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maelito··on Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack
Same in Germany : AFD's activity went abruptly down apparently.
maelito··on Mistral Large 4
Was wondering what Le Chonk meant (not French).
maelito··on Web Search API
Same as https://staan.ai, the European index.
maelito··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Mistral Vibe lets you use GLM-5.3 by default now. So it's a very capable model, for a cheap monthly fee. The Web version is excellent : tried yesterday on a simple search, results were way more informative than ChatGPT.

But yes, it's sad that they don't release models anymore.

Thanks for the definition !

maelito··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
Diesel can even cost 3 €.

Also, 50 000 "leasing social" cars will soon appear on the 2nd hand market.

maelito··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
We're a colony.
maelito··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
I'm sorry, what is a harness, compared to a complete Web LLm "chat" like Mistral Vibe ?
maelito··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
And we're adding new itinerary options soon.

For cars : avoid highways, tolls. For cycling : follow rivers, less noise, less traffic, etc; for walking : no steps.

maelito··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Thank you for talking about energy and food.
maelito··on PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
I'd be so happy to install this on my phone. I miss the time when I was using Samsung Dex. Incredible to not hold my computer around anymore. But Samsung... not open-source, buggy.
maelito··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Related, for embedding small models, this lib is incredible.

Having a voice under 1Mo is crazy, even if it sounds robotic.

https://tts.ampixa.com/sanoTTS/

maelito··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
Meanwhile, the Web is ever more powerful. But now Android and iOS users expect to find things in the App store only.
maelito··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Bienvenue les amis.
maelito··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
It just downloaded the file on my firefox.
maelito··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
How depressing this first demo video about mum, grandma and the fruits.

These are basic things of our lives that make us humans : caring about others, remembering what they say, knowing how to recognize a fruit, enjoying colors of the fruits with your eyes, not through your retina display, thinking about the food recipes that we know.

I don't know if this is because I'm european and the gap keeps getting larger across the Atlantic, but what a depressing life those giants are telling us here.

maelito··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
That would be great ! We're starting closer collaboration with Comaps this month. What are these questions on your side ? A text more friendly than ID ? Or a selection of inputs based on the place type ?
maelito··on U.S. in Highest-Risk Category for Civil War, Coup, or Collapse in CIA Model
Yes, that's the impression from abroad, from Europe.
maelito··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
We added a simple place editor to https://cartes.app that includes the website attribute.

We're convinced most users (shopowners too) want to read and write in the same app.

maelito··on Global Glacier Extinction Explorer
Just checked the Glacier Blanc in the Massif des Écrins. The map's glacier vector perimeter is completely wrong : the glacier has retreated hundreds of meters already.

I hope this is just a map thing, and not the base for these predictions :/

maelito··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
https://stancer.com.

Simple Rest API, with Redoc https://docs.stancer.com/api/redoc.html.

maelito··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
> Are you sure of these values?

Yes perfectly sure, just checked. I'm not saying these are visa fees vs CB fees. Lots of actors in the chain. But that's what I'm paying for each card type.

maelito··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Plus fixed fees.

I don't want to put responsability on anyone, I don't know who takes what in the chain, but I see the fees in practice.

I took the cheapest PSP I could find in Europe... Stripe is way more expensive, taking 25 cents of fixed fee !

maelito··on Planet Labs' open satellite feed
Also checkout https://nlnet.nl/project/Mapterhorn-imagery for planet high-def satellite PMtiles. Not yet released.
maelito··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Related : GNU Taler.

You can apply to a fund to implement this system.

https://nlnet.nl/taler/

maelito··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Well I don't really know what they do, but what I know is that Visa transactions costs are 0,22 € out of a payment of 1 €, Mastercard's is 0,23 €, and the French CB network is 0,17 €.

All of them do the same : ensure I get the money from the customer. Of course it's a larger project to run this in the whole world, but shouldn't it scale to less along with the number of billions of customers instead of the other way round ?

This is an insane amount of money. They killed micro-transactions, they killed the business model of the Web in favor of ads, the only popular way to do microtransactions right now.

maelito··on Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids
On the long-term, the French option of just running a low-carbon grid remains the obvious solution.
maelito··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
If only PWA were not made invisible by Apple. The install button has been moved voluntarily to the share menu.

The UE should make it mandatory to permit PWA install popups on all platforms.

Such problems wouldn't arise, because this app could be installable as a cached Web app. A native mobile application could be installed only for specific functionalities.

maelito··on Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off
For-profit, but privacy focused and 100 % Web and open-source, no ads : https://cartes.app (I'm the main dev)
maelito··on Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
Yes that's the main problem. I'm talking to them too.
maelito··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
This is false. What can I say more ?
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