metta2uall

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Comment · 10 months ago

For the vast majority of projects it seems like the disadvantages of these highly complex RPC systems far exceed the benefits... Not just in terms of security but also the reduced observability compared to simple JSON..

Comment · 1 year ago

Good news! The YouTube channel has been restored.

Comment · 1 year ago

The creators of Maa Ka Doodh, a famous documentary about the dairy industry in India have alleged that their channel has been deleted under false pretenses. [1]

Does YouTube really delete channels globally, even at a government's request?

It is still available here: https://maakadoodh.com

[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQGDIkOEf84/

Did YouTube censor a well-known Indian documentary about the dairy industry? maakadoodh.in

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Comment · 1 year ago

Looks great. I love ideas that increase efficiency and reduce electricity usage.

Only nitpick is that the home page says "cross-browser" at the bottom but the extension is only available for Chrome..

Comment · 1 year ago

One can only hope that after their recent falling-out the Trump administration will re-energise the EPA...

Comment · 1 year ago

Doesn't "DEI" basically mean treating others nicely?

Comment · 1 year ago

Not sure if sarcasm but why don't we go with a reasonable middle ground ;)

Comment · 1 year ago

I think you're at least partially right - not everything but a lot of data is not useful - wasting money, bandwidth, electricity, etc. There should be more dynamic controls over what gets logged/filtered at the client-side..

Comment · 1 year ago

We're stuffed because of a broken economic system where these companies can get away without paying for the externality costs of damaging our environment.. If only "Conservative" politicians would actually care about conserving our environment!

And of course the costs do not affect everyone equally, especially in the short term - the people living in these areas tend to already be poor - like in Memphis were Musk's xAI seems to have turned on gas power without permits & controls.[0] Conveniently for xAI, Musk has also enthusiastically gutted the EPA.

[0]: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...

Comment · 1 year ago

I have a lot of admiration for the WSL1-style approaches & hope they bear fruit. The major problem with WSL2 & Android VMs is that they're a pain in an already virtualised environment - there's then a need for nested virtualisation.

Comment · 1 year ago

And hopefully Cursor can give some funding to the FOSS alternatives

Comment · 1 year ago

"uv run file.py" downloading remote dependencies was a surprise to me

Comment · 1 year ago

There's something seriously wrong is you can't open Chrome + Firefox even with 8GB of RAM...

Comment · 1 year ago

I'm still happily using an 8GB M1 running Firefox in OSX + Firefox/VSCode/NodeJS in a Debian VM. Lots of tabs open. Both OSX and Debian can use compressed RAM.