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What are you talking about? "I hate him"? He literally learnt how to build an interactive electronic toy for his children and then put in the effort to share it online. You didn't even take the time to read it because he talks about the Toniebox at the very start of article.

So he used AI to do the write up? He also references paying in Euros so English is probably not his first language. I think you need to calm down and critically examine your priorities.

Re:Attention is all you have on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:20PM (#49789328)
On the other hand, the article was exactly what I expected from the title.
The problem I have most of all with the routing is that it seems to default to my location as either the From or To value (whichever is the one I haven't selected). Once that's been chosen it's not immediately clear how to change it, all you can do is view the route. That's a fine solution when you're immediately looking to go somewhere, but it's not great when you're trying to plot a route between two places in advance.

I've been using CoMaps for a few months and only just discovered that if you choose another location on the map once you've got an initial route and select Route To/From, it then updates the current routing.

I think you underestimate the amount of effort people are willing to put in to being juvenile or perverse.
I think it's absolutely pettiness at this point, on both sides. I've lost track of the number of times I've seen a post about /e/OS on Mastodon with someone in the replies ranting about how everyone should use Graphene instead. It reminds me of the old joke about vegans.

GrapheneOS and /e/OS' goals are different - the former is about security tightening and the latter is about deGoogling. They just had a public falling out and refuse to let it go.

Re:Asus Bike Booster on Sunday August 16, 2026 @07:26AM (#49319007)
Also an owner of a non-electric Babboe. We looked at converting it to electric but very few companies would actually do it and the one that we finally got to give us a quote basically said it wasn't worth it. They would've had to replace the whole brake system due to the higher speed of an electric bike. We ended up just buying a different electric cargo bike.
Re:Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:11AM (#49055843)
Is there a reason why the URL parameters are obfuscated? I think it would more user (and SEO) friendly to have at least the place names in the URL, e.g. brolly.sh/forecast/united-kingdom/yorkshire/york.

Still, great project! Definitely fulfils my desire for minimalism in all things.

Re:Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:43AM (#48525678)
Agreed. I think the code examples in the article could do with showing before and after states of the branch or repo and maybe compare with standard git commands.

Even then I don't think the abstraction to HTTP verbs is necessarily a useful one as web requests and version control are two different mental models.

Re:The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932) on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:16PM (#48482015)
For anyone who isn't aware, the same author who wrote the short story the film The Thing was based on.
Re:What if the browser built the UI for you? on Sunday April 05, 2026 @02:46AM (#47646797)
I think OP has envisioned a situation half way between what we now have and what will soon be the actual reality and that his idea will just be quickly skipped over.

I don't think website design will go away, but I do expect that people will soon be ordering products and booking holidays through AI chats instead of doing it themselves, which will require the kind of manifests he's talking about, but will skip the UI layer completely.

Reminds me of https://ytch.tv/ which I really like for its simplicity.
Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:08AM (#47218937)
Yeah, it makes searching for bug reports/help rather troublesome
Re:/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:04AM (#47218880)
I had this problem and it turned out to be an upstream issue with MicroG which was eventually patched. If you have an error message you can search for existing issues on /e/OS' gitlab/forum.

Revolut stopped working for me for a while with the error that the bootloader wasn't recognised and rooted phones aren't supported. After about a month an OS update solved it.

My browser auto-declines cookies so I also had the same thought. On reloading I can briefly see a pop-over with a lot of text in it before it disappears, so I guess that is the cookie game I initially missed.
And next to impossible to get rid of. I would much rather use Signal but convincing even privacy-conscious people to switch is an uphill battle.
Microsoft documentation is a nightmare, it doesn't surprise me there are vulnerabilities.

I recently built an SSO login using Entra ID (which was thankfully single-tenant) and I basically had to keep randomly stabbing in the dark until I got it to work with the correct scopes and extra fields returned with the access token.

Trying to search for any kind of Getting started guide just took me to child pages several levels deep full of incomprehensible Microsoft jargon and hyperlinks to helpful-sounding but ultimately similarly useless articles.

Re:PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means on Sunday August 10, 2025 @02:11AM (#44853122)
Agreed. Like in JS and Java, it would be a lot nicer if the language itself had the chainable methods.
Re:Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:21AM (#44852947)
If you never wash your sheets, you never have to fold them.
Re:PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:14AM (#44797097)
Basically what Collections do in Laravel.
Re:Forced to Upgrade on Monday December 02, 2024 @01:38PM (#42298969)
Fairphone guarantees 8 years of updates for the Fairphone 5.
Re:JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use on Thursday October 24, 2024 @01:32PM (#41937628)
I've tried VS Code and Haystack (based on VS Code) for writing PHP and I just couldn't stand it after having used PhpStorm. Basic things like copying variables, indenting, moving lines into if statements, multiple cursors etc. just aren't intuitive in VS Code when writing PHP and a lot of the things I can do in PhpStorm with the press of a button just aren't possible.

I really hope they move PhpStorm to the same payment model as Rider so I can also use it for my own non-work projects.

Re:Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels on Thursday August 15, 2024 @07:32AM (#41254828)
Slightly similar bug in DuckDuckGo on Android, unmuting causes the video to buffer again but it then pauses itself and there's no way to unpause it.
Re:OWASP Juice Shop: Hacking a Modern Web Application on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:10AM (#40757065)
Honestly, it's not a bad article. I'd not heard of OWASP Juice Shop and now I'm interested to check it out. The article also prompted me to look into how user input sanitising works in the framework I use. So all in all I'd say it's a positive addition to the internet.
Paper is environmentally expensive to produce and recycle. If it's worse than plastic is surely debatable but it's definitely not significantly better.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...

Ah okay, that's pretty awful and explains the huge backlash. Thanks for the extra info.
Mutually Assured Backdoors
I didn't think having to create a PSN account was that bad to be honest. I'd have preferred them to back down about the NProtect GameGuard rootkit that comes with the game.
The one real downside is that learning to cook well at home spoils eating out - it sets your standards for what constitutes a good meal that much higher. If I'm spending €16 on a plate of pasta, it better be a lot better than I can make myself.
Re:Beeper acquired by Automattic (WordPress) on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @01:36PM (#39981925)
You are correct. I was adding what I considered extra privacy-relevant information in response to GPs statement about WordPress sharing data with other companies, but the fact that I'd not heard of Beeper before unintentionally influenced my word choice.
Re:Beeper acquired by Automattic (WordPress) on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @12:32PM (#39981136)
No longer as in for a new user that currently uses individual apps.

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