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mnmalst··on How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024)
Totally agree, especially in cases where new technology lowers the bar to entry considerably, resulting in potentially many more people using it.
mnmalst··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
They could literally give him 100k, 1mil or even 10mil which would still be a rounding error in their books.
mnmalst··on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
But that's not what this article is about. From, what I understand, this articles is about a user requesting information about a specific domain and not general scraping.
mnmalst··on This Month in Ladybird
I think Andreas made a comment about this in some of his videos along the lines of: It's where the most people are.
mnmalst··on When we get Komooted
I am the same. I use osmand and sync the recorded tracks with syncthing to my desktop. Works for me but not comparable to sites like komoote of course.
mnmalst··on Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
Are you saying it's not ok to drive 90km/h in a zone where 120km/h is allowed?

80km/h is the usual maximum allowed speed for trucks, at least in Germany, so no idea how a car driving 90km/h is such a big problem. That's not a "stationary object" at all, far from it. You are even allowed to drive vehicles with a minimum speed of 60km/h on the Autobahn.

If a car driving 90km/h is the cause for a traffic jam there are definitely other factors at play. Not just in zones with a limit of 120km/h but everywhere even without limits.

mnmalst··on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
Can you link a reliable source for this claim? I personally couldn't find anything with substance.
mnmalst··on TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat ignore your GDPR rights
It's almost as if the least informed people are the ones screaming the loudest.
mnmalst··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
Thanks for all the interesting links, the bluefox-nx1-specifically looks interesting to me. Do you have any information how are handling the new EU law, which requires 5 years of security updates? https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules...
mnmalst··on putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers
Selling a commercial product by using the name of a popular open source tool is definitely not "more moral".
mnmalst··on putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers
Yes? And rightfully so? How can this possible not be unethical (or however you want to call it)?

They are selling a commercial product by using the name of a popular open source tool, which on top of that is additionally a direct competitor. How "friendly" the site is designed is a factor but doesn't change that fact in the end.

mnmalst··on putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers
No OP but of course!? Are you suggesting otherwise? That denis bider person doesn't answer a single question the "journalist" asks. OP wasn't referring not to the email exchange [0] tho but the personal blog of denis bider where it gets even more obnoxious.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20250714144716/https://putty.org...

mnmalst··on CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app
I feel the same. I just installed it and there are almost no features besides the map of course. I am super happy with osmand.
mnmalst··on YouTube No Translation
I prefer the same. It gets even better when youtube starts translating a video only available in your native language to English and you have no way to enable the native language audio.
mnmalst··on LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust
Ha, I came her to make the same comment.

Two completely unnecessary request to: jsdelivr.net and net.cdn.cloudflare.net

mnmalst··on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)
Absolutely! I can't bring myself to buy a new phone when my current one still works perfectly. Still using my Pixel 4a!
mnmalst··on Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers
> Maybe it's callous to say but seems like Darwins law should settle these things.

This was my thinking as well.

mnmalst··on Hyprland Premium
Never heard of quickshell, that looks impressive.
mnmalst··on Material 3 Expressive
I am a little afraid to ask but what is a "jump in rebelliousness"?
mnmalst··on Google's "Desktop View" Turns Android Phones into Pocket PCs
I agree, can anybody just willy nilly flag any post?
mnmalst··on A community-led fork of Organic Maps
How are you tweaking it? Would love to hear more about it since I am a have osmand user.
mnmalst··on A community-led fork of Organic Maps
I started using osmand a lot more lately while biking and I agree route calculation on the phone (hi Pixel 4a :) ) are super slow but for that reason you can configure alternative (online) routing engines in the settings https://osmand.net/docs/user/navigation/routing/online-routi.... I use https://openrouteservice.org/ which generates long routes in seconds and works great in general.
mnmalst··on Significant performance improvements with Edge 134
How would they loose? Right now people looking for a "component" are just using chrome(ium), so Mozilla does not have those "users" to begin with.

If Gecko would be as usable for integration as Blink is more people would use it overall which is a net benefit for Gecko.

mnmalst··on Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
Would probably help if you would add an explainer somewhere. I have no idea what the site is or does.
mnmalst··on PostmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name
No, the company selling smartphones with /e/OS is called Murena. https://murena.com/faq/
mnmalst··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
I have no idea what I am talking about but could it be related to future AI related features that process user data locally and/or on their servers? At least that would make some sense to me.
mnmalst··on Scira is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine
Open source repo: https://github.com/zaidmukaddam/scira

I am not associated with them, just found this interesting perplexity alternative?

mnmalst··on Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab
I agree with the sentiment but ladybird is years and years away from being on par with Firefox. Performance, compatibility let alone extensions are far away at this point. Exiting to see the development tho.
mnmalst··on Building a WoW (World of Warcraft) Server in Elixir
I am not aware of an open source client, I am not aware of any clients that are not based on the original client for that matter.

Recently the turtle wow (a private server) team announced that they are working on a completely new Unreal Engine 5 client which sounds quit exiting. https://turtle-wow.org/turtle-wow-2

mnmalst··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
Would appreciate it, haven't seen something like this yet.
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