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marcolussettion How is Groq raising more money?

They used to serve Kimi K2 (I think they said experimentally), which I think for many purposes is a better model, but discontinued it with the suggestion to use GPT OSS instead.

marcolussettion 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

They have a Canadian-hosted version at 1password.ca

marcolussettion Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet

That's mostly due to the switch from CVSS 2 to CVSS 3

marcolussettion WordPress Is in Trouble

WordPress is to creating website what Excel is to generic business calculations.

marcolussettion COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

Ada is still updated, last released in 2023. Given its original audience is the Department of Defense, it seems to me very likely it is far from dead.

marcolussettion Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors

Isn't Canonical the one that hires bases on High School performance?

marcolussettion Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, but yes, that's the one.

marcolussettion LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud

But that's somewhat negated if you lift and shift, because your application is not designed to leverage that capability in that way.

marcolussettion Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository (2020)

I have to agree. I've been playing around with this for a while at https://github.com/outages/ (which includes the bchydro-outages mentioned in the original comment).

While it's easy to gather the data, the friction in analyzing it has always pushed the priority of doing so below other datasets I've gathered.

marcolussettion Slack Takes an Important Step to Block Abuse

There's a lot for large and small thematic communities around, for instance there's a sizeable Python Slack, my university has a few, and I'm in a few geographic ones for developers in different cities.

marcolussettion KDE for Travelers

This is very cool, particularly as it's a nice way of supporting pkpass files on Android.

However, I do wish it would also accept PDF files (planning a trip right now and many museums just give you a PDF), as well as that it had some level of in-app organization. I have a lot of items and it's just one live. I suspect I need to use the calendar function to do the latter.

marcolussettion Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API

There is! It's called Lemmy, https://join-lemmy.org/

I've seen a few subreddits talking about moving over.

marcolussettion Apollo will close down on June 30th

Honestly, I think they would have had a sizeable amount of people paying for the subscription.

Now, even if they backtrack on this later on in a few months or years, they burned the good will, so I doubt developers are going invest the time to make a good Reddit client after this.

marcolussettion Nintendo apologizes for Pokémon performance problems, promises “improvements”

Yes, though in turn The Pokemon Company is owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. So it's a big loop in some way.

marcolussettion Ask HN: What is example of good documentation in your opinion?

I love the documentation for Ansible. You have a good amount of well thought out examples, very well written explanations for things, and links to other related functions.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/...

marcolussettion Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI

I found the performance very poor and had to discontinue using it. It permanently pinned 4 cores on the remote server where VS Code used <0.25 (codebase was a very small Django app)

marcolussettion Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services

I have both an Android (personal primary device) and an iPhone (work phone).

For me by far the number one reason I use my Android device is the Internet browsing differences. Firefox Nightly with all the add-ons I use (first of all uBlock Origin, but so many more) and the sync to desktop Firefox is night and day compared to Safari (with an adblocker).

marcolussettion Kagi/Orion status update: First three months

The $0.125 is fascinating. According to my stats I query Google between 2500 and 3500 times a month. That would be a $300/mo. bill for Kagi?

I guess most people don't query as much as I do, but seems like it would need quite a number of people underquerying to make up for users who would be similar to me?

marcolussettion AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3

Firefox Nightly for Android supports most desktop extensions. It is clunky to enable them (you have to create a collection and then subscribe to it) and being a nightly build it does have some instability, but it works out pretty well.

Only caveat I've really found is that it gets stuck on the Guardian's website (after a few clicks).

marcolussettion Every single time I open your software, I'm asked to download an update

This is where I think the OS "vendor" packaging application model (e.g. Linux distribution) is very nice. I periodically update everything, and don't really need to worry about each application.

There are a few exceptions (Discord sabotages it with mandatory updates, and I use Jetbrains-Toolbox's update mechanism) but for the most part it works out very well.

marcolussettion How far can you go by train in 5h?

At least Madrid is roughly in the center of the Peninsula, whereas London is quite a bit off that.

marcolussettion In defence of garlic in a jar

The parent comment is saying mirrorless are getting 20FPS and thus are better than DSLR for bird photography.

marcolussettion Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end

I think the more direct comparison is

document.querySelector('#element').style.display = 'none'

That has the same ergonomics as the jQuery selector, and is just a bit longer. I feel like with editors that autocomplete, it's not enough of a difference to warrant the extra dependency.

marcolussettion Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie

I haven't tried in a while, but CaptureOne has very limited lens support compared to Lightroom. I wonder if that's changed.

marcolussettion TrueCaller built a billion-dollar caller ID data empire in India

That is really cool! Is this something that's open sourced by any chance?

marcolussettion Clickbait remover for YouTube: a FF addon to normalize video lists

You can on Firefox Nightly, but admittedly it's a clunky process.

marcolussettion Ask HN: Is it ok to reject a job because I don’t like their software?

I've gone to just running Teams on Chromium on Linux. Much faster than the Desktop app, and audio works on it reliably. Unfortunately on the app my audio input would cut out every few minutes and require the app to be restarted. Never figured out why, and found a lot of others with similar issues.

marcolussettion Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories

When I last signed up a few years ago, no, it didn't even auto-renew.

marcolussettion Cloudflare Experiencing Latency Issues

CheckMK offers pretty solid monitoring our of the box, but I think it falls quite short of the mark when you want to add more than the default monitoring. It's still probably the easiest solution for monitoring a bunch of basic VMs, servers, etc. You can set it up and get a solid idea of how it works in only a few hours.