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fosron··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Been using DeepSeek Flash 4.0 and 4.1 for some random sideprojects via OC GO, its a great deal and for non-corporate work it's really great!
fosron··on Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Really cool. I remember one local musician here in Lithuania used a theremin like 20 years ago and i was amazed at the interactivity and the alien sound of it. Now sitting in front of my computer doing the same that many years later brings memories back!
fosron··on OpenLogi
Im reading the comments here and most of them are regarding what AI did, what AI didnt and not much about the apps functionality, which is lameeee
fosron··on OpenLogi
Mouser is so bad at leaking memory i had to go back to Logi Options+ on my Mac...
fosron··on Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
Our police has a page called "Virtual Police Patrol" which allows reporting of these cases. Some of the worst trolls have been prosecuted and sentenced. But we're not doing much regarding Facebook itself, just cleaning up with the results of it.
fosron··on Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta
Facebook is still big in my country, Lithuania, and both rage-bait and other type of fringe content is rampant, and even worse after fact-checking was removed. It is wild, and with some outside actors (specific country that shall not be named) it is a big problem with political and social effects being felt IRL.
fosron··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Bought my CTO M5 Pro just a month ago, i was a little bit skittish, thinking i should wait for the OLED one, but i think i'll be happier with the 64GB of RAM rather than that overpriced monitor.
fosron··on Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota
CodexBar seems to do that good enough (and supports Codex), plus https://github.com/daniel3303/ClaudeCodeStatusLine this also adds data straight into CC
fosron··on The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once
Playstation is in the list but not Xbox? Weird
fosron··on European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps
And parent of that, Tesonet Global, is based in Lithuania
fosron··on How will OpenAI compete?
Oh damn i missed it. Could be that, but were from a non-english country so not sure.
fosron··on How will OpenAI compete?
My father uses ChatGPT extensively. My friend, whos an electrician, but has 0 things to do with computers, even called it Chat once and I said who? Because for me its ChatGPT. He also uses it extensively. Although I would bet they won't be willing to pay, advertisements will eventually hit them. And with inference prices going down, with distilled models being used, OpenAI will profit, and people will still hapily use it for whatever random queries they have. Exposure is the currency and OpenAI will have infinites of it for the foreseeable future.
fosron··on Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
Worked on an ESP. We had a couple of server software we used on low-level for sending. None of them would accept the message without a Message-ID. But even if you have a super-custom, SMTP-injecting service built, how can you ignore all of these bounces from a provider thats likeliest to be the major one you are sending to? Unthinkable. I would not like to have business with such a payment provider.
fosron··on The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)
Day by day these things sound more like Sci-Fi series announcments.
fosron··on Quake Brutalist Jam III
Got the same error, but you just press Esc and you are in the game though.
fosron··on Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
Yeah, without SSO support this is a no-go for me too.
fosron··on Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs
Why did i have to find this at 3AM. Thanks though.
fosron··on DataDog silently added auto opt-in telemetry
> https://github.com/signoz/signoz

we are looking into it! :)

fosron··on DataDog silently added auto opt-in telemetry
> This may be disabled with DD_INSTRUMENTATION_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=0.

So is it default on or off? I am confused

fosron··on DataDog silently added auto opt-in telemetry
This is the case for PHP library that is used to collect data, but i guess others either already have it or will do it soon. Don't get me wrong - i'm ok with companies adding telemetry, but adding that as an opt-in by default is just not cool.

And this might be just the last straw in us switching away from DD, with all the random price hikes (them counting hosts and RAM on them and basing pricing on it?!), we will probably look into some OpenTelemetry setup we can host ourselves.

fosron··on Ask HN: Zero-downtime migration from MongoBD to PostgresSQL
Yeah, thats what i think too, thanks. Hoping for a miracle solution. And also i did google, and i understand that the schema will have to be provided, we can do that, but the actual data transfer is the pain point here. I tried one solution, Airbyte, locally, but its mongo support is in beta, and does not use a feature like WAL, etc.
fosron··on I don’t believe in sprints
This is just a bad hot take. It does not even propose anything that's better. Just do work and it will be there? How? I'm confused. And, i, my self, don't believe sprints are 100% the best, but for us it helps to manage load, see how much we can do, and make sure everyone is on the same page. It's not a bible, it's just another tool in the chain.
fosron··on Sinch to acquire Mailgun
Thanks! You are more than welcome to test out our services, we do provide 12k emails/month for free. And yeah, we are quite new in the scene of transactional email providers, but growing fast so you should hear more and more about us in the future :)
fosron··on Sinch to acquire Mailgun
For now, you can use the free plan, and pay 1$ per 1000 emails.
fosron··on Sinch to acquire Mailgun
Thanks for your kind words! I’m a lead developer over at MailerSend and every happy customer is a driving force to make our product better!
fosron··on Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
Mailerlite is good and way cheaper (p.s i do work for the parent company)
fosron··on Show HN: Packpin – Cross-selling and shipment tracking solution
Launch article: https://www.internetretailer.com/2015/06/02/packpincom-annou...
fosron··on Ask HN: A way to switch from job to leisure apps on Mac instantly
Hm, still, not the best solution...
fosron··on Ask HN: A way to switch from job to leisure apps on Mac instantly
Still, won't the apps stay in memory? And i don't really like the idea of different users...
fosron··on Ask HN: A way to switch from job to leisure apps on Mac instantly
As i said, i need a way to close apps, leaving them on is not an option.
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