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mattlon Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

Bandwidth isn’t free of charge

mattlon Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

But it needs a server too?

mattlon Linux distros for beginners in 2025 make switching from Windows so easy

So should those users switch to a Mac or something else?

mattlon Ask HN: What's the Point of llms.txt?

I'm starting to see more and more sites want to block them too.

mattlon A new open-source social network

You have to use Discord to login?

mattlon Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA

https://support.apple.com/en-us/121430

* Navigation (in some countries and regions1) –– choose another app instead of the Apple Maps app to use when opening links for a location

I don't have this option in the US.

mattlon Where to Find Cofounders?

IRC/Mastodon

mattlon Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

Firefox is still there, but Mozilla is adding AI slop to it too. I’d love to see an extension to disable all that stuff, or ideally get rid of it and make it an extension

mattlon '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants

Check your luggage for fries

mattlon '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants

Yes it makes very little difference if I can see all your public published blog posts on a WordPress site by iterating the number.

mattlon McDonald's 'McHire' chatbot records accessed via '123456' password

Make it so they have to change it when they login. But also do not allow a simple password to be used ever.

mattlon Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

Ha! I’m sure I asked you about this before but I think you hinted at one point about being able to supply PD on a format other than disc and I think you said not on cassette. What was that?

mattlon Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

CPC?

mattlon Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why?

If you haven’t yet i recommend their family plan. 5 accounts for less than the price of 2.

This made sense for me as two of my family are already using it.

mattlon Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why?

For standard email, fastmail.com is very very good. Plus they're working on JMAP, which may actually improve standard email for everyone.

If you're okay with a non-standard email account that you need to use their app for, hey.com has been a game changer for me. Being able to handle the flood of incoming messages that comes from having an email address for 35 years.

mattlon Comet Browser Is Just 2 Chrome Extensions?

They're not even trying to make a browser it seems.

mattlon Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

I don't understand how anyone doing open source can use something trained on other people's code as a tool for contributions.

I wouldn't accept someone's copy and pasted code from another project if it were under an incompatible license, let alone something with unknown origin.

mattlon Comet Browser Is Just 2 Chrome Extensions?

Can you tell me the user agent string for the browser? https://whatmyuseragent.com

mattlon Poll: Where do you store your personal code?

Previously GitLab self hosted, then GitHub... now I'm bringing it all under something I host again, so I can block AI bots.

mattlon Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

I don’t remember the last time I deleted an email. I’ve marked things as spam, archived things but not deleted in a long while.

mattlon Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

Is whichever part of Mozilla that runs Thunderbird going to rehire the rust team now?

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Did you download everything you needed before cancellation?

mattlon Show HN: ColdCopy – Generate personalized cold emails with AI

What's the easiest way to block these?

mattlon Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews

A lot of people don't want AI slop and don't want the companies pushing it to crawl their websites.

mattlon Cloudflare: We Will Get Google to Provide a Way to Block AI Overviews

Post a URL to a page on your website on something like Mastodon and tail your logs.

mattlon Show HN: InvoiceFast – Generate Clean Invoices Without Subscription Overhead

Get a better support email address!

"Please contact our support team at leclubvvp@gmail.com and we'll be happy to assist you with any questions or concerns you might have."

mattlon macOS Icon History

Yeah Adium supported Growl. Adium still works but hasn’t seen much of an update in a while last time I checked.

mattlon Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

There are plenty of cleanroom-type jobs for developers, they just might not always be the sexy big companies offering them.

mattlon Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

A while ago I had to hire people who'd never used Flash (and therefore agreed to the EULA of Flash Player) for a project.

mattlon Microsoft exec suggests folks laid off to use AI to reduce 'emotional stress'

Anyone who would seriously suggest such a thing should be promptly ignored for the rest of time.