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pacifika

1,207 karma · joined January 13, 2011

Creating digital experiences that help improve mental health for the people using them.

Web: https://vandragt.com Github: https://github.com/svandragt

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pacifika··on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
It’s just moving the goal posts though, ars technica was reporting on a 3400 dollars for a Samsung fridge with ads.
pacifika··on Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?
Roughly takes an hour to review 1000 loc. tell your manager to book you in for a day and a half on the review. Usually scheduling it in is a deterrent for a quick approval
pacifika··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
Interesting, why is that, considering macOS is itself immutable?
pacifika··on I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86
Pretty cool. Always wanted the old skool look back in more modern windows
pacifika··on I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86
See if it’s possible, learning about how windows works
pacifika··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
That sounds like your device is running out of memory. Try disabling any extensions.
pacifika··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
Why not become a bank at that point and be honest about things.
pacifika··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
Sounds like public trading is the problem from your description
pacifika··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
Until you try to send a file with an extension it’s not allowed to send on iOS like mkv. Apart from that’s great.
pacifika··on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
Or split Apple UK off. And then fine them.
pacifika··on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
Imagine the response if the uk tried to break up apple
pacifika··on Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay
Looks interesting enough to try out. i was looking if it explicitly supported django but it supports the underlying tech.
pacifika··on Show HN: 18yo first iOS app: blocks distracting apps and unlocks with QR/barcode
Its about friction, not security.
pacifika··on Fastmail desktop app
One reason could be that they need one if there are unique differentiators on the roadmap that cannot be added into regular clients. I dont know if this is the case.
pacifika··on Free software hasn't won
That’s what open is meant to stand for, but Google et al have successfully caged that.
pacifika··on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
This is the new there’s an app for that?
pacifika··on FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
Search for Wayland I think the debate is not new.
pacifika··on Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
For Slack the huddles work better in the app
pacifika··on Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW
Well it has lua scripting so it just needs someone determined
pacifika··on Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin
Would it be a problem to disclose it, in terms of it getting shutdown?
pacifika··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
I’ve copied with right click out of chatGPT on Firefox and the contents not ending up on my clipboard. Not reliably.
pacifika··on macOS Tahoe
First macOS version I’m holding off on. Just too unusable.
pacifika··on Legal win
> Since each package has a fully unique ID, services can be "layered on top" to provide additional functionality. A moderation service can block users from installing known-dangerous packages, or highlight recommended packages - or even integrate with commercial services like vulnerability scanners.
pacifika··on Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation
I can recommend JottaCloud.
pacifika··on I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own
A counter argument is It’s meaningless for the developer and high level programming is writing for people not things.
pacifika··on RSS is awesome
RSScloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_Cloud
pacifika··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
If their contribution is minimal then the impact of this change should also be? But it appears it disruptive so they have been showing up for a long time and that’s one of the most difficult things.
pacifika··on Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
Just in case, If you want to index the content of these bookmarks for searching maybe my little wip tool face is useful to you. As it’s also a local server you can use a keyword search in browsers for it. https://github.com/svandragt/fafi
pacifika··on Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar
I’ll use email filters which work when I’m not at my inbox.
pacifika··on Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor
Why would you need to do that?
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