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gotimo··on Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension
probably [Aurora DSQL](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/) which released a couple of weeks ago
gotimo··on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law
kids will absolutely do that.
gotimo··on Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
+1 On HttpYac, it's been really nice to get started with and growing into a more powerful API testing suite over time
gotimo··on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
even possible with a some of them, but even in that case they're usually not "refunding" as much as they're just "making a new transaction for the same anount the other way" which does the same at the surface until reversals, voids or rejections happen and it all becomes a mess.
gotimo··on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
so the only change is that they're not paying $10 for it every time?
gotimo··on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
...Apple makes revenue on the devices? On any monthly subscriptions you take with them? On the developers paying for licenses?

And let's not act as if people would use iOS if they couldn't have their apps. It is so much of a net gain to Apple to allow people to develop their apps there's a good chance it's indirectly profitable without any direct revenue from IAP's.

gotimo··on The hidden cost of AI coding
this is the rhetoric that you will see replied to effectively any negative experience with LLMs in programming.
gotimo··on Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
fucking real, i've had claude code make obvious syntax errors in C# by declaring a tuple as `var (a, string b)` which i thought we were past.
gotimo··on That's a Lot of YAML
They said "regular" programming languages
gotimo··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
people have said this since chatGPT first released
gotimo··on Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On
Relevant: RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header

https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/

gotimo··on Obsidian is now free for work
you can use onedrive to sync the files, and there's also community-made plugins for onedrive and git
gotimo··on Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git
i just downloaded the windows release and that worked fine for me
gotimo··on Dining Critic Tries Nutraloaf (2010)
(this does not look good for the US either)
gotimo··on Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative
other people being able to choose wether something is "hey this might be relevant to you" level vs "Hey, this needs your attention now" is something i actually like, given how right now MSTeams just has an @ that it always treats with the same level of urgency.

either way, you can just turn off desktop notifications.

gotimo··on Is AI the next crypto? Insights from HN comments
most of what average every day people got out of crypto was a whole lot of lost money.
gotimo··on BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf]
immense amounts of wasted energy
gotimo··on Lawmakers shift gears on TikTok ban
...that still basically means commercial VPNs are outlawed
gotimo··on FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones
this is a better argument for improving public transport than it is for widening roads.
gotimo··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
inb4 the separate "data consistency service"
gotimo··on Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud
....is it selfish to promote something with zero practical use so you can sell it for more than you bought it for?
gotimo··on Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps
as far as i can tell very few people want cryptocurrency to be illegal. what people do advocate for is KYC practices at crypto exchanges to protect customers from fraud.
gotimo··on Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps
"Use crypto!" - bag-holders with a financial interest in crypto being used