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One interesting thing: > Note: the original version of this post had a section here about an astronomy app I am working on that began as an astrology app and was rejected after hav…

Discussed previously, 2024, 564 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479001

Krebs' blog is nice, but quite often it's just re-reporting stuff from somewhere else: Original with more details: https://www.bitsight.com/blog/fuyao-enterprise-building-ad-f...

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I think one attack vector this sort of overlooks in the first point, regular users installing malicious apps. My elderly mum has an Android phone. She is not very tech-literate. Sh…

This doesn't seem very competitive: it's priced at ₹4,199 (€38,08) on HMDs store. On Amazon France, you can buy an "Energizer U506S" for €40.19 with free shipping. And that one has…

It's often more nuanced than that IMO. OSM in my experience is better at features (roads, hiking trails, and stuff like that), i.e. what's shown in that comparison screenshot. Goog…

And Organic Maps is itself a fork of Maps.me, started ...due to concern over the governance of Maps.me (introduction of commercial elements I think?). This app has had quite a hist…

I even (quite a few years ago) successfully ran an older version of Minecraft on a laptop released in 2003. That had a Radeon 9000 graphics with a whole 32MB of VRAM. And yes, it w…

Well, it could als also be argued that Chrome _is_ more secure, for example because it uses app-bound encryption using Windows DPAPI system, for cookies, so that it at least tries …

The ones in Spain often market themselves with their Chinese-ness: "Hyper China", "Panda Bazaar", "Maxi Barato (super cheap)", etc. would be some representative names & signage you…

A question for OP: why did you choose Crunchy Data for your database, instead of Fly's own managed postgres offering? Because the latency between Fly and Crunchy Data must be quite…

Im curious about this: because in my experience (working on smaller services though), a small number of errors is always there, as a "baseline". Recently there was this: https://ne…

Hm, interesting. But the pricing page is quite confusing to me: the $39 "pro plan" says "Up to 8 instances running". And above that, "Pricing that scales to zero". But if I'm alway…

On LAN (no internet, wired), it's quite decent. With e.g. Parsec, it's quite high image quality, low single digit latency, so quite usable.

They specialize in domains management for businesses who consider their domain to be _very_ important. Think Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Wikipedia... (all of those are listed as cli…

What are you doing for DB backups? Do you have a replica/standby? Or is it just hourly or something like that? Because with a single-server setup like this, I'd imagine that hardwa…

Changing project framerate is apparently quite a hard problem, even DaVinci Resolve when you change it, warns you that you cannot change it for that project again. Probably interna…

And I would rather have the _choice_ whether to prove my age to Apple or not. I think if it were optional, with the additional option of "share my age with websites & apps", nobody…

Looks like it's using leaflet + map tiles from https://carto.com/ I think Mapbox also provides a similar looking basemap style.

There's even eSIMs specifically marketed as being a "backup" esim, with coverage on _all_ UK networks. At least on my android, you could set the second esim as a "backup" that it w…

And that one is actually a direct, no-change trip on a single bus. 5 days of non-stop bus. YouTuber Noel Philips also covered it, if you want to see it in that form.

You can do this all in fly.io, no cloudflare container needed. The whole selling point of fly is lightweight and fast VMs that can be "off" when not needed and start on-request. Fo…

For at least some codebases, I'm not sure this is a useful metric. Because you don't usually put the whole codebase in your context at the same time. For example in my current case…