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March 30, 2025

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5 Awesome Nextcloud Alternatives – DEV Community

If you’ve been using Nextcloud, you might be reconsidering your options. Perhaps Nextcloud is resource-intensive for your infrastructure, or maybe you’d prefer a simpler solution that matches your specific needs. Thankfully, multiple self-hosted solutions exist, providing various features ranging from strong security to user-friendly interfaces. Let’s explore five solid alternatives you can consider. 1. ownCloud ownCloud was the platform Nextcloud originally forked from. ownCloud remains a reliable solution for self-hosted file syncing, sharing, and collaboration. It offers a simple approach to managing data securely on your own servers. Deployment Options: Self-hosted on your hardware or through cloud providers. Security Features:

March 30, 2025

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 test firmware just revealed three new models

Samsung has released new Galaxy Watches every year since the line started in 2018, so our working assumption is that the Galaxy Watch 8 would arrive this summer. Now we have some proof that Samsung does indeed have some other new wearables on the way. On X, the user @theordysm found test firmware for three unreleased Samsung wearables: SM-L320, SM-L330 and SM-L500. There are also LTE versions with slightly adjusted numbers: SM-L325U, SM-L335U and SM-L505U. No surprises here, we know they’re coming, Samsung’s prepping for themHere are the latest test firmware infoBT/WI-FI:SM-L320/L330 (“GW8”): U0AYC4SM-L500 (“GW8C”): U0AYC4LTE (US):SM-L325U/L335U (“GW8”): U0AYC6SM-L505U (“GW8C”):

March 30, 2025

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Best app to create a photorealistic image from a 16th century technical drawing.

I would like to create a photorealistic image of the inner mechanism of a 16th century artificial leg, based on a 16th century drawing (see below). I've been using Leonardo.Ai trying to generate just the foot portion of it giving the basic dimensions of the metal (most recent prompt below) but I've had numerous unsatisfactory results with different prompts. Is there a better app or would this be too difficult an image to generate using any app for a beginner? Last prompt "A horizontal steel bar 12” in length with H etched on one end and T etched at the

March 30, 2025

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip FE: What we know so far

Foldables are expensive. While costs have dropped considerably since the original Samsung Galaxy Z Flip launched at $1,380 in 2020, the company’s latest model — the Galaxy Z Flip 6 — still starts at $1,099. Plenty of people have been waiting for a cheaper model to try, and Samsung may be about to grant that wish. After denying plans of a cheaper foldable back in 2023, it seems like the company may finally have something very soon indeed, with Samsung seemingly pushing code out to an unreleased model with the code number of SM-F761. This could well be the Samsung

March 30, 2025

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Study finds that fewer documents can lead to better performance in RAG systems

Summary Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that the number of documents processed in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) affects language model performance, even when the total text length remains constant. The research team used MuSiQue’s validation dataset, which contains 2,417 answerable questions. Each question links to 20 Wikipedia paragraphs, with two to four paragraphs containing relevant answer information while the rest serve as realistic distractors. Study design showing question collections with supporting documents (pink) and distracting documents (blue). Fewer documents are compensated by extending remaining ones to maintain consistent length. | Image: Levy et al. Share Recommend

March 30, 2025

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13 ChatGPT prompts that dramatically improved my critical thinking skills

For the past few months, I've been experimenting with using ChatGPT as a "personal trainer" for my thinking process. The results have been surprising – I'm catching mental blindspots I never knew I had. Here are 5 of my favorite prompts that might help you too: The Assumption Detector When you're convinced about something: "I believe [your belief]. What hidden assumptions am I making? What evidence might contradict this?" This has saved me from multiple bad decisions by revealing beliefs I had accepted without evidence. The Devil's Advocate When you're in love with your own idea: "I'm planning to [your