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We have free instant payments in the Eurozone, UK has had them for about a decade and I'd say PayPal is doing fine (unfortunately). So what's the concern?

I used to work on for a company on a product that did exactly this, but the company stopped working on that product since it didn't go anywhere (API docs seem to still be online th…

This can be enabled or disabled under the System Settings > Battery > Options > Wake for network access (Always / Power adapter / Never). Or possibly the phone registers it as conn…

Hurricane Electric support a hidden primary as part of their free DNS nameserver service (do you actually want to expose your primary when someone else can handle the traffic?) htt…

I for one found the technical difference interesting

Funny, this sounds like a good idea, but I'm quite happy with the exact opposite: I use rcmd[1]. I hold down the right command key and press the first letter of the window name to …

40 hours/month. Not week.

It might be somewhat different in that it's only for programming, but Zed is a "multiplayer code editor" with channels, notes, video chat, screen sharing etc. https://zed.dev/

This sounds fascinating. Do you have some articles describing your setup?

Not any more? https://unternehmen.bvg.de/pressemitteilung/grossprojekt-erf... Summary: since 2024-05-06, users of all networks also get LTE in the U-Bahn thanks to a project betwee…

> It’s ok for jargon and acronyms to be confusing to people who are not at all in the field. On the site itself, sure. Here, where not everyone "uses USD as part of their work", sp…

Seems like my blog was not even included in the console output, but it has been part of the thread for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596022 I know I don’t have en…

There are quite common and they're usually called planet , which might help to find useful resources or software

https://alanpearce.eu I really want to write more often, I'm not sure if it's that I don't know what to write about or that the idea of blogging doesn't come to mind easily when I'…

I used to have a Garmin running the Simply Late[0] watch face to achieve a similar goal. I wish there was something better on a more everyday-looking watch. [0]: https://sl8.ch/

If you set alias firefox="open -a Firefox" This will work

> ChatGPT will replace the concept of googling things FastGPT[0] is some way towards that: it uses the web to provide answers [0]: https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt

Works fine for me so far. From memory (like 7 years ago) gmail’s filtering rules are more powerful, but iCloud has the basics at least

A very similar project for Emacs users: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

This is about extensions, not plugins. The latter would include Widevine, H264 and previously Flash.

Yes, there's a different kind of debit card. I usually use a different term that's country-specific (like the cards themselves). For Germany, a German debit card (the "other sort",…

Something somewhat similar already happened: Stellar gave away XLM to Keybase after Keybase added an integrated Stellar wallet. Many people didn’t like it[0], even I was not too im…

hyperscript (`h()`) had its first commit 9 years ago and the syntax is common in other rendering libraries (e.g. mithril, ivi). _hyperscript (this one) seems to have released 0.0.1…

remoteStorage[1] is already a thing. I don't think anyone's made a full Word-style document editor for it yet, though. [1]: https://remotestorage.io

GMT stays the same throughout the year. The UK switches to BST for the summer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time