Hacker News: stiltzkin

New comment by stiltzkin in "PeerTube mobile app: discover videos while caring for your attention"

stiltzkin — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:30:25 +0000

It works like forums, you need to look for an instance with the culture and moderation of your liking.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Facebook's Little Red Book"

stiltzkin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:36:58 +0000

HN before 2012 was way different back then too.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Visualizing 13M Bluesky users"

stiltzkin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:10:28 +0000

Enshitification. 100% guarantee if VC funded.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:21:26 +0000

Not San Francisco weird for sure.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:18:50 +0000

All U.S. messaging apps are compromised by U.S. authorities.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:18:11 +0000

Telegram is based in Dubai.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:17:21 +0000

Because they larp as full privacy.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:16:52 +0000

Ask yourself why those apps like Signal, Matrix or WhatsApp can run perfectly fine in the West.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:15:39 +0000

950 million users story.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:15:14 +0000

This was the reason Telegram is based in Dubai, it was bad move from Durov flying to France.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:13:37 +0000

So do you endorse if Venezuela or North Korea do the same?

New comment by stiltzkin in "Reddit banned me for developing Geddit"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:26:59 +0000

I am glad decentralized alternatives similar to Mastodon exist like Lemmy, and even better with third-party clients like Voyager or Sync. It will take some time for people to get used to it but we need a better alternative to centralized companies that go to the enshittification route.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Reddit banned me for developing Geddit"

stiltzkin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:23:35 +0000

Its the most active out there of alternatives, like forums with reddit style using Voyager or Sync for Lemmy. not going back

New comment by stiltzkin in "Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin"

stiltzkin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:03:01 +0000

I remember I had good threads with people defending Chrome and calling Safari the new IE. The tribalism defending Chrome should stop.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin"

stiltzkin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:01:45 +0000

Firefox does not have crypto built-in. And we have Librewolf instead of Firefox

New comment by stiltzkin in "Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall"

stiltzkin — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 18:25:55 +0000

Most have controversies and trivalism.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Show HN: Spawn – Build iOS Apps with English"

stiltzkin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:43:27 +0000

I'm using Big Sur so can't test this one, but still keepiing an eye on it. Some social media account as X to keep us updated too.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment"

stiltzkin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:33:16 +0000

I think Cosmic could fit so well with DHH Omakub.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Cosmic: A New Desktop Environment"

stiltzkin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:32:31 +0000

I thought someone as Steam can make it work.

New comment by stiltzkin in "Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out"

stiltzkin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:24:51 +0000

I remember old Opera had a sidebar and vertical tabs (same as current Vivaldi). Opera was always way ahead of UX of all browsers.