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numbers commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
tabbott · 12 hours ago
I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts.

Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with their identity.

Some of the big strengths of running a self-hosted Zulip server for your community are:

- Zulip servers are operationally simple, highly stable and easy to upgrade.

- Zulip is much better than Discord or Slack for managing the firehose of busy communities. Or at least, a lot of people tell us that they prefer the user experience to everything else they've tried, after a few weeks of getting used to it. :)

- Your community leaders get to make the policy decisions about data protection, identity, etc.

- It's 100% FOSS software, with an extremely readable and maintainable codebase that ~1500 people have successfully contributed code to. I don't think you'll find modern alternatives with a comparable featureset to Discord that are more resilient to the sponsoring company being acquired or going out of business.

- We are a values-focused organization (https://zulip.com/values/) where providing a public service is important to us all.

- Each server is completely self-contained and independent, with the only centralized services needed from us being desktop/mobile app publication and mobile push notifications delivery (which is free for community use and soon to be E2EE).

I'm happy to answer any questions.

numbers · 8 hours ago
man, I want to support something like Zulip, I would even want to work on a product like this but one thing I'd say is you have to go back and study why Slack beat Hipchat and others. It's so simple in hindsight but it was the marketing and the UI/UX of Slack that made it so much easier to use. If you'd like, I have a ton of ideas and experience building UIs and would love to give you some of my input. Too much typing for a comment at the moment.
numbers commented on Voxtral Transcribe 2   mistral.ai/news/voxtral-t... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
numbers · 6 days ago
does anyone know if there's any desktop tools I can use this transcription model with? e.g. something where like Wisper Flow/WillowVoice but with custom model selection
numbers commented on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product   simonberens.com/p/lessons... · Posted by u/sberens
numbers · 6 days ago
I want a bright lamp like this but not for $1200...any suggestions?
numbers commented on Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills   mintlify.com/blog/skill-m... · Posted by u/skeptrune
numbers · 18 days ago
links are broken to cloudflare and vercel. who's writing these...
numbers commented on JPEG XL Test Page   tildeweb.nl/~michiel/jxl/... · Posted by u/roywashere
numbers · 20 days ago
I'm seeing the image on zen which is a firefox fork but not on firefox itself :/

even with `image.jxl.enabled` I don't see it on firefox

numbers commented on Our approach to advertising   openai.com/index/our-appr... · Posted by u/rvz
analogpixel · 25 days ago
somewhat unrelated, but I've been playing this game with Amazon; when they pop open Rufus and start spewing text at me, I remove everything from my cart, and see how many weeks I can go without shopping at amazon; my current record is 3 weeks, but I think I can do better.

More related, I pay for Kagi, because google results are horrible.

More related, Chatgpt isn't the only model out there, and I've just recently stopped using 5 because it's just slow and there are other models that come back and work just as well. So when Chatgpt starts injecting crap, I'll just stop using them for something else.

What would you do if every time you walked into Walmart and the greeter spit in your face and told you to go F yourself, would you still shop there?

numbers · 25 days ago
I'm going to start doing this with Rufus too
numbers commented on Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode   gist.github.com/R44VC0RP/... · Posted by u/ryanvogel
numbers · a month ago
you can get around this by making an agent in opencode and that agent should not mention opencode at all, e.g. "You're an agent that uses Claude Opus..." and it will just work.
numbers commented on Find a pub that needs you   ismypubfucked.com/... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
numbers · a month ago
what is a "rateable value" here?
numbers commented on Announcing the Beta release of ty   astral.sh/blog/ty... · Posted by u/gavide
numbers · 2 months ago
is there anything like `uv` available for ruby? going from python and typescript where I can use uv and bun, it feels like ruby is stuck in the past :(
numbers commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
krlx · 2 months ago
https://mytinycafe.com/

An PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available beverages and everything is ready when they're here.

It was also a good playground for me to implement Web Push notifications (to never miss new orders).

It's a basic Nuxt 3 app with Appwrite as the backend with rough edges, but much enough for our household use !

If you want to spam my phone with notifications, please visit my café : https://mytinycafe.com/alix

numbers · 2 months ago
this is awesome! my wife and I host coffee for neighbors on saturdays and this would be perfect for that!! thank you

u/numbers

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