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Sadly, the exact same hack happened in hundred of french grocery stores three weeks ago. I question people's ability to fix this kind of issues
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:52AM (#49841860)
He several negative traits. He's one of these opinionated controversial guys. Because he has money people feel the need to react to what he says, whether they think he's right or wrong. Annoyingly, people like that get more exposure than level headed people with measured takes.

Mixed with his terrible views on society (xenophobia, techno-fascism), it makes a rather sour cocktail.

Re:Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider on Sunday August 23, 2026 @06:19PM (#49413191)
Since the author asked about Alice: it was an Internet provider in France in the early 2000's.

Some domains in that list are truly ancient. That was a trip down memory lane.

Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:18AM (#49346964)
Great to hear, I'm excited by what's happening in this space!
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:38PM (#49338010)
I expected more than a GitHub clone, this is a bit of a let down.

There's a lot of space to innovate around collaboration and version control in the age of agentic workflows.

Re:If you're a button, you have one job on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:53AM (#48792448)
This is a somewhat unpopular opinion here, however I do think flat UI can be done right and is well fitted to digital UIs.

It's possible to have a flat style but have buttons that look clearly like buttons, and elements that have shadows and colors.

I don't think that's right, professional cameras still use full sized SD cards.
Re:The European Social Stack on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:48PM (#48612860)
I don't think making a good product is enough. X is still prevalent despite Musk's actions both as a public person and as X's owner. The alternatives, be it Bluesky or Threads, are fine to use, yet people aren't moving.

There's no way we'll be able to compete against Google or Meta in any meaningful way if we can't even get people out of X. Even more so because I'd argue that a good product is a little more boring than the ones that are currently at the top.

Re:The European Social Stack on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:39PM (#48612798)
A lot of these principles are totally transparent for the user. For example, emails are a complex system but users can sign up to any email service and send emails regardless of which service their recipient uses. This could totally be possible for any social network, and many apps, would they be willing to implement it. The end user experience wouldn't be any more complex.
Re:Has W Social switched to closed source? on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:21AM (#48585818)
The article explains what's needed to run something like Bluesky (ctrl-f "To be fully sovereign you need").

My understanding is that Eurosky aims to be a non-profit ran alternative, hosted in EU. It integrates with Bluesky seamlessly (Bsky users and EUSky users can interact) but would keep working if Bluesky was taken down. I believe it also gives Eurosky agency when it comes to moderation.

Do you have any good resources on how to work like that? I made the move from "auto complete on steroids" to "agents write most of my code". But I can't imagine running agents unchecked (and in parallel!) for any significant amount of time.
I'm also team USB-C wired earbuds (the Apple ones are cheap and solid, mic is also nice for calls) for podcasts and commute.

I never stopped using wired headphones at home but also had BT ones on the go. When they started showing signs of age I got a cheap BT receiver instead of replacing them. It's not quite as practical but for many people it's something to consider, they work surprisingly well!

Re:MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:00PM (#47341739)
This depends heavily on your use case. I'd get rid of Windows entirely if I could. For most people I'd say MacOS is the most sane and plug and play experience. The email/browser/note taking experience is better than on Windows, and easier than on Linux.

This gets less and less true when you start pluging peripherals and wanting to change the default behavior or use certain apps. But then they're not the target of the Neo.

Re:Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down on Monday March 09, 2026 @04:17PM (#47314849)
Musk is openly and heavy handedly messing with the recommendation algorithm to fit whatever views he wants to push. On top of that, he started paying people for their viral tweets, which promotes content farms and rage bait.

It is not a place that is trying to showcase diverse opinions in an unbiased way.

Re:Zed new terms required to be 18 years old on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:19AM (#47258612)
I've been trying it out on MacOS for the past couple of weeks and I'm happy with it. I have a fairly vanilla use of my code editors and I find Zed snappier than VSCode. I have not experienced the issues you describe.
I think the people who like shipping quickly probably don't like building products in the first place and are looking for other aspects of entrepreneurship.

A huge benefit I find in AI is that it helps with a lot of things I hated. Merge conflicts, config files, breaking dependency updates... That leaves me more time to focus on the actual functionalities so I end up with better APIs, more detailed UIs, and more thorough tests. I do think it's possible to be relevant/competitive by only delegating parts of the work to AI and not the whole thing. Though it might change if AI gets too good.

The security issue is real and the main motivation behind decoupling from US cloud services.

Export tarrifs aren't really a thing, particularly for software. Making US cloud more expensive would only make transitioning away from them faster.

Re:European Alternatives on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:55PM (#46738473)
Trump's attitude motivated me to finally get away from Gmail. I tried several of the providers mentioned on this website and stuck with tuta.com. After almost a year, I'm very happy, would recommend.

Interesting to know before going in: - They encrypt the emails when storing them, so the only way to access emails is to use their own apps. I was hesitant at first but their web app, desktop app and android app are great

Re:European Alternatives on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:28PM (#46738179)
It depends where you live. There's no one company that's implented in all European countries. All countries have a shop similar to Amazon (often with fewer sponsored products and less drop shipping garbage). There are also a few specialized shops (for books, sports, electronics...). Since 2020 I only buy Amazon if they're significantly cheaper than other sellers. That's about 10% of my purchases.
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:09PM (#46580803)
I wish I found out about it earlier. Aerospace is a tiling window manager for MacOS. As someone who prefers keyboard navigation over mouse navigation, I can't recommend it enough.
Re:My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @05:58PM (#46380191)
I use Bluesky to keep up with software development news. The ability to default to my "following" feed is a big plus. I mostly see software related stuff and the stream of posts is slow enough that I reduced my time spent on the app.
$1B sounds huge, I don't understand what Disney has to gain. Is this only to have some control over the videos generated on Sora with their IP?
I think it's good advice, the main difference is that Bsky encourages you to do that by giving you the possibility to customize your feeds (and set whatever as the default). You can have a combination of personal lists and custom algorithmic feeds (your own or someone else's).

Even ignoring musk's takeover, I think it's a better model that reduces doomscrolling, ragebait and generally low quality interactions.

Re:How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development on Saturday September 13, 2025 @10:44AM (#45232475)
Indeed. Attaching the link (of the correct page) of the documentation worked in this case but I would've been faster than the AI. LLM.txt has been hit or miss. Maybe I need to adapt my workflow and have a granular plan of what needs to be done.

However the complexity is in knowing what to do and when. Actually typing the code/running commands doesn't take that much time and energy. I feel like any time gained by overusing an LLM will be offset by having to debug its code when it messes things up.

Re:How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development on Saturday September 13, 2025 @02:20AM (#45229774)
That sounds crazy to me, Claude Code has so many limitations.

Last week I asked Claude Code to set up a Next.js project with internationalization. It tried to install a third party library instead of using the internationalization method recommended for the latest version of Next.js (using Next's middleware) and could not produce of functional version of the boilerplate site.

There are some specific cases where agentic AI does help me but I can't picture an agent running unchecked effectively in its current state.

Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Friday September 12, 2025 @12:52PM (#45224101)
You could've stopped your sentence at "I don't know how a country filled with guns can survive."

The main downside of abusing the words nazi and fascist is that it gives an out to the actual fascists out there. When it comes to gun violence, there are a lot more (self proclaimed) neo-nazis killing innocent people than people killing them.

Fully agreed. I am however worried by the fact that Firefox is basically kept alive by Google. I assume it's just so that they can pretend Chrome isn't a monopoly, but the minute Firefox becomes an inconvenience they can stop financing it. I hope we can find a way for Firefox to sustain itself long term.
Re:The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian on Thursday September 04, 2025 @03:22PM (#45131213)
I've also made the move to Zen. I think Arc users will feel right at home there. It hasn't quite reached he same level of polish just yet but being in active development is a big plus.

On top of that, Zen can be personalized with CSS. As someone who spends a lot of time in the browser, it's been awesome to be able to tailor it to my needs. https://docs.zen-browser.app/guides/live-editing

> Their CEO seems to like trump

As far as I know this is a "rumour" that stems from him mentioning his approval over one of Trump's cabinet pick. Saying he likes Trump is a stretch.

Someone dug deeper into this topic: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-tr...

TL;DR: probably not a Trump supporter

Slight tangent but while this is bad with disclosed ads, I think it's even worse with algorithmic feeds. A lot of users don't realize that not only their feed is heavily personalized, but the "top comments" are also selected just for them.

This bias will be implemented in LLMs sooner or later. Combined with the current misunderstanding of "AI" by the general population, it makes me worried about the future of misinformation.

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