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> And you're missing on that whole important social aspect as well My RSS reader links directly to HN comments hence how I arrived here. Other than HN most social discussions are n…

> I do wonder what percentage of Apple stock is owned by pension funds and the like, i.e. The Regular Person, once you unwind the levels of indirection (mutual funds, etc). It is s…

I would like to add that IPFS pretty much doesn't run on spinning rust or slow CPUs. A PI or other low end box can easily run torrents with an external harddrive. IPFS can't downlo…

In practice libgen uses torrents. The available seed nodes for IPFS are... few. This is largely due to the software/protocol being pretty bad compared to battle tested torrents.

Running IPFS at scale is horrible. Try to download a few dozen TBs of small files. Its garbage collection is rubbish (ended up nuking the ZFS dataset every couple of days instead),…

What did you find for a gallery? I never found an open one I liked other than simple gallery.

I am happy about this fork. Simple Mobile Tools were some of the better non spying free android apps.

and archive.ph on cloudflare (nothing but CAPTCHAs)

Good point. I am sure the US won't just think of another reason to go to war...

It is not a feature it was forced down by the EPA :/ I have such an SUV and a $20 part wired into the fuse box fixes it.

You can already deduct many of these and should be. Talk to an accountant but deduction is usually ratio of usage for work vs personal. Also, keep your personal and work expenses v…

My company is largely remote at this point and is moving away from CA for cost/tax reasons. For some portion of companies this is just one more reason to move headquarters. That be…

It might stop players like FB from releasing their new models open source...

Yea, favorite place I found OpenWRT was in DJI phantom 2 Wi-Fi Extender module. Managed to SSH into it. Hardware was not particularly interesting just cool to see OpenWRT in a wide…

In Latvia what happens if you lose your ID?

Love the tool. One of my favorite snippets adds parallel processing to jq #!/bin/bash cat - | parallel --line-buffer --pipe --roundrobin jq "$@"

Yes and No. They used to be much harder to solve but modern AI has made them much easier to solve in the last couple of years. Profitability. That is what it comes down to. The pri…

The bots would just slow down then. Their time is ~free. reCAPTCHA is one of the better captcha because they do a decent amount of browser fingerprinting and their captcha are inte…

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/ Just read their blog. Latest three: - EU's AI Act - Fakespot school supplies? - Making trustworthy chatbots to support women plagued by violence and ab…