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by psittacus 1mo ago
And two linux ports: https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux https://github.com/abrauchli/usbee
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by psittacus 3mo ago
For context - I assume this comment is referring to Kagi still paying Yandex to use their index. I've collected some links here last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057759
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by psittacus 3mo ago
If openrouter is to be trusted, the cheapest offers that are not from Deepseek itself are: - twice as expensive on the output (1.52 vs 0.87) - six times as expensive on the input (0.33 vs 0.05) https://openrouter.ai/deepseek
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by psittacus 4mo ago
He posted about him leaving Facebook on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7302785... He also reflected on his time and Haskell usage at Facebook here: https://www.youtube.co
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by psittacus 5mo ago
Not that it answers your question, but the move happened in 2020 to "hire more easily, act more swiftly, and pursue ideas that were previously not possible". https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbi
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by psittacus 8mo ago
Pop-ups [1] in Niagara launcher do this. However, it comes with other unconventional UI decisions which might or might not be to your liking. [1]: https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/115-pop-ups
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by psittacus 8mo ago
It took me a moment to find, but Alertly claims to do something similar while being open-source. Last commit was made two years ago though. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.example.notificationalerter https:/&#x2
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by psittacus 10mo ago
Just in case you need sources: Kagi is using [1] Yandex and paying them as of June 2025. This is a long-standing position, which was also voiced [2] in November 2024. Regarding Yandex. The founder sold [3] the assets (seemingly including th
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by psittacus 10mo ago
Take a look at Open-Xchange, it's not developed by Thunderbird folks but otherwise fits the bill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange mailbox.org is based on it.
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by psittacus 1y ago
I was browsing through the issues of extrepo and found deb-get, seems pretty useful too: > deb-get makes it easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or Git
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by psittacus 1y ago
Keep in mind that using Beeper for Instagram breaks their ToS and often gets your account suspended or banned. This happens with both cloud and local bridges. https://www.reddit.com/r/beeper/search/?q=instagra
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by psittacus 1y ago
Isn't this something we already know from the mass–energy equivalence? In the same way that a nuclear reaction that produces heat must cost the object mass (and therefore gravitational pull)
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by psittacus 1y ago
There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the location https://timeguessr.com/ Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203511 edit: found anot
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by psittacus 1y ago
There's also a great documentary on Stanislaw Lem. It's in Polish, but with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw Lem himself talks about the movie a bit there too, around the 24th minute.
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by psittacus 1y ago
Can you say the same thing about iCloud, AppStore?
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by psittacus 2y ago
It should have the same constraints as nix itself — i.e. easiest on linux, slightly more complicated on macos. Bug isolation is probably the best next step for you. Is it during nix installation? Is it a particular package that thows an err
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by psittacus 2y ago
Promising efficiency, "new functionality written in Rust". But also: > Available under a commercial license, Synapse Pro will alhelp fund and accelerate the continued open source development of Synapse for the benefit of all of
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Synapse Pro, a new enterprise Matrix server from Element(element.io)
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by psittacus 2y ago
Depending on the domain, a language workbench might be a good fit. https://spoofax.dev/ https://www.rascal-mpl.org/
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by psittacus 2y ago
There is some information here and in references, but it's sparse on how he entered the university. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Alek_Sigley
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by psittacus 3y ago
Certainly, the problem is bigger than just computers. I was trying to say that if you don't understand how computers work your chances of getting confused are higher since they are ubiquitous and often the interactions with them are so
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by psittacus 3y ago
Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of sorts? Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun — a lot of them are from people who seem like they need urgent help and obviously aren't getting it. His
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by psittacus 3y ago
Besides being allegedly hard to shut down without breaking iPhones, there's also this statement given to Ars Technica: > Migicovsky had a few different answers. The broadest one, regarding the tech behind the app, is that reverse-en
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by psittacus 3y ago
Seemingly no iMessage, unfortunately. I guess Apple won that argument. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401632 edit: the article actually mentions iMessage explicitly: > And the newspaper reported the Commission wa
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by psittacus 3y ago
In this case it's not a country code but a language code (ISO 639-1). And Ukrainian language code is in fact UK. So dear author, you can revert your last commit ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_c
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by psittacus 4y ago
Suggesing _russian_ newspapers non-ironically to read news is like suggesting someone to read Daily Mail for latests political developments. Wherever you read your news at the very least make sure there's no russian trace there. Russia
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by psittacus 6y ago
Late to the party, but any idea what "inverse letter mode" in Rationale for Atari 400/800 is? https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys...
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by psittacus 9y ago
Not moving, but copying. Here's the source: https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/29/help-us-keep-the-archive...
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by psittacus 9y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20170614180327/https://arstechni... also, the story is still present on their UK website https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/06/pirate-ba
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by psittacus 9y ago
This[1] comment seems directly opposite from what you wrote, with Python 3.4 (8.76GiB/s) even outrunning Python 2.7 (8.55 GiB/s). (haven't run the tests myself though) edit: haven't noticed the comment by dom0. [1] htt

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