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tbh I don't think there's competition between those two. From my experience podcasts fill the empty space, while TV/movies are competing for idle time with gaming, books, and short-form media.
That's not necessarily an apples-to-apples comparison. The inputs for an unscripted podcast are vastly different from a scripted TV show. They're different mediums for expression, and each carries different costs.
Ah - that would have been a more helpful post for the OP to have linked.
Looks like that post was last edited August 30th. On Sept 1st they posted saying they think they found a way forward [1].

[1]: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435

Re:FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:33AM (#48671926)
They're now owned by infamously-litigious Microsoft.
Re:FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @09:47AM (#48659774)
It requires more precision than Swype, but GBoard supports multi-word word deletion if you swipe back originating from the backspace key. You get some haptic feedback, and can scrub to adjust the selected boundary.

Unfortunately some of those Swype nicities are patented [1], so other keyboards can't use them.

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7098896B2/en

Re:Surprise, Pay $1000 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @09:48AM (#48476246)
> We still use GitHub Actions but our monthly bill is now flat because we pay for a server.

Caveat here being that GitHub is exploring charging a usage-based fee for self-hosted GitHub Action runners [1]. While they've halted it for now, it's something worth being aware of as you assess your costs. This is probably a drop in the bucket compared to the order of magnitude savings you've described.

[1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-16-coming-soon-simpler...

Re:GitHub Copilot App on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:56PM (#48374597)
Oh nice! I guess they're back to features after finishing tackling their availability issues [1].

[1]: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

Re:'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:34PM (#48351347)
A "Steam for Movies" service (as expressed in an ancestor comment) is basically that, though. One doesn't own their Steam games.
Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data on Saturday May 23, 2026 @11:36AM (#48248576)
In a society where women are being prosecuted for medical procedures, menstrual data becomes very risky to have handed over.
As do his sprites.
Re:Apple is increasing my cortisol levels on Saturday May 09, 2026 @02:53PM (#48077265)
My favorite is when someone discovers they haven't yet granted Zoom screensharing permission, and that they need to exit the call to re-launch the application with the permission granted.
I use this alias:

    prune-local = "!git fetch -p && for branch in $(git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{if ($1!=\"\*\") print $1}'); do git branch -d $branch; done"
1. Fetch the latest from my remote, removing any remote tracking branches that no longer exist

2. Enumerate local branches, selecting each that has been marked as no longer having a remote version (ignoring the current branch)

3. Delete the local branch safely

Re:KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:48AM (#46870928)
Yes. You can also continue to use SDDM.
Re:Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License? on Sunday December 28, 2025 @09:53AM (#46411469)
As others have said there are challenges with the core assumption that something can similultaneously be open source and restricted from being used in AI training.

That being said, here's a repo of popular licenses that have been modified to restrict such uses: https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses

IANAL, so I can't speak to how effective or enforceable any of those are.

Re:Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:37PM (#46371188)
The sorting for the "Duration" column appears to be lexicographical, not numeric.
Re:Zed Is Our Office on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:56PM (#45923357)
Agreed.

I joined a Zed hackathon at RustConf 2024 where I built the "Open in split" functionality from the file fuzzy picker. A member of the engineering team who was floating around helping folks had us exclusively work through the included collaboration features. It was a great tour of the editor, and did not feel tacked on.

There are two additional recent ones mentioned in the article:

> On Oct. 15, the Post heralded the military's push for a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors. "No 'microreactor' currently operates in the United States, but it's a worthy gamble that could provide benefits far beyond its military applications," the Post wrote in its editorial.

> A year ago, Amazon bought a stake in X-energy to develop small nuclear reactors to power its data centers. And through his own private investment fund, Bezos has a stake in a Canadian venture seeking nuclear fusion technology.

and

> Three days after the nuclear power editorial, the Post weighed in on the need for local authorities in Washington, D.C., to speed the approval of the use of self-driving cars in the nation's capital. The editorial was headlined: "Why D.C. is stalling on self-driving cars: Safety is a phony excuse for slamming the brakes on autonomous vehicles."

> Fewer than three weeks before, the Amazon-owned autonomous car company Zoox had announced D.C. was to be its next market.

Edit to respond to your edit: these are the opinion pages, not reporting.

The PSF and several other organizations that provide public package registries wrote an open letter [1] announcing a joint effort to make this situation more sustainable. I'll be interested to see where it goes.

[1]: https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-n...

Re:Spiral on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:29PM (#45213467)
Works for me. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0
Re:Signal Secure Backups on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:53PM (#45172264)
From the tail end of the blog post:

> The technology that underpins this initial version of secure backups will also serve as the foundation for more secure backup options in the near future. Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing, alongside features that let you transfer your encrypted message history between Android, iOS, and Desktop devices.

Thanks for this cod piece.
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @01:31PM (#44053893)
This is the same dude who brought us the butterfly keyboard, so I'm anticipating a form-beating-function failure (if they actually ship something).
Re:Next stop for Waymo One: Washington, D.C on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:31AM (#43471814)
I'll be curious to see how these handle the gridlock caused by motorcades.
Wow, this brings back memories! This game had such a fun online community. My secret weapon was my trackball. The minute I entered a duel I'd spin it rapidly and mow down whoever I was fighting.
Re:The State of Vim on Friday January 24, 2025 @09:02AM (#42813105)
Do you have your terminfo set up properly? I used to experience bad glitching when working with vertical splits, but it went away once I applied this. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/term.html

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