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redkoala··on Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster
“ Pot of Greed is banned in official Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament play in America (TCG) and has been since 2005. It is deemed too powerful because it allows a player to draw two cards with no cost or restrictions, providing a free advantage in any deck. ”

Reminds me of how Black Vise and Demonic Tutor were handled before the introduction of different tournament modes like Legacy.

redkoala··on 404 Deno CEO not found
This site (from nx), while biased, explains it best. https://monorepo.tools/

In a poly repo setup, agents are less effective having to infer changes across repo boundaries using specs rather than code as context. Changes that impact multiple repos are also much messier to wrangle.

redkoala··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
Is there a combination of open standards to drop in to replace AD integration with self management?

OAuth enabled systems aren’t enough, central management of users and machines are huge. If that core matures, it opens up the market for replacements in other areas. Teams, Outlook and the Office Suite need first grade replacements.

redkoala··on A simple web we own
The equivalent self contained home server exists today in the homelab community, either with Mac Minis or NAS systems running Unraid or TrueNAS with community apps. Add in Tailscale on top for remote access.

What’s needed is a lot of work on the software front to make it much easier, with interoperable standards. Self-hosted WYSYWIG options as easy to use as the social media tools for photos and writing and social posts. Ability to run distributed chatroom style instances with tracker like discoverability to replace Discord. Built in backup options with easy offsite backup replication.

redkoala··on Eight more months of agents
What are those 3 sentences that the author typed to replicate Stripe for his situation?
redkoala··on New Lego smart-play system
It’s a 2 x 4 Lego brick with a speaker/lightsand custom ASIC built-in, with light and sound sensors, reacting to IOT beacons that allow different sounds or light sequences. And it’s rechargeable like an electric toothbrush. It also has accelerometers that change the sounds as you twist and turn them around. The sounds themselves are generated, with the speaker driven by an onboard synthesiser.
redkoala··on Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it
Servo is pretty well run, and their regular donations have been improving. Details below if you want to also help https://servo.org/blog/2025/12/15/november-in-servo/#donatio...
redkoala··on Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files
I’m using a similar format to keep my links organized on an iPhone. A bookmarks.txt note kept in Apple Notes with markdown # headings to separate each category, allowing me to not keep open 500 tabs on Safari.
redkoala··on Obsidian Bases
One thing I still need is the ability to paste screenshots in-line in notes easily, like how OneNote handles it.
redkoala··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
Open source licenses as they exist today aren’t sustainable to run a business. We’ve seen with the cloud providers how easy it is to launch a competitor if you don’t have protective licensing. Gumroad’s licensing is still small business friendly and protects another Gumroad clone from being launched.
redkoala··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
As a marketplace platform, it’s still lower than Apple/Google/Valve’s 30% cut. You pay for distribution, security, pre-integrations, shopping cart and other capabilities if you don’t want to do your own software development.
redkoala··on Collapse OS
Solar powered micro-controllers might be the way to go that could hook up to crude automated farm machines. Depending on the life span of batteries, solar powered ebook readers to store those farming manuals and other guides, solar powered computers for spreadsheets and planning software, and solar powered cb ham radios for communications with built in encryption keys.
redkoala··on From where I left
It’s the entire premise of public goods, and the sustainable funding model for that would be through government funding or funding of open source foundations like the CNCF. For example, the IETF standards body is founded by the global charitable organization the Internet Society. How do we continue to build on this public goods funding model for projects like this?
redkoala··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
Vertical tabs and privacy focused implementation gives me a good combination between the Arc browsing experience and the privacy protections that Mullvad browser (or private mode Firefox) deliver.
redkoala··on Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online
Consider caching your API results, and eventually upgrading to a paid tier to increase your API limits. Also, I should be able to enter a stock ticker on your website and see the corresponding model without needing to sign up.
redkoala··on Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died
It sounds like scuba diving, having enough in the tank to go for dives in the outside world at a time before returning to sleep in the lung.
redkoala··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
Would you support compatibility with .http files in the future?
redkoala··on Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
In highly regulated national security impacting industries like defense, that makes sense. Google has not developed that rigor yet, although it's becoming obvious that their business has high national security implications now.
redkoala··on Dad died in 2022. Since 2023, things he selfhosted have slowly begun breaking
Can you open source the information structure for this "death book"? I imagine it's a common need. Of course every family is different, so over time modularity / extension should be build into the system structure.
redkoala··on Paying people to work on open source is good
We need more funding, not less.
redkoala··on Code is run more than read
Some organizations listen to their engineers/users too in the buy decision. Effective products do both - cater to management checklists, and cater to end user experiences.
redkoala··on Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it continues riding the AI wave
A different lens is that GPUs are designed for parallel computing, of which graphics is the first primary use case. Crypto and AI/ML are perfect suits for parallel computing, and not the last ones. And nvidia is in the perfect spot there for the future of parallel computing as a whole.
redkoala··on Modern C++ Programming Course
Do we have a curated list of similar programming courses for other programming languages?
redkoala··on Steam Deck OLED
They do now for the Steam Deck, but customers can always choose to play on Desktop or x86 handhelds instead.
redkoala··on Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
I use the Multi-Account-Containers addon for separate containers. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
redkoala··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
Chrome still has buggy behavior working with multiple Google account profiles. Firefox with containers works smoothly for that use case.
redkoala··on How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
The same analogy applies for any screen usage - is the time I’m spending on my TV, computer or tablet disrespecting my time? Dark patterns for attention exist on all screens, they are just more prevalent on phones that are accessible to you all the time.
redkoala··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
A sign-language based keyboard controller would be immediately useful.
redkoala··on Mermaid Cheat Sheet
Have you thought about updating Mermaid's official docs directly with examples like this?
redkoala··on How to build a personal webpage from scratch
JavaScript is a programming language (and can be used in this course for the front end and back end)
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