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moondowner··on Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers
I've been using Superpowers for months, it's great, only downside is the extensive token usage.

When I saw the title Superlite, I thought it's a Superpowers fork optimised for less token usage...

moondowner··on Mistral Large 4
'AI sovereignty' is a nice sales pitch in the EU market.
moondowner··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
This powertrain is great for people that want to drive an EV, but they live in places with poor charging infrastructure.

Two motors and e-Pedal driving is the cherry on top imho (e.g. in the 2027 Rouge).

moondowner··on Audacity 4.0
Wow, the UX has come a long way, can't wait to try it.

What is MuseHub and how is Audacity related to it?

moondowner··on HMD Touch 4G
The front of the device in the illustrations looks like the LG Fireweb from 2013, that ran Firefox OS. Good old times.
moondowner··on Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0
> xmls scattered all over the filesystem

is this comment from 2015?

With e.g. Spring Boot and Gradle you can have large projects with zero xml files needed. That has been the case for years.

moondowner··on OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage
Related, Mageia 10 was recently released (June 30, 2026).

https://9to5linux.com/mageia-10-officially-released-with-lin...

moondowner··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
DE & EE should have a double taxation agreement.

https://www.fin.ee/en/double-taxation-agreements

moondowner··on Japanese symbols that speak without words
That's the case in Europe in general, yes.
moondowner··on Japanese symbols that speak without words
"no gives a fuck" is a bit dramatic

there are memes about zabka on social media as well (i've personally seen some on insta and tiktok), maybe not in the same scale, but there are.

moondowner··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
`buys` sounds like they have just purchased BD, should be `takes full control` or something similar.
moondowner··on Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?
Many similar cases accross Europe.

Visited Lisboa last summer, the building where I booked an apartment was not even there in Google Maps, satellite image data was showing a leveled site with some dumpsters.

Just checked and the images are still the same old ones...

moondowner··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
> Western Europe and the US built their economy in Poland, because the labor is educated and cheap. > There are almost no globally competitive Polish companies.

Same issue in all southern and eastern European countries.

moondowner··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
Nation states have been editing history related pages on Wikipedia for ages, it has never been a reliable source of information on some topics.
moondowner··on Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf
was *

https://www.foundry.com/news-and-awards/foundry-winds-down-m...

moondowner··on Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase
Switched from Spring Boot to Ruby on Rails 3 years ago.

I expected to see some new Spring 'tricks' in this post, but it's pretty much regular things that people might do in larger codebases.

moondowner··on “This is not the computer for you”
> He is going to open GarageBand and make something that is not a song.

As a kid I just loved playing around in Reason (1 or 2?) and making strange sounds and just flipping the racks around and trying to connect the cables in any jack possible, to see what happens.

I would open one of the demo songs, to 'learn' how these racks were wired, and then experimented.

Good old memories.

Kids nowadays need those type of experiences too.

moondowner··on We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
> The homeless centre told them Ronnie needed an address to get a job, Rob said, but "to get an address, you need a job".

> "That's the Catch 22 that loads of homeless people are in."

Breaking this systemic barrier would make life easier on a lot of people.

moondowner··on Be Careful with GIDs in Rails
Any popular Rails apps that use to_global_id?
moondowner··on SmartTube Compromised
Sometimes people download it because there's no alternative. E.g. the YT app is not available in the play store in their country on that specific hardware, so the only way to be able to view YT is to use an alternative app like this one.
moondowner··on Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding
Is there a similar guide/document for Claude Code?
moondowner··on I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again
Affiliate links have been here for three decades; (AutoWeb.com doing it since 1995)
moondowner··on Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project (2024)
I remember when ZTE Open was released in Europe in 2013, it was a decent Firefox OS phone.

The downside for me was that it didn't feel premium.

Compared to the 2012 HTC One S that I had back then, which was very slim, with aluminum finish and great screen, it didn't stood the chance.

moondowner··on Nokia Design Archive
No mention of my fav Nokia of all time, the N9; also no mention of MeeGo and Maemo
moondowner··on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion
I've been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, https://rancherdesktop.io/ on macOS and Windows, it's pretty solid.

It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).

What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl

moondowner··on My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards
The Q and Q Pro series are a dream come true.
moondowner··on MilkyTracker 1.04
I always wondered, why are these called trackers? It's tracking the notes from a file?
moondowner··on The quest for a simple smartwatch
Noup. Amazfit/Zepp Health is a Chinese brand, somehow related to Xiaomi (I have a few Xiaomi Mi Band devices and they use the Zepp app on the phone).
moondowner··on OpenAPI v4 (aka Moonwalk) Proposal
The Java generator is pretty good, many big companies are using it for generating both client and server code, I'm especially happy with the Java Spring Boot generator, I've been using it for both reactive and 'standard' code generation.
moondowner··on Rife Is a Framework Experiment
Why would you need Oracle JDK specifically? There are so many reliable JDK builds by other parties. https://sdkman.io/jdks

I'm personally using Amazon Corretto (is in the SKDMan link)

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