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kattagarian··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
He just spend 400 million dollars on the election, half of this in texas alone.
kattagarian··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
i changed the password later just to be sure.
kattagarian··on Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report
You can find more details here: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
kattagarian··on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)
There is a more recent game that can be used as reference to a city-building experience called Manor Lords. You are basically building your village from scratch in the wilderness and it really looks like a medieval village.
kattagarian··on Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading
this link doesn't show everything
kattagarian··on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
While i don't doubt the chinese market is incredibly regulated, this car handle is a terrible trend started by tesla. Many cases were people couldn't open their cars because because it's eletronic was damaged. There is open investigations open in the US about the same thing too. If frozen, the thing becomes impossible to open too. And the manual handle inside is also known for being easily forgotten in cases of panic.
kattagarian··on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
than it's not that different than american brands. In brazil, ford was heavily subsidized by the government for more than a decade. They bribed the politians and received back in subsidies. Their cars are also expensive and their engines known for being a weak and poor version of their US counterparts.
kattagarian··on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'
A very, very weak sales pitch. I've seen more things start prominently displaying that they're "handmade" recently, and it has only driven me away as opposed to being more interested because do you just not stand out enough to the point where you have to say that in order for people to care? Or is it because you're stuck-up? I'm not sure anymore.
kattagarian··on Steam Machine
>I thought xbox was doing well?

Microsoft lost the console wars. Their new generation (Series S & X) sold almost 1/4 of what PS5 did because they basically don't have any exclusive game that you can only play in their hardware. Microsoft invested heavily in their Gamepass subscription (that has more than 35 million users) and they believe that the future is on PC. The newest xbox hardware, a handheld made by Asus, is a PC running windows. The next generation of xbox hardware that will compete with the PS6 will also very likely be a PC. The xbox console is dead.

kattagarian··on Geoutil.com – Measure distances, areas, and convert geo data in the browser
This is really cool! I was doing some research last year on OpenStreetMap and wishing that there was tools like distance measurement there by default. Thanks for building and sharing this!
kattagarian··on Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
> If you don't like people seeing your history on the web, maybe think twice about what you do. Maybe you are the problem.

Thanks for your input, google.

kattagarian··on Bank of Thailand freezes 3M accounts, sets daily transfer limits to curb fraud
It's probably one of the biggest criticism about PIX, the Brazilian method of transferring money: it's too easy. Early on, kidnappers started taking people off the streets and forcing them to transfer all their money, because victims had no choice but to give their password, and there was no limit on the transfer amount.
kattagarian··on Inflation erased U.S. income gains last year
This is something being debated across the world. I'm not american and in my country economists wages war over the "inflation is the result of monetary expansion". I know nothing about it, the only thing i know is that inflation is getting worse (almost) everywhere.
kattagarian··on An average human breathes out roughly 1kg of carbon dioxide a day
without javascript: https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1945948569246027934
kattagarian··on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
thank you for your AI-generated answer!
kattagarian··on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
> Similarly, Windows could be losing users to smartphones in general

But this is desktop only. If someone stop using windows completely, it won't show a decrease in windows usage. This will basically only show when people switch from desktop OS.

kattagarian··on End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux
> Nobody is upset that there's an official Linux kernel.

Because he was literally the creator of the whole thing. And the word "official" means little in the open source community. Yt-dlp took the crown out of youtube-dl hands when it comes to downloading videos. Is yt-dlp official? What official even means?

And that's fine that many devs want things that just work. Little by little, everyone is noticing that windows not only not improving but taking direct action to make the experience worse. The balance is tilting in favor of linux not only because linux is getting better but because windows is also getting worse

kattagarian··on End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux
No?

Nobody in their right mind would claim that they are building the official Linux OS without turning the whole community against them.

And it's not as if the average user need to use linux. If developers move from windows 10 to linux, the impact would be huge.

kattagarian··on Why Software Devs Keep Burning Out [video]
Dr. Alok Kanojia (known as Dr. K) is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who founded Healthy Gamer, a mental health organization focused on gaming and technology-related issues. He specializes in helping people understand and manage mental health challenges related to gaming and modern technology.
kattagarian··on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
Encryption
kattagarian··on Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
that's wishful thinking. There is basically no relevant competitor to youtube, Google is extremely comfortable in doing whatever they want with it.
kattagarian··on The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action
Why would fedora have their own version of OBS studio when the package is already supported by the official team on flathub? Isn't this exactly the reason why flatpak was created, to avoid all the needless packaging that every distro had to do in order to install the program?
kattagarian··on Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
I remember trying to use 4chan once and i couldn't even pass through the captcha.
kattagarian··on Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools
This coming from a professor don't surprise me at all. Your profession is the first one to ignore or treat like it's not a big deal. "dehumanizing bullies", that's a new one
kattagarian··on Seeing America by train
"The content of this site is geofenced and not available in your region."
kattagarian··on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
> Discord is increasingly being used as a place to report bugs and share information.

So is telegram. I'm in numerous groups with developers of linux distros and other apps. Many developers uses telegram's channels to post updates about their works.

kattagarian··on Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act
ukrainians uses telegram just as much. It's a popular app in eastern europe and asia.
kattagarian··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
No payload, it's a test
kattagarian··on Sweden (Not Switzerland)
In Portuguese their names are pretty similar as well: Suécia (Sweden) and Suíça (Switzerland).
kattagarian··on Fish – A friendly interactive shell
I don't know much about shells. Fish was the first one that made everything so easy and the only downside was not being posix compliant, but i can easily call bash and run the command. I tried leaving fish and the others requires so many configurations, but fish does by default. It suits me.
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