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I think the biggest issue is IP reputation. There are good products out there to do all the heavy lifting, which prevent most of the issue with good default configuration. But no matter how good your setup is, if your IP is/was known for sending spam once, you're on some list with the big providers. If you don't already have an IP for years with a solid reputation, you're going to go through a lot of "please check your spam" communication. I know cases where even neglecting measures such as using DKIM is okay if your IP is okay. The other way around: you need to implement basically every measure possible to even get started being recognized as a trustable sender.
That's the funny point: it's not a mistake from their point of view. The managers deciding this get MASSIVE bonuses because they saved a lot of money, which means more money for the shareholders
EA has its money cows, and neither Mass Effect nor Dragon Age are one of them, as it seems. The IP stays with EA anyway, so from their point nothing is really lost.
My best guess: prices stay where they are, or will raise as Verisign pleases in the following decades, and the US customers receive a laughably small refund for their domains after a decade long case settled outside of court after especially lawyers earned their golden noses.
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Kovah on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:42AM
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Kovah on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Just had an interesting conversation about book collecting this weekend: we asked each other which of their books is so obscure or rare that it's unlikely anybody else you know owns a copy.For me, it's a printed copy of von Neumans "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", the groundwork for modern computer architecture. Bought it from Kronecker Wallis, a tiny Spanish publisher.
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> It felt to me that Codex created a much simpler solution in terms of code architecture than Claude.
Wow, I made exactly the opposite experience. Codex loves to make things as complicated as possible, even ignoring instructions and predefined skills. Claude behaves way more pragmatic. Maybe depends on the type of work one does, or even which programming languages/frameworks are used?
There would be a few fixes, if the politics would be interested in actually fixing this loophole.
- deny is the default: one button to deny everything but one accept button for every partner
- respect DO NOT TRACK, and force software/hardware providers to enable it by default
- making payments for non-tracking illegal
- remove or rephrase "legitimate interest" ruling, because providers use that as an excuse to enable everything
- and probably: prohibit any other dark pattern, or at least make it extremely hard to implement
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Kovah on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:50AM
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Kovah on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:49AM
from the clipart.studio dept.
I've been using it as part of my Setapp subscription, and it's a love-hate relationship. On the one side I appreciate the posture hint and the app nudging me to take a break. But ever so often I am in deep focus and get really annoyed when the "long break starting in 1 minute" notification pops up. Most of the time I am in the middle of writing when the break starts, and I click it away fast to not loose my thoughts. A feature recognizing active writing to push the break a minute would be helpful I guess.
To do what exactly?
Apple does not adhere to EU law. It's their task to either go with the local law, or leave their customers hanging. And I rightfully express my disappointment that they currently do the latter.
Well, that might be technically correct. Yet it still doesn't feel good to destroy this social group they formed, to decide it's okay that this animal feels alone for that day. That's one of the points of the article as I understood it: is it ethical to play god and decide on that animals' fate?
Another interesting example are hunting games such as Hunter Call of the Wild. I played that for countless hours. While some people simply go for reckless trophy hunting, I thought about most of the shots I took; there's a flock of deer with a single stag, surrounded by does. I knew I would feel awful taking out that single stag, leaving the does behind alone. Could taking it out now be considered "crowd control", how rangers call it? Maybe, under specific circumstances. Or is that just a lie I tell to myself to justify the trophy?
Taking shots on animals living their life in the forest and on the fields imposes a moral/ethical question, especially if you are not being attacked or would otherwise starve to death.
> Only necessary features, restrictions foster creativity
Interesting. Productivity tools should not force me getting creative to do the simplest things. Ideally, I can make it adapt to my workflow, not the other way around.
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Kovah on Sunday May 17, 2026 @05:47PM
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Kovah on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:06AM
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It's kind of a miracle that most of us people who got exposed to all that stuff are still sane.
The PHP website is indeed one of the worst parts of the whole ecosystem. Just look at the landingpage (
https://php.net) and compare it with those of other languages. There's not a single piece of PHP code on the page. No "what is PHP", no "why should I use it", and no "that's why PHP is great". It's just a news page showing the latest releases, and a small section for downloading PHP.
And speaking of the website: the docs always have been a pain to use. Even the man pages of most decade old CLI tools have a better documentation. The docs basically only list the functions, explain what they do in cryptic one-sentence descriptions and list the parameters. There are no user-friendly explanations and no curated examples. There's indeed a lot of room for improvements.
The weird duality of Apple: their hardware becomes better with each devices, while their software gets worse with each version.
I would love to get a Windows-like overlay which collects all those damn menu icons.
The least Apple should do is giving developers proper APIs to build that, but instead Tahoe broke so many menu bar managers it's not funny anymore. Ice, Sanebar, Bartender,... none of them work reliably.
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Kovah on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:17PM
from the github.com dept.
I wonder so often about many new CLI tools whose primary selling point is their speed over other tools. Yet I personally have not encountered any case where a tool like jq feels incredibly slow, and I would feel the urge to find something else.
What do people do all day that existing tools are no longer enough? Or is it that kind of "my new terminal opens 107ms faster now, and I don't notice it, but I simply feel better because I know"?
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I'm really not into math and got really lost in the second half of "Adding points on a curve". Just don't understand what the author wants to tell me with the grouping and the role of the identity element, which is called infinity but is zero?
However, after looking at the next section and playing with the chart I immediately got the idea where the whole article is heading. Interesting to see how this works.
Unfortunately, I can second this, both as a developer and a user. His IMHO childish behavior has ruined his image for me, and is not a good lighthouse for the Fediverse itself. Also, as a OSS veteran myself, I see it extremely critical that he is starting new projects all along, denies to get proper help and build up a maintainer team, and leaves older projects in the dust. Pixelfed is the one product he might should focus on, jet it feels like the platform is in maintenance only mode. Pixelfed is a wonderful addition to the Fediverse and deserves to be on good hands.
Maybe, and this is a very personal opinion, his product success and the Kickstarter campaign raising over 100k made him feel like he's better than everybody else. And one can see the effects.
The sad part is, that Apple used to make somewhat stable, functional software. I started with the iPhone 3 and a bit later with Mac OS Snow Leopard.
It all started when Mr Cook decided to serve the shareholders, instead of focusing on Apple's core values. The software went downhill in such a speed in just a few years. And moving out of the ecosystem is a painful, if not unbearable, task that barely anyone loves to do. At least I can't even think about moving back to Android.
I recently tested Swiftkey after Typewise is sadly abandoned. It's sooooo much better than the stock keyboard. Not only is the auto-correct working incredibly well (garbage like witjoit is correctly transformed to without, which Apple Keyboard can't), Swiftkey also manages multi-language typing astonishingly well. Last but not least, I can customize it. I am also not signed in to my account, so no settings or whatever is stored on Microsoft servers.