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bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Laptops with a touch screen are terrible?
I have a Thinkpad Yoga 260. I disable the keyboard in "tablet mode" and use plasma-mobile for better touchscreen UX. It's a tolerable experience this way, but it's nowhere near as polished as a mainstream tablet or smartphone.
bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Can we please come up with a better name than "Vibe Coding"?
Entropy feeding
bencelaszlo··on Geico terminating insurance coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks
> I’m surprised that the article doesn’t mention the complete lack of pedestrian safety, which is so bad the truck can’t be sold in Europe

I mean that's not a Cybertruck-exclusive problem

bencelaszlo··on Laid-off California tech workers are sick to death of LinkedIn
LinkedIn claims it has "1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide". You can build a similar platform, but you cannot get the network effect of one billion people that easily.
bencelaszlo··on An ordinary day with a Linux mobile device
UBTouch has a list of supported devices, too: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
bencelaszlo··on People Still Want Gas Cars over Hybrids and EVs: Study
We wil see a big comeback from Toyota as they were hesitant about going all in to the AI hype train
bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Where do you keep your messy stack of Markdown notes?
I could live with the slowness of Joplin if there would be a web app for it. I want to access my notes even if I only have access to a browser.
bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: How do you avoid blogspam?
Subscribe to handpicked sources through RSS. Use search engines features like excluding keywords (-) or only get results from specific domains (site:reddit.com).
bencelaszlo··on Zsh Theme Powerlevel10k enters "life support" mode
Starship is an alternative: https://github.com/starship/starship
bencelaszlo··on Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs
Does he eat a rock everyday?
bencelaszlo··on Neofetch Has Been Archived
neoneofetch when?
bencelaszlo··on Why We Hate Working for Big Companies (2018)
> And these companies, they use the same kind of central planning that we so despise in communist systems. I know. I’ve done it.

The work of János Kornai made us realize that it is impossible to find an exact solution for economic planning, so a completely centrally planned economy is destined to have major inefficiencies (he was also a notable inspiration for the Chinese reformers). It also seems like some kind of planning is inevitable in market economies to achieve long term goals as market prioritizes short term gains.

bencelaszlo··on Portugal's democracy turns 50
There were "human zoos" in Western Europe even after WWII...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo

bencelaszlo··on Spotify CEO is shocked by negative impact of recent layoffs
"I" for success, "we" for loss. Such a classic.
bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?
That's valid criticism. It seems like Parsec also has almost the same problem (and owned by Unity):

<https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/gfinee/pars...>

bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?
Reemo: <https://reemo.io/>

You don't even need a code or install a client (you can use Chrome). Sometimes I use it for gaming, too.

bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: What comes after social media?
The answer is: small-size groupchats and they are already here. It depends on the location and your interests, but WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Discord groups became prevalent in the previous few years (I don't know about Asia though). I'm personally a member of like 5-6 similar communities. There is virtually no overlap between these, separate groups of friends and people who share the same hobbies. Between 3 and 8 members per group. Usually async communication, but random audio/videocalls are also happening.

The actual platform/app is not really relevant outside of core functionality (chat, audio call, video call, attachments), the main motivational factors seem to be: - private: yes to inside jokes, no to unknown people - real: yes to random, realistic, sometimes ugly stuff; no to the empty and fake nature of social media as we know it - dynamic: spontaneous calls, random pictures about things we see, hear, experience - prefer actual reality more than virtual reality: groupchats work more like an augmentation than a replacement of real-life communication and gatherings

bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Nice alternatives to Postman?
Bruno is a FOSS alternative, it is an Electron app, but widely used already: https://www.usebruno.com/downloads

What I like about it that requests are defined in a simple markup language called "Bru" and stores as simple text files, you can easily throw them around.

bencelaszlo··on Stop Killing Games
I think what we need is to legalize abandonware. Abandonware is now something that happens in practice and works because nobody is interested about going after these games and other types of software.

What if a game would become legally abandonware after: - its company went bankrupt - it got pulled from (online) stores - required servers were turned off

After this, the abandonware would become freely distributable but commercially unavailable. Online games and services should also publish server binaries.

bencelaszlo··on TikTok is bringing its dedicated STEM feed to Europe
> With today’s announcement, TikTok is seeking to further present itself as an educational hub for the millions of young users on its app as a way to counter criticisms from lawmakers around the world

This is ridiculous. Tiktok will not magically become an edtech platform by filtering short videos as this so-called "STEM-related content" is what really? 20 second clips about rocket launches or "math tricks"? What can you learn from this? Nothing.

bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: What do you have more than enough of?
Unfinished pet projects.
bencelaszlo··on The ü/ü Conundrum
> Hungarian has a whole bunch of bizarre di- and trigraphs IIRC

Actually, there is just only one trihraph. "dzs" almost exclusively used for representing "j" from English and other alphabets, for example "Jennifer" is "Dzsennifer" in Hungarian or "jam" is "dzsem" in the same way.

Trigraph and digraphs actually make sense, at least as a native as these really mark similar sounds what you would think you will get by combining the given graphs. These letters doesn't cause too much issues in search in my opinion, but hyphenation is a form of art (see "magyar.ldf" for LaTeX as an example).

To complicate the situation even further we have a/á, e/é, i/í and o/ó/ü/ő and u/ú/ü/ű letters, all of those considered to be separate ones and you can easily type them in a Hungarian desktop keyboard. On the other hand, mobile virtual keyboards usually show a QWERTY/QWERTZ layout where you can only find "long vowels" by long pressing their "short" counterparts, so when you are targeting mobile users you maybe want to differentiate between "o" and "ö", but not between "o" and "ó" nor between "ö" and "ő".

bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Has Reddit Turned into Facebook?
Which one? The current or "the redesign" which came after the "old" design?
bencelaszlo··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
Is this sponsored by big monitor? 120Hz displays for "barely moving texts"?
bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Have there been any positives to cookie consent requirements?
The current implementations are rather ridiculous, you either get a giant pop-up where you can at least say no or - which is more prevalent in my experience - you get a little a message saying we are using cookies whether you like it or not, you can close this by clicking on the "Accept" button.

What if sites would be required to request similarly to camera/microphone access? This way, users would get a consistent experiences across the web and also, developers would have to actually prepare for both responses.

bencelaszlo··on LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform
Nothing I like more than corporate mandated fun to boost surveillance efficiency.
bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: What is your favorite music to code to?
Obviously Neupink: https://neupink.bandcamp.com/audio
bencelaszlo··on Ask HN: Finishing Projects
Two things:

1. Ideas are cheap: not every one of them worth your time, or not that much time. Use your creative energy spikes to list and elaborate ideas. Estimation is a great weapon against scope creep, as you probably don't want to work on nice to haves for months. 2. Run to completion: if you decided to start a project, focus on it and continue until it is "done". Now, "done" is rare when we are talking about software, so the definition of "done" should include it is usable for someone for some purpose, have an executable binary, a build, a website, something.

bencelaszlo··on Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people
What if we would just drop the useless junk, let the children have more time and don't crush their soul before graduation?
bencelaszlo··on I tried a Big Tech diet. It didn't go well
> More than anything, I felt left out. I often didn’t learn about dinners and tennis matches with family and friends until someone called to tell me about them. I would look blankly when someone asked me whether I’d seen that viral Instagram reel or read a controversial Twitter thread.

So you didn't actually miss anything, just FOMO.

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