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cientifico··on Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series
It will take years for Linux users to trust Qualcomm again.

It has been so many attempts to run Linux on this chips without any collaboration from Qualcomm. Companies even drop support after years of development.

Qualcomm provided efficiency (battery life). But intel is catching up fast to make Qualcomm irrelevant.

Welcome, but too late.

cientifico··on Linux from Scratch
The fastest way to learn and remember what Linux is about
cientifico··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
Custom connector to paperless for processing fetching, reason... Off any physical contract or letter received by the company. Google drive for everything digital. Paperless for more legal things.
cientifico··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
How much bullshit!

If you try to sell to China, Australia, UUSS and Colombia and Russia for example, you also need to comply with the regulations of each of those countries (and pay Tarifs in some).

To ease the collaboration between humans the European Union was created. But the European Union is not a country. Is the earth only collection of countries that agree to collaborate together to levels no other countries have in the world History.

It's success is so big, that people expects to act as an independent country, and complain when discovering Europe is indeed several countries. WTF!

cientifico··on Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
This is exactly why I prefer Turbo ( https://turbo.hotwired.dev/ ).

Turbo comes from a progressive-enhancement philosophy: start with proper HTML and add richer behaviour on top. HTMX is a JavaScript library in much the same sense that React is. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, but it makes this anti-pattern easier to fall into.

Honestly, “the site should work without JavaScript” is no longer the strongest argument. Server-rendered, semantic HTML matters more for accessibility, SEO, and increasingly for LLMs and other automated tools.

Of course, you can write excellent HTML with HTMX. It just requires more discipline—or enough experience to recognize when you are quietly building a JavaScript application in HTML attributes.

cientifico··on Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years
Correction in 2. Contrary to popular believe, sunnier countries in Europe have higher deficiency in vitamin d.

Spain have lower levels of vitamin d than Denmark.

cientifico··on Chuwi Minibook X
Also got it last year.

I used to play with omarchy. It is good enough for a lot of use cases. For powerful work I just connect to remote session.

Perfect for planes in economy

cientifico··on Hacker News front page as a site
Love it.

I would love that the size of the article is based on the number of upvotes (hardcoded).

* > 500 => take full width or 3. * 500 > 100 => Show it as right now. * > 100 => Just show the title.

cientifico··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Right now, local inference only make sense for privacy reasons.

This is common when processing PII. Lawyers, doctors our similar should not be using cloud solutions.

Also it's harder to setup and always more expensive than any cloud solution.

cientifico··on Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
We tend to forget
cientifico··on Laws of Software Engineering
There is one missing that i am using as primary for the last 5 years.

The UX pyramid but applied to DX.

It basically states that you should not focus in making something significant enjoyable or convenient if you don't have something that is usable, reliable or remotely functional.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ux+pyramid

cientifico··on Slop Cop
In my case. The prompt is normally a collection of ideas connected over time. Ai groups, structure, challenges and help me organize that ideas. Then, once I see something that I consider worth sharing, I ask to draft a blog post. 20 iterations over, and I have a blog post.

The prompt is normally larger than the content generated.

cientifico··on Slop Cop
I find some parallelism between writing articles and Pull requests.

We are moving to a point in time, where we don't care if the PR was written by AI. We care that the author understand what is about, that it tested it and in general, we want the ownership.

With articles is the same. I don't care if it was written by AI, if the content is interesting, and ai make it easier to digest... That's a win win.

The problem is not the presentation. Is the content.

cientifico··on Slop Cop
My self.

LLM helps me communicate my ideas better.

Thinking in different angles, focus on the main idea, structure in a post series... It constantly challenge my mess.

Opus and I, iterate over 20 times a single blog post.

cientifico··on Slop Cop
Unpopular opinion.

Until now, ideas were only relevant when the owner was able to communicate then regardless of the impact of the idea.

LLM "democratize"(VC term) sharing ideas, as people with low communication skills can be heard.

cientifico··on The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
For most users that wanted to run LLM locally, ollama solved the UX problem.

One command, and you are running the models even with the rocm drivers without knowing.

If llama provides such UX, they failed terrible at communicating that. Starting with the name. Llama.cpp: that's a cpp library! Ollama is the wrapper. That's the mental model. I don't want to build my own program! I just want to have fun :-P

cientifico··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Click on any Youtube video from any web in android. If you press anything that is not the back button immediately, you will loose the option to go back.

So this coming from google... it's funny. Welcome, but funny.

cientifico··on You're a team lead. Now what?
Thanks, I agree.

I’ve been asking myself the same thing for years. My take:

1. Peter Principle: people get promoted to their level of incompetence.

2. In many companies, it’s the only way to increase salary.

3. Some developers think it gives them more leverage or impact.

But honestly, most of the time it’s simpler: stakeholders want more output, and the best dev gets pushed into leading because there’s no one else.

It’s often less a “promotion” and more a gap the company needs to fill.

cientifico··on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
This feels jumping on the train of complain about Europe and fully bias.

If I apply my own bias I will call it:

    American companies abuse their dominance my enforcing non documented requirements, making other companies not able to reach their users.
cientifico··on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
Github says 2.8k files when selecting c (including headers...) https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Asystemd%2Fsystemd++langua...

If the project is even split in different parts that you need to understand... already makes the point.

cientifico··on I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
Looking for postgres unikernel seems like some people are trying seriously...

https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/running-postgres-as-a-unik...

cientifico··on The EU's fine against X is not about speech or ‘censorship’
I don't know how it is in US, but in Europe, the amount of scams is growing. Twitter blue checkmark was created to distinguish real humans vs scammers.

The fine was to protected the users from that scam.

I like paying taxes to protected the users that don't have the ability to detect scams as we all here have (most of the time).

EU miss the point equally to the Congress in uuss when non tech people believe they can rule (or just lobbied).

But on this case, there will be no problem if Twitter had decided to use another checkmark for pro accounts.

cientifico··on Charles Proxy
That it's an osx ONLY app.
cientifico··on Charles Proxy
One hidden gem.

The closest free alternative is https://www.mitmproxy.org/ that is not even close.

And off course, https://www.wireshark.org/ but that is too generic and with a bigger learning curve.

Worth the money. And no subscription (or there weren't a subscription back then)

cientifico··on Microservices should form a polytree
Services (or a set of Microservices) should mimic teams at the company. If we have polytree, that should represent departments.
cientifico··on Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18
That was the same conclusion I got by playing with the graphs.

I concluded that better IO planning it's only worth it for "slow" I/O in 18.

Pretty sure it will bring a lot of learnings. Postgress devs are pretty awesome.

cientifico··on How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams
I wouldn't generalize it that much. There are few patterns where Turbo Streams, subscriptions, and permanent frames still make a lot of sense.

One classic case is user notifications - like the user icon in the corner. That's perfect as a permanent lazy frame, with a subscription watching for any user-related updates. This way you don't have to think about updating that widget across different pages, and you can centralize all user-related async events in

one controller.

Another pattern is real-time dashboards. You never know which part of the dashboard will change, and it's actually simpler on the backend: you just track what was updated and push that specific part. Clean and efficient.

cientifico··on How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams
Been using Turbo (and Turbolinks before it) for 10+ years, mostly outside Rails. It's awesome in that context.

Can't really see how making it more Rails-centric would help - more likely it'd just cause a fork for everyone using Hotwire without Rails/Ruby.

cientifico··on A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go
Killing all the fun.

Remember when you could trick a colleague into posting in Twitter, Facebook... by just sending a link?

CSRF fixes are great for security - but they've definitely made some of the internet's harmless mischief more boring

cientifico··on AI-powered open-source code laundering
The license was MIT until two months ago.

That gives anyone the right to get the source code of that commit and do whatever.

The article does not specified if the company is still using the code AFTER the license change.

The rest of the points are still valid.

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