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hadrien01··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
I use Android without a Google account and I have access to banking (bank apps through Aurora Store, and NFC works without a Google account).
hadrien01··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Same. It's also less buggy, and they've fixed long-standing navigation gripes I had with NewPipe. I did disable the SponsorBlock integration because I find it quite annoying to go back on a skipped sequence.
hadrien01··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Level 2/3 data: https://docs.adyen.com/payment-methods/cards/enhanced-scheme...

It's only available in the US, many countries have lower interchange fees and prohibit sending this data.

hadrien01··on Walmart to Begin Accepting Apple Pay in U.S. Stores
The title is clickbait, they're not specifically adding Apple Pay (9to5Google did the same thing with the title 'Walmart finally supporting in-store tap to pay with Google Pay').

They're finally accepting all tap-to-pay payments, regardless of provider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388570

hadrien01··on Beware Management Consultants
The entire section of the website about 'The Dark Ages' is priceless. They don't pull any punches: https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/
hadrien01··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
The entire section of the website about 'The Dark Ages' is priceless. They don't pull any punches: https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/
hadrien01··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
What's worse is that the previous version of the same Weather app was fully native on Windows 10. Why would you take a perfectly working app and downgrade it like this?
hadrien01··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
I'm not surprised. We're trying to migrate from Jira and Confluence (because we can't have our data outside our servers), and while Jira has many alternatives, it's difficult to find worthy competitors to Confluence. They either have an awful UI/UX, or don't have as many features. We're looking at Xwiki, but simply try to have multiple users simultaneously edit a table and you'll see why everyone prefers Confluence...
hadrien01··on Organic Maps
This used to be a thing on Windows Phone, you could download maps in the settings and they would be available in the default Maps app, but also in HERE Maps, Transit, etc.
hadrien01··on If you're a button, you have one job
I disable all animations everywhere (Android, Windows, Gnome) because I hate that they make me feel like I'm losing time waiting for something that could be instant, and they sometimes make me dizzy. I'm particularly exasperated that iOS doesn't offer that possibility.

But rotating an image is one of the rare use cases where I do want the animation. It makes me see what action happened, with which rotation angle, without having to think twice.

hadrien01··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
They're not the only ones, Anthropic and Google recently announced they'll be using xAI data centers, and I wouldn't be surprised if AWS also started to have capacity problems in the near future.
hadrien01··on Cursor Camp
I'm really watching 12 Angry Men through a small window in a wonderfully cute browser game, I love it!
hadrien01··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
Firefox on Windows, but it looks about the same in Edge

Screenshot of the header: https://i.imgur.com/4abfGYF.png

hadrien01··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
Is it me or does the App Store website look... fake? The text in the header ("Productiviteit", "Alleen voor iPhone") looks pixelated, like it was edited on Paint, the header background is flickering, the app icon and screenshots are very low quality, the title of the website is incomplete ("App Store voor iPho...")
hadrien01··on EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)
Is this comment AI-generated? All recent comments from this account are two paragraphs-long, and are a vague retelling or the article.
hadrien01··on IBM to acquire Confluent
Genuine question: how did the IBM acquisitions of Red Hat and HashiCorp turn out?

For Red Hat, there's no longer an official "public" distribution of RHEL, but apart from that they seemingly have been left alone and able to continue to develop their own products. But that's only my POV as a user of OSS Red Hat products at home and of RHEL and OpenShift at work.

hadrien01··on X blocks EU Commission's advertising account after €120M fine
They're in breach of the DSA. Here's the Commission's press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...
hadrien01··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
France is currently developing La Suite numérique[1], which includes email based on Open-Xchange. The German federal government also proposes Open-Xchange in their openDesk suite[2].

[1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ [2] https://www.opendesk.eu/en/product#email

hadrien01··on A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks
> As of November 2024, the service counts 14 million users and 8 million transactions were made

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)

8 million transactions in only a few months (mostly in France), I wouldn't say "nobody's using Wero"

hadrien01··on Oil states thwart agreement on plastics
False:

> Europe’s LNG imports declined by 19% in 2024. The continent’s gas consumption fell by 20% between 2021 and 2024 thanks to renewables deployment and demand reduction policies.

https://ieefa.org/european-lng-tracker

hadrien01··on Our Farewell from Google Play
I have a Samsung phone and I was never forced to use a Google account.
hadrien01··on Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
After a while I started to get "Google asks for a login" errors. Should I just keep going? There's no indication on what I should do on the ArchiveTeam wiki
hadrien01··on We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
Case in point: https://jira.atlassian.com/projects/ Look how snappy it is!
hadrien01··on Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code
Jetbrains IDEs: Settings > Editor > Font > Enable ligatures

Sublime Text: Set "font_options" to "dlig". There are other settings to choose which character tables are allowed to use ligatures or not.

Visual Studio Code: Set "editor.fontLigatures" to "true". You can also put CSS font features to choose which ligatures you want to enable.

hadrien01··on Working too much? EU law says you're entitled to more rest.:)
This is an ad
hadrien01··on BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use
They also write this:

> Since a user requested the fetch, this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt rules.

hadrien01··on Eleven v3
The French language examples on that page are atrocious. One of them starts reading French like a native English speaker, then mid-sentence switches to a proper accent. Another one does some words with a Canadian-French accent, but not all of them. And the only one with a proper and constant accent from start to end sounds worse than the default Windows TTS...
hadrien01··on Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect URLs based on regex
Redirects from translated versions of Google or Microsoft documentation to the English one. The Microsoft ones are okay-ish but I strongly prefer reading the original version. And the Google ones are a patchwork of machine-translated nonsense, "powered by Google Cloud Translation API"
hadrien01··on Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
I suppose this is in response to this executive order: ENDING TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZATION OF BIASED MEDIA https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/endi...

I would add that PBS has this to say about public media funding:

> The U.S. is almost literally off the chart for how little we allocate towards our public media. At the federal level, it comes out to a little over $1.50 per person per year. Compare that to the Brits, who spend roughly $100 per person per year for the BBC. Northern European countries spend well over $100 per person per year.

> And it really shows in the health of their of their public broadcasting systems. They tend to view those systems as essential democratic infrastructure. And, indeed, data show that there is a positive correlation between the health of a public broadcasting system and the health of a democratic governance.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-history-of-p...

hadrien01··on Manufactured Consensus on X.com
The images from the article don't seem to load, I get a NS_ERROR_REDIRECT_LOOP according to the devtools
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