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cthulbergon Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

I don't think it's a matter of "US-hate," of renewed nationalism, or of relations collapsing randomly. Let's not pretend PRISM didn't happen, that Cambridge Analytica didn't happen, or that one government didn't threaten to invade another government. All the news points to one fact: if the American government gives an order, American tech companies obey. The message is clear: being a customer of a company means being at the mercy of the government where the company is headquartered. Who would want to find themselves in the vortex when a certain government decides to devote its Two Minutes Hate to another place in the world?

cthulbergon DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

https://github.com/obra/superpowers

I use Opus/Sol with for /brainstorming, deepseek (on Pi) for /subagent-driven-development

I love it, the docs are easily editable and when I'm ready Deepseek is faster/cheaper then everything on my coding plans.

cthulbergon European Alternatives

OVH? I hate the dashboard, but the support seems fine to me.

cthulbergon This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]

> Portraying Israeli intelligence as this omnipotent, cartoonishly evil entity that assassinates via uranium phones

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-hezbollah-was-fooled-into-...

> and then gloats at press conferences with "IT WAS DEFINITELY US" t-shirts

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-office-confirms-netanyahu-...

It is not antisemitic, just daily news.

cthulbergon Migrating to React Native's new architecture

why "again"?

cthulbergon CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

Flutter too: https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/macos/mobile-io...

cthulbergon Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

gemini-2.0-flash-*-image-generation models are not currently supported in a number of countries in Europe, Middle East & Africa

source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#gemini-2.0-flas... and my Google Ai Studio

cthulbergon You should know this before choosing Next.js

It's because of articles like this that I can't understand those who say 'Just switch to Expo' when talking about React Native. The frontend should be a puzzle of solutions, not a monolith where a few companies sell the 'magic word' to get out of a problem.

cthulbergon Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?

Construct is awesome! Much of the app logic can be done simply by dragging and dropping, you can add javascript if you need advanced functionality, the editor is fast and provides that instant gratification so useful in the early stages of learning.

cthulbergon Amazon props Vega to replace Android-based Fire OS on future smart devices

This is the direction React Native is heading, with Fabric Native Components[1] and Turbo Native Modules[2]. On the development side, you have JavaScript, the language we all love to hate and hate to love, with its vast ecosystem of readily available libraries that are well-documented and used daily by billions of people. On the functionality side, you have access to native code, which speeds up and lightens the workload, making the app performant.

[1] https://reactnative.dev/docs/the-new-architecture/pillars-fa... [2] https://reactnative.dev/docs/the-new-architecture/pillars-tu...

cthulbergon ASUS Chromebox 5

Disclaimer: I daily utilize a cheap Chromebook as a lightweight typewriter, and I love it.

However, it's important to note that Linux on this device is subject to certain restrictions: It operates within a containerized environment, which limits both disk space allocation and system-wide access. Accessing the terminal requires navigating through a "virtual machine", and files are shared within the /mnt/chromeos directory. Additionally, the utilization of USB devices is layered behind the primary operating system support and Linux backups are separate from the overall operating system backups.

cthulbergon The Never Married, a New Normal

Survivorship bias?

cthulbergon Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

Chrome DevTools -> Sources -> trygalaxy.com -> _next/static -> pages -> index_... -> CTRL + F and search window.navigator.standalone -> click on the dash to the right (a blue arrow will appear) and refresh the page

The page will freeze, go to the Console, type window.navigator.standalone = true; and unfreeze the page clicking on the blue arrow.

cthulbergon Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?

for a similar project, I have successfully used: https://github.com/SimonMarquis/InternalAppStore

The Github page explains in detail how to set it up, and for the described use case you should stay within the Firebase free tier limit.

cthulbergon Progressive Web Apps Will Replace Native Apps?

> Today even Messenger moved back to Native code from React.

Nope.

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1234801507805138945

cthulbergon Amazon Fire 7 $49 – Is this worth hacking?

Wow you should give Android another chance! Material is everywhere and feels so good on mobile. The UI is miles away from Holo, and the apps ecosystem bloomed as well.

About the APIs... Well, Java is still Java, Kotlin looks ok but is not there (yet).