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there must be some way to make the browser disable it?

She's suggesting her own group of contacts should switch to something that makes it easier to intercept her own messages?

I don't use elfeed, but installed elfeed-tube just for youtube-with-transcripts :)

Is scaleway an alternative to fly.io, or more an alternative to aws/azure?

Wire seems fine, better than many alternatives, but ditching Signal because of the possibility for phishing seems very odd?

my kid recently wanted to transfer a picture from an iPad drawing app to a windows laptop, I wish I knew about localsend for that

it'll probably be something we're not even talking about yet - we still have 7 months in which to make the world even worse

I understood that article as there being many bad studies on how much plastics are in our body. But I find it highly unlikely there isn't any plastic in my body, from my toothbrush or chewing gum or water bottle or that old black plastic spatula I fry my eggs with or the air that pushes all kinds of particles into me etc. etc. And studies like your parent comment's https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12692081/ make it seem likely that they could have some negative effect. So I'm not worried about it, but I also find it a good idea to be cautious (maybe I'll avoid heating food in plastic containers) and for there to be more research into it.

ooh so many to choose from ... but what makes them great is actually the integration between them, made possible by everything being a text buffer. gnus, org, wgrep/wdired, occur, consult all work together to improve each other.

"specific" pesticides is a lucrative myth that has been told and sold for a hundred years

Would love to see where the mistral stuff lands.

Also, being from Victor Taelin, shouldn't this be benching Interaction Combinators? :)

I do too. But I'm starting to get some pain in my index finger, so I think it's probably time for me to move on. I hear Framework is shipping to my country now...

Thank you, would upvote twice if I could, I learnt something new and potentially very useful here :-) *bookmarking*

> home-made oral rehydration solution

water?

EDIT: I see it's a thing. Salt, water and sugar.

> You need to read the previous line to understand what

that ended rather abruptly?

I thought I would never use one either, but whenever I use my SO's laptop with touchscreen, I keep touching the screen for "quick actions" like pausing video or starting apps or moving things around. I don't use it when I need precision, but when I need to just do one thing quickly where I don't need accuracy, I actually find it really handy.

But I wouldn't pay (much) extra for it.

> Recent progress in the technology of space travel [...] raise the distinct possibility that we may eventually discover or construct a world to which orthodox economic theory applies.

Hah!

And

> among the authors who have not pointed this out are Ohlin (1993) and Samuelson (1947).

Most chuckleworthy.

ooh, of course, thank you

> Electric car sales jumped by more than 20% in 2025 to over 20 million vehicles, accounting for roughly 1 in 4 new car sales worldwide.

I wonder if included these numbers in that calculation https://electrek.co/2026/04/16/tesla-cybertruck-spacex-1279-...

;-)

> Solar added about 600 terawatt-hours of generation globally

> And nuclear is making a comeback: More than 12 GW of new reactors began construction in 2025

Am I reading it right that growth in solar was 50000x that of growth in nuclear? (And those reactors of course won't be finished / online until some years into the future.)

Most likely they used trees that had grown for at least 100y, as that's how you get the hardest wood (wood from young trees gets all bent in humid weather)

Then I sincerely hope my bank and doctor and government offices are all free-riders.

Dependency cooldowns, like staged update rollouts, mean less brittleness / more robustness in that not every part of society is hit at once. And the fact that cooldowns are not evenly distributed is a good thing. Early adopters and vibe coders take more chances, banks should take less.

But yeah, upload queues also make sense. We should have both!

The blog post could do with some human editing ;-)

Still, this is very interesting, if nothing else it seems like a proof by example that it is possible to fix Haskell's tooling.

By the way, can I suggest prefixing the error codes with something hx-specific, e.g. instead of E0012, maybe HX0012? Makes things more googlable. (Like you can google for SC2154 and get https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2154 )

a Windows license is only cheap if your time has negative value

Jumping on the bandwagon, Magit is raising $$$ to Keep Version Control Magical https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/5555

or just an extrovert, but nuance doesn't make for pithy quotes

i may be dense or something but what effect?

AI was trained on their texts, the RLHF slaves thumbs-upped their style of writing, what can you do. It's not his fault ⸻ it's AI's.

Oh, the article is by Katherine Rundell. She has written some very nice children's books.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46511555

I remember being so disappointed with Apple back when I had a Macbook and the Apple store people were like "nah, if you spilled stuff on it you just buy a new macbook"