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sammularczyk··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Bolsonaro is right wing?
sammularczyk··on Tesla Roadster
It’s poor design if you have to read the manual to find a critical safety feature.
sammularczyk··on I let an AI run my startup for a week
> I was hoping these bots would have some crazy moonshot ideas on how to grow PromptBase given all the context they have - so far that has not really happened - you still need to come up with ideas.

This is just another form of the "passive income"/"get rich quick" obsession. If agents could do this, anyone would be able to come up with a way to generate money.

sammularczyk··on Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project
Such a basic mistake treating any repo as free use. That one’s clearly a rip of copyrighted code.
sammularczyk··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Might be true in some countries but EVs are rapidly becoming the highest sellers in many others. My experience is that once people experience an EV for the first time they prefer it over a hybrid/ICE car, unless there's a practical reason for needing hybrid range (which most people will argue but don't need day to day).
sammularczyk··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Exactly. Sad to see another industry getting decimated by AI just to save a bit of cash.
sammularczyk··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
My phone kept saying it couldn't find anything, until I realised I turned off Spotlight Suggestions for photos, contacts, mail etc. Once I turned them on, Siri could access it.
sammularczyk··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
I just started using Zen (Firefox-based Arc clone) after Arc updated to Manifest V3. It's great! Last time I installed zen it was a battery hog, but it's much better now.
sammularczyk··on Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months
The background music is ripped from the PS5 home menu too.
sammularczyk··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
The banks will be fine. Australia implemented a similar system a while back (NPP/Osko) which is a standard adopted by 100+ banks. It was designed as a replacement for standard bank transfers which usually took a couple of days.

Now, even transfers in the tens of thousands move instantly. This was also a response to apps like Venmo potentially entering the market - now you can just pay to a phone number or email, as long as it’s been explicitly linked to a bank account. This is by far the preferred way to send money here and third party apps are not common.

They’ve also now introduced PayTo which manages debits and payments online with no fee. You simply approve the transaction in your bank’s app.

Australia also has widespread Visa and Mastercard use, but Eftpos has always existed - which is a fee free alternative around since the 1980s. It supports contactless, but that isn’t widespread due to weak international support and can only be used with debit cards.

The downside is that new features need to be implemented by each bank app, but it’s been interesting to see some of the smaller credit unions collaborating for example.

sammularczyk··on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
There's another Vimeo alternative at https://framerate.tv - not sure which came first!
sammularczyk··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
If you have a Kobo, it has built in Pocket integration and sync out of the box
sammularczyk··on Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
I find the design of Chrome to be nicer in general. Feels like there's less going on.
sammularczyk··on San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite
I just installed it on my Air, and it seems a lot smoother than Helvetica ever was. YMMV though
sammularczyk··on San Francisco system font replacement for Yosemite
At first glance, they look very similar. However, in use there's a big difference between the two.

San Francisco is squarer which makes its x-height seem higher. The minor variations in lettering make a massive difference when used in application.

100% not a knockoff of Roboto. They're really, really different.

sammularczyk··on 200,000 private Snapchat images astray
Agreed. I'd also be very surprised if Snapsave was routing user traffic through their servers. Apps like 6snap connect directly to Snapchat and everything works fine... so storing images on their own servers shouldn't be necessary.
sammularczyk··on Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores
Updated the site a couple of hours ago with Ubuntu instructions, thanks to our German translator
sammularczyk··on Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores
Yeah, would have loved to have something for all platforms... Haven't used Linux in a long time so I'll admit I'm unfamiliar with it all. Did try to do some research but couldn't find a solution that would cover all distros.

Next year, with more time, I'll try and add something there!

sammularczyk··on Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores
Hm, really? No such issues here. Could it the transform-3D SVG animation on page load?
sammularczyk··on Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores
Check the site. No sponsors/offers this year and we've taken steps to avoid what happened last time - our brand/logo is released under a loose Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, and the content on the site is pretty much all Creative Commons.

We've got the Attribution/NonCommercial stuff in the logo license to protect against sites implying that we approve of what they're selling. We just want businesses using the logo FOR PROFIT to state that we don't endorse or promote their product. Everything else is free reign!

We definitely never intended to trademark/restrict the use of the term. We just got a bit over-enthusiastic with the legal side of things - now we're trying to put trust in the community instead (which, admittedly, should have happened in the first place).

If none of this makes sense, I'd be happy to explain it further

sammularczyk··on The Day We Fought Back: By The Numbers
My bad. Should've picked that up, all fixed now