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Why is everything on the cloud these days?
I’m kind of getting tired of every piece of professional and business software being a SaaS or cloud-based solution these days.
I have a good computer, it can run a lot of complex programs on it locally. I wish I had the option to do so.
Not everything needs to be synced 24/7. And I’d much rather have some tools include a cloud sync functionality that backs up changes with some kind of regular frequency for version control and cross-device access, but otherwise runs on my device.
These days, when I’m trying to go work somewhere without an internet connection or am traveling and have spotty data - I can’t access 90% of my work. Files don’t back up locally even when there’s a native desktop client app. Why?
It feels wasteful, sending so much data to the internet and back with constantly required online sync and web apps.
I feel nostalgic now, remembering the days of software that would require buying a license every couple of years, that would run on your device and could be accessed even from the top of a remote mountain if you wished, and that didn’t log you out every other week.
#tech #software

Duckduckgo is fine for the time being, but that won't last long. MS wants to drive people to AI.
Maybe we need a foundation-run public search index. Something we can all build our own search front-ends on.
https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-su…

Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected.

Sometimes, I wake up and realize all my computers run Debian, not Windows, and it makes me smile like a root user who just found sudo access without a password.
#Linux #Debian #Windows

Reed-Muller Codes for Quantum Pauli and Multiple Access Channels
Dina Abdelhadi, Colin Sandon, Emmanuel Abbe, Ruediger Urbanke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08651

Reed-Muller Codes for Quantum Pauli and Multiple Access Channels
Reed-Muller (RM) codes have undergone significant analytical advancements over the past decade, particularly for binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels. We extend the scope of RM codes development and analysis to multiple-access channels (MACs) and quantum Pauli channels, leveraging a unified approach. Specifically, we first derive the achievable rate region for RM codes on so-called Q-MACs, a class of MACs with additive correlated noise. This is achieved via a generalization of the bending…