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These comments are getting spicy... sad.
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:54AM (#49522066)
Doesn't appear to find Nest speakers :(

I'd use it otherwise, this is great.

Sure, and fair.

But that only explains that Americans want regulation, not that they want EU regulation.

Americans put innovation and result ahead while Europe prefers precaution/fairness first.

There are real costs for Europe in terms of productivity because of this. Take a look at the Draghi report.

Also see European founders relocating and citing regulation as a problem when it comes to access to capital.

No they don't.
I guess I cannot operate a computer.
Re:Last.fm is now independent on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:20PM (#48296530)
I just remembered that I met one of my best friends to this day through Last.fm. It was 2009 or so, and you could leave messages on concert pages.

I posted asking if anyone wanted to go with me since I didn't want to go alone, and she sent me a message.

Good times.

Re:Last.fm is now independent on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:17PM (#48296499)
I just think it's beautiful that I can see all the music I've listened to since 2005 (back when it was still called Audioscrobbler, before the Last.fm rename). And I never stopped scrobbling in all that time!

I love these kinds of stats and being able to see how my taste has changed across more than 20 years, since I was a teenager.

I do miss the old community forums they had integrated back in the day, though.

Thank you for the tip! I love boring notch but it does have a few bugs and indeed hasn't been updated in a long time. I will check out atoll!
Ha, this is amazing. We need a version for Android TV!
Re:Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:43AM (#47164740)
You are right, I missed that. The text is almost invisible to me though, dark gray over black..
Re:Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:00AM (#47164394)
Yeah I'm not giving you all those permissions. Make it more granular maybe?
As a human, I would answer the same these AIs as answering, i.e. gotta match a stupid question with a stupid answer :)

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Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues on Friday February 13, 2026 @07:13AM (#47001836)
This is the way, game changer.
You could have called it craftpan (pan = bread in spanish :D)
Re:Termux on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:38AM (#46855295)
Termux has saved me countless times over the years.. One of the most powerful apps on my phone, that's come through whether I needed a quick SSH session to put out a fire or to get some real work done on the go.
Remember to exclude vimium from the site!
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:08PM (#46581988)
I use easy-move-resize [1] to resize windows from anywhere inside the area of the window, using a modifier key. In my case I like using cmd + middle mouse button + drag.

This is standard in Gnome and a must for me back when I switch to MacOS for work.

[1] https://github.com/dmarcotte/easy-move-resize

Re:I hacked Casio F-91W digital watch on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:12AM (#46551676)
This is hilarious!
Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:14AM (#46497888)
Which also changes the background color to yellow for some reason. And then the "night mode" is.. what is that, a lantern? Jeez.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:34PM (#45890286)
You can, it's just a bit of a tight fit.
Re:Radiant Computer on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:55AM (#45824281)
Indeed. Not very.. radiant.
They is the way
Hey, just so you know, newer lockfiles are meant to fully replace old ones, you shouldn't bother with solving merge conflicts on these files, just accept all the new changes always.

What you SHOULD solve are conflicts in the packages/project file. Once solved, just create a new lockfile and replace the old one.

This applies to lockfiles on any project python or non-python.

Re:Show HN: Bash Screensavers on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:09AM (#45731748)
Doesn't work for me on MacOS:

I get "mapfile: command not found"

Re:StarGrid: A Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:00AM (#45655915)
I used to play around with my dad's already old by then Palm (can't remember the model) in the early 2000's.

This game reminded me of Space War

https://palmdb.net/app/space-war

I wonder where the term started?

Android itself calls it "install" when you open an APK file, there's not mention of "sideload" in Android at all as far as I can tell.

Re:Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3 on Monday October 13, 2025 @06:31AM (#45566835)
What is Tauri?
Re:Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado on Friday October 10, 2025 @06:05AM (#45537101)
Wow, ok. Comparing leading the Democratic Party in the US to leading a pro democracy movement under an actual dictatorship is a wild take.

It completely banalizes the risks people like Machado face just for opposing authoritarian power.

Pretending there's any equivalence between the two situations says a lot about your worldview, or lack thereof.

Re:Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:34AM (#45536915)
Opposing a dictatorship at great personal risk, being exiled, banned from elections, and still leading a democratic movement isn't "nothing".

I think this prize recognizes her courage and fight for human rights.

Dismissing that as "just being in the opposition" ignores the reality of what it takes to stand up to Maduro's dictatorship.

I think you are mixing two separate things: rule of law vs privacy.

Sure, we didn’t have encrypted communication a couple decades ago, but we did have an expectation of privacy: letters, phone calls, even in-person conversations.

Encryption is just the modern way of preserving that same right in a digital context.

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