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New comment by isodev in "Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It"

isodev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:44:08 +0000

It’s very difficult to read. It would’ve been better for you to just write it in your native language

New comment by isodev in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

isodev — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:28:42 +0000

> But inflicting a subjective moral judgement on an entire category of software

Apple does the same with the App Store btw, are you “staying very far away from” smartphones because of that censorship?

New comment by isodev in "The Growing Compute Shortage"

isodev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:38:36 +0000

The issue is that this will be another vision pro. The issue is that every year, we take device and services price increase (which of course nobody can do anything about because Apple-Google is a cartel based in the US where consumer protection is not even in the dictionary but that's a different topic probably) and nobody keeps track of just how much these things cost for a "not an influencer / person who works in tech / friend of the president" household.

New comment by isodev in "The Growing Compute Shortage"

isodev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:16:26 +0000

I feel this post is blind to many of the secondary side effects of this "shortage". The rapid increase in prices and delivery times is having deleterious effects on all things tech - everything from phones to smart appliances and all sorts of gadgets has moved into unreachable price levels.

Just imagine, if the rumours are true and Apple's 'foldable' phone costs 2500€ or more - who is going to buys this? So much of Apple's ecosystem depends on enough users consuming services, buying apps and using their phones to facilitate digital interactions. I've been waiting for 2 months to get a new mac mini for our office lab, and the Studios have moved into "we can't really justify this expense" price range.

So the framing that AI is inevitable or projections that put the world into a year or more of this "scarcity", where people can no longer afford non-entry level gadgets, are just naive IMO.

New comment by isodev in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

isodev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:07:20 +0000

Imagine how cool it would be if actual competition prevents Anthropic or OpenAI from becoming an Apple/Google kind of cartel. I don’t care if it comes from China or not.

New comment by isodev in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

isodev — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:07:19 +0000

Also worth nothing that if you’ve verified your ID on LinkedIn or anything that uses Persona or some other flavour of Palantir - the US already has all this data and much more.

New comment by isodev in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:41:46 +0000

> the beauty of atproto means that you are in no way tied to the VC funded company behind the web app

This is false: you’re tied to both tangled (unless you want to self host a forge, which if you did you wouldn’t have picked tabgled) and Bluesky for your login to keep working (unless you want to self host a complex constellation of social media components).

New comment by isodev in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:36:19 +0000

GitHub - sensible folks have more than one account with access to critical bits. The really important things are probably mirrored.

Bluesky’s decentralisation is a “yes but it’s complicated and you can’t _just_ do anything”. I like that they’re experimenting with “apps” but source control feels a bit too far.

New comment by isodev in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:33:40 +0000

Apparently, that’s not enough. You will also need your own “app view” which means you will be self hosting an over engineered forge with social features you can’t use… so why go that road to begin with is beyond me tbh.

New comment by isodev in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:30:39 +0000

And we don’t complain about that because nobody uses “sign in with google” for mission critical stuff. It’s absolutely a choice to tie all your things to a single corp.

New comment by isodev in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:47:21 +0000

As a mid sized business in touch with other mid-sized businesses - the burden you speak of doesn't exist. If you read the directive and others like it carefully, you will find they’re well integrated into reporting you already do. Each member state also adapts these to best fit their local legislation.

New comment by isodev in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:35:59 +0000

Picture this: someone “moderates” your bluesky account for some unrelated reason and you’re no longer able to manage your own source codes…

New comment by isodev in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:04:49 +0000

Or perhaps the logo is a depiction of us, the little "products" running around burning and paying for tokens... we're certainly more receptive after a few months of subscription softening-up.

New comment by isodev in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

isodev — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:04:56 +0000

Was it my comment you really wanted to reply to? My point is that there are things we can do right now/today in order to heal our society from the sort of malignancies that distract us from advancing as a race.

New comment by isodev in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

isodev — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:40:36 +0000

Maybe AWS is also “for entertainment purposes only”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/copilot-is-for-entertainme...

New comment by isodev in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

isodev — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:36:04 +0000

Why are we taking Apple’s side here? They made accusations, nothing had been proven yet.

Who is to say Apple employees (at Apple) haven’t been vibe coding or asking gpt for technical topics? Also, funny timing from Apple - there is a lot of PR and optics riding on this lawsuit.

New comment by isodev in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

isodev — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:28:06 +0000

It would help if our science wasn’t distracted by things like global warming and nazi governments though. There are definitely ways we can help the process * right now *

New comment by isodev in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

isodev — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:07:50 +0000

Nothing Bluesky does is really independent. This is such a transparent playbook and yet folks keep falling for a couple of open source repos and whatever hot takes Dan Abramov posts to reframe “instances” to “open social” bs.

New comment by isodev in "Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode"

isodev — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:11:50 +0000

In addition to the challenged Xcode, just using Swift seems to require a lot more tokens for both coding and dealing with build/platform quirks. Probably not super significant on indie scale but for anything more robust, it builds up quickly.

React Native and Flutter seem to be much more predictable for the bots (and more fun for humans, since they have actual hot reload).

New comment by isodev in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

isodev — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:59:24 +0000

I tried it but the difference to Opus didn’t seem to justify the extra cost and stress around these limits.

The Max plan at 180€/month excl VAT already comes up for budget review every time. Not sure any sort of increase will be tolerated at all.