GUI: https://github.com/XcodesOrg/XcodesApp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40932853

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To be clear, these group chats are actually hidden from the public. You join by entering an invitation code or receiving a link. There is no way to discover group chats by browsing or searching for them.

So I was completely surprised by Daring Fireball recently hinting at [0] Wavelength’s goal of becoming a breakout hit as a social platform.

Say what?

Without a large marketing rocket to pull you into orbit, I’m not sure how you can achieve any kind of success as a social platform with unlisted and private group chats. In the case of WhatsApp the boost came from a gazillion people having the common pain point that sending text sucked and/or was expensive.

It’s also worrying that they only had enough gas in the tank to keep the lights on for little more than a year. A year less than their previous endeavor.

But my questions in the hope of learning from this situation are:

Why not make some groups more visible than others? Example: The Dithering podcast has a group. [1] Why not show that it exists and inform about the ways to get in?

Was there any work done towards tools to help group owners handle high volumes of user influx and chat moderation? Are those the pro features hinted at in the TechCrunch article? [2]

Again, only a year of runway?

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/26/wavelength-is-s... [1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/02/dithering [2]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/20/wavelength-is-a-new-app-tr...

Original German text of the law: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ddg/__5.html

Google translation to English: https://www-gesetze--im--internet-de.translate.goog/ddg/__5....

In a way, I’m glad that I’m being forced to sit down with my kids, set a timer, and be present and watchful. But as they grow up this model will no longer be feasible and I dread the day when after reevaluating Apple’s progress in this area, there’s still going to be unacceptable bugs.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500159

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Backstory: https://theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/20/chatg...

Seems like adding -szer turns the meaning of the word into its enabler.

Wende means turnaround and that’s good enough for the rest of us.

But today I learned that Hungarian is a Uralic not a Slavic language and so of course I had no chance discerning which word in «rendszerváltás» stood for system or change, which made me mad enough to want to look it up:

rendszer (“system”) +‎ váltás (“change”)

It’s been a common word, which existed long before 1989, and while it is since then strongly linked to the events around the time when the Berlin wall fell, you’ll have a hard time finding a German who knows of how this word was used by the East-German political party (SED).

Spoiler: It was used to mean the opposite of what actually happened (i.e. more power to the party).

The parent comment’s link brings you to the transcript of an interview with a former German law professor who, knowing the SED’s usage of the word, made sure to always describe what happened in 1989 as a revolution.

This is actually one person begging other German speakers to start using what he thinks is the correct word.

Ain’t gonna happen.

If East-Germans stood up for themselves in the required numbers to overthrow their leaders, I guess Germans would use the word revolution.

But that’s not what transpired.

In 1989 a system collapsed. Communism. While that may also always qualify as a revolution in academic circles, German people chose Wende, which simply means turnaround.

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