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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and ...
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:24PM (#49443442)
CachyOS was the one who moved me from Ubuntu/Debian based distros.
Re:Chatto is now Open Source
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:37PM (#48835674)
Can also mean annoying. As a general recommnedation, before naming a project or company something, always search whether it means something bad in the top 10 most spoken languages.
For portuguese/spanish, there is always a high chance of being a slang that is NSFW
Re:Phone is about to stop being yours
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:00PM (#47937218)
In many countries it's already impossible to use just the web for banking. They either make you install rootkits on your computer or move you to their mobile apps
Re:NASA Built Artemis II's Fault-Tolerant Computer
on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:21AM (#47715501)
Governament contracts are very restricted behind layers of certifications and authorizations.
For example, you can't freely produce missiles and have it in wallmart where "the governament" purchase at shelf price.
Re:Twake Drive – The open-source alternative to Google Drive
on Saturday October 25, 2025 @05:49AM (#45702569)
A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.
Re:Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client
on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @07:54PM (#42121767)
Why would Valve help Apple get marketshare (in the gaming category), when they can put the same effort into getting the games published to Linux (and the Steam Deck).
Re:Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 exten...
on Sunday October 06, 2024 @08:26PM (#41761600)
They don't have a separate addon marketplace. The browser may still support the API but distributing the addon will be a problem.
We need an altstore
Re:PWAs wont replace native iOS apps
on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:35PM (#39390832)
No one wants to invest time and effort to develop for a platform that has a horrible review process. You have to invest multiple people's months worth of work without knowing if that particular snapshot of your app will offend the reviwer.
The lack of native apps is the App Store reviews process fault.
Re:Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale
on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:01AM (#38913886)
It's amazing how SoundCloud had "everything" and they threw away. They had the unique Indy artists, they had the DJs and music producers, and they opted to move to compete with Spotify on a money loosing bet, without putting the effort to build the Player in at least every single platform supported.
They did even more harm to themselves by blocking open source players that were doing "their work for free".
If there is one big mistake they did early on was to block API access. The other one was to bet on "record labels contract" rather then becoming the source for Originals.
Re:OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault
on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:25AM (#38582144)
Outcompete them. Do more, do better, do faster
Re:Arch Linux bugtracker migration to Gitlab completed
on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:35PM (#38577902)
https://about.gitlab.com/install/#official-linux-package
In this section there is an explanation and a link to the package server. Pick the CE and follow the install documentation
Migrating from ClickHouse to Apache Doris: What Happened?
Re:Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data
on Saturday August 12, 2023 @06:22PM (#37104759)
Last names are also not limited to ASCII. There all sorts of special caracters depending on the language like üáàãéèç-' (the single quote is specially important because its normally blocked due to SQL injection, but its a common character in italian/french/spanish names).
Preventing people from writing their own names because you decide to use a regexp from stackoverflow is also bad.
Re:Beautifying our UI: Giving Gitlab build features a fresh look
on Saturday July 08, 2023 @11:52PM (#36651357)
That looks awesome. You could try https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli, not near as good, but allow you to avoid the web UI for most things.
Re:Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?
on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:17PM (#36636046)
The scope is mutable. What was asked in the quote, is different from what it became when planing started and is different from what it endup 6 months down the road.
Re:Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:03AM (#36617102)
I've migrated away from Evernote when they converted their MacOS and iOS apps from native to "Electron based". Simple things you expect from a "note taking app" to handle, like, search through text files, or "selecting multiple notes" were severely limited due to the technology limitations.
You could only select 50 items per time in the new "javascript" based desktop version, because that was too much state for react to handle.
The other thing that they broke was the apple pencil support. Using it would result in several seconds of latency.
I was a paying customer at this time, I've canceled my subscription entirely. I checked the app a few times after that to see if they managed to improve anything, the didn't. It only got worst.
So, if you have a native app, you have a moat with it, don't ruin your only opportunity to stand out.
Re:Beautifying our UI: Giving Gitlab build features a fresh look
on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:32AM (#36616458)
Have you considered sending a MR for the "very small" things that bugs you? GitLab team member here... I have a personal list of things I wish will be prioritized, but there is only much you can do with the scope the application has and the amount of coworkers. So when things really piss me off, I reserve some time and send a MR to fix that.
That's what I've done before joining the company, so it works ;)
Re:Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1bi
on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:53PM (#36515774)
Brazil unbanked population in 2011 was ~41%. Having a bank account was not a straightforward process and included higher costs for the vast majority of the population.
Having a bank account would normally means you get a card that could only withdraw money from an ATM. If you wanted a "debit" card that would cost more.
Credit card were something out of reach for many. Low income folks alternative for credit were to rely on general stores own credit bureau.
With the liberalization in the banking system and the many fintechs that disrupted the market, the unbanked number droped to a single digit in 2021, and with pix, many just skipped the debit card all together.
[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370626/access-to-financ...
Re:Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:38AM (#35168137)
I wonder if they would have a much smaller bill if they were running on physical hardware instead of renting infrastructure from AWS.
This is really not much different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133510 case.
Re:NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:53PM (#35154487)
Don't forget all the youtubers a VPN has to pay and all the 75% off deals with the promocode ILOVEMYYOUTUBER.
Re:Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M les...
on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:10AM (#35149706)
don't forget the "cloud cost engineer", just to figure out how much it will cost to run the 20 services that should have been part of your app with random ways of billing the usage of it
Re:GitHub Is Down
on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:39PM (#34843952)
There is a lot more to fail before the web worker that can be scaled indefinitely by putting more machines to respond behind a reverse proxy server.
Things like the database or random microservices that implement the death star architecture.
Re:Tell Cloudflare: You're Breaking Tor/VPN/Shared IPs Again
on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:26PM (#34226781)
if you have an ecommerce and you block acceas from countries where you dont do business, you are making every expat life miserable.
just imagine for a moment people may want to send gifts for their loved ones.
Re:Tech Journalism Doesn’t Know What to Do with Mastodon
on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:22AM (#34136746)
Every instance with some amount of user is either sponsored by someone or some organization, or is asking for donations.
The monetary transaction is there
Re:Docker on Mac is slow. Here's the fix
on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:39PM (#34102117)
You should try running your dependencies on docker but ruby on the host machine.
Re:Overview Of Upcoming Rails 7.1 Features Part 1
on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:50AM (#34067555)
With the current economic downcycle it is also the most budget oriented option. We will see a reborn of the "Full-Stack" for a while.
Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:50PM (#33951003)
Coal
Re:VPN by Google One security assessment
on Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:35PM (#33950193)
Apple have their ads business already, it's a matter of time until profits from that business become big enough that shareholders demand changes.
You can't have and Ads business and defend privacy at the same time
Re:A Real World React – Htmx Port
on Sunday October 16, 2022 @06:38AM (#33222618)
If the internet is slow it will be horrible for the user on first load to download a full blownup JS bundle. It will also not removr the fact that any resource change will require a roundtrip to the backend and back forth