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by yaky 2mo ago
I am too young to know about US radio in the 80s or 90s, but I enjoy some of the local and independent stations. I even collected some of their streams after I gave up Spotify: https://yaky.dev/radio/
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by yaky 2mo ago
Discovered WITR not too long ago, their selection is right up my alley (although it is arguably "millenial radio" rather than "college radio")
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by yaky 3mo ago
I don't see LLMs being able to replace translators for less-spoken languages. I know a translator between two Eastern European languages, and some jobs require use of specialized dictionaries. Using LLMs in such cases would be very unr
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by yaky 5mo ago
Jabber / XMPP is still around and is pretty good for self-hosting a messenger. Email, now with multiple validations and verifications. Gopher protocol has a niche community (probably overlapping with newer Gemini). Doom, still played a
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by yaky 5mo ago
I prefer text (to audio or video) specifically because it can communicate complex ideas concisely, yet can be read at any speed. This is what "write like you talk" looks like: https://yaky.dev/2026-04-01-ridiculous
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by yaky 5mo ago
As a non-native English speaker, it sometimes takes me some time to write things because I am trying to put my thoughts in a concise yet simple-to-understand form.
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by yaky 5mo ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts explores interesting ideas about conscience and intelligence, but these ideas are wrapped in a mediocre action movie plot that becomes nonsensical by the end.
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by yaky 7mo ago
Amazon Prime is the same way. Thanks for paying, please watch ads for first two season of The Boys. Also look at this catalog of movies you can rent for an additional fee. The "low-cost airline" style of business.
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by yaky 7mo ago
This is creepily similar to Russia circa 10+ years ago with its "gay propaganda" and "child protection" laws, and strong government support for the church. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013&#x2F
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by yaky 8mo ago
> Rainmaker was pretty great, and it lasted at least as far as 2018. I don’t recall what happened to it. WeatherUnderground shut its API down in 2018.
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by yaky 8mo ago
> NO TYPICAL APP STORE > Instead of unrestricted app stores, we provide a curated selection of essential, distraction-free applications that align with our mission. That's quite a big undertaking and a lot of control handed over
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by yaky 9mo ago
If it's a one-time thing, Prusa Slicer (and some other slicers too, probably) allow adding and subtracting simple shapes. So if, for example, you need to add a hole for a screw, you can do it directly in the slicer without messing with
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by yaky 9mo ago
Looks like someone else posted this one though :)
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by yaky 9mo ago
To quote someone from Hackaday: > We don't ask "why?", we ask "why not?"
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by yaky 9mo ago
Thanks! Maemo Leste is still around, I just tried it on a PinePhone with a keyboard not too long ago. It's not postmarketOS with a popular DE nor Android, but has a terminal, browser, media player, et.
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by yaky 9mo ago
It can't be used in a mobile way much anymore, with all 3G and many 2G shut down in the US. The caps / supercaps are necessary to provide enough current during boot or more resource-intensive tasks.
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by yaky 9mo ago
I read about lithium-ion and LiFePO batteries on Adafruit a few years ago, and saw similar projects elsewhere. The bootloader stuff is on Maemo wiki, along with tools to flash the device (which is also a bit of dark magic arts to me). TBH,
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by yaky 9mo ago
I've only heard of doing so for 2G: https://hackaday.com/2025/10/06/2g-gone-bring-it-back-yourse...
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by yaky 9mo ago
There was Neo900, abandoned in 2018. The site is still up though: https://neo900.org/#main
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by yaky 9mo ago
I looked, but TBH, not sure what to make of "genuine" and "OEM" claims for a battery for a 16–year-old device (or 10-year-old if you count compatible Lumias). Descriptions usually do not mention manufacture dates either.
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by yaky 9mo ago
Where's the fun in that? Maemo wiki states that Maemo Leste should be run from SD card. I am actually surprised that the phone can use the SD slot at high enough speed.
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Nokia N900 Necromancy(yaky.dev)
480 points by yaky 9mo ago|190 comments
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by yaky 10mo ago
What issues did you have / still have? When I started using Matrix, Riot.im did not get notifications in time, or was a battery hog. And Synapse took up a lot of memory, with occasional slowdowns. But then, circa 2022, Synapse improved
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by yaky 10mo ago
Author of the article here. Thanks for posting, I've only shared this on Fediverse, but there is a much larger discussion here, I see.
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by yaky 10mo ago
Author of the article here. Similar happened to me, I had a lot of broken and empty rooms that appeared in some clients but not others, and I could not leave. This is what prompted me to write the room cleaner / admin panel.
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by yaky 10mo ago
It's Apple more than developers. Even if an app has an older supported version, you cannot install it outright on older iDevices. You have to "purchase" it first (even if it's free) using old iTunes version or a newer
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by yaky 10mo ago
You could try to fake a battery instead: https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/ (This is for a removable battery, but should be close for built-in ones too, I suppose)
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by yaky 11mo ago
It is definitely a single point, but that is who this post immediately made me think of. And to be fair, investing does not apply to most people either.
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by yaky 11mo ago
HN is a very specific and privileged demographic, very far from an average citizen. (of the US at least)
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by yaky 11mo ago
Be careful with comparing real-life things and experiences with a (virtual) number on a screen, especially for children. I used to know an adult who only cared about that number going up, despite making more than a comfortable amount of mon

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