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btzs··on Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
Is there any explanation why it has decreased in size?
btzs··on Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth
Tabby.ml also works well
btzs··on Google asks me daily for my location to improve connectivity even if I say no
Kagi allows adding a token to the search url. This way you don't have to log in on your work equipment.
btzs··on Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?
Maybe someone wants to earn some karma by pasting the content of the tweets here? Similar how it happens with the archive.ph/today links.
btzs··on Abandoned villages of Hong Kong
I am interested, too!
btzs··on A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
This is great! I would love something like this for Hong Kong. The prices here are very volatile due to special offers, etc.

Any plans to add other countries?

btzs··on LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
I would suggest using a tasmota smart plug and check energy consumption to determine if program has finished.
btzs··on The ThinkPad P14s
This can be changed in the BIOS.
btzs··on Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
As a 12 year old: I tried to overclock my first "good" own computer (AMD Duron 1200 MHz). System wouldn't start at 1600 MHz and I didn't know BIOS reset exists. I ended up putting the computer in the freezer and let it cool down for an hour. I placed the CRT display on top and the power/VGA keyboard cable going into the freezer. I managed to set it back to the original frequency before it died.
btzs··on OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
The number of Public Reprimands by the German Press Council do not confirm this view. For 2023 there were 20 reprimands for Bild and 0 for Die Zeit.

https://www.presserat.de/ruegen-presse-uebersicht.html

btzs··on Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?
My theory was that they operate at loss and they don't want increase that loss by offering it to adversaries.
btzs··on Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?
OpenAI API is not blocked. You can set up your own front-end like Chatbot UI.
btzs··on Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
I have moved my files to a managed Nextcloud instance. Important to me is Linux support and Nextcoud works better for me than the alternatives.
btzs··on Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest
Not ideal but I use Invidious and redirect any Youtube search results to my Invidious instance. Go to Kagi settings -> advanced --> Redirects and add

  https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=(.*)|https://yt.oelrichsgarcia.de/watch\?v=$1
I use my own Invidious instance. yt.oelrichsgarcia.de is from https://docs.invidious.io/instances/#list-of-public-invidiou...
btzs··on Tinder Offers $500-a-Month Subscription to Its Most Active Users
https://archive.ph/e99Ol
btzs··on A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions
This is a similar project from Karlsruhe University:

Summary: All Privacy Friendly Apps:

- are Open Source (GPLv3) and their source code can be viewed an Github by anybody

- used minimal permissions

- do not neither tracking mechanisms nor advertisement

https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php

btzs··on Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
I do wonder what operating system managers of Microsoft use at home and what they think about stuff like those pop-ups.
btzs··on Show HN: The Uncolouring Book
Also first time for me to see the built in Firefox color picker!
btzs··on Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with crowd sourced traffic data
Is NUNAV based on OSM data?
btzs··on Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI
Underlined link not working FAQ: > How do I start using PrettyPolly to learn a language quickly?

1. Select your desired language in __the app__.

btzs··on How I changed my D-Link camera to a locally managed IP camera
Get one with preflashed Tasmota. They are local connection only.
btzs··on Tiny Awards for Small Websites
Not working properly on Firefox for Android. Text is cut off.
btzs··on Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children
I would love something like this for my kids. Are there any ways to support or at least find movements like this?

Maybe I should look for cases where smartphone bans on school/village/town level and but them all together in a link list.

btzs··on Show HN: Database for analyzing US companies, visualize using Apache SuperSet
Interesting! Whenever I am in a more active investing phase I feel like I don't have the data available I would like to have for making decisions.

I am getting 'Database error: Unknown error' when trying to run a query. Maybe too much load at the moment.

Regarding the sign-up form: You expect the input to follow the format '888 888 8888' including blanks. I would consider dropping the phone number altogether or at least allow other formats.

btzs··on The Kagi Family Plan
My 7 yo uses Kagi. One thing I would like is an option to turn off videos as the first search results.

Maybe hide them behind a link.

btzs··on Binance sees $2B in outflows as troubles compound
https://archive.ph/CJXUH
btzs··on Show HN: Time-tracker that helps me with context switches and documentation
This is how I track the time I spent on projects by analyzing the window titles.

1. Create a list of product names and folder names for each client.

2. Change settings of applications/window manager to include more details in window title.

3. Log every window I interact with.

4. If I don't open a window including one of the keywords in the title for x minutes I stop the counter.

btzs··on Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
What I like about my subscription of the German weekly newspaper 'Die Zeit' is that they allow sending the mobi directly to your Send-To-Kindle-email address.

Are you aware of other magazines offering that?

btzs··on ‘Abusing state power’: China lashes out at US over TikTok bans
What is their intention of statements like this knowing that they themselves ban foreign social media?
btzs··on How to make YouTube less distracting
I am also a fan of invidious! I turned off related videos and the configured the start page to only show the search bar, no hot or trending videos.
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