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Re:Steam Machine on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @02:26AM (#48655937)
I guess we’ll see.
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:09PM (#48636235)
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” –Some Microsoft guy
Re:4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:12PM (#46619857)
Joke’s on you, got an air fryer for Christmas and I’m roasting potatoes every day, never bought so many potatoes in my life. They’re absolutely delicious.
Re:Google Antigravity on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:03PM (#45968955)
I wonder how many meetings where necessary to come up with that name
Re:Beets: The music geek's media organizer on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:47AM (#45875431)
> * brand new indie label releases (bandcamp)

> * commercial albums variants missing from musicbrainz/discogs

I fixed those two by adding the missing releases to the database beets uses as its data source (musicbrainz.org), and importing the album in Beets afterwards. I still get notifications for edits to entries I contributed over a decade ago!

You take the same cut from big players and give the smaller ones a break. I think Valve could afford that without any issue.
> How much do you think they should take?

A 15–20% fee would be much fairer in my opinion. They’d still be making plenty of money while letting developers keep more of what they earn through their hard work. At the very least, they should differentiate between big players and smaller indie developers.

No question about it!

Edit: that said, the 30% fee is pretty greedy (Apple-level greedy) and they could be doing better at least in that regard.

Re:Vibe Engineering on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:14AM (#45514811)
> Is "vibe engineering" a correct term for this?

Anything with the word “vibe” in it sounds silly and unserious imho. What’s wrong with something neutral and descriptive like “LLM-assisted programming”? Not catchy enough?

Re:Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo on Thursday September 04, 2025 @05:06PM (#45132184)
Don’t get suppliers in Iran or Russia. Easy.
Re:Monodraw on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @07:13AM (#45038028)
Yes. Always nice to see good, Electron-free native apps for Mac.
Re:Monodraw on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @07:11AM (#45038018)
Such an underrated app. I’ve used it for everything from network topologies and storage diagrams and even for my kitchen redesign. Works way better than every pricey specialized tool I’ve tried, and the ASCII outputs look way cooler with their old-school hacker ASCII aesthetic! Highly recommended.

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