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paride5745on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Same here.

I use gemini for everything not-coding, from doing research, to have custom personas for more niche topics (and feeding more detailed knowledge in these cases).

For coding and image editing, right now I find ChatGPT superior. And for software architecture designs or planning Claude is the best since a while. I still have to try Grok to be fair.

paride5745on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

Sure you can host your PDS, but if you want to deploy your own instance like you would do with Mastodon, you need to deploy a Relay and an AppView as well. And the way the network works, you need beefy servers for that.

On ActivityPub and Nostr you develop all kind of applications already, it is not only Twitter clones, but also Instagram clones, Reddit clones, on Nostr there is even the resurrected Vine (https://about.divine.video/).

And it is not trivial to switch from the Bluesky did:plc (which you cannot run in write-mode on your own and need to use the official Bluesky owned) to did:web, which you can run on your own.

paride5745on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

No such problem on Mastodon/ActivityPub.

paride5745on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

Or join a European Mastodon server and solve the problem at the root.

paride5745on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

That is not the point.

The point is that without talking with Bluesky, you cannot start your own ATProto product or you'll get throttled from the network.

paride5745on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/

Basically, because they didn't warn Bluesky that they were going live, they had their traffic heavily trottled and they were unable to function.

So long for decentralisation if you need to talk to the owner of the protocol you are trying to use...

paride5745on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

But Bluesky does not solve these points:

- content not in line with the political left is censored

- sure, you have your data in your PDS, but it is de-facto useless if the central identity server of Bluesky goes down

- ActivityPub and Nostr solve this already without being owned by a company

- you cannot easily and cheaply have an ATProto instance. AP and Nostr solve this already

paride5745on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

The nightmare of the Wsocial rollout is a testament of the massive control Bluesky has on the ATProto network.

If Wsocial was on ActivityPub or Nostr nothing similar would have happened.

ATProto has serious centralisation problems, baked into the design. And it makes sense, considering it came out of a Twitter R&D experiment to "decentralise" Twitter itself. Pure federation was never part of the initial design.

ActivityPub and Nostr solve the issue already.

paride5745on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

Good.

The vast majority of self-help books out there are ghost-written upsales trash.

paride5745on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

You think Google cares.

Google doesn't care they do not control iOS. Google cares to have their products everywhere. For many years Google apps were better on iOS than on Android, because on Android they just preinstall them while on iOS they need to be installed explicitly.

Android is not a Google product, it is just a tool for Google to collect data. If they manage to collect data via Apple Intelligence they are going to do it. Regardless of what Apple marketing says.

paride5745on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

Good point…

paride5745on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

To be honest, I wish Thunderbird would become part of LibreOffice, to become a real contender to MS Outlook/MS Office.

Mozilla is managing Thunderbird as a second class citizen since way too long.

paride5745on Digg is gone again

Really annoying, I was starting to use it for a few niche communities instead of Reddit.

If they relaunch, I hope they develop something integrated with the fediverse. I believe the time to build walled gardens is over, plugging with the fediverse might give them a running start to build something g together with the wide fediverse community, maybe something easier to use for non-techies and well moderated.

We will see I guess…

paride5745on Returning to Rails in 2026

Rust/Loco is unironically the most interesting framework right now.

Loco follows up the Rails formula pretty closely, and makes easier to learn Rust by taking care of a load of boilerplate code.

paride5745on Facebook is cooked

I am keeping Facebook just because of a couple of Groups.

My timeline is completely useless, I have an endless stream of suggested post and ads, nothing relevant to me.

Meta is supposed to know me, I use Instagram quite a bit (following F1 teams, some comedians and a bunch of tiktok-style content creators), but somehow this does not translate in targeting on FB, just generic targeting for my population type.

I tried Threads and it was the same. Pretty useless.

Say what you want about X, but at least there I can curate my Following tab and Lists, and have an informative experience.

Except for Instagram due to my F1 passion, Meta is completely useless for me. And once I move those followings on X and Youtube, I guess I'll have no use for Meta software at all. Kind of a shame.

paride5745on Gemini 3.1 Pro

Another reason to use Gemini then.

Less impact on gamers…

paride5745on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems

They could have led the way to a social web using Google Reader.

Make a Disqus-like comment section that shows the comments in RSS articles from Reader.

Also Reddit, by empowering the GReader Groups capabilities.

But no, let's copy Facebook and force everybody on it. And kill Google Talk while at it.

I'll never forgive Google for that.

paride5745on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

Yep, luckily they represent a very small, albeit loud, minority of Linux users.

The vast majority of Linux users are very happy to get an official GOG Galaxy for Linux. I hope they will plug into Proton and collaborate with Valve, but we really need official tools and brands on Linux for common users to feel comfortable enough to come over.

paride5745on Valve is about to win the console generation

Remember Valve released HL: Alyx to promote their first VR headset.

It is not unreasonable to get a pair of titles to promote these two new products.

A man can dream, but a new HL for the Steam Machine and a new Portal for the Frame would be great.

paride5745on .NET 10

Exactly this point.

Go and Rust produce native binaries, I wish C# had an official native compiler without the big runtime needs of .Net.

paride5745on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

Gambas is a modern, open source Visual Basic dialect in the style of VB Classic.

paride5745on Where it's at://

I tried bsky for one year, and I agree that I was getting mostly American politics… which as a European is just noise for me.

I went back to Mastodon, it’s much better to follow tech people.

And feedly for RSS to get all the news I can dream of.

Not sure what the point of Bluesky is anymore, it’s just twitter but on the left side of politics. Sad, the tech stack was interesting as an evolution of Nostr.

paride5745on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

The point is that Google is harming paying customers, and as a paying customer Proton respects me more and it is based in Europe, which is a big plus for me.

paride5745on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

I already started to move most of my communications to ProtonMail. Looks like Google wants to force people to use the WebUI instead of email clients (no google ads on IMAP/POP).

What's annoying is that they are impacting paying customers as well, which is quite bad.

paride5745on Signal Secure Backups

I think the option to pay for more than 45 days backup is a smart way to get some cash. Kudos Signal for this.

paride5745on Signal Secure Backups

Same.

Just save the pictures in the camera roll and important messages in your notes app of choice.

paride5745on Show HN: Veena Chromatic Tuner

Any plan for an iOS version?

Most musicians use Apple platforms, so focusing only on Android could be limiting.

paride5745on Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

The main issue of GNUStep was that, when KDE appeared, the GNU project used GTK+ as a base for GNOME, instead of GNUStep. This basically killed the momentum behind GNUStep as a base for the official GNU Desktop. It is sad because GNUStep is incredible, the IDEs alone are more advanced than anything in GNOME-space, even today. Oh well...

paride5745on AnduinOS

Is this the distro created by a MS employee?

I wonder if this is a weird tasting the waters for an eventual MS Azure Linux Desktop Edition...

paride5745on Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

I’m confused.

What’s the point of the article?

How’s the author compromised by the Mossad?

What would the attack be?