Vinnl

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by Vinnl 9d ago
> I wonder if there's a resurgence across the world where libraries are places of community sharing. Just last week new stats came out [1] that library attendance by young people in the Netherlands is going up again, so possibly! [1
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by Vinnl 10d ago
I think that's roughly what duck.ai is doing? If I type that in there I see it generating some search queries and then generating a list of links based on the different result pages.
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by Vinnl 11d ago
That does mean that I would not automatically jump to conclusions about Russia or war or whatever; since much of national public policy is presented today, it's also a popular day to express disagreement, and apparently some farmers ha
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by Vinnl 12d ago
FWIW, Excalidraw uses (or at least originally used to, I didn't check again) the similar project Rough.js: https://roughjs.com/
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by Vinnl 16d ago
I'm not sure from "they could afford payroll because they laid everyone off" I would conclude that they weren't struggling for cash.
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by Vinnl 16d ago
I feel like I addressed this in my comment. On a laptop , someone who went through what OP went through would surely be able to click "Edit" at the top of https://www.openstreetmap.org , and add a SuperCharger. If they
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by Vinnl 17d ago
FWIW, editing OpenStreetMap is very straightforward*, and with that, you're actually contributing to an open data set that everyone is allowed to use, rather than just propping up Google. (To be fair, on a laptop - I'm sure Google
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by Vinnl 24d ago
Keep in mind that just because it works for me, that doesn't mean that you're not running into a bug that I'm not, so I can't make any promises about it actually being fixed for you :)
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by Vinnl 24d ago
Worth knowing: you can also use @tabs, @history, @bookmarks, etc. now. Way easier to remember :)
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by Vinnl 24d ago
I just tried it out with this page, and it gets the HN icon for me. I am on Nightly and on Linux, so possibly this is an actual bug you're running into, but no fix in sight might be too pessimistic. But definitely worth reporting other
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by Vinnl 24d ago
I mean, there are plenty of reasonable takes (some of which are criticism) too. Generally, working at Mozilla doesn't make it much more torturous than before, when I was merely an unpaid open web advocate :) (Reading every comment is
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by Vinnl 26d ago
I wasn't saying that Apple is just as monopolistic as Google; I was saying that Google is paying Apple orders of magnitude more than it is paying Mozilla. According to your argument, that would mean that Google is trying to keep Apple&
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by Vinnl 26d ago
Oops sorry, too late to edit, but you're correct!
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by Vinnl 29d ago
Huh funny, now that you mention it: at least in the Netherlands, job listings have had "(m/v)" (male/female) in the title since forever, i.e. way before woke was a thing, but that indeed is kinda weird. "All genders
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
And of course they're doing the same for Apple/Safari, which wouldn't survive without the $20 million default search engine placement deal.
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
To illustrate this, look at OsmAnd's most recent blog post [1]. They've recently been looking at adding pretty extensive Astronomy features. Before that, they added a lot of nautical tooling [2]. This is all very cool if you use t
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
It is ubiquitous, but as a Dutchie who's never had WhatsApp, it is not quite at the level of an email address yet, luckily.
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
For now: https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-login-registration-witho...
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
Since Sep 4, 2024: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
As in: you painfully ran into other things on your 100cc scooter before, but only when you actually broke a bone, did you actually stop driving dangerously on it?
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
I wonder if the initial reason to move them to a separate domain, was because they started to see providers blackholing icloud.com anyway, thus also hurting non-aliased emails? If so, will be interesting to see if that will get worse.
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
I feel like painfully falling without breaking bones are pretty good lessons already, and I don't quite see what the broken bones add there.
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Fairphone is now officially available in the United States(fairphone.com)
397 points by Vinnl 1mo ago|199 comments
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
Well, at least the emails that I don't send at least one Gmail user... (Don't get me wrong, I still want to do it, but it's still daunting.)
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
Having new email sent to my new inbox would actually be pretty easy for me even, since I've already been renting my own domain for ages now. It's probably not even several hours of work for me, except that I do want to set that ti
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
> Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it ... Probably took a few hours at most. That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately.
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by Vinnl 1mo ago
> I think people need to understand what the purpose of Facebook is in terms of its function and constituent parts Given how many people do not yet use adblockers, I don't have much reason to believe that this will lead to signifi
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by Vinnl 2mo ago
I can imagine this being useful, but unlike Zed, this looks like it'll come with some fairly significant lock-in. Great for the investors, but it makes me hesitant...
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by Vinnl 2mo ago
And as far as delays go, I believe it is (or was, last I looked) nr 3 in the world, after Japan and Switzerland. Of course, Japan's trains are world-class, but at least those are widely recognised as such. The Dutch rail network is muc
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by Vinnl 2mo ago
For 1: https://killthecookiebanner.eu/

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