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Kagi Hub Belgrade 8 months 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

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.

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.

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.

Certainly, the problem is bigger than just computers. I was trying to say that if you don't understand how computers work your chances of getting confused are higher since they are ubiquitous and often the interactions with them are so poorly designed that it's easy to get confused.

Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of sorts?

Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun — a lot of them are from people who seem like they need urgent help and obviously aren't getting it.

His "summary" is "somehow they help me remember that the world we live in is super complicated" and while true, it was more of testament how confused a lot of people are, how lost. And how privileged people who understand computers are, being able to avoid this confusion.

Besides being allegedly hard to shut down without breaking iPhones, there's also this statement given to Ars Technica:

Migicovsky had a few different answers. The broadest one, regarding the tech behind the app, is that reverse-engineering for interoperability is legal—a fair use exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's restrictions against circumventing encryption or other protections. The app also goes out of its way to avoid trademarks like iMessage, referring instead to "blue bubbles" and the like, and the rest might be considered nominative fair use.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/beeper-mini-on-andro...

Seemingly no iMessage, unfortunately.

I guess Apple won that argument. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401632

edit: the article actually mentions iMessage explicitly:

And the newspaper reported the Commission was still deliberating over the inclusion of Bing and iMessage.

In the event, the EU looks to be taking a cautious approach to this early pushback — since, as noted above, both Bing and iMessage are not on the initial list of 22 core platform services. Instead, the Commission has agreed to take a closer look at Apple and Microsoft’s arguments that these services should be excluded.

Suggesing _russian_ newspapers non-ironically to read news is like suggesting someone to read Daily Mail for latests political developments.

Wherever you read your news at the very least make sure there's no russian trace there.

Russian imperial midset is a huge bias in the current situation and the forementioned meduza isn't any different in this regard.