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New comment by d12bb in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

d12bb — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:45:25 +0000

I switched to Kagi little over a year ago and couldn’t recommend it enough. The search results are actually what I’m searching for, there is AI for the occasions I want it (and only then), and it comes with nice extras like search personalization and a great translation app. Tried to live without it when my first year of subscription ran out, but I didn’t last long…

New comment by d12bb in "The latest X algorithm has been published to GitHub"

d12bb — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:25:51 +0000

In turning into a far-right echo-chamber? Of the direct competitors, only Threads is closed. Mastodon has no ~algorithm~ discover feed, Bluesky is completely open source.

New comment by d12bb in "Native all the way, until you need text"

d12bb — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:01:14 +0000

Why not use native for UI frame (menu, toolbar, conversation list etc) and WebKit for the actual chat? I think that would combine the best of both worlds.

New comment by d12bb in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

d12bb — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:47:13 +0000

> Crux doesn't seem to support desktop targets

Only partially true: macOS is supported, and one can fall back to the web. But you're right in that native Windows and Linux are still missing.

> Linux

Problem with Linux of course is that it's almost as fragmented as Windows, with Qt and GTK being the main toolkits, but a dozen more if you ask the wrong people :D I personally don't like GTK, to me it (well, mainly Gnome) looks and feels like trying to copy macOS without understanding what makes it great, but Qt is a toolkit I can get behind…

New comment by d12bb in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

d12bb — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:09:48 +0000

Only reasonable way is shared core with thin UI layer on top. For Rust there is Crux, don’t know for other languages. Everything else is just compromise, like all Flutter apps I know on iOS are just atrocious.

New comment by d12bb in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

d12bb — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:06:31 +0000

The web platform, which just recently gained tolerable text wrap?

https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wr...

New comment by d12bb in "Killed by Apple"

d12bb — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:22:51 +0000

Apple had much longer support lifetimes for their products than all their competitors long before talk of mandatory minimums started to reach actual governments.

New comment by d12bb in "Six years perfecting maps on watchOS"

d12bb — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:48:30 +0000

Well, except Google Maps nowadays sucks for everything but POI discovery, and even that is getting worse with reviews getting tinkered with more and more. Not to speak of the abomination Google calls an user interface.

Only reason to use Google nowadays for me is travel in countries where neither Apple nor OSM have good coverage.

New comment by d12bb in "We need a federation of forges"

d12bb — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:35:05 +0000

> alternative AppView, but then if you are only on the alternative you are invisible to anyone who is only on Tangled

That’s misunderstanding the at protocol. There is a difference between a pds, where the data lives, and the appview. Tangled (the appview) happens to also provide a pds (they didn’t always do), but displays data which lives on other pds’s just as well.

New comment by d12bb in "We need a federation of forges"

d12bb — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:26:26 +0000

> `jj` is a wrapper around git and offers a much better dev-ex for managing changes.

You are mistaken there: Git is just one (of currently two) backend of the jj version control system. It’s far from being a wrapper.

Bcachefs 1.38.0 Released

d12bb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs-tools.git/tree/Changelog.mdwn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845053

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by d12bb in "Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible"

d12bb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:50:30 +0000

Your conclusion is false, as you’re mixing stuff that shouldn’t be mixed here:

1. Spotify, Uber etc are popular because of their product, not the pure quality of their apps. People use Uber because they want to cheaply get somewhere, and Spotify cause that’s there all their shared playlists are.

2. People buy whatever tv is on sale when their old one breaks, but the vast majority will stay with their phone platform, so couldn’t care less what their apps look on the other platforms out there.

So, native experience does matter, but obviously only as one of multiple deciding factors.

> What does “bad iOS citizen” even mean?

Doesn’t look like native apps, doesn’t feel like native apps (come on, most multi platform frameworks don’t even get the scrolling right, one of the most basic forms of interaction), doesn’t use all of the platforms features to their fullest, as applicable for the type of app.

New comment by d12bb in "Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible"

d12bb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:45:29 +0000

> Spotify, Facebook, Uber, and Reddit

And I hate every one of those apps (well, back when I used Facebook, years ago, I did), because they’re just bad iOS citizens. I, as most iOS users do, don’t care what apps look on Android. For Android users, it’s the same with iOS. Making shitty cross platform apps is all about branding and saving some money for developers, nothing about the users.

New comment by d12bb in "Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible"

d12bb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:41:30 +0000

It’s nice developer experience indeed. But for me as a user, I hate it. Looks nothing like an iOS app, often even worse than fckng webviews…

New comment by d12bb in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

d12bb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:39:34 +0000

macOS is fine on all officially supported machines. Windows 11 is fine on high-end machines, and sucks on everything else. I have to use Windows 11 for work unfortunately, an almost bare install with just the two programs we use added, no background stuff or other extra resource hogs, and it just. sucks. shit!

New comment by d12bb in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

d12bb — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:32:42 +0000

You forget you’re a minority. Most users use one platform, or at most one work one private (probably with different software). So most software should be optimized for the platform, not consistency across them.

New comment by d12bb in "OneDev – Self-hosted Git server with CI/CD, Kanban, and packages"

d12bb — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:06:40 +0000

Especially as self-hosting means loosing the community aspect of GitHub. Every potential contributor already has an account. Every new team member already knows how to use it.

New comment by d12bb in "TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem"

d12bb — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:05:36 +0000

> The firm started out with a couple of desktops and an NFS server, and 10 years later ended up with tens of thousands of high-end GPUs, hundreds of thousands of CPUs, and hundreds of petabytes of storage.

So much resources for producing nothing of real value. What a waste.

Great project though, appreciate open sourcing it.

New comment by d12bb in "Try Switching to Kagi"

d12bb — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:23:47 +0000

German here. My searches are probably like 50:50 German:English. I don’t notice any difference in quality with Kagi’s results between the two languages, and both are well ahead of Google.

New comment by d12bb in "Try Switching to Kagi"

d12bb — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:11:29 +0000

When I tried Qwant a few weeks ago, its search results were even worse than Google. So, Kagi it still is.