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New comment by kwanbix in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

kwanbix — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:43:58 +0000

Before Meta aquisition, I paid 1 dollar per year for WhatsApp. Now it iwl be 35.88.

New comment by kwanbix in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

kwanbix — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:14:19 +0000

> The first is our duty to the global poor. There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at very large scale. If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions.

We already have poors that are really suffering, and the "elite" (or oligarchs depending on your point of view) have done very little to help them.

Why should we trust them they will do anything for us if we are all displaced by AI?

New comment by kwanbix in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

kwanbix — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:40:28 +0000

Targeting kids is good. But what about adults?

New comment by kwanbix in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

kwanbix — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:37:50 +0000

VISA an MasterCard have Credit Cards. Pix is just a way to transfer money you have in your bank account. In europe we can do that with IBAN. It goes from one account to another. In Argentina we have something similar in all banks. What is unike from VISA and MasteCard, at least untill now, is the Credit part of it.

New comment by kwanbix in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

kwanbix — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:02:11 +0000

"AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role."

Terrifying.

New comment by kwanbix in "Why most product tours get skipped"

kwanbix — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:43:11 +0000

Yeah, as a former dev turned into PdM, if you need to do a tour, your are doing the UX wrong.

New comment by kwanbix in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

kwanbix — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:46:39 +0000

Never had a problem like you describe.

New comment by kwanbix in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

kwanbix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:42:40 +0000

Porkbum or Gandi or name.com

New comment by kwanbix in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

kwanbix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:31:00 +0000

> Lee is one of the most competent IT guys I know.

And yet he uses GoDaddy?

New comment by kwanbix in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

kwanbix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:08:27 +0000

I never understood the appeal of instagram over Flicker.

New comment by kwanbix in "George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four"

kwanbix — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:17:06 +0000

Why would you out of nowhere spoil a book like that?

New comment by kwanbix in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

kwanbix — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:03:52 +0000

I allway say it: it is the defaults, stupid (paraphrasign).

The Defaults have to be the most sensitive ones.

If you are a supposed super secure app, this should be the default.

New comment by kwanbix in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

kwanbix — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:58:16 +0000

He is saving 4 keystrokes out of ~400 by typing LNX instead of Linux.

New comment by kwanbix in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

kwanbix — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:54:47 +0000

Those super yatchs of larry have to be paid somewhow.

New comment by kwanbix in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

kwanbix — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:16:24 +0000

> Your company has figured out the perfect arrangement. You’re good at your job, and you don’t cause problems. Your manager knows they can count on you. From the company’s perspective, this is the ideal state. Why would they change anything?

Whish I had knew this earlier in my career. I worked for IBM. I was very good at delivering usable software for internal use. They kept me there forever. They would give me awards and such, but never a change as the author says. If I needed something, I had to do it myself.

New comment by kwanbix in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

kwanbix — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:28:58 +0000

And google translate or google maps if you are traveling are very nice to have.

Sure, you can do without them, but it will be much more difficult.

New comment by kwanbix in "Windows native app development is a mess"

kwanbix — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:39:08 +0000

If you mean Delphi Community, it has some restrictions, but probably 99% works?

If you mean Lazarus, it is fully open source. No restrictions but the ones of the software itself.

New comment by kwanbix in "Windows native app development is a mess"

kwanbix — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:00:23 +0000

Delphi or Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org) should solve it.

New comment by kwanbix in "Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser"

kwanbix — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:04:08 +0000

I find the sidebar very confusing. I can not click on the INBOX folder for example.

New comment by kwanbix in "LotusNotes"

kwanbix — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:01:49 +0000

I think it's important to start by saying that using Lotus Notes only as an email client misses the bigger picture, as Lotus Notes was was so much much much more than that. IBM had thouthands of custom made apps running on Lotus Notes. I had built about 50 apps.

Also, you didn't mention when you used it. I worked with Lotus Notes from 1995 to 2010, and the experience really depended on the hardware available at the time. Once it was up and running, it performed just fine if you had enough memory. For example, I still have version 8.0.2 (from 2008) on my machine, and it uses roughly 13MB at idle and up to about 50MB depending on installed apps, which isn't much by modern standards. But back in 1995, when 8MB of RAM was common, if Notes took up 6MB, I can see how that would have been a real issue. In my case, my ThinkPad had 32MB, then 64MB, and even 192MB which is the moment I installed Windows 2000.

As for the UI, the email client was highly configurable. Honestly, I don't remember ever thinking that something like Netscape Mail or The Bat looked or any email client that I tried at the time looked better. I didn't use Outlook back then, so I can't compare directly, but if Outlook over the past decade is any indication, Lotus Notes was at least on par, if not better that it.

What's really surprising is that even today, Lotus Notes had features that many modern clients still lack. For example, you could select multiple emails and forward them all together in a single message. Simple, but incredibly useful, and not something you commonly see implemented even now.

For reference, here's what the email client looked like: https://ds-infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpDocVie...

I still don't see how Outlook is better than that.