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Re:KDE launches its own distribution on Thursday September 11, 2025 @02:50PM (#45214842)
Why tf is kde spending precious developer capacity with this?

Fedora atomic kde is close to perfect. Where is the need to reinvent the wheel?

Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:20AM (#44297791)
My wish is to have Telegram clients and user experience (both mobile and in Linux desktop versions) with Signal security and whatsapp adoption.

Signal is a cool 2nd alternative to WhatsApp, but their desktop client is absolute garbage, their videocall echo cancelling is non-existent and sending media over slow connections absolutely sucks (it keeps on resending and resending the files)

Re:Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server on Thursday May 08, 2025 @04:21AM (#43924207)
don't forget ruff checker and formatter
One of the reasons why there are major security f-ups: no accountability and no consequences
is POSIX complicance relevant anymore?
Re:MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:42PM (#40672437)
they also did release LLM models, and zstd, and mold, and and and... a lot of stuff
just that? then why not a f-droid release?
ty. you're right
They want to do this because they want more traction for their blockchain: TRON, which, IIRC, is the payment method for ads, usernames and "stuff" inside Telegram.

However Du Rove is right about a bunch of things:

- Signal clients suck, specially the Desktop one where they ship (or used to) pre-built binaries like their own lib: https://github.com/signalapp/ringrtc - Also you can't have Signal without Google Play Store - Signal client suck in usability. I wish I had Telegram client (android) and desktop (qt) instead of this electron garbage. Telegram clients are super-duper-awesome - I would say that removing phone number requirement is their #1 request. yet they take so much time to address it, specially when they cry about phone number validation SMS costs - BTW, telegram is implementing a very nice idea of a crowd sourced sms validation, where they use their users phone numbers to send the validation sms - They have a very questionable crypto integration with MobileCoin, which have a obscure value: they depend on IntelSGX and is 95% pre-mined

Re:AI Photo Geolocation on Thursday May 02, 2024 @08:14AM (#40235252)
Is the website glitchy on firefox?
Re:Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:58AM (#38625029)
another chromium closed source proprietary browser? no, thank you.
Re:Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:51AM (#38545466)
Will it be opensourced, like Llama2? or this is yet another closed-source LLM?

gladly we have meta and the newly recently created AI Alliance.

Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:27AM (#38444015)
Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:26AM (#38444002)
yet another browser. no, thank you. even worse that it is based in blink/chromium.

I would rather prefer they to lower their price than investing in this.

Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:10PM (#38352870)
glad that this is happening. OpenAI has very little of "Open" :-) Release the papers, release the process, and stop gatekeeping the models
I always appreciate how NSO do incredible black hat security. Some of their exploits are true art. Props to their tech skills and creativity.
Re:VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared on Monday July 24, 2023 @05:40AM (#36845164)
license issues apart, virtualbox guest tools for windows are awesome: clipboard sharing, drag and dropping files, network shares, auto window resize, etc just work out of the box.

With KVM/splicetools it is always a pain to setup that.

Re:55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021) on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:00AM (#36572973)
"Thanks a lot, machine learning!" ahha
886 according to keepassxc
Re:I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008) on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:02PM (#35979710)
spent some time there. fun!
Re:Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:41AM (#35812761)
Awesome features! Nice! Now work on reducing your costs and making each subscription with 5x more searches a month :D.

I was a subscriber and I absolutely hate the feeling of "spending" searches every time I search

Re:Yunohost: Get Off of My Cloud on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:29AM (#35303610)
Container-base alternative: https://homelabos.com/
Isn't Geekbench always been very biased towards Apple silicon?
Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @04:01PM (#34572704)
OpenSuse Leap
Re:Xbrowsersync – open-source Bookmark Synching on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:58AM (#34092111)
This is super awesome. Together with bitwarden allows me to have multiple-browser data sync
Re:Help seed Z-Library on IPFS on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:03AM (#33717699)
Instructions are not easy. I want a out of the box solution to help without having to deeply dig into the internals.

Something like archive team warriors: http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

For example,

> Bitswap vs DHT

I don't care. I want to help without having to care about these details.

> Launch one or multiple IPFS servers (see previous blog post; we currently use 4 servers in Docker).

what? how? where? link? no out of the box deployment?

> Alternatively, you can do what we did: add in offline mode first, add the files, then take the node online, peer with public gateways, and then finally run ipfs dht provide -r <root-cid>.

what? lol

Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:07AM (#33433923)
I really really really hope that these companies make donations to OSM...
Re:Memtest86 v6.00 with UEFI support released on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:56PM (#33319214)
Isn't there a confusion between memtest86 from passmark and memtest86+?

and memtest86 from passmark has a lot of nice features that aren't available MemTest86+, includin UEFI support, writing logs to disk, fully 64bit code, additional RAM tests, benchmarking, row hammer testing and more?

and passmark shows that: https://www.memtest86.com/compare.html

Re:Kagi/Orion status update: First three months on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:56AM (#32700596)
kagi is awesome, really awesome. and Fast.

But they are like: super expensive.

Unacceptable expensive. More than netflix, spotify and friends.

I wish they invest more into bringing down their own operating costs so that the premium package could be more affordable.

Re:YaCy – your own search engine on Friday August 26, 2022 @05:10AM (#32604926)
Kagi is awesome, but unfortunately too expensive

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