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by buildfocus 1y ago
And lots of other features don't work, particularly external integrations. Gemini on Android refuses to do basic things like set a timer unless chat history is enabled. It is the one key feature I really want to pay extra to get, and t
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by buildfocus 1y ago
> On every Kagi comment, there is “Have you used Kagi recently? It’s improved a lot!” — to the level that I suspect they have bots to upgrade the brand image Odd to dismiss a point purely because it's consistently made, especially w
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by buildfocus 2y ago
All except fractional scaling worked for me out of the box with Mint. Fractional scaling isn't working just for Linux reasons rather than a Framework limitation (in my case, I'm using Regolith, and wayland is still experimental an
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Why don't you do subscription? I've heard plenty of arguments on the 'financial tools to manage them are bad' (forget about them, hard to cancel) but few against 'paying money proportional to how much I use the prod
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Spain - the bank asks for evidence of income (payslips or tax returns), existing funds (bank/broker statements) and checks outstanding debts (via a public register: https://www.bde.es/wbe/en/para-ciudadano&#x2
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by buildfocus 2y ago
No, normal usage with no special power saver options. Turning off WiFi+minimal brightness+power saving etc pushes it further, but I'm rarely in a scenario where I want to do that for more than a couple of hours anyway. I've heard
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Is the performance gap so huge? Power efficiency yes, absolutely, but for peak performance last I saw the last AMD vs M3 benchmarks were a slightly slower single core, and a little faster in multicore. Doesn't seem as world changing as
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by buildfocus 2y ago
I upgraded to the AMD board and the larger batteries and this improved significantly - 7/8 hours of real usage now, which for me is fine. On linux with minor tweaking. Depends what you need, but surely for most people a full workday wi
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Scaleway at least is genuinely not a bad alternative for this kind of thing already today - they do have plenty of managed services like serverless functions, object storage, queues, etc, in addition to the simple VMs and container hosting.
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Depends where you go in Europe, but my strong impression is that the relative cost of living is very significantly lower than FAANG-like equivalent locations in the US (SF, Seattle, NY, etc). Remote for the US is definitely still the best w
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by buildfocus 2y ago
I found Scaleway & Bunny through this list a while back (as a managed cloud & CDN provider respectively) and I've been extremely happy with both, having migrated there from a mix of Netlify/Digital Ocean/Cloudflare. S
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by buildfocus 2y ago
> Imaging telling hackers from the past that people on a website called “hacker news” would be arguing about how important it is that the government criminalize running code on your own computer. My understanding is that approximately ze
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How the mother of all bubbles will pop: betting against American exceptionalism(ft.com)
7 points by buildfocus 2y ago|4 comments
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by buildfocus 2y ago
This isn't backwards compatibility though - the example in the post here is a major bug in an actively supported API. Apple dropping support for old things over time is a reasonable philosophy, but Apple breaking current things uninten
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by buildfocus 2y ago
This is not true - both GDPR & ePrivacy rules apply to any software, none of it is specific to websites (although obviously that's where it's most easily abused, and where most of the attention is).
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by buildfocus 2y ago
If you have root, HTTP Toolkit will handle most of that for you - it can detect root via ADB, install systems certs automatically, and install Frida & intercept individual app targets with most cert pinning disabled (frida scripts it us
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Offshoring & distribution of remote work may be bad for you but very very good for humanity. There will still be local opportunities and huge benefits of being in the first world due to better education and networks. Those benefits will
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Again, this is not different to local democratic processes. Voters typically cannot directly stop somebody being named leader of their party or given a specific role within government for multiple terms. If you dislike them, you pressure yo
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Is this not similar to ministerial roles and civil servant positions in most governments? You don't vote for the commissioners directly, but your elected representative (leader of your government) does, and that's your path to exp
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by buildfocus 2y ago
A few countries now have remote work visas (Spain definitely, Portugal too I think). As long as you make good money (any software engineer salary is fine) and it comes from abroad, that'll work to get you in the door. Alternatively you
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by buildfocus 2y ago
Barcelona is also a very walkable city (across the entire area of 2 million people, not just the very center) and is definitely the upper end of Spanish income. A big part of this is long term cultural: medieval towns (and even much older)
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by buildfocus 2y ago
It uses multiple aggregation services, each of which get only partial data for each event, such that no individual service can track you, even if they wanted to. Initially the two aggregators are run by Mozilla and ISRG - your privacy is at
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by buildfocus 2y ago
This is not a tracking mechanism - it's quite convincingly private to _all_ participants in the protocol (only you, as the browser client, have the full data). Websites specifically receive only aggregate data from their complete user
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by buildfocus 2y ago
There are uses for CLAs besides rug pulls. For example, if you want to offer software as AGPL, accept community contributions, but be able to _also_ offer a non-AGPL option to paying customers (who effectively pay to be allowed to integrate
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by buildfocus 2y ago
For dangerous ones like WebUSB you can't just click 'Allow' - after granting permission, it shows you a list of connected devices, and you have to actively select the device you want the website to access, and then approve it
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by buildfocus 2y ago
All the dangerous ones come with comprehensive permissions prompts, and browsers can offer options for don't ask again/never ask etc, so if you're not interested there's still little downside to those being available for
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by buildfocus 3y ago
https://httptoolkit.com - HTTP debugging proxy with really easy one-click launch to intercept android devices/browsers/docker containers/etc.
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by buildfocus 3y ago
...yes. Unavoidable hard restrictions like this make it dramatically harder to do malware research (thereby reducing security overall) and cause huge & unreasonable problems the moment you see a false positive. I'm all for user pro
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by buildfocus 3y ago
Open Collective isn't shutting down - open-source funding is unaffected. The Open Collective _Foundation_ (OCF) appear to be part of the funding structure for open collective sponsorship of charitable but not necessarily open source or
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by buildfocus 3y ago
Attestation creates all sorts of challenges absolutely, but it actually doesn't really help here - there's plenty of services doing this on real devices, and no real challenges to doing so at the prices people will pay. The overhe

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