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lom··on "Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B
How long can Instagram keep the local port open before Android will kill it to save battery?
lom··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
So 53% on China in total, because the previous rate was 20%
lom··on US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty
Doesn’t mean that the US government just needs to accept that.
lom··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
The craziest part about that thread is how much the attitude around drugs has changed in the past years. 10 years ago the comments felt a lot more optimistic about drugs and liberalization.

I guess since then, the fentanyl crisis has happened and shown that drugs also have more negative impacts

lom··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Wow, I couldn’t disagree more
lom··on Trump wins presidency for second time
If you had actually done this you would’ve realized that Trump has “concepts of a plan” for childcare and healthcare. Despite promising us his plans for 8 years now.
lom··on US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
Google maps was launched 7 years after google was founded. If you look up the market share of google at that time (less than half of the search engine market) I think you’re more proving the need for breaking the company up.

Maps was created because it allowed google to be more competitive, not because they were already on top of their game and could just pour billions into any product.

lom··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
How is the thread only an hour old but comments 9?
lom··on Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit
> The Starlink constellation could serve up to 188,160 MB/sec to Earth.

Does that feel very slow to anyone else?

lom··on Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
Control + f
lom··on Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf]
Oh, blame my reading comprehension skills then
lom··on Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf]
In this paper 100TeV are called “totally ridiculous” but now scientists want to build a new hadron collider which would have that capacity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39271297
lom··on Passenger flight flying over Pacific reaches 822 MPH in jet stream
Interesting to see that 5 years ago 20mph slower was considered newsworthy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19202532
lom··on Expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis
How does that stop OD?
lom··on Nix Home Manager Option Search
sup?
lom··on Starlink Successfully Tests Space Direct to Cell Mobile Service
Why? Doesn’t this prove that it’s beneficial to have private companies in space too.
lom··on A coder considers the waning days of the craft
You’re missing the point of the article. ChatGPT in combination with a mediocre could solve your problem faster than the best junior dev has before
lom··on Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years
This is like the third attempt by the EU to break encryption in a short timespan. This is getting ridiculous.
lom··on You can now hail an Uber without the Uber app
You need to give your credit card information on the phone? That’s really inconvenient. Might as well call a real taxi…
lom··on America does not have a good food culture
This comment was so obviously written by someone with no clue before I even saw the username
lom··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
I’ve managed to get a GPS lock while flying, it just takes a few minutes to find one. Was it misreporting my position? because it usually matched up with what I saw outside of the window
lom··on Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?
Everything i snap gets transferred onto my server running photoprism.
lom··on There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org
OsmAnd already has a way of showing elevation in the same manner
lom··on All of the vehicle license plates available in America
My favorite one that I’ve seen is the Montana Glacier NP one.
lom··on Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
I asked it if it could use street view, as i was quite impressed by what it could tell from a steet view screenshot. but when i asked it what the view is in a location with street view it got it all wrong.
lom··on Show HN: I built a dashboard tracking the number of Threads users
1/3 of the accounts following me on instagram are bots… I get spam messages that try to get me to buy nudes every couple of months. I don’t think they’re that much better.
lom··on Rejected GitHub profile achievements
I’d have:

- Vital contributor

- Sith Lord

- Secret Santa (twice even!)

- Monkey Wrench

- Patient Sceleton (still waiting)

- works on my machine

Not bad!

lom··on Threads Is Now Live
For everyone outside of the US: You can download it from apkmirror. Worked fine for me
lom··on Threads Is Now Live
Oh, surprising. Thought they would use the fediverse to get some content going.
lom··on Threads Is Now Live
I’ve downloaded it, like the look. Impressive how many brands they already have.

But the feed’s are loading slowly, I’d imagine that will be smoothed out though.

I can’t figure out how to follow or find fediverse accounts..? How does this work?

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