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kervantason HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley

> Says Linux Foundation's OpenTofu adoption "tragic"

Yeah, for them, not for the community that they tried to fuck over.

kervantason Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

> They even trialed an unbundled Premium in Europe two years ago, but never did anything with it.

Oh, they did something with it – cancelled it. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23889917/youtube-premium-...

kervantason Tech giants are hijacking the internet

Inoreader or Feedly list plenty of RSS links for DW

kervantason Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me

This is tabloid category, why is this on HN?

kervantason Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

Same reason as why people append "in Rust" to titles. Marketing.

kervantason Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

I cancelled nearly all my subscriptions and set up an old notebook at home with Jellyfin and qBittorent + search plugins. Pretty simple and satisfies my needs.

kervantason Python: Just Write SQL

Every ORM basing post is like this. Some dude is dissatisfied with Hiberante/GORM/SQLAlchemy, declares ORMs as an "anti-pattern", then proceeds to reinvent the wheel.

kervantason YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

> I requested ad free subscription for elevated price or promising cancellation, it became a cancellation.

I listen to the audio edition nowadays, that has no ads. Also, I haven't found any good alternatives to it. The weekly issues and the regional columns are a very convenient format for me to consume the news.

kervantason YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

SponsorBlock is the answer.

kervantason YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

The Economist does this too. It's infuriating to see ads in the app when I pay for a yearly subscription.

kervantason Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

GNU/systemd/Liux/x86/electricity, to be specific.

kervantason Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary

So rentry.org, but with a live markdown preview and log in requirement.

kervantason A Readable Techcrunch Feed

I can totally understand the OP's frustration with TechCrunch's website, and with cluttered, bloated, obfuscated websites in general which only aim to maximize the time the user spends there by confusing the fuck out of them.

This is why I read sites like The Economist (finite number of articles, released weekly) and RSS feeds. So tired of the attention economy.

kervantason Internet in a Box

I wonder if the internet will be handled in a similar mater once humanity spreads to other plants.

kervantason GPT4 is up to 6 times more expensive than GPT3.5

You mean 2021.

kervantason Update to Kagi Search Pricing

I tried it out today for a full day to see whether I should quickly subscribe to get the legacy professional benefits. I found having a limit on the number of allowed searches really uncomfortable. So it is a nope for me at this price.

Also, the search engine market is really heating up. We have - Bing with a GPT chatbot - Brave Search with lenses, similar to Kagi - DuckDuckGo with a limited chatbot - Swurl is cool as well (but I think that is just a frontend for Google)

...and they are all free to use. I am not sure if Kagi will survive another year with this business model. IMO, they should focus on freeing themselves from Bing's API and build their own indexes to drive down costs, and also drop anything AI related gimmick, and embrace the UNIX philosophy: do one ting well.

kervantason Major standard library changes in Go 1.20

> with routing Don't you need some 3rd party lib for that (if you don't want to implement your own router)?

kervantason Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

VSCode extension? SaaS Gym app? SaaS

kervantason KDE runs on the Apple M2 with full GPU acceleration

x13s

kervantason Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)

I actually replaced Docker Desktop on my M1 Mac, because even after quitting the app (properly), the qemu VM kept runing, and running my battery. I like that I have more control over the processes with podman. `podman machine stop` and the vm is gone.

kervantason Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death

Welcome to the future!

kervantason Speeding up VSCode extensions in 2022

Add "in Rust" to the list too.

kervantason Expectations for generics in Go 1.18

Please dont.

kervantason Next.js 12

Great choices. I love Nest.

kervantason Fable is a compiler that brings F# into the JavaScript ecosystem

People would rather write a compiler than write js. Ridiculous.

kervantason IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

The s in IoT stands for security.