwnload stuff (so they keep going back to drive, to view stuff in browser previews). they can not download stuff and then extract. they most definitely can not do that for the compression i usually use (it is a zstd in squashfs (as to why specifically this - it effectivelly uncompresses only the stuff it needs, like a pdf from a folder containing pdfs, so storage space saving at cost of slight cpu increase (zstd helps to lower that usage)), for windows - you need 7zip, which most do not have). they can not decrypt stuff. they can not torrent (like 95+% have no idea how torrenting even works. to them, that is just a way to acquire "linux isos"). out of 5%, maybe 4.5% will not be able to work with priavte torrents (something they have no experience with)

• our college's infra forbids most of copyrighted material. they forbid tests which were not allowed to leave exam premises. (In those cases, I used ot memorise the questions, and recreate the tests, or when we went to check our answersheets, I would try to take pictures of question paper/answer sheets)(this was not the case for majority of courses, but a significant minority for sure)(this was done mostly by professors who teach a course multiple times, and do not want to design questions every year, and they just rehash old stuff). They forbid any executable stuff. (they have allowed file types of common multimedia formats. but from my minimal testing, they just do a stupid extension check, and not file metadata or headers, so i can fool this shit, by making zips and then appending a .txt or .pdf at end).

is there some other drive provider I can consider? which has good usability, and mostly anon? there is mega drive/pcloud, icecloud, and many others, who provide somewhat private/anonymous viewing. some of them have quite generous free plans too, so I can use some of them as backups. but most do not have a "qol" features (for example, afaik, mega drive does not do previews, they download in a wierd way in browser memory, and then to your filesystem, others have little information available).

I could consider maybe something like archive.org, if I do a very tedious task of making most of stuff not have my names, and making a archive.org account is easy , but that is still a deterrent.

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PS: For anyone wondering about legality or ethics of this drive - it is a mixed bag. I definitely have copyrighted works which I did not acquire properly. I share stuff which I am not supposed to. hence i decided to post on piracy subreddit.

on to ethics - many of our professors know about this. most are fine with it. some complain that I am ruining future students, by providing most stuff in a easy single spot, and that leads them to not go to classes or stuff. But i disagree with them. kids not going to classes is only weakly dependent on availability of notes, but stongly dependent on the nature of course, for example teachers interactivity or teaching style. Some professors even like the drive, and also use it (as a reference for what was taught earlier, or questions they have already used.) IMO, their tests become better (less rote learning type stuff, and more applications based stuff, for which you can come up with questions for).

A funny side story - My drive was used in a "mass cheating" case. In one of our programming related courses (we are not studying computer science, and this course was a effectively - how to use python to do some scientific computation). Our prof was very chill, and allowed people to use internet freely, and even allowed using chatgpt (at that time, it was like a few months old) to write the programs (essentially, we were expected to know the "science", and formulate a good set of equations, and then use python (or any other language for that matter). so allowing use of internet/gpt was just to allow people not good at programming, but good at the actual science to perform well too.). He also knew about my drive, and encouraged people to check it. (I got most of the packages setup for most people, also had a good relationship with the prof prior to course). During midsem, a "eureka" like moment hit. My drive would largely automatically sync stuff once a day. what if, during exam, my drive would sync, lets just say, every 10 minutes, then my solutions (as i write them) would be avaialable on the drive in during the exam, and somewhat frequently updated. But it would feel odd for everyone to check a single drive, the same file, at the same time. So I also wrote small curl scripts for windows and mac folks, which would pull the required file every 10 or so minutes from the drive. Now it would feel as if everyone was checking some other code (probably old code from class)(ot was a open book/notes/internet exam). Was what i did technincally rule breaking ? - no, people were allowed to use my drive, i just made much of that process automated. Was it ethical ? - definitely not. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I was doing it one part for the giggles. Also, I was not the one who actually came up with the idea (someone gave a rough proto-idea, upon which i further developed upon). What was the result? No one caught the cheating. Teaching instructors (tas) find it normal for people to check otheer files, or a terminal process running. Not everyone used it. I was not checking from others, but roughly 80+% of class was using it. But someone snitched (i got to know did that fairly soon. he also cheated). Luckily, no disciplinary action was taken against me (I could have been suspended, or even rusticated, since it was a mass cheating), but the prof was very chill. He did scold me a lot. did not talk with me in his usual jovial manner for few weeks, but it eventually got ok. NOBODY (including me) got any punishment or point deduction.

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PS2: while reading the last part again, I realised what i had done was something close to implementing a adblock. you are allowed to close the ads manually (like checking drive manually). It is only frowned upon, if a program (like ublock) closes all the ads (in this case, by blocking ads from being even fetched, in the background) (like using a curl script to fetch the file in background).