padraic7a

This post is from noted beer bloggers 'Boak and Bailey'. It focuses on the flood of vibe-coded beer related apps they are being notified about but I thought it nicely generalises "the main problem with so many AI-enabled hobby projects: presentation and interface design is the easy bit; it’s building or getting access to good quality underlying data that’s the challenge."

Have you looked into the different Hackerspaces around the country? TOG in Dublin run Repair Cafe events [https://www.tog.ie/repair/] and I'd be durprised if other spaces don't.

You can find a list of other Hackerspaces here [https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Ireland].

I don't believe that's true any longer. The U.S. moves over Greenland have a large part to play in this, but I think the sanctioning of the International Criminal Court is much more relevant.

Overnight ICC officials couldn't access email, documents etc, all because the U.S. government leaned on Microsoft. If they can do it to a United Nations court they can and will do it to anyone.

Spending money on a system you don't have any control over doesn't make sense. The public understand this.

Just one data point but they work for me. (Nothing phone, android 16, Ankidroid 2.23.3 installed from Fdroid)

Stripping the metadata on a photo is probably a feature though. For privacy reasons the default should most likely be that location, device info etc are taken out of photos that might go viral or be shared beyond what the original user intended.

I guess Israel's government really wants to avoid making a peace deal.

Public Libraries.

I don't think so.

I'm on Ubuntu and mostly use debs (apt), I'll use Snaps if that's the easiest way to get an update. I use Appimages for some ephemeral stuff or when that's the only way developers release it (some 3d printing stuff). I haven't installed Flatpaks at all because it doesn't jibe with the distro overall.

on Ubuntu you can integrate Appimages with AppImageLauncher.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/appimagelauncher-install...

Yep, that's one of it's best features.

Im sure ot must be in the documentation somewhere but you can also read about it here https://guides.library.unlv.edu/open-refine/undo-redo

Why?

You think scholars are mostly translating?

Did it? What adoption numbers?

Number of distros? Number of applications?

Ubuntu seems to dwarf other Linux distrobutions in terms of numbers of users. Are you saying more users have Flatpak installed than have Snap installed?

Perhaps they could settle it in a cage match, in a submarine?

Brilliant, that's great to hear.

I love Fdroid and the way it makes FOSS software more available.

I wish it was a bit more polished though. On my stock unrooted OnePlus6t there is no option for updating all possible apps at once.

Like if there are 3 apps to update it takes at least 6 clicks to update them.

I can't see a single Note without logging in, or in my case creating an account. That's a hard limit on exploration.

It's very dystopian. National / bank / religious holidays etc shouldn't come out of your individual holidays.

Good

Gary is also a contributor on the Linux Downtime podcast where he talks about his pidgin work a bit.

https://linuxdowntime.com/

I don't use NixOS, or have any great interest in it tbh. But this podcast featuring Martin Wimpress (of Linux Mate and other projects) does a decent job of describing what NixOS is, and previews some ongoing and upcoming efforts to address the learning curve and lingo around it.

https://linuxdowntime.com/category/podcast/

I was just about to post that. Well done.

That's a really good tip.

"Let me know if there's anything I can do" isn't all that helpful without being specific.

I think there are a few things going on.

One is that the Internet makes showing off what you do so easy, and adding ads is just a small addition to a website, blog or YouTube channel so monetization is fairly straightforward.

Another Internet related phenomenon is that the availability of training, information and equipment online makes it easier to produce 'professional' quality work than in the past. I homebrew beer as a hobby and fellow hobbyists can make niche brews with obscure ingredients in stainless steel fermenters, with temperature control and even low oxygen processes. A few years ago this would have been very difficult. I think the situation is replicated in other hobbies.

So standards of 'work' achievable in hobbies are higher, partly through information availability. Sharing and monetising your work is easier.

If you're looking to change career then turning a hobby into a job sounds like a great idea. Otherwise it just seems like a way to ruin the pastime.

The data centres are being located in the built up East of the country, near Dublin the capital city.

Land for solar farms would be expensive and to be honest I'm not sure if the sunshine here would make them viable.

I don't know why data centres are nt being located in more remote regions of the small island, presumably there are network / technical reasons.

If Ubuntu and it's derivatives go for Snaps then while that's a minority of distros it's probably a majority of the Linux user base.

Mír still exists. It's a Wayland compositor now for IoT but it's still there.

It could be worse. He could be a US general working for a country with a deeply concerning history of human rights, a lingering racial apartheid problem, and a history of violating the independence and sovereignty of many other countries : the United States.

My mental image reading this is that you demand overtime, are reluctant to allow holidays and are trying to fire this person before you have to deliver on promised compensation.

Of course I could be completely wrong.

Out of curiosity what counts as lots of time off and minimal hours?

I read this and am glad to live somewhere with legislation covering working hours, rights around leave and around being fired.

A nice problem to have. What would HN readers spend such a windfall on? Contracting developers to work on the project seems like the obvious choice.

That’s a long 10 mins to wait for an email to see if you’ve still got a job or not.