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• StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI

  Here's a cached copy of the linked post on a server with more capacity: https://mastodon.social/@ben@m.benui.ca/112396505994216742. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Apple Introduces M4 Chip

  Today’s Xcode 15.4 RC suggests that “Donan” is the M4 core codename, and that it may support ARM’s SME instructions. https://mastodon.social/@bshanks/112401605018159567. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Apple Introduces M4 Chip

  "The M4 is so fast, it'll probably finish your Final Cut export before you accidentally switch apps and remember that that cancels the export entirely. That's the amazing power performance lead that Apple Silicon provides." #AppleEvent https://mastodon.social/@tolmasky/112400245162436195. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• TIL: You can open man or info pages in Firefox by man:<page> or info:<page>

  Addendum from https://mastodon.social/@mofosyne/112385581085525369 Turns out that it's because KHelpCenter in some linux distros hooks to these uris. So typing this uri would autoopen these man entries in KHelpCenter. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative

  Good news! Run0 will use polkit[1], which uses JavaScript for its rules[2], so there's no limit on how complex your rules can get! On the other hand, maybe adding a JavaScript interpreter to Linux's trusted computing base isn't such good news... [1] https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353420303876549 [2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

  Apparently there are some stations which still have ticket gates, but I haven't seen any in the rather short time I've been in the Netherlands - they seem to be concentrated in metropolitan areas[1], and I've only been in the somewhat more rural[2] province of Limburg. As it happens, though, I have never actually used the OV-chipcard myself, as I always use an Interrail pass when travelling any further than... - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• Systemd Wants to Expand to Include a Sudo Replacement

  Uh, depending on exactly how it's implemented, it could break a lot of things. If all you are using sudo on is a personal (i.e. Single user) laptop/desktop to install packages, this (along with other things like pkexec or doas) would seem to present no issues (and personally, from what I can see, I'd be happy to run `run0` on my personal systems!), but sudo does significantly more than that,... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?

  Oh, TIL about https://mastodon.social/ (https://joinmastodon.org/) Looks like what you describe, doesn't it? > Social networking that's not for sale. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• AltStore. The first Apple approved alternative App Store

  Getting some Qs about Delta availability, hope this clarifies things! • Delta is exclusive to AltStore in EU • Because of Apple’s new dev terms, all downloads in EU cost us €0.50/yr in AltStore PAL and App Store…so couldn’t offer Delta in EU App Stores without making it paid • App Store only supports one-time paid-upfront apps, so we’d have to pick a price that could support ~years of CTFs • PAL’s €1.50... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now

  Offtopic: a while ago the mastodon web interface changed so you had to enable javascript to see anything. I stopped reading mastodon links. I've just noticed that the server will cough up the post if you add "/embed" to the url. For the fine article: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112287515017810339/embed. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• Swift for C++ Practitioners, Part 1: Intro and Value Types

  If you're not aware, the author is Doug Gregor, one of the leads on the Swift team at Apple and parts 1 to 5 in this series were all posted on the same day: https://mastodon.social/@dgregor79@sfba.social/112253040283087966. - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

• IGBA: GBA and GBC Retro Emulator on Apple App Store

  Message from iGBA creator: https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/112268412745806214 > So apparently Apple approved a knock-off of GBA4iOS — the predecessor to @delta I made in high school — in the App Store. I did not give anyone permission to do this, yet it’s now sitting at the top of the charts (despite being filled with ads + tracking) >I’ve bit my tongue a bunch in the past month…but this really frustrates me.... - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• Threads on Mastodon and the Bright Future of the Fediverse

  If you use Mastodon, I'd really urge you to try Phanpy. It's not just a great Mastodon client - it has a few genuinely innovative interaction patterns that work really well. Really hard to believe that it's pretty much made by one person, given how polished and full-featured it is: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun. - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago

• Canadians are asking their government to federate

  Intersting that Joe Biden is now available via Activity Pub: https://mastodon.social/@potus@threads.net. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, print

  Almost legit article (has little to say) but boy that is a spammy headline with multiple repeated keywords and phrases ("best printer" x 2), ("print..." x 4), ("use" x 2), etc. For "office use" you probably are willing to pay a little more and there are more good choices such as Xerox Workcentre printers. I also disagree with the hating on inkjets. I agree a B&W laser is a good choice for most people but I have... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

  EMI maybe? Certain chairs cause monitors to go blank for a few seconds. https://mastodon.social/@haeckerfelix/110272427676278609. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of

  I would love if this were implemented. For one thing it would prevent insane App Store rejections like [this](https://mastodon.social/@vandal/112167322002780991) which actively requires using an in-app browser. I wish there were a setting to never use an in app web browser on iOS. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Mastoot is my new Mastodon favorite app

  Yeap, the dev acknowledged his absence[1] (also, linked in the post). He said app development is beginning again. [1] https://mastodon.social/@libei/112166669205865314. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture

  There seem to be conflicting reports as to who came up with the TPU https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109641269333636407. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Lens Flair – Reviews of camera lenses

  Now that macro lens gets a top score here https://www.dxomark.com/best-sony-lenses which fits my own experience that the pictures are great. I shot all of these in front of my barn https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111052075781351382 and could not mix photos I took with my 70-200mm because the Bokeh looked night and day different between them.. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Cheap Cars Are Dead

  From Dan Gillmor: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112102491028919681 "The auto industry has almost completely abandoned the idea of selling affordable cars in the U.S. China is plainly planning to fill the gap, as Japan did some decades ago. This will -- guaranteed -- lead to a furious response, but that won't include US carmakers actually competing. The response will be protectionism, because one thing... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago