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what about flatpak?

criticalfaulton Chatto is now open source

I didn't really check the code, but I'd be interested to know if it uses quic and if the connections are eliminated based on registered encryption keys.

this way it might be a bit easier to self host

criticalfaulton Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

well, this doesn't sound good.

what cathode material is used as an alternative to not make home battery a chemical weapon in disguise?

criticalfaulton Show HN: GolemUI – The new paradigm for JavaScript forms

i have the same sentiment.

upon opening the site, I immediately got vibed feeling so I closed the tab.

criticalfaulton Leanstral 1.5

These guys don't answer emails. Same for qwant.

Sample of two, but I'm assuming french companies don't like to being contacted n English.

criticalfaulton A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown

what is 'this level of cold' exactly?

criticalfaulton Electric motors with no rare earths

only replying to the first link: isn't sourcing (buying or manufacturing locally) parts for Chinese cars made in Europe a good thing?

criticalfaulton Why are so many young people getting cancer?

didn't the scientists connect colorectal cancer with antibiotics and digestion tract biome?

criticalfaulton Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video]

too little too late.

Andreas already said it in the latest video: ladybird has a basic and fast Implementation for content blocking in the pre-alpha version.

Mozilla just shows a disconnect from reality if they start working on it now, in 2026. But this is nothing new, they had a disconnect from their users for years... reflected in their market share.

criticalfaulton LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

not according. to my experience.

regulation questions. even the simple ones, AI gets all the time wrong. it wasn't Mythos, but other models like opus.

I can adjust the view on this topic if/when we get access to mythos.

criticalfaulton Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

or acpi.

criticalfaulton Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

it's an UEFI Problem

they seem to have dealt with this for the server hardware

criticalfaulton Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

there is an explanation: Motorola is extremely bad at software.

opinion based on their support system, correspondence and android updates,

criticalfaulton Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

and is Qualcomm is sleeping on Linux?

criticalfaulton Dear Microsoft, enough is enough

"In 2018, Google removed its original motto from the preface of its code of conduct but retained it in the last sentence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

criticalfaulton Netflix spent over $135B on film, TV over last decade

not 100% sure if theirs...

the tomorrow war marvels the punisher witcher

criticalfaulton Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

they made a deal with Motorola, from next year we should have an alternative.

in any case, google started to cause issues with pixel 10, so it's not as easy to port it

criticalfaulton Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged

one person's villain is another person's hero.

I imagine if they would be named and shamed, they would get huge contracts in companies like oracle.

criticalfaulton Write some software, give it away for free

wouldn't this apply everywhere?

let's say agriculture. if you make one tone of tomatoes, one family cannot consume this in a year without becoming red. so should farmers also give it for free?

what about artists? it's not that their work even has a utility function...

criticalfaulton NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

I wonder if this could also work for (e)uv

criticalfaulton Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)

does ipv6 require Dual Stack Operation?

criticalfaulton Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++

since you have a lot of experience, can I ask what do you think about this:

- skipping cmake completely? would this be feasible?

- integration of other languages in the project?

- how to handle qt?

criticalfaulton Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

I meant it's fine for others to want to move faster and hire more people (like Google). just replying to your sentence. it's fine for others to want things different...

About ladybird, I think it is quite a good benchmark:

- they have accomplished a task many thought impossible in the modern world

- they accomplished it while having a handful of people

- they had a fraction of resources compared to both google and Mozilla. only about a year ago they had few hundred of thousands as support money to get them started.

The engine may not be finished yet. may not be as performant as the other two. but they did a 3rd engine. and given 10% of the budget Mozilla has, they would progress much more. Ladybird Team has shown how everything about Mozilla is mismanaged and simply broken.

criticalfaulton Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

that's fine.

point is that Mozilla is wasting money and having 4000 people working on chrome may not be the correct benchmark.

criticalfaulton Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

https://www.tb.pro/en-US/thundermail/

  Hosted Securely in Germany 

  Your emails are protected by strict EU privacy laws and hosted on infrastructure you can trust. With servers located in Germany, Thundermail prioritizes your privacy while ensuring reliable, fast delivery worldwide.

criticalfaulton Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

take the reference of ladybird.

in a couple of years they built the engine from scratch. it's going to soon enter Alpha. how many people from ladybird built that engine? about 10?

all while everyone has said that modern web makes this task impossible

criticalfaulton Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

we were also sad. still the browser I ever used.

but, maybe the company didn't adjust well? maybe it was a bad time to do this, but ladybird is not a big company and they seem to be progressing well.

criticalfaulton Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

I didn't really follow opera since Chinese buyout and migration to blink.

any real proof for the Chinese spyware statement? is it really bad?

is it better than Google spyware?

criticalfaulton Zed new terms required to be 18 years old

*wouldn't have said

criticalfaulton Zed new terms required to be 18 years old

if you would say you are writing about zed, I'd think you were writing about vscode.

I can't believe the latency of browser based editor is acceptable to people