psittacus (u/psittacus)

psittacus commented on Kagi Hub Belgrade blog.kagi.com/kagi-hub... · Posted by u/_se

ofrzeta · a month ago

Someone recently claimed here they are using Yandex search but I don't know of any evidence. Also didn't Yandex "leave" Russia (legally)?

psittacus · a month ago

Just in case you need sources: Kagi is using [1] Yandex and paying them as of June 2025. This is a long-standing position, which was also voiced [2] in November 2024.

Regarding Yandex. The founder sold [3] the assets (seemingly including the index and Yandex trademark) to VK (Mail.ru) in 2022. VK are known supporters of the war [4]. The founder subsequently renamed [5] his original company to Nebius Group and pivoted towards compute for AI.

[1]: Kagi Community AMA by the founder. Timestamped link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbmMUGSFldQ

[2] Kagi forums, a response by the founder. https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex#2020s

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/26/22951307/us-sanctions-rus...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebius_Group

psittacus commented on Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/babolivier

nashashmi · a month ago

I’d be more excited for thunderbird if it worked on an open source alternative to EXCHANGE SERVER. Firefox and thunderbird are clients. But it is time they launched servers as well. There might not be any advantage to another https server. But a new mail server with a new email client protocol would be exciting. And maybe a WebDAV server that Firefox could work with natively.

psittacus · a month ago

Take a look at Open-Xchange, it's not developed by Thunderbird folks but otherwise fits the bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange

mailbox.org is based on it.

psittacus commented on Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie lwn.net/Articles/1033474/... · Posted by u/signa11

theandrewbailey · 4 months ago

> Even better, there is a little-advertised utility called extrepo that has a curated list of external repositories users might want to enable for Debian. To enable the Mozilla repository, for example, a user only needs to install extrepo, run "extrepo enable mozilla" as root (or with sudo), update the package cache, and look for the regular Firefox package. In all, extrepo includes more than 160 external repositories for applications like Docker CE, Signal, and Syncthing. Unfortunately, the extrepo utility does not have a separate "list" command to show the available repositories, though running "extrepo search" with no search parameter will return all of its DEB822-formatted repository entries.

TIL. What a superpower!

psittacus · 4 months ago

I was browsing through the issues of extrepo and found deb-get, seems pretty useful too:

> deb-get makes it easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or GitHub release pages.

https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get/

In particular, the list of software is a bit longer than extrepo (e.g. includes zoom):

https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get/blob/main/01-main/REA...

psittacus commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar

philipp-gayret · 4 months ago

Bleeper or Beeper (https://www.beeper.com)? Beeper is an app like you describe, can't find Bleeper. And it's by Automattic which I think have an OK reputation for not destroying their products.

psittacus · 4 months ago

Keep in mind that using Beeper for Instagram breaks their ToS and often gets your account suspended or banned. This happens with both cloud and local bridges.

https://www.reddit.com/r/beeper/search/?q=instagram+suspende...

psittacus commented on Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look quantamagazine.org/is-gra... · Posted by u/pseudolus

enriquto · 6 months ago

Sounds fun!

Would this imply that cold objects have weaker gravity?

psittacus · 6 months ago

Isn't this something we already know from the mass–energy equivalence? In the same way that a nuclear reaction that produces heat must cost the object mass (and therefore gravitational pull)

psittacus commented on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken whichyr.com/... · Posted by u/trymas

psittacus · 8 months ago

There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the location

https://timeguessr.com/

Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203511

edit: found another game like OP in the linked thread https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html

psittacus commented on Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015) culture.pl/en/article/phi... · Posted by u/m-hodges

thrance · 9 months ago

2 years prior, in 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky adapted Stanisław Lem's Solaris to the big screen in the Soviet Union, which may have contributed to Dick's paranoia. Anyway, the film's a masterpiece that I highly recommend, and since it was published before 1975 it is not subject to copyright. You can find it on YouTube [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/Z8ZhQPaw4rE

psittacus · 9 months ago

There's also a great documentary on Stanislaw Lem. It's in Polish, but with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw

Lem himself talks about the movie a bit there too, around the 24th minute. He didn't seem fond of Tarkowsky's religiousness and the impact it had on the movie.

Timestamped link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw&t=1434

My impression was similar — the movie seems to be a free retelling and doesn't reflect the book well.

psittacus commented on Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals reuters.com/technology/ap... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

Tteriffic · 9 months ago

There’s a difference. Microsoft competed unfairly because it sold software like Word that apparently internally used secret system calls only Microsoft devs knew about. They gave their other software divisions a big advantage, extending their dominance in OS to apps. Apple software, like Pages, apparently only uses the same set of system calls available to everyone else.

psittacus · 9 months ago

Can you say the same thing about iCloud, AppStore?

psittacus commented on Home Manager: Dotfiles Management gvolpe.com/blog/home-mana... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

seungwoolee518 · a year ago

How to choose the base operating system for `home-manager`? I've suffering a LD error on Ubuntu.

psittacus · a year ago

It should have the same constraints as nix itself — i.e. easiest on linux, slightly more complicated on macos.

Bug isolation is probably the best next step for you. Is it during nix installation? Is it a particular package that thows an error?

There's some community at #hm:rycee.net, perhaps they can help you debug it live.

psittacus commented on Synapse Pro, a new enterprise Matrix server from Element element.io/blog/synapse-p... · Posted by u/psittacus

psittacus · a year ago

Promising efficiency, "new functionality written in Rust".

But also:

> Available under a commercial license, Synapse Pro will alhelp fund and accelerate the continued open source development of Synapse for the benefit of all of Matrix.

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/113627636666252355

> Synapse Pro is for nation-scale deployments, not community use.

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/113628266288510356

Not sure how to feel about it just yet.