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For the 5 api requests a second most projects will get, it'll probably do.

Of which DigitalOcean is running very outdated prices at 4USD for 512mb ram.

The cheapest Kimsufi dedicated server with 32GB ram is $11.10/mo.

Yeah, it's available here https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/start-screen-a-busi....

Can't say it's the best extension in the world, but it scratches my own itch and I'm happy with it. Sometimes that's good enough.

I've done somewhat similar for the same reasons.

I realised that if I exclusively read business news I can avoid a good amount of the fluff and sensationalism. I made a browser extension which pushes the headlines from Bloomberg, Financial times Euronews Business and a few others on to my new tab from their RSS, and it's more than enough to give me a nugget of what's going on in the world without being overloaded. 1 item per new tab.

End result is: I don't read the news, but I still know what's going on without the need for Social Media's hot take.

Absolutely, from Amsterdam I can sometimes hop all the way into Germany, The Hague, Haarlem. That doesn't mean my messages will always travel that far. Far from it, but it does mean that an identification message _has_ made it from there. On average there's around 80-100 nodes that I can connect to.

There are yes for Meshtastic. This map seems to have the highest coverage of people sharing their nodes, but in reality in my area there are significantly more which are not shown on the map.

https://meshtastic.liamcottle.net/

> Hyper-perfect social media / television setting "the best" expectations for an event.

My approach around this is suggesting the idea to people up front and then throwing everyone into a WhatsApp chat and laying down the plan. Anyone who can't join gets removed/leaves. No one expects a whatsapp group to be a refined VIP experience. It's just people getting together and sharing an experience.

Having moved countries and needing to start up a new friend group, things like Meetup or Facebook groups help a lot. There are _many_ people out there who are looking to meet people.

For throwing a party, my general rule of thumb is expect 50% of people to turn up.

Credit where credit is due, going back to whole-foods and single-ingredient foods is the correct decision for everyone, and is often cheaper. But you can tell it's with a heavy focus on meatpacking, and it's known there's heavy lobbying going on.

Is that a bad thing? I'd rather people eat single ingredient foods and foods without labels (fruit, veg) than neon green cereals. I guess my point here is that it's a little sad the 'right' outcome was as a result of heavy lobbying.

The correct order should have been greens > proteins > carbs for an overweight nation.

Software engineering is based out of London.

While we're talking about silly(?) iOS design decisions, the one I can't get over is allowing users to change lock screen timeout without pin/faceid via Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-lock. This should really be under Face ID & Passcode or Privacy & Security.

From a phone getting taken from your hand perspective, this is the first thing they will change.

I tired NextCloud the other day on a 2GB DigitalOcean VPS. It ground to a halt pretty quickly. My plan was to try run it on a Pi, but I gave up on that idea.

It seems document editing is quite an intensive task.

Would love to know what are the best things we can do to prevent this sort of tracking in general. PiHole? Don't re-use emails? On a scale of 1 to fucked are we cooked?

The conjoined triangles of success!

A good candidate for second mover advantage.

Let everyone else pay for the research and make the mistakes, find out what works and what doesn't. Apple already has the consumers, they might as well save a few (hundred?) bn in the process and later deploy something which doesn't tell you to glue your cheese to your pizza.

I think this checks all the above boxes, but for a public company. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk6kvyxvzo

CloudFlare: You can't go down if you're never up.

While this is a very real concern; I can't help but think it's over exaggerated? Kids will always find ways around blocks. I know, I too was once a child.

They're already using Google Docs as a chat application in class when social media is blocked. So what are we really trying to do here? Much like prohibition, I suspect we'll see the masses annoyed and inconvenienced, and those who want to find alcohol finding it regardless.

Sometimes I miss the old flash, irc, html tables for layouts internet.

That's not necessarily a position you have to fight. You can also take the standpoint that if the UK government can't protect your private data, then how can a data provider. There are many such cases:

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-06/hacker...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/nov/21/immigration...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/britains-nh...

Definitely feels like since AI there's been a shift and it's gone from total head count as a measure of success to revenue per employee as a measure of success. The fewer employees the better.

"World doesn't live in echo chambers.", yet 1/2 of the articles are about Trump.

I appreciate this is likely coincidence, but my my news sources are far more varied.

Generally I agree, but there have been some rare occasions where I needed a gif of a screen recording. In that case, finding a nice way to convert was pretty painful, without using any of those online converters.

I’ve run into this problem before and there’s ways to stop it. Sure your email blocklists work to an extent assuming they’re up to the minute accurate (which they’re not).

I’d look into fingerprinting (https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs), block by ASN if it makes sense for your business (does OVH really need access to my SaaS?), use an active disposable email checker and possibly flag risky orders for manual payment capture if at all possible.

For a Takeaway company, they sure seem to be falling short of EEAT (pun intended).

Maybe it's time for someone at Google to take a look at this abuse like they did when the industry called out Forbes Advisor.

$1,800 on $130,000,000 a year sounds expensive? Company dinners/outings have almost certainly cost the business more.

Would running an ad blocker not fall under 2.c?

I'm always surprised at how many LLM research papers are published on here, so despite OpenAI, I think it's absolutely happening.

> Put any sync button DJ in front of a proper CDJ setup, give them a couple of hours to practice and they will be able to pull off a set.

Please observe Grimes at Cochella: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E01QyNHBpcc

This is absolutely true. I've added x/twitter to my hosts file in an attempt to break the muscle memory and instead use bsky.

4 months on, I'm still type twitter[.]com and finding myself on localhost.

Your DNA, now available to the highest bidder.

Bought this on Spotify. Thanks Zuck for bringing it to my attention.