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Maybe not a typical use case for Steam Deck, but I have been using Deck as Linux desktop for last 3 months, coding/chatting/browsing 1-3 hr/day, and really happy about it. To my surprise, read-only root is really not a big deal, VM and container are quite mature and work well on SteamOS (based on Arch Linux). The only problem for me so far is printing bc most printers requires installing drivers on root.

The real question is if/how marketing budget will shift for these major brands and advertisers. Even Twitter shutdown tomorrow, Mastodon ecosystems has no tech or interest to take in any ads. Some may consider this a good thing, but I'm a bit skeptical as this society has been addictive to ads based biz models for so long.

The fav count is not accurate except on the original server anyway, due to how the protocol is designed.

This will be even more useful next year as Apple is said to open the flood gate of iOS web push in 2023

UI is replacable, there are quite a few frontend compatible with Mastodon API, some of them very closedly resemble Twitter.

If cost is concern, consider Elixr-based Pleroma(or its forks), way less hardware requirement with most feature parity w Mastodon.

Ops is good q, based on my observation, most of these implementations has a Dockerfile at best, CloudFormation/K8s is very rarely considered. And probably bc where this community was originated from, Amazon is pretty much suggested against.

This is quite basic 101 for ad/media. It'll be surprising if no one ever texted Elon Musk about it since May.

PostgreSQL has good enough built in search but I find it limited in large real world global user cases:

- CJK support is tricky for almost all of these search products, but postgresql is probably the only one that needs additional extensions, and some extensions are not updated for a while.

- Scaling is tricky, bc on one hand, your search and other normal queries may not have same load pattern, but you only have one schema in multiple nodes, so sometimes you have to waste some resource; on the other hand, dependencies of the 3rd party CJK extensions makes it hard to use managed instances and maintaining your own is time consuming.

- Most other search engines have well tuned APIs for typical use cases like filters/typo/etc, but you have to build your own in PostgreSQL. Of course it’s not entirely bad thing bc PostgreSQL does have most flexible query capabilities for those less than typical use cases.

End of day, search for end users have many semi-edge cases, one have to try all these engines to find the best fit. For large use cases, operational cost and user tolerance of search errors are all part of consideration. A conventional wisdom is do less work in the early days , and find better solutions later if have to.

AFAIK that works for others browsers on Mac too, Firefox and Brave both use same macOS API under the hood.

Hope things go well for Ash.

Gaps/opportunities for Fediverse community:

- sustainable mgmt structure and plan for large nodes

- features to import content while not breaking existing ecosystem (it's currently possible to move followers and export content only, but not import)

It seems not a twitter specific problem, every company selling click ads (=every tech and media company) has same problem.

Not sure congress or FTC can do much. Ban click ads? Ban Chinese advertiser? Ban links to Chinese-owned websites? Ban BGP to China?

Great work! Love htmx and hyperscript. Do you plan to add hyperscript to CDNJS? I know it’s already on JSDELIVR, but somehow cloudflare fits one of my use cases better.

I’m not interesting in “winning” points but do hoped this important story gets revealed and discussed earlier in this community I enjoyed participating. Thanks for taking time explaining this and appreciate all the efforts you put into HN community.

- 10 BTC sounds a lot but it's peanuts for such large data sets.

- 750k row of sample data is large enough for a leak by itself, many on reddit/twitter/fediverse have already started to explore the data set for gender ratio, age composition and frequency of raping cases, etc.

Thanks for reposting this. The last link submitted by me only got 3 upvotes. Guess it sounded just too crazy to be true 2 days ago!

Xinjiang police leak has about 20k individual, Shanghai Police leak this time include much more data, sample alone has more than 250k person, and the full set is said to be “billions”.

It's surreal.

the 750k row sample file seems very real, with names/id/gender/education/marriage/mobile/address/crime record, the latest birthday is 2021; it also contains a table of police cases in Shanghai dated back to 2000s. it also has urls for id photos, plus photos taken in police stations and customs. Hopefully those urls are not actually accessible to the hackers.

the only suspicious part is that it's priced only 10btc, $$$ but still peanut compare to the value for data covering such a large population in China

So maybe the Turing Test is not about AI are smart enough, but about how stupid humans become?

Travis Kalanick visited a bar with escort services with female employee presence, and he resigned in 2017. Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned a female employee for sex, he keeps his job in 2022.[1]

I feel sorry for the progress of gender equality in Silicon Valley.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flig...

Yes, SFF is even cheaper :D

Really liked his book _Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America_.

My 13" 2014 MBP supports 2 mDP + 1 HDMI = total 3 external displays.

Running external display at 4k@60Hz is possible but not straight forward, it requires patch core graphic framework, or using 3rd party boot loader. Newer models do not have this limitation afaik.

> Bandcamp, which Epic acquired in March, has used its own billing system on Android since 2015, and was able to do so because of rules exempting digital music from having to use Google’s billing system, according to a blog post from Bandcamp co-founder and CEO Ethan Diamond. “However, Google is now modifying its rules to require Bandcamp (and other apps like it) to exclusively use Google Play Billing for payments for digital goods and services, and pay a revenue share to Google,” Diamond says.

Didn't Google just said they allow Spotify users to choose between Google vs Spotify payment system? Why are they now requiring Bandcamp to "exclusively use Google Play Billing"?

Monterey dropped code for quite a few legacy hardware in kernel, which make it much hard to be installed on older Macs; but the flip side is it obviously feels better for newer models.

Great work on Paper and Pencil! Both hardware and software!

I'm looking for a case for Kindle Paperwhite to make it look like this.

Both Dune and Dune II were released in 1992, Dune was interactive adventure from Cryo, Dune II was RTS from Westwood. Dune II was also re-released as Dune 2000 for Windows.

Dune was not bad, but personally I love Dune II a lot. It was the first RTS I played, and it had such a huge influence on this genre for the years to come.

"Social Chrome" is a base of moving sand, just like Google AMP, it works for a brief while via platform's power but will phase out; web game died out naturally with devices becomes cheaper, and consumers going mobile (and consoles).

While I really liked the neat API and it's easy to use, the index performance and ram/disk size is really disappointing in a use case I oversee.

Typesense in my opinion is much better on performance (ymmv but in my case it's ~15% disk/ram, 5% of index time comparing to Meili). However, it's a bit behind on easy to use: the auto schema api has some limitation, also lack of official arm64 build (maybe it's a c++ vs rust toolchain thing, it takes quite some time to compile by oneself, with many c++ libs used from different vendors like google/baidu/etc, and some lib even requires SSE)

It's fun to see both come with comparison charts [1] [2], I dunno who started this but competition is good for the industry (except I'm mildly concerned GitHub stars are used in PR like this), and I hope both get better over time.

[1] https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/compa...

[2] https://typesense.org/docs/overview/comparison-with-alternat...

awesome tool! fount some interesting data explore the Compare Streaming Services section [1]

For example, Netflix and Prime Video are almost equal on total number of shows (~5.5k movie + series) but on Netflix only 4% shows are from pre-2000, while Prime has 20%. Also HBO Max has half size of Netflix library, but when filter by IMDb rating and voters, the gap is much smaller, and in certain cases HBO even wins out.

In terms of language diversity, Netflix is doing the best with 45% content not in English, that is far more than anyone else (except Zee5 which is primarily Hindi). However when it comes down to a specific language, the number is usually much smaller and around 100, which is less than ideal for someone primarily consumes French/German/Chinese/Korean/etc. (tweeted more about this [2])

[1] https://www.movieofthenight.com/compareservices

[2] https://twitter.com/freewizard/status/1480246184887398409