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Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:07PM (#49881986)
Have you tried moving 4 kids and two adults 700km in a day on an ev?

In the setup you are describing the EV would only be used for long trips. EVs are just not great for that.

Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:38PM (#49881567)
I just bought a Caddy Maxi diesel for moving my family on weekend and vacation trips. In Europe the future is bike + metro/train + big diesel car.

If you live in a European city, you should be using a car for commuting.

Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:44AM (#49725294)
Would be very cool if you could type a long query and the model would just build an advanced google search query using what you typed. You could even ship a tiny model in the browser itself that does that.

Something like: "blog posts which talk about using sending emails to yourself as a notes taking mechanism".

The output could look like: "note taking" OR "notes" ("emailing yourself" OR "email to myself" OR "email yourself") (inurl:blog OR inurl:posts OR site:medium.com OR site:substack.com)

Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:10AM (#47946264)
Why not use GH just as a front page you mirror code. You keep your stars but develop elsewhere, on a server you control.

https://lists.sr.ht/~machocam/public-inbox/%3C46e343ec-c932-...

We moved all of our collaboration to mailing lists

6 months ago we moved to using mailing lists full time for internal collaboration.=== Mailing list setup ===We have only 2 lists. We figured creating complex rules to filter through mail at an individual level was better than creating a large variety of lists. We are currently using groups.google.com to manage the list, it's good enough although things like the MailArchive[0] of IETF would be...

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Re:Is it a bubble? on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:10AM (#46229967)
The amount of flak that this article is getting on HN is telling of something. Not sure of what, but it's for sure indicative of something.
Re:Delta Chat a secure messenger based on email on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @06:04PM (#45816913)
This app should get more traction. They are doing an excellent job - the chatmail implementation is amazing.

The efficiency of the servers is also insane. The smallest VPS can handle over 10k users.

Re:Why Self-Host? on Sunday October 26, 2025 @10:03AM (#45711963)
Absolutely. I got mine setup in less than 20 min.

https://danneskjold.de

Re:Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:43PM (#45543561)
please read before commenting
Re:Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server on Monday October 06, 2025 @05:38PM (#45496604)
Check out delta.chat thy have solved super simple p2p messages

https://delta.chat/en/2024-11-20-webxdc-realtime

Re:Why I Choose Email over Messaging on Monday October 06, 2025 @05:11PM (#45496374)
thats why online private archives like https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ exist. for a free version, use groups.google.com
Re:Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:36PM (#45495359)
take a look at the way https://delta.chat solved for that very modern/looking/feeling - just email.
Re:Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:33PM (#45495327)
Take a look at delta.chat Your server can be a traditional email server you set up or one of their optimised devocot, smtp relays: https://github.com/chatmail/relay

The clients are great (they have reactions!)

there is even a really good app store associated : https://webxdc.org/

Re:Radicle: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration with Git on Saturday October 04, 2025 @08:50AM (#45472956)
Seem a lot like fossil-scm
Re:In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:16AM (#45459988)
> I'm thinking of something like "algorithm as a service," which would be aligned with your interests and tuned for your personal goals.

RSS is just a protocol. You could make a reader now with any algorithm you want that displays feeds. In fact, I can’t imagine that no one is using the AI boom to say they will build a decentralized Twitter using rss plus ai for the algorithm

Re:I only use Google Sheets on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:49PM (#45440770)
I have heard that at google collaboration happens with: - making lists (google groups) - gsheets - basic real time chat with auto disappear

Is that the case? I find that super interesting. No sexy Slack or Teams type of thing?

Re:I only use Google Sheets on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @12:36PM (#45439800)
“Same amount of time”, that’s where you are wrong . Then again, I’m not the one saying Knuth know better than me, maybe not better than you though.
Re:I only use Google Sheets on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @12:35PM (#45439787)
Agreed. That is my point. If that company had built the app from the start it would have died building it.
Re:I only use Google Sheets on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @08:00AM (#45436687)
+1
Re:I only use Google Sheets on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @07:58AM (#45436680)
"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

- Donald Knuth

Start with a gsheet, when it breaks build something else.

Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? on Saturday September 27, 2025 @02:21PM (#45398217)
Are you the owner? Any way to DM?
Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? on Saturday September 27, 2025 @02:02PM (#45398033)
What is the simplest way to setup a self hosted mailing list on a VPS?
Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:21PM (#45378458)
I hope they enforce the use of plain text versions of html email :)
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:14PM (#45295663)
I’m not sure they could have been trusted at any time, their inventives are not aligned with HackClub’s.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:23PM (#45291582)
I agree that people like Slack. $CRM did pay over 27B USD for it! I just think it's a case of people not knowing what they want.

> They used the tool that was available at that time. I am sure they use internal chat apps as well in today's environment.

Surprisingly, Google for example uses email + real time chat today. All communication of value, meaning thoughtful "actual" exchange of ideas happens over email. Chat is has auto disappear so it's not used for anything which remains on record, it's for small quick asks. There might be a googler in this thread who could give us more insight.

> Given that Slack has integrations with various tools (incident reporting, various bots, feed submissions, apps of all sorts), video/voice chats, file storage, rich messages, advanced notifications, and, most importantly, seamless communications with clients using it, it is just a tool that has replaced so many different tools.

I hear you on the integrations. There is no shortage of tools which plug into email too though. If the integration doesn't exist, it's typically trivial to set it up since email is just plain text.

> Not sure have you received any of the long quoted emails recently, I have, and it can be a nightmare (and ridiculous that an email client from a USD 3 trillion dollar company cannot render it properly).

For sure! and it sucks. That is why I promote email heavily for *internal* communications where the community itself enforces rules to keep the mailing list sane. That tends to happen organically in most open source mailing lists.

> Given that Slack has integrations with various tools (incident reporting, various bots, feed submissions, apps of all sorts), video/voice chats, file storage, rich messages, advanced notifications, and, most importantly, seamless communications with clients using it, it is just a tool that has replaced so many different tools.

There are few tools which are not integrated to email. But I hear you, if you like working in a monolith that makes sense. I like using the best tools for each piece. Best real time chat, best video chat platform, best asynchronous com, best file storage solution etc.

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