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Fastmail is an Australian company.

There's no reason Framework needed to be storing this much PII about me all this time including my address, IP addresses and phone number. I just requested a full delete courtesy o…

There's a Pink Floyd song about just such a thing, Fletcher Memorial Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM

Electric cars face a lot of depreciation, so you can get a really good deal on a used one. Plenty of supply, low cost, and cheap to keep running.

Did we read the same article? > To us, it seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or even more resources than some of the …

There's security consequences to allowing inline JS, which hyperscript requires.

It's sad to see the pre-LLM history of this project dating back years completely nuked in favor of this.

They tried to put ads into Organic Maps, and they only backed down because CoMaps sprung up in response. Others in the thread highlighted other issues, like Organic Maps' proprieta…

I'm hoping for a renewed focus on writing software that runs well on constrained machines and helps people get many more years of useful life out of their existing computers.

GrapheneOS lets you restrict the internet access of any app on install. But yes, agreed it should be everywhere.

Apple still pushes ads to you. I can't recall how many times I saw ads in the App Store, and how many times they tried to push me into subscribing to whatever nonsense their execut…

Sheesh. $500 is a hard pass from me. Too bad because I was psyched to try this.

Sure, I _could_ carry more weight, but I'm not sure why I'd _want_ to. Why should I sacrifice for example an extra pair of socks or a shirt, when I don't need to? Having a bigger s…

I travel with strict luggage limits (both size and weight) and hike all day. Removing weight absolutely helps.

Meanwhile the moment I (a human, of which I'm reasonably confident) see a Cloudflare captcha I nope immediately out of the site and block it forevermore in Kagi. It's not worth the…

Another clanker comment...

I care that runtime developers know and understand their codebase deeply. 1M LOC written by 1 dev in a short time does not inspire confidence in such an important dependency. There…

> WhatsApp claims to be end-to-end-encrypted, but it's not open-source And explicitly does not encrypt metadata. Meanwhile NSA top brass publicly stated, "We kill people based on m…

It's trivial to set up WAL-based streaming backups. Same thing as you'd have with Postgres on GCP. Restore from your latest backup.

The MNT Reform has a trackball option. https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform

When these mega-companies block new competitors it really ought to be seen as collusion. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft certainly have the resources to test and approve the occasi…

I used an immigration service to help me through the process. Alongside that I spent several months learning the language then weeks traveling through PT before making the decision…

My family has been in America for... I dunno, 8 generations? A long time. I'm moving. I don't have any connection to Europe. I just don't want to live under America's increasing fa…

NHR (the tax scheme that the parent is discussing) ended. If you didn't already move to Portugal under it, it's no longer available to you, so your question should really be in the…