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Yaky

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  • Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!

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  • Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server!

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  • IMO you would need a large capacitor between power (after diode) and ground, to provide enough current when device's power consumption spikes (otherwise, it will shut down)

    Here is my version without touching BMS or original battery: https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/

  • Starlink rival ‘Project Kuiper’ rebrands to Amazon Leo

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  • So did "Amazon"... :/

  • Needy Programs

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  • The most obnoxious case of needy apps I witnessed was when I disabled Google Play Services on a OnePlus phone. Every default app (including Phone and SMS!) would spam notifications saying something like "Google Play not found, functionality is limited" every minute or two, while the real impact was minimal.

  • Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?

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  • IMO not as good as The Circle. Although it follows one character, they move between so many departments, it reads more like a collection of short stories.

  • Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?

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  • Did you read The Every yet? It's a sequel, but instead of anti-privacy, it leans more into greenwashing, and how only the powerful corporations can save us from a climate disaster.

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  • There’s a widespread movement in design circles to reduce the contrast between text and background

    This was the trend circa 2012 too, at least I recall Microsoft's pages and software becoming less legible. Not sure if I got used to it, screens got better, or it went back to higher contrast.

  • The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size.

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  • .kkrieger for those who want to look it up

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Numerical marketing is nonsense all around.

    Video, which was always counted by vertical resolution (lines on analog TV), suddenly became horizontal with 4K, 8K, and it's not even close, 4K usually referring to 3840x2160.

    There are three entirely different things that "5G" can refer to: the mobile network standard, 5GHz WiFi standard, or 5Gbps network connection.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • The Messenger does something similar but in a different way: dying summons a demon that eats any coins that the player collects for the next minute. I already suck, and now the game is punishing me by delaying upgrades.

  • Replacement.AI: Humans no longer necessary

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  • Yeah, after seeing plenty of "quirky"/"edgy"/"ironic" culture in 2010s, and given the absurdity of current world and tech leaders, I cannot tell if something like this is genuinely delusional or just satire.

  • What's the best chat to self host?

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  • IMO Snikket (XMPP) is the easiest all-in-one solution with audio/video chat at the moment. Pretty good on resources too.

    I currently host a Matrix Synapse server, but:

    • Matrix seems to be expanding in the corporate / institutional direction, more services are expected for regular functionality
    • Element X (upcoming client) breaks calls compatibility with old Element, now requiring Element Call. It's kind of a mess, I presume this is to support group calls, but makes it a PITA to use currently.
    • Even with small number of users, Synapse DB grows in size due to state_groups_state table, non-deletable users, and copying ALL data from other servers' rooms (this one is by design but still...)

  • xmpp and iphone

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  • I ran prosody server and used Siskin IM as a client, it worked pretty well. But as others mentioned, since this is Apple, the client developer has to run a push server, no background processes and long-polling allowed. Some other XMPP clients (Secret Messenger I think) did not have that set up and do not have notifications.

  • The only way one should code C btw.

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  • Why? Programming language isn't a natural language. In fact, I think not knowing English makes it easier, since you cannot attach any preconceived notions, assumptions, or word order to keywords. I learned some Pascal, Visual Basic and whatever GameMaker used at the time without being fluent in English.

  • Using Termux to create a tiny selfhosted hidden chat server with E2EE.

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  • Profanity for XMPP and gomuks for Matrix are both neat ncurses clients that work pretty well.

  • I wrote a simple tool chain called 'gem2web' for creating HTML pages for my self-hosted website. I released it publically under GPL3. Source linked inside. (python+shell)

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  • Nice! Writing a similar converter was my first step when I set up my parallel site-capsule.

    Love gemtext, it's so simple yet pragmatic. (And there is just one version of it, unlike Markdown)

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • My peeve is products made "easy" to use, in a way that makes explaining them extremely difficult. Two top examples are:

    URL bar in browsers which doubles as a search bar. Good luck explaining why if you type in an exact existing address, you will get there, but otherwise (typo, extra space), you will end up on Google.

    Apple's iMessage. Your message will be sent to your contact using one of three protocols: SMS/MMS, iMessage or RCS. This is almost entirely opaque, and I even had to explain to a tech-savvy person why videos they send me look like blobs.

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • Me, a (mostly) backend developer, reading a Medium post on how to make your computer display a div using Awesome New Web Framework (TM)