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mvdtnz··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Not everyone is on a Macbook Pro. There is an enormous addressible market of people on lower end devices.
mvdtnz··on Download your favourite YouTube videos
Does anyone have a better solution for watching this stuff on my TV? I'm not thrilled with using Jellyfin for this purpose because of the limitations (some in the article, others not) but also because I have a lovely Jellyfin library of actual TV and movies that I don't want to gum up.

Ideally I want videos on my home server organised into arbitrary folders and a nice simple video player on my Android TV that I can browse the folder tree with. Just like the old days. I don't care about accessing this stuff outside of my home network.

mvdtnz··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
You've continued to use a service for a "few years" while it provides you with rotten fruit?
mvdtnz··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Discussion of Linux has been forbidden on /r/opensource because there's AI generated code in it.
mvdtnz··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
"How dare you make a claim I don't agree with. Your opinion should be flagged and hidden from the view of the public!"

It's like you custom designed your post to make his exact point.

mvdtnz··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
I don't like how information is siloed in discord but making this change retroactively is dangerous. And the option to opt out is only useful to those who know about it.
mvdtnz··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Leading off with "they made me see a boob once" to demonstrate how evil they are is so funny.
mvdtnz··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
What makes Deno more suitable for this than any other runtime? It's just executing JS code right? I wouldn't think this would leave any meaningful fingerprint.
mvdtnz··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
Does it need to work offline? Seems like a niche use case.
mvdtnz··on StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
Is there some reason this can't be done in a browser? We need to stop feeding these app stores.
mvdtnz··on Gemini 4 Argon
More Cartmanland marketing. It's the best park ever, and you can't come!

Get lost.

mvdtnz··on Sonnet 5.5
I can't understand it. Clearly someone cares because like you say the comments are always upvoted. But why anyone cares I simply don't know. It just feels like attention seeking behaviour to continue posting it.
mvdtnz··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
No. I don't want to stream a video from some dude on a mobile connection heading into a train tunnel. There's simply no upside for me.
mvdtnz··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
With no end in sight to the increasing cost of storage I can't imagine a worse time to put the burden of video storage onto users.

Even forgetting that issue, the last thing I want is to use some unknown, unpredictably changing residential connection for my videos. Google has invested in a powerful edge network so they can server my videos lightning quick.

mvdtnz··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
One of the things I admire most about Basecamp is that they are a bootstrapped, profitable business. There's no shame in running a business this way. The world would be more resilient if more business owners grew sustainably instead of soaking up endless invester funding and losing money year after year before enshittifying in a desperate attempt to repay their overlords.
mvdtnz··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
Whether it's illegal or not is irrelevant to the comment I was responding to, which incorrectly claimed "He didn't manage to sell them. Everyone hates the tariffs".

He campaigned and won with tarrifs as one of his main policy points. Voters favour them. Americans get tarrifs because Americans want tarrifs. Deal with it.

mvdtnz··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
He campaigned and won on tariffs. A plurality of Americans favor them, evidently.
mvdtnz··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
Stop deploying software onto closed platforms. There's no excuse.
mvdtnz··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
My Gemini app is still stuck at 3.5 Flash-lite and 3.6 Flash so I truly don't understand how Google rolls this stuff out. I don't use Gemini for anything serious so I'm not going to use the API, but it's my go-to for just searching basic information (replacing google search) because it's so darn fast.
mvdtnz··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
I'll believe it when I see it.
mvdtnz··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
Literally any? Really? Are you sure you're not looking at this through an Americancentric lens? The Google phone was never offered in my market, so second hand options are simply not available.
mvdtnz··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
What do you mean "why"? For the exact reason he stated in his first paragraph - a serious regression impacting his workflow.
mvdtnz··on Jellyfin 12.0
It sounds like a real pain in the ass upgrade, I'm thankful I've put off trying Jellyfin this long.
mvdtnz··on Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet
I mean of course it was. Everything in this whole ludicrous space is a scam of one kind or another. It's amazing to me that this is still even a point of discussion. It's obviously a rug pull.
mvdtnz··on Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet
What do they care if there's a panic? They have "paused the sidechain". No one can act on their panic.
mvdtnz··on Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
Read the article to find out.
mvdtnz··on Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
Your take isn't controversial, it's just wrong. And you seem to be implying everywhere outside of USA and Europe is a developing region?
mvdtnz··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
As someone who has stubbornly stuck with Claude Code, what's a good harness for Gemini models?
mvdtnz··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
It doesn't weaken his position at all. Just because it hurts your delicate sensibilities.
mvdtnz··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
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