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If Meta refuses to back down and removes news from the feed, could that actually be a net positive? It might push people to visit newspaper sites or apps deliberately, rather than stumbling across news passively and mistaking that for being informed.
As a father of 3, I’m kind of guilty of that prejudice myself.
It is not towards Brazilians themselves, which I frankly respect, but because of the low quality stuff my kids are exposed to on the internet. You just can’t avoid it and of having the kids gravitate towards YouTube instead of better entertainent channels.
Random dumb YouTubers doing shit for giggles and overly sexualized funk music. And the shorts, oh the shorts crap everywhere, in all languages.
I don’t have a problem with my kids watching “manual do mundo” or “Paula stefania”. Or “porta dos fundos” myself. Good stuff.
On the other hand, Apple developer relations suports Brazilian Portuguese only, when they do not distinguish between variants of English, French and Spanish: I had to submit an English translation of a plain simple and clear document because my Portuguese version was rejected.
There are plans for interoperability between the various European payment apps.
My local app (MB Way, PT) can be used to send money to Spain and Italy. Others will follow.
https://www.mbway.pt/a-interoperabilidade-e-o-futuro-dos-pag... (link in portuguese)
Reminds me of Carl Sagan’s Contact, where Haden, the millionaire funding Ellie’s work, made a TV ad blocker and then sued the TV companies when they refused to play ads for his product.
I wonder if that is what will happen next.
I tend to hoard things sometimes: links, notes, screenshots with useful tidbits, scraps of paper with notes…
One of the things I keep is the list of stuff I did during the day for when the standup call comes. Sometimes I forgot of mention a lot of stuff.
Then a few weeks ago I build the MVP of a note taking app specifically for this purpose: what did I do, what am I doing next, am I blocked by something?
No backend, data is stored in browser local storage, quick to load, a weekly summary and data export. No tracking whatsoever.
Not ready yet, which is why I didn’t do a Show HN feature yet, but has been useful to me even in its current state.
It lives at https://tinyleaps.app
Stories as in Instagram Stories, Youtube Shorts, whatever they are called in all platforms. Short video or video-like content.
Short videos, stories, etc. I refuse getting addicted to them. Terrifying watching everyone around me consuming the stuff like we are in a crack house.
Congratulations on shipping. I had a similar idea a while ago after noticing a company at beach using multiple stop-watches to keep track of people renting kayaks and jetskis.
Close, it was actually portuguese missionaries.
I'm getting used to Linux again after 20+ years of Mac OS.
First, just using more cross-platform software on my Mac. Ditched Safari for Firefox; replaced my MacOS-only password manager; using iMessage less.
Bought the cheapest Framework 13 laptop, running stock Fedora. Omarchy is interesting but too weird for me. Gnome, is still familiar enough.
Using the Linux machine more and more, feels very fresh. To be honest not feeling this excited in a long time. Perhaps the year of Linux on the desktop is indeed coming.
I think video is not really required in a baby monitor. A nice to have, perhaps.
As I said in another thread, I used a audio-only baby monitor with 3 kids and didn't feel the need for video.
We just wanted to know if the baby started crying or woke up. And in our case, if it stopped breathing (we were afraid of SIDS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIDS).
Congratulations on this project, excellent idea.
I sometimes used a FaceTime call between an iPad and my phone as a make shift baby monitor. Audio only, I don’t think video is really necessary. In fact, our Angelcare monitor at home was audio only.
Ours also had sleep apnea detection (a mat to put below the mattress), perhaps the accelerometers could be used to detect lack of movement.
Two side projects, as if 3 kids are not enough!
- a booking platform for surfing schools - a tool for pelvic physiotherapy practitioners handle appointments and exercise prescriptions
Doing backend and frontend for both, but there is a small team helping with #2. Both come from actual needs of actual businesses.
Tech is pretty standard typescript, react and node.
Would love to be working on these full time.
So, they reinvented Do Not Track?
And for me it was where it was the smoothest. But it even worked in Safari, albeit a bit slowly.
Where I live in Portugal glass eels are a seasonal delicacy (galeota/meixão). There is much confusion about the nature of this fish, as the same name is reused across the country, but I believe it is glass eel.
I don't like it and it seems to be going out of style with younger generations, which is good as its fishing is not sustainable.
Fastmail?
Also the name of a song by Ludovico Einaudi, quite popular. At least to me it was the first thing I thought when I saw this post.
Songs of Distant Earth by Clarke also mentions this.
yes, this one!
I have one of these, sitting in a box since I bought it for peanuts many years ago (sold as a 48K).
I like it but, due to lack of time and expertise to take care of it, I have been debating whether to keep or donate all my old machines the local ZX Spectrum museum a short drive away from me. Certainly a brighter future than a box somewhere...
Don’t forget the JWST was launched by an Arianne rocket…
I once wrote a script to change my password randomly X times and then back to my original password. Worked like a charm.
There are now plenty of other high-quality BEV to choose from.
And Tesla had an edge but it has been eroding with some idiotic decisions (like the no stalks model 3) and Elon's recent behavior completely destroyed the brand to those mostly likely to buy one.
I agree. And between these practices, ads everywhere for services such as Apple TV+, Music, iCloud storage, etc and some feeling that software quality is declining and focused on fluff (emojis, etc) I have decided to start looking around for alternatives but it won't be easy...
related from yesterday:
In Portugal here. Lost power about 1 hour ago. Reading the news while batteries last.
It would, but it would also decrease the video quality. I'm not opposed to letting my kids watch YouTube, there is a lot of good quality content there, but having some agency in what they pick would be a lot better than the current behavior of short after short after short. Just like snacking on fast food.
I never got used to shorts/reels/etc, but it is troubling to see kids addicted to them. I have been thinking that by forcing some pause between videos it would remove some of their addictiveness.