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pt_PT_guy··on KDE launches its own distribution
Why tf is kde spending precious developer capacity with this?

Fedora atomic kde is close to perfect. Where is the need to reinvent the wheel?

pt_PT_guy··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
My wish is to have Telegram clients and user experience (both mobile and in Linux desktop versions) with Signal security and whatsapp adoption.

Signal is a cool 2nd alternative to WhatsApp, but their desktop client is absolute garbage, their videocall echo cancelling is non-existent and sending media over slow connections absolutely sucks (it keeps on resending and resending the files)

pt_PT_guy··on Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
don't forget ruff checker and formatter
pt_PT_guy··on D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems
One of the reasons why there are major security f-ups: no accountability and no consequences
pt_PT_guy··on MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
is POSIX complicance relevant anymore?
pt_PT_guy··on MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
they also did release LLM models, and zstd, and mold, and and and... a lot of stuff
pt_PT_guy··on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
just that? then why not a f-droid release?
pt_PT_guy··on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
ty. you're right
pt_PT_guy··on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
They want to do this because they want more traction for their blockchain: TRON, which, IIRC, is the payment method for ads, usernames and "stuff" inside Telegram.

However Du Rove is right about a bunch of things:

- Signal clients suck, specially the Desktop one where they ship (or used to) pre-built binaries like their own lib: https://github.com/signalapp/ringrtc - Also you can't have Signal without Google Play Store - Signal client suck in usability. I wish I had Telegram client (android) and desktop (qt) instead of this electron garbage. Telegram clients are super-duper-awesome - I would say that removing phone number requirement is their #1 request. yet they take so much time to address it, specially when they cry about phone number validation SMS costs - BTW, telegram is implementing a very nice idea of a crowd sourced sms validation, where they use their users phone numbers to send the validation sms - They have a very questionable crypto integration with MobileCoin, which have a obscure value: they depend on IntelSGX and is 95% pre-mined

pt_PT_guy··on AI Photo Geolocation
Is the website glitchy on firefox?
pt_PT_guy··on Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
another chromium closed source proprietary browser? no, thank you.
pt_PT_guy··on Gemini AI
Will it be opensourced, like Llama2? or this is yet another closed-source LLM?

gladly we have meta and the newly recently created AI Alliance.

pt_PT_guy··on Orion Browser by Kagi
from yesterday story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429370
pt_PT_guy··on Orion Browser by Kagi
yet another browser. no, thank you. even worse that it is based in blink/chromium.

I would rather prefer they to lower their price than investing in this.

pt_PT_guy··on OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend
glad that this is happening. OpenAI has very little of "Open" :-) Release the papers, release the process, and stop gatekeeping the models
pt_PT_guy··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
I always appreciate how NSO do incredible black hat security. Some of their exploits are true art. Props to their tech skills and creativity.
pt_PT_guy··on VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared
license issues apart, virtualbox guest tools for windows are awesome: clipboard sharing, drag and dropping files, network shares, auto window resize, etc just work out of the box.

With KVM/splicetools it is always a pain to setup that.

pt_PT_guy··on 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)
"Thanks a lot, machine learning!" ahha
pt_PT_guy··on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
886 according to keepassxc
pt_PT_guy··on I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)
spent some time there. fun!
pt_PT_guy··on Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience
Awesome features! Nice! Now work on reducing your costs and making each subscription with 5x more searches a month :D.

I was a subscriber and I absolutely hate the feeling of "spending" searches every time I search

pt_PT_guy··on YunoHost – Operating system aiming to simplify server administration
Container-base alternative: https://homelabos.com/
pt_PT_guy··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
Isn't Geekbench always been very biased towards Apple silicon?
pt_PT_guy··on Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?
OpenSuse Leap
pt_PT_guy··on Xbrowsersync – open-source Bookmark Synching
This is super awesome. Together with bitwarden allows me to have multiple-browser data sync
pt_PT_guy··on Help seed Z-Library on IPFS
Instructions are not easy. I want a out of the box solution to help without having to deeply dig into the internals.

Something like archive team warriors: http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

For example,

> Bitswap vs DHT

I don't care. I want to help without having to care about these details.

> Launch one or multiple IPFS servers (see previous blog post; we currently use 4 servers in Docker).

what? how? where? link? no out of the box deployment?

> Alternatively, you can do what we did: add in offline mode first, add the files, then take the node online, peer with public gateways, and then finally run ipfs dht provide -r <root-cid>.

what? lol

pt_PT_guy··on TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem
I really really really hope that these companies make donations to OSM...
pt_PT_guy··on Memtest86 v6.00 with UEFI support released
Isn't there a confusion between memtest86 from passmark and memtest86+?

and memtest86 from passmark has a lot of nice features that aren't available MemTest86+, includin UEFI support, writing logs to disk, fully 64bit code, additional RAM tests, benchmarking, row hammer testing and more?

and passmark shows that: https://www.memtest86.com/compare.html

pt_PT_guy··on Kagi/Orion status update: First three months
kagi is awesome, really awesome. and Fast.

But they are like: super expensive.

Unacceptable expensive. More than netflix, spotify and friends.

I wish they invest more into bringing down their own operating costs so that the premium package could be more affordable.

pt_PT_guy··on YaCy – your own search engine
Kagi is awesome, but unfortunately too expensive
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