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Yes and I believe they do regularly use them on the Russian side, at least.

They were also the cause of a fire on Mir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_EO-23

Sweet!

The shocking thing is that it's taken this long to happen, right?

Smart PR move and motivation to read more privacy policies.

Looks like they only offer one plan, $99/month, which is pretty steep but must offset what other carriers make selling customer info. That's about double what I'm paying now but I do like the idea.

I'm generally OK with this, but the 24 hour hang time does seem a bit onerous.

Most of the apps on my phone are installed from F-Droid. I guess the next time I get a new phone I'll have to wait at least 24 hours for it to become useful.

I'm seriously considering Graphene for a next personal device and whatever the cheapest iOS device is for work.

Sweet! Looking forward to the android version. I was slightly bitter when apple yanked the website.

I hadn't read that Paul Graham article before, but it was extremely accurate at the time.

My degree is in Public Relations and I worked in political PR for a bit before moving to newspapers. The PR office worked so hard to word things in a way where news editors could lift our copy directly into print. It was a delicate balance to sell a point of view without sounding like a sales pitch.

Later, at the newspapers, I was shocked to learn how desperately editors would snag any text to fill the space between paid-for ads on a page. A minimal amount of actual journalism occurred above the fold. Past that we would publish absolutely anything in the English language without filtering.

This was all 20+ years ago. Now we've cut out the middle man, automatically publishing AI generated slop directly as if it were human-produced news. It's all very discouraging.

wow

Yes! I keep a basic Casio MS-80s handy for sanity checks and a 30-year-old CFX-9850GB Plus for when things get serious.

Good

Oh, cool! How does this do with the intentionally obfuscated sites?

Don't worry, there's one for you too:

https://1mb.club/

I agree with the premise and don't want to knock someone's project.

It does seem like a lot of computational effort to achieve what F9 / Reader View does in FF.

https://1kb.club/

Doesn't take much.

All of these items appear to have received the HN hug of death. They're all showing as unavailable for me, who just wanted to drop a friendly lime hello to a friend across town.

I'm not sure if this is a direct quote or a creatively written one but I'm afraid to find out.

Was thinking the same thing. This seems better suited for chatting with arbitrary people nearby, but with zero verification of who you're talking to. You don't have to set up an account at all, just install the app and start chatting as @anon<number> or change the username to whatever you want.

I work in a fairly quiet cube office. The nosiest thing is all of the mechanical keyboards (gloriously clicky).

The thought of people yammering to their computers in an office environment is deeply disturbing.

Imagine listening to someone trying to format a word document by dictating commands to their AI.

Serious question - do cross-party things like this still happen?

It feels like everything is done along party lines now with no room for compromise or working together.

I wonder if they hosted a funeral for Google when Bing launched.

Hunter S Thompson --> David Foster Wallace --> Caity Weaver / Others?

https://archive.is/OF4pe

I wonder if Google actually makes a profit on Pixels, or if the idea is to sell at / below cost and make up for it through advertising the sale of user tracking data from the device.

If it's the latter, buying a pixel to run Graphene might be a particularly solid counter.

Maybe not Signal in the immediate future, but for sure NewPipe, offline MP3 players and many ad blockers.

uBO's 'Click to Disable JavaScript' button is a very handy feature.

There's a lot I don't understand with this, but why pull back airplanes which had already left the gate?

This one blows my mind.

Discovery was kept in as close to as-flown condition as possible to be the vehicle of record for future research. No museum on the planet is better equipped to handle things like that than the Smithsonian.

Hopefully the title transfer is enough to protect it from moving. Certainly 80 million isn't enough to restore an SCA and construct a building to house the orbiter.

That's the impression I get from Cloudflare - it seems like a group of highly skilled people attempting to solve real problems for the benefit of the web as a whole. As both a paid business user and a free user for home projects, I deeply appreciate what they've accomplished and how generously they allow unpaid users to benefit from their work.

I worry about what happens someday when leadership changes and the priority becomes value extraction rather than creation, if that makes sense. We've seen it so many times with so many other tech companies, it's difficult to believe it won't happen to Cloudflare at some point.

Reformed?

I used to think that, not having used an iPad. Now I carry a work-issued iPad with 5G and it's actually pretty convenient for remote access to servers. I wouldn't want to spend a day working on it, but it's way faster than pulling out a laptop to make one tiny change on a server. It's also great for taking notes at meetings/conferences.

It's irritatingly bad at consuming media and browsing the web. No ad blocking, so every webpage is an ad-infested wasteland. There are so many ads in YouTube and streaming music. I had no idea.

It's also kindof a pain to connect to my media library. Need to figure out a better solution for that.

So, as a relatively new iPad user it's pleasantly useful for select work tasks. Not so great at doomscrolling or streaming media. Who knew?