I terminated the shell process and immediately got hit with Windows 95 nostalgia. This is great.
Readit Newselxx commented on Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web 90s.dev/blog/finally-rele... · Posted by u/90s_dev
elxx commented on Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month developers.home-assistant... · Posted by u/balloob
Would the authors not have been better off adding their performance improvements to pip rather than creating their own tool? I remember this being a complaint from Node maintainers when Bun was released: they had multiple open performance-related issues with no one available to work on them.
This is definitely a paid ad. Check out the company cited in the post. It's a VC funded attempt to extend/embrace/extinguish the current tooling. [0]
elxx commented on Is anyone else receiving daily political texts or spam messages? · Posted by u/josenyc
I'm a semi-recent convert back to iPhone from Pixel. One thing I deeply miss is spam filtering of text messages.
This is a huge lacking feature in iPhone. You don't get these kind of low-interest texts on Pixel. Truly spammy texts get filtered to a spam folder. Political texts like this still exist, but they don't generate notifications.
Note that political messages are specifically exempt from anti-spam legislation in the US.
Totally agree, the options that iOS gives you to attempt to control spam are basically either pathetic or non-existent. I get tons of spam calls from one country, presumably doing a "missed call" scam trying to get me to call back and pay crazy rates. I don't see any reason why implementing a "block everything from country code x" feature would not be completely trivial, and it would instantly solve the problem. Yet my stupid smartphone can't do it.
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I recently stopped using Kagi after using them for a long time. For whatever reason, their results became pretty bad compared to before, often almost mirroring Google.
Did you start to notice things getting worse around the new year when they added Brave to their search results? That was the turning point for me, I was a huge advocate but then quality went downhill and then a few weeks later they proudly announced that they had spent a third of their funding on...t-shirts. Between that and this huge push towards being just like Google and Bing with LLM hallucinated nonsense, I'm not sure what their aim is anymore.
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elxx commented on Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet blakewatson.com/journal/o... · Posted by u/blakewatson
Opened the front page of the "community of the nicest, most interesting people". Here's what I found, omitting some jokes, "dear diary", etc (profanity omitted, light rephrasing to keep it short):
AI is taking our jobs
Trump is a liar
MAGA republicans are plotting against democracy and Trump is Putin's puppet
Trump is bad
AOC is cool, she's showing that evil GOP
Twitter is dying
Christians are hateful bigots
Republicans are Nazis
Republicans hate women and want them to die
Ayn Rand is stupid and I already realized it as a kid
Hunter Biden is an innocent victim of a vast right wing conspiracy
Elon Musk is evil and stupid
Trump is stupid, while Obama is smart
I didn't search for that on purpose or anything, didn't time it, just opened the first page at the random moment and scrolled for a couple of screens. It's not 100% of content, but what I described is the majority of it. Maybe I got particularly unlucky. But if I haven't, I fail to recognize how it's different from 99% of reddit or anywhere else on the internet? Which is the part I am supposed to be impressed with, where was my nostalgia for the Internet of the olden days supposed to wake up (and yes, I was there, Gandalf)? I'm just not getting it. I mean, I have nothing against people getting together and having one more place out of millions to discuss all the ways Trump is stupid and evil, but I feel like that's not exactly what the description in the article promised me.
Anyone can look at the live feed here and see that this is made up:
https://social.lol/public/local
I had to scroll through over 24 hours of posts before hitting anything political, an article about abortion in Texas. Definitely not the majority of the content and it took way more scrolling than a couple of screens. I still haven't seen anything else on your list yet.
elxx commented on Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io openstatus.dev/blog/migra... · Posted by u/Hooopo
Why is Fly apparently so unstable? I like many love the idea, but get a little scared by the many many anecdotes of issues.
What are they doing that makes it unstable? Lots of new locations spinning up that shake bugs loose? Cost-reducing refactorings that reduce stability?
(Background: I'm currently using Fly for some hobby apps. I like it.)
It is still wildly unstable right now because they're basically still building the platform and figuring out how to run a business. Earlier this year there was a migration to their "Apps V2" platform [0] which was supposed to be simple but it was extremely poorly communicated which led to a lot of users hitting issues along the way and being forced to make forum posts to try and desperately figure out how to keep their production apps up. None of the migrations worked for me either, I didn't complain as a freeloader - but seeing the support requests from paying customers painted a really bad picture.
[0] https://community.fly.io/t/get-in-losers-were-getting-off-no...
elxx commented on Kagi is 80% faster and 70% less carbon intensive than Google help.kagi.com/kagi/search... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Kagi as been taking 2+ seconds over the past week and has felt at bit laggy for me (currently on the trial)
It was very fast earlier this month though!
Same here as a paying user, I suspect that the recent change to unlimited searches on the monthly plans may have hit a bit harder than expected.
Haven't had any searches outright fail though. Waiting a couple seconds is still better than instantly getting a bunch of AI garbage from Google.