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laniakeanon Trump wins presidency for second time

2016 : Hilary Clinton - People felt that she was chosen because it was her turn 2020 : Kamala Harris - A candidate who never ever even did well in the primaries.

I hope DNC learn from this and let people choose a candidate next time.

laniakeanon Trump wins presidency for second time

People were praising Biden for stepping aside, but he only stepped aside once he was forced. Had he made this decision earlier, the Democratic Party would have had the time to do a proper primary.

laniakeanon Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat

They could also use something like wifi-direct and transfer data between devices

laniakeanon I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server

I mostly use it to write some quick scripts or generate texts if it follows some pattern. Also, getting it up running with LM studio is pretty straightforward.

laniakeanon Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1789687898863792453.html

You can use the above link. Otherwise, you will have to log in, unfortunately. Earlier, we could have used a nitter instance, but all of them have been blocked.

laniakeanon Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected

I would say to get an android phone and flash Graphene OS (Pixel phones) on it.

laniakeanon Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

I've recently developed a money manager application for Android. I haven't uploaded it to Github yet. The purpose of this project was to get back into android development and have an app that doesn't sell your data. Also, the best thing about making your own app is that you can add any feature you want and make it work just how you like.

Presently, I'm working on an app to selectively enable/disable silent profile for contacts. It involves leveraging Android's contact groups to establish user profiles. When you activate a profile, silent mode will be activated for contacts not in it.

laniakeanon The Cloud Computer

I feel the same. I am interested in the product, but I want to know how much it would cost. Without knowing at least the range of the prices, I find it unproductive to contact the sales representative, since the price could end up way beyond what I can afford.

laniakeanon EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

So why do you think this hasn't happened in android yet?

laniakeanon Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For

In that analogy, who provides the antivirus? Can you only use antivirus from certain vendors? Does the company providing antivirus have motives(eg:-selling ads) other than securing your computer?

laniakeanon Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing

I grew up in India, and the majority of the population doesn't have access to the latest hardware. If websites starts implementing these changes, a lot of these people would be cut off from the internet. Most of these people belong to marginalized communities. My country has a history of discriminating people based on their castes, and any progress we have made in this aspect would be destroyed by this change by further limiting the online resources available for people from these communities. This is outrageous.

laniakeanon Reddit is trying to sow division in mod teams because the protest is working

Did it already happen to any subs that we know of?

laniakeanon Google banned me – open sourcing all my apps

The same thing happened to me, but with my Yahoo account. It was my first email ID, something that I made when I was 11 years old. The memories of my first emails, when my friends and I were discovering the internet in the mid 2000s, were completely wiped out.

laniakeanon DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results

I recently gave Kagi a try after using DDG, and signed up for their $10/month plan. However, I found myself running out of searches within the first 20 days, which left me feeling hesitant about making any additional searches due to the extra cost. While I do want to support Kagi's success, I personally found the cost of $10-15 per month for search to be a bit steep. Perhaps I have unrealistic expectations on how cheap search should be, but for now, I'm not sure if the cost is worth it for me.

laniakeanon Taiga: A free and open-source project management tool

As someone who has only done internships in academia, is it possible to share some tips or point me to some good resources? Thank you

laniakeanon My building has replaced our keys with an app

I don't understand when people design things without thinking about all possible scenarios.

What if I went somewhere and came back with a completely drained phone in the middle of the night? Should I wake up my neighbors and ask to charge my phone or should I sleep outside until the concierge opens their office the next morning?

laniakeanon Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business

Now you have met another one. Although I am a migrant in Europe and not in US.