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sickmartianon For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue

ding ding ding, I cannot see right now anyone else "winning" AI... I hope for a local future where this doesn't happen but otherwise... yeah

sickmartianon Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste

firefox (148.0.2) on linux, the preview for me is not working

tried them on chrome, it works fine, nice work

sickmartianon Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

Great, let's see how it works out.

Firefox for Android has been killing it for me with the latest ux updates, I didn't expect major improvements there and was pleasantly surprised.

sickmartianon Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app

Very cool, trying it out, I'm unable to make it do a search tho, on the experts it says it's deactivated on the settings but I couldn't find a setting for it, maybe it's model dependent and the default model can't do it?

sickmartianon Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

Why offer a crappy default Spanish translation when you can just not?

- The name of the product is broken "Jelly Star Estrella" instead of Jelly Star

- "Descubrir Jelly Star Estrella" instead of "Descubre Jelly Star"

- "Jelly Star Estrella Presenta un diseño" consistently uppercasing the first word disregarding their product name in the sentence

- "Jelly Star EstrellaLa luz LED" or just not leaving spaces

- "Aparece en dos colores" instead of "Disponible en dos colores"

I got tired reading an IA generated translation not reviewed by one single human that spoke the language, that went through some quick copy and paste.

Concept looks cool, I just can't trust them on quality.

sickmartianon Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024

It's not perfect, but keepass does have keeshare, basically one or many sub-dbs on different files that integrates into the main one seamlessly, so in my home we have a 'shared' db each and we can read it and update it from our main dbs.

sickmartianon Welcome to Teams 2.0

My company made us move to this from Slack, killed all online camaraderie that existed in the enterprise to save some bucks.

Hope at least now it's usable, would love to be able to enumerate things, use code blocks, etc... it's a bit of a nightmare for day to day work as it was, so I'm glad at least there is some movement, as we are basically captive audience.

sickmartianon So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

Not parent but on pop-os, using sudo apt install zfz I got the same behavior, had to add it myself to .bashrc

sickmartianon Multi-Account Containers

for 1) do look into the temporary containers extension.

sickmartianon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://sickmartian.com/trackendar/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sickmartia...

Trackendar, an habit tracking calendar app. Not currently monetized, got some initial traction, put ads which I promptly removed as they made the app look like shit and had some 'add ons' with which I made between 400-500 USD, I didn't get to see that money as getting an USD payment in Argentina was a PITA so the US has them now :/

All local data, so no cost except a lot of time learning 'old' android and constantly maintaining whatever google wants to change or deprecate + updating the date/time library with the latest TZ changes. Has more features that it needs or users want to learn to use like categories, themes, reports...

sickmartianon Ask HN: Does this idea make any sense?

Really depends on where you are I guess, but I found no info about you in the link.. also the top right link that says how many spots are left sends me to google.

sickmartianon Apple Cash

In argentina you can set an 'alias' for your account, if you don't you get one by default... I put my name as alias, I started getting payments from people I don't know o.O

sickmartianon Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go

Congratulations on the launch! It looks very useful and easy to use as well

sickmartianon Ask HN: How are you handling salary/compensation with high inflation?

I live in Argentina, we breathe high inflation.. it's not nice, but good companies will compete on how to handle this, currently:

- Some companies pay part of the salary in a stronger currency (USD) - I get this is probably not viable for your current scenario, and it a perk I don't actually get, but my wife does.

- Some companies have quarterly or bi-monthly inflation rate adjustments, this is semi-automatic, we subscribe to an independent party that measures inflation and whatever number they come with goes, this is because Argentina has a history of fudging the numbers to make the government look good.

It will still require adjustments from the individuals, even if you have a cooperating employer, for example you probably want to buy stuff as soon as you get paid, otherwise you are losing money.

sickmartianon Ask HN: I keep forgetting the new habits I'm trying to form

What I do is have a weekly reminder I call 'alignment' set for the weekend, this one can't be skipped and for that it should be very easy to go through, in my case when I see this one I go to Trello and check some notes I have there that explain how I see the world, what I want to accomplish and the goals, should take around 5 to 10', based on these goals it's when I create those small daily reminders for the habits I want to cultivate.

So, worst that can happen is I miss a week and I'm then reminded of why I wanted to do this and I can get started for next week.

The most important thing is to be kind to yourself, run or walk at your own pace, falling a couple of times doesn't mean you have to give up, eventually you will get there, even if you skip a couple of days or weeks or give up for a short time and take over later on. It's self improvement, nobody is supposed to be perfect.

sickmartianon Reddit’s disrespectful design

> I have this bad habit of clicking my mouse on the whitespace of any web page I visit (I guess I am the only one).

That makes two of us. I agree but don't stay away, I use old.reddit w/reddit enhancement suite, doesn't fix incognito for me as I don't let addons run there, but using containers on firefox instead helps.

sickmartianon Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

yeah, it is referenced later on.. it's a drunken post, so a bit disorganized :D

sickmartianon Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend going the IaP route either for a small app with no marketing.

Users will think they have right for personalized support (which makes sense, of course) and will contact you for refunds, the reviews will get meaner as well and then you have to keep the library updated.

I got a notice that I have to re-do the IaP code on my app, an app that made me $600 over it's lifetime of which I saw nil because of how hard (and expensive really) it is to get the money into my country... just removed the whole purchase thing, it should make some users happy and my life easier.

sickmartianon Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay

Point b, "if you don't like it go back to your country"... they might be earning more, but the cost of living is WAY more than in their home country, I agree that they might be able to save some to no go back empty handed or to send back to their family, but why should they suffer in the meantime?

sickmartianon Bash IRC Quote Database

yeah, and 'I put on my robe and wizard hat' is right there as well.

http://bash.org/?104383

sickmartianon New Features in Java 14

Can't you do .filter((String name) -> "Bob Vance".equals(name)) already?

sickmartianon Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game

It's showing up for me in the App Store, macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G1012) from Argentina. Hope it helps with diagnosing somehow, and good luck with the project, looks impressive.

sickmartianon What's Salesforce?

As an ABAP developer, we are on a planet next to yours...

There are efforts for all those things, but it's still painful.

sickmartianon Equifax Argentinian portal secured with admin/admin

Yes, this is stupid. One thing to note thou, DNI is not supposed to be secret or used as a secret in practice.

sickmartianon [dead]

I agree that security method a) seems useless, but b) is still good if you take time into account. You know when the account was 'secure' and the forwarding address that was setup can be considered a safe way to recover the password if the user opts in on that (there is surely some use cases for the forward that I'm not thinking about).

sickmartianon Show HN: Emojielog – A simple emojie journal application

or just emoji e-log as emoji electronic log

sickmartianon The end of smartphone innovation

You wear the controls to your own wearable computer/smartphone, which might or not be linked to a better one on the environment that can do a lot more for you.

sickmartianon Startup Ideas Generator

Yup, quite fun: "We're a rich text editor for poor people."