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tomekfon I solved my mystery fatigue with AI

Do you mind me asking what kind of symptoms you were experiencing?

tomekfon 'Not our war': German defense minister rejects call for support against Iran

Agent is doing good work.

Only country that benefits from that is Russia :(

tomekfon Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

How it’s done from technical point?

tomekfon Polish PM: government used Pegasus spyware to surveil my wife and daughter

Funny thing about Poland is that each new gov screams about unlawful things previous gov did, especially during elections campaigns, but then almost nothing happens. Rinse and repeat.

tomekfon Apple M5 chip

There are very nice Thinkpads running on Snapdragon now. But no Linux is available…

tomekfon A 9KB (3KB gzip) single HTML notebook, perfect for minimalists

Is there a way to use it offline on iOS? I’ve saved a file to my Files app but the I’m unable to save… or I’m missing something completely…?

tomekfon How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

What battery you have in mind? Can you share name/model?

tomekfon iOS 18 is the worst software Apple has ever released

Scammers do ;-)

tomekfon Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone: Report

FYI: Delivering terminal is one thing, paying for subscription is another. Poland pays for over 20k starlink terminals subscription. Every month:

https://www.barrons.com/news/poland-says-funding-20-000-star...

Multiple nations delivered them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainia...

tomekfon Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can't Play Top Games–and There's No Quick Fix

Did anyone use new ARM based devices in the enterprise environment? We have around 5 devices so far, and a part of cloud printing issue, our users love them. Great battery and performance for office tasks.

Any one else had a chance to play with them?

tomekfon Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on climate change

China is producing more CO2 in a week than many more countries in a year. Same with coal production. They also build many new coal plants (together with atomic ones). China should be first place to address emission.

tomekfon Musk considered pulling plug on Ukraine’s Starlink after ‘great talk with Putin’

This is worth highlighting as it is often omitted in the news and even in official UA communication - Starlik was enabled in Ukraine by Musk, but around 20-40k terminals were purchased and monthly feels are continuously being paid by donor countries, mainly Poland with over 20k units.

There is no free lunch.

tomekfon Mortgage rates soar to their highest level in 21 years

Can confirm. I have 30 year fixed at 1.2% here in Spain

tomekfon The Personal Security Checklist

I always feel that this should be promoted more. Simple but effective in sticky situations…

tomekfon I Am an Academic Fraud

full text:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/pwmylt/i_am_an_academi...

tomekfon Ask HN: What will Arm Macs mean?

I hope this will have bigger impact on the industry with faster Windows and Linux adoption of ARM.

tomekfon The Theory of American Decline

Very interesting info. Never thought it has so much use outside science at CERN.

tomekfon 50%+ of Small Biz say they will close soon. We built a site to save 90% of them.

There seems to be similar platform in Spain: https://en.yoportitupormi.org

tomekfon A lovely WebRTC base truly e2e encryption meeting tool

Do you publish source code?