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praseodym··on Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
There is one, developed by the Zed team in collaboration with Gemini. And Claude Code is also supported now.

https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction

praseodym··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
Or other services, such as translation using Google Translate.
praseodym··on PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs
Someone is working on a Rust XPath 3.1 and XSLT 3.0 library: https://github.com/Paligo/xee
praseodym··on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
Immich has an iPhone app that should be able to pull photos from your photo library (and thus iCloud Photos) and upload them to Immich, but it might take a while compared to uploading from a Mac.
praseodym··on Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
They had a few more variants in the same era, such as WordProcessingML for Word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats
praseodym··on Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check
Commercially available solutions seem to use a flow of nitrogen to purge condensation from the nozzle, which is quite a bit more complicated: https://www.weh.com/en_us/general-news/preventing-the-fuelin...
praseodym··on Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check
> Yes, you can refill quicker

Unless the hydrogen fueling nozzle freezes to the car, which is apparently quite common in high humidity weather and/or when multiple cars are fueled consecutively. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036031992...

praseodym··on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
In The Netherlands, weather companies sued the national weather service because their new app was seen as competing with their interests, but they lost the court case (summary proceedings): https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...
praseodym··on Ask HN: Is onboard audio still good enough compared to dedicated Sound Cards?
GPUs need an audio driver to send digital audio over HDMI or DisplayPort, I haven’t seen GPUs with an analog audio out (no DAC).
praseodym··on Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs
Fiber investment in The Netherlands from the big telcos is now fully based on XGS-PON. Many homes that already had fiber installed do have the technically superior AON (a dedicated fiber to the home), but it seems like investment in this infrastructure has stopped.

The current situation is one where XGS-PON users can get 5Gbps subscriptions, whereas AON users are stuck at 1Gbps - seemingly because the telcos aren’t upgrading their point-of-presence hardware to support anything beyond 1Gbps.

praseodym··on Why Apple Uses JPEG XL in the iPhone 16 and What It Means for Your Photos
JPEG XL also supports re-encoding existing JPEG files to decrease file size while keeping the original file quality. That really seems like useful feature but so far I haven’t seen any tooling (in macOS) to re-encode my existing photo library.
praseodym··on Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
In The Netherlands it is recommended to introduce peanut and egg to babies between 4 and 6 months, to reduce the chances of food allergy.

More information (in Dutch): https://www.voedingscentrum.nl/nl/service/vraag-en-antwoord/...

praseodym··on Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections
I’m not sure what the big deal with the url handler is, but I can’t imagine it causing remote code execution or other actual malicious behaviour.

At this point Apple seems to be using simple substring matches, so if there is any exploit vector the malware authors can circumvent the check using "itms" + "-services" or something more sophisticated like ROT13.

praseodym··on Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
Bonzi Buddy was widely classified as spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

But if you read the description of its spyware behaviour from a current perspective, it's not that different from the telemetry that’s implemented everywhere and Windows bugging you to use Bing as a search engine.

praseodym··on Oracle Is Shutting Down Its Ad Business
I wonder if they’ll also be shutting down other advertising-related privacy nightmares such as Oracle Data Cloud: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/data-cloud/data-cloud-...
praseodym··on Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees
The Netherlands does allow citizens living abroad to vote using mail-in ballots, so it’s something that your country has to arrange.
praseodym··on Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
You can use a tool like gorun (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gorun) to run Go source code as if it were a shell script, by putting gorun in the shebang line.

Of course the disadvantage is that you need to Go have the toolchain installed everywhere you want to use the Go script, so it's definitely not as portable as using a regular shell script.

praseodym··on Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air
Yes, every person in the call has a video feed that must be decoded and rendered.
praseodym··on Keeping Dependencies Up-to-Date
Dependabot can be configured to e.g. update dependencies with security vulnerabilities every day and all other version updates weekly, and group them in a single pull request. That should fix the main complaint in this blog post.
praseodym··on Apple introduces M4 chip
M2 was launched in June 2022 [1] so a little under 2 years ago. Apple is a bit ahead of that 2.6 years, but not by much.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/apple-unveils-m2-with...

praseodym··on Apple introduces M4 chip
And also one less CPU performance core for the lower storage models.
praseodym··on Apple introduces M4 chip
"With these improvements to the CPU and GPU, M4 maintains Apple silicon’s industry-leading performance per watt. M4 can deliver the same performance as M2 using just half the power. And compared with the latest PC chip in a thin and light laptop, M4 can deliver the same performance using just a fourth of the power."

That's an incredible improvement in just a few years. I wonder how much of that is Apple engineering and how much is TSMC improving their 3nm process.

praseodym··on Firefox Webserial Addon
Mozilla's position on the Web Serial API and their reason not to implement this in Firefox:

"Devices that offer serial interfaces often expose powerful, low-level functions over the interface with little or no authentication. Exposing that sort of capability to the web without adequate safeguards presents a significant threat to those devices. A user deliberately installing a site-specific add-on may be adequate, given sufficiently understandable consent copy."

(https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial)

praseodym··on Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
There is also a write of sudo in Rust, which works more akin to the traditional sudo but memory-safe and with fewer bugs: https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-first-stable-release/

Source code: https://github.com/memorysafety/sudo-rs

And if you are running Debian 13 (trixie) or later, or Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) or later, you can already install it using `apt install sudo-rs`.

praseodym··on Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
There are also government-imposed taxes such as the U.S. Transportation Security Administration instituted Passenger Fee, which is charged as soon as the ticket is bought:

> "The fee is collected by air carriers from passengers at the time air transportation is purchased," according to TSA. "Air carriers then remit the fees to TSA."

(From https://thepointsguy.com/guide/taxes-and-fees-airline-award-...)

praseodym··on Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
This is very likely because Thunderbird uses mbox files, so one big text file per mail folder. There is experimental maildir support (one file for each email) which is friendlier for AVs: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/maildir-thunderbird
praseodym··on Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
That would cost you $200-$400 per day when hosting at Netlify or Vercel, which can quickly impact the bottom line of a startup or small business.
praseodym··on Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works
The post by Matt Birchler has been amended with the paragraph "A previous version of this post suggested the DPAN changes between merchants, but that was a mistake. Serves me right for cranking this post out too quickly. Seriously, my bad.". However, the rest of the post still suggests that there is a unique DPAN per merchant, but I can't find any basis for that.

Even Apple's own documentation at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027 says that the DPAN (called Device Account Number here) is only unique per device. When a card is added to Apple Pay a DPAN is created for that device, and it never gets changed afterwards unless the card is removed and re-added.

So whereas you can't be tracked by using the same card on two devices (e.g. iPhone and Apple Watch) because they will have two different DPANs, I'm pretty sure data brokers can track you when using the same card on the same device across different merchants.

praseodym··on Efficient recovery and recycling of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries
The price for cobalt is currently around 30 USD/kg but has been as high as 90 USD/kg: http://www.dailymetalprice.com/metalpricecharts.php?c=co&u=k...

I’m not very familiar with the ellconomics of recycling, but I doubt that this process to recover an additional 2% will be cost effective.

praseodym··on Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription
Sonos hasn’t released the Era 500 speakers yet?
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