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LordRishav··on Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
What is meant by chronological here? Do you mean you follow some people and your Home page just arranges all the posts by those you've followed chronologically? Because that is what Mastodon does. And while I personally prefer it to be this way, this won't work for the user who just wants to see the type of posts they like, not necessarily the people they like. The recent exodus of American and Brazilian people from X is thus divided into those who chose Mastodon and those who chose Bluesky, with the latter having a much larger number. Make of what you will.

Best would still be RSS feeds and everyone having their own blog. Just saying.

LordRishav··on ChatGPT Search
Would like to read more about this. Has anybody used this technique to actually successfully sue someone for infringing their copyright on an instructional website or is it only theoretically possible?
LordRishav··on How Amazon built an EV charging network in two years
>How Amazon built an EV charging network in two years

Money

LordRishav··on Ask HN: DuckDuckGo or StartPage or other? Which one do you use and why?
I use a public SearX[1] instance because it gives me better results than both DDG and Startpage. [1]: https://searx.space
LordRishav··on Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig)
Perhaps the name can be a little problem, due to the existence of the Mach kernel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)). Nevertheless, the toolkit does look great.
LordRishav··on Electron Is Flash for the Desktop
Previous Discussion, as mentioned in the article as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14087381
LordRishav··on Senegal Programming Language
I hugely despise the Rust-like Code of Conduct. Also please provide actual build instructions instead of giving binary files to add to PATH and execute.
LordRishav··on Facebook-owned sites were down
It's always DNS
LordRishav··on A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl
Why not use FreeTube (https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube) then if it is based on Electron anyway? Freetube also has support for watching videos directly alongwith downloading and can also route the video through Invidious servers if you prefer not giving your IP address to Youtube.
LordRishav··on ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested
Isn't a phone number personal information as well? And what about countries where it is mandatory to register your SIM card? ProtonMail can't just reply to this part by saying "Just move to a different country bro". A phone number is personal information and should be treated as such.
LordRishav··on Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
The best way to prevent that is by disabling JavaScript. Generally, JavaScript is what enables such banners to popup and obstruct your vision with newsletter requests.
LordRishav··on BootOS: Monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
I don't quite like an operating system as minimal as this to be licensed under a non-copyleft license. Operating systems like Minix have already been exploited by Intel for their Management Engine, which some call a 'backdoor' in their machines. And Minix was licensed under the BSD License as well, so Intel could get away not releasing the source code for IME easily.
LordRishav··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
Oni looks nice, but is a non-free program with an EULA so I would rather not use it. However it also states that a release is relicensed under the MIT/X11 license after 12 months from its release.
LordRishav··on A CSS framework to recreate Windows 7 GUI
There are some details from the Win7 UI that is still not in the CSS, for example the gloss which appears when the mouse pointer hovers over the window action buttons.

Next, the dropdown menu isn't like Win7, it follows your browser/operating system's theme. For example, on Firefox-based browsers running on GNU/Linux it follows your GTK theme, rather than the Win7 theme. On standard Chromium-based browsers, it shows it as dark blue rather than glassy light blue of Win7.

Next, the scrollbar doesn't show as the Win7 one on Firefox-based browsers, but does on Chromium ones for some reason.

LordRishav··on Whoogle Search: A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine
Instead of instructing your browser to delete cookies after you leave, why not instruct your browser to not accept cookies from such sites in the first place? I currently have google.com and youtube.com to "Never allow cookies from this site" in my browser.