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I am too young to know about US radio in the 80s or 90s, but I enjoy some of the local and independent stations. I even collected some of their streams after I gave up Spotify: htt…

Discovered WITR not too long ago, their selection is right up my alley (although it is arguably "millenial radio" rather than "college radio")

I don't see LLMs being able to replace translators for less-spoken languages. I know a translator between two Eastern European languages, and some jobs require use of specialized d…

Jabber / XMPP is still around and is pretty good for self-hosting a messenger. Email, now with multiple validations and verifications. Gopher protocol has a niche community (probab…

I prefer text (to audio or video) specifically because it can communicate complex ideas concisely, yet can be read at any speed. This is what "write like you talk" looks like: http…

As a non-native English speaker, it sometimes takes me some time to write things because I am trying to put my thoughts in a concise yet simple-to-understand form.

Blindsight by Peter Watts explores interesting ideas about conscience and intelligence, but these ideas are wrapped in a mediocre action movie plot that becomes nonsensical by the …

Amazon Prime is the same way. Thanks for paying, please watch ads for first two season of The Boys. Also look at this catalog of movies you can rent for an additional fee. The "low…

This is creepily similar to Russia circa 10+ years ago with its "gay propaganda" and "child protection" laws, and strong government support for the church. https://www.theguardian.…

> Rainmaker was pretty great, and it lasted at least as far as 2018. I don’t recall what happened to it. WeatherUnderground shut its API down in 2018.

> NO TYPICAL APP STORE > Instead of unrestricted app stores, we provide a curated selection of essential, distraction-free applications that align with our mission. That's quite a …

If it's a one-time thing, Prusa Slicer (and some other slicers too, probably) allow adding and subtracting simple shapes. So if, for example, you need to add a hole for a screw, yo…

Looks like someone else posted this one though :)

To quote someone from Hackaday: > We don't ask "why?", we ask "why not?"

Thanks! Maemo Leste is still around, I just tried it on a PinePhone with a keyboard not too long ago. It's not postmarketOS with a popular DE nor Android, but has a terminal, brows…

It can't be used in a mobile way much anymore, with all 3G and many 2G shut down in the US. The caps / supercaps are necessary to provide enough current during boot or more resourc…

I read about lithium-ion and LiFePO batteries on Adafruit a few years ago, and saw similar projects elsewhere. The bootloader stuff is on Maemo wiki, along with tools to flash the …

I've only heard of doing so for 2G: https://hackaday.com/2025/10/06/2g-gone-bring-it-back-yourse...

There was Neo900, abandoned in 2018. The site is still up though: https://neo900.org/#main

I looked, but TBH, not sure what to make of "genuine" and "OEM" claims for a battery for a 16–year-old device (or 10-year-old if you count compatible Lumias). Descriptions usually …

Where's the fun in that? Maemo wiki states that Maemo Leste should be run from SD card. I am actually surprised that the phone can use the SD slot at high enough speed.

What issues did you have / still have? When I started using Matrix, Riot.im did not get notifications in time, or was a battery hog. And Synapse took up a lot of memory, with occas…

Author of the article here. Thanks for posting, I've only shared this on Fediverse, but there is a much larger discussion here, I see.

Author of the article here. Similar happened to me, I had a lot of broken and empty rooms that appeared in some clients but not others, and I could not leave. This is what prompted…