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cuu508

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About cuu508

I'm Pēteris Caune, founder of Healthchecks.io

my-hn-username-here@monkeyseemonkeydo.lv

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49232827

    If you are not buying Apple products, you are saving yourself their suckiness. Win! And other people can make their own choices.

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    Comment #49213713

    The Anubis challenge took ~5 seconds. What do you propose instead?

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    Comment #49148620

    So... Is your suggestion to ban tracking, marketing, analytics etc. non-essential cookies altogether?

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    Comment #49131590

    Texting and driving is a real problem.

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    Comment #49114170

    When mastodon.technology shut down, the operator commented on this, see "Why Not Transfer to a New Admin?" here -- https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

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    Comment #49100432

    Incredibly useful for some definition of incredibly useful. What I see: - I now regularly receive AI-written spam emails (marketing pitches, "vulnerability reports"). - I was recei…

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    Comment #49087207

    Specs don't make it clear if it supports BLE sensors (HR strap, power meter,... ).

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    Comment #49060876

    uBlock Origin's "annoyances" filter lists also do the job.

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    Comment #49055407

    I think the viability of the fork primarily depends on whether it has enough people motivated to maintain it long term. A turtle can win a distracted hare.

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    Comment #49002717

    Please reconsider Kagi's partnership with Yandex.

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    Comment #48930408

    I have fond memories of Flash 5 in early 2000s. At the time I knew BASIC and Pascal. I could figure out how to draw things, how to animate them using keyframes and motion tweening,…

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    Comment #48894479

    What analogy might work better, i.e., be less charged but as precise?

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    Comment #48878507

    I've realized this as well, the bigger the company the worse the experience. The more customers they have the less they care about any individual customer. The more products they h…

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    Comment #48840997

    Perhaps do the last 5% yourself?

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    Comment #48819057

    Oh, interesting, I stand corrected! I was investigating this 5 months ago and the answer their slop machine gave was: > Does Mollie retry failed payments (dunning) and track subscr…

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    Comment #48817702

    Do you know of any EU payment processor that supports recurring payments like a SaaS would need (subscriptions, subscription state tracking, automatic retries of failed payments)? …

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    Comment #48806916

    I hope that changes and people start valuing simplicity and robustness over electric gimmicks (I know many people already do, but we need critical mass).

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    Comment #48771638

    > I just don't get it! This is open source, volunteer developers often focus on doing things that are fun to them, or that scratch their own itch. I can't imagine dealing with Goog…

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    Comment #48704493

    Or maybe somebody at the decision table had sentimental feelings for Volvo. Like Kyoto.