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fibers commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard

Now that I'm not only using a Macbook and iPhone, I've been looking for cross-platform solutions.

For a week I've been using KeePassXC + Syncthing between four devices. Syncthing is also syncing my Obsidian vaults which has replaced Apple-only Notes.app.

Bitwarden is definitely more polished, and Syncthing is definitely (much) more fiddly than using Bitwarden's and Obsidian's ($5/mo) native syncing tools.

But I like the idea of having the same syncing solution across all apps on all devices. Curious if anybody can recommend this setup or if collisions will make it unbearable.

fibers · a month ago

strongbox is a reasonable app for iOS and you can set it up for sftp to your main self hosted server.

fibers commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

simianwords · 3 months ago

It’s stupid… like just have a registry of models and let people automatically use them. It’s silly to wait for manual whitelisting each time for every app

fibers · 3 months ago

I agree, I use Windsurf for personal projects and I think the pricing model is a bit better than what a professional dev would be using on cursor or something like that.

fibers commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

fibers · 3 months ago

This looks exciting. I hope they add this to Windsurf soon.

fibers commented on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta blog.cloudflare.com/email... · Posted by u/tosh

2OEH8eoCRo0 · 3 months ago

It's not laziness, it's greed. People want to build and host their own things but that costs money.

fibers · 3 months ago

Is this even true for such a sensitive subject like email where there are insane blacklists/whitelists everywhere in which you are forced to use a middleman either way so your emails enter someone's inbox?

fibers commented on Replace PostgreSQL with Git for your next project devcenter.upsun.com/posts... · Posted by u/tlar

fibers · 3 months ago

What would be the downsides of running this as a self hosted instance because i would imagine github would not take kindly to this usecase?

fibers commented on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/phewlink

m_ke · 3 months ago

I used to work on video generation models and was shocked at how hard it was to find any videos online that were not hosted on YouTube, and YouTube has made it impossibly hard to download more than a few videos at a time.

fibers · 3 months ago

you have to feed it multiple arguments with rate limiting and long wait times. i am not sure if there have been recent updates other than the js interpreter but ive had to spin up a docker instance of a browser to feed it session cookies as well.

fibers commented on Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects riscv.org/ecosystem-news/... · Posted by u/warrenm

leoedin · 3 months ago

The big ecosystem of SBCs confuses me a bit. Who is buying these?

The work required to build an actual secure, maintainable product on top of an SBC is so big that you'd surely never use one of these. The hard work is all in software. You need a supplier with product lifetime guarantees and a known SoC manufacturer.

If you're a hobbyist, unless you really don't value your time you'd be much better served buying an x86 PC or a Raspberry Pi for whatever project you've got. Any money saved buying one of these would be completely negated by the extra time taken to maintain it.

So who's the target market? Are there products out there built on these? Or are they mostly just shipped straight into desk drawers? How many of these do they actually ship?

fibers · 3 months ago

Maybe for hobbyists it's more of practicing how to play around with embedded systems? Over a decade ago I sorta got burned by Odroid dropping support for one of their early units despite being much faster than the 2Bs that were selling at the time (plus the annoying cost of emmcs or whatever), so I absolutely agree with your point.

fibers commented on Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors clickhouse.com/blog/optim... · Posted by u/ashvardanian

lordnacho · 3 months ago

Clickhouse is excellent btw. I took it for a spin, loading a few TB of orderbook changes into it as entire snapshots. The double compression (type-aware and generic) does wonders. It's amazing how you get both the benefit of small size and quick querying, with minimal tweaks. I don't think I changed any system level defaults, yet I can aggregate through the entire few billion snapshots in a few minutes.

fibers · 3 months ago

By snapshots do you mean the entire orderbook in a specific point in time or the entire history that gets instiantiated?

fibers commented on iPhone Air apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte

throw0101d · 3 months ago

> iPhone Air features an eSIM-only design that saves space internally, helping enable the unbelievably light and thin form factor.

I've only ever had phones with at least one (regular/physical) eSIM, and a 'slot' for an eSIM for travel.

What are the pros/cons of only eSIMs?

Edit: I'm not questioning eSIMs, which I know can be handy: my iPhone SE3 is physical+eSIM. I'm curious about no physical SIM. If you can support 1-eSIM+physical is it a big deal to go to >1-eSIM+physical?

fibers · 3 months ago

When they first introduced eSIM only on the 13 iirc, not every country had that rolled out especially with old telcos in South America so if you travelled there for work or family you were completely shut out and it means buying a burner. I am not sure how that has progressed in the past 4 years but hopefully more telcos adopt it. The downside is no real portability of cheap plans using regular sim cards.

fibers commented on iPhone Air apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte

randomname4325 · 3 months ago

Long time apple fanboy. I've watched most of these unveilings for the past 20 years. The new phones are impressive. But it was all speeds and feeds. The examples felt so wrong. The women dancing while on the phone. The guy running with while recording. The person needing translation to buy roses? None of those feel grounded in reality. It's like they are building tech for made up in corporate conference room use cases.

fibers · 3 months ago

Live translation u/i feels like a significant upgrade for that specific product, especially if you are in a dense area with different types of speakers. It feels like a way better MVP than Meta Glasses that are only meant to do troll videos on tiktok or youtube. The examples they trotted out feel ridiculous but that's because they have been approved by their internal systems.