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What is meant by chronological here? Do you mean you follow some people and your Home page just arranges all the posts by those you've followed chronologically? Because that is what Mastodon does. And while I personally prefer it to be this way, this won't work for the user who just wants to see the type of posts they like, not necessarily the people they like. The recent exodus of American and Brazilian people from X is thus divided into those who chose Mastodon and those who chose Bluesky, with the latter having a much larger number. Make of what you will.

Best would still be RSS feeds and everyone having their own blog. Just saying.


I think blue sky has a default chronological following feed too? Twitter pushing for you instead of following is kinda notably distinct.


Twitter. Facebook, TikTok, all push a For You; Threads doesn't even have a pure following feed,...

I think Bluesky/Mastodon are the outliers here, not Twitter.


Would like to read more about this. Has anybody used this technique to actually successfully sue someone for infringing their copyright on an instructional website or is it only theoretically possible?


>How Amazon built an EV charging network in two years

Money


Well, Congress has spent $7B on chargers with not much to show for it. . https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger...


> Well, Congress has spent $7B on chargers with not much to show for it.

According to your link, Congress has allocated $7B, sent $2B of that to states, but none has actually been delivered to contractors.

So, if I understand the article correctly, no money has been spent.


Yup, but goes to show that money isn't enough.


I use a public SearX[1] instance because it gives me better results than both DDG and Startpage. [1]: https://searx.space


Perhaps the name can be a little problem, due to the existence of the Mach kernel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)). Nevertheless, the toolkit does look great.


Previous Discussion, as mentioned in the article as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14087381


The top comment is still 100% on the money. That there are desktop apps at all is 100% because the fantastic, easy to write for, powerful, well used, well known cross-platform web platform has made it possible & not misery-inducing to target a laundry list of pernickety not fun native platforms.

Flash was an not-integrated experience within the page, something not really debuggable or visible to the host platform. Electron on the other hand is super easy to break out a debugger on. We haven't seen good examples, but this should also permit some pretty advanced extending, modifying, altering Electron apps on the fly. Something, again, that I think of as extremely not Flash's forte: Flash always felt like a proprietary dump truck of pixel-pushing loaded itself on screen, without the beauty & elegance of the hypertext document.

It's also epic to me how much Slack's poor implementation drives hatred of Electron. I definitely want to see better web-app delivery mechanisms emerge, that free each app from having to distribute an embedded version of Chrome, but by far the most serious complaint to me is the cpu usage, and that's not Chrome's fault. It's just a shitty poorly built app. We can build apps like shit on Native too. Slack is a juggernaut of terribleness, and that this horror happens to have been done with Electron justifies far more hatred than is reasonable. VS Code for compare is not a massive resource hog, because the app developers decided to care about the product & make it work well.

In my view, a lot of people want to be very upset at the web, and Slack provides an endless supply of fuel on that particular fire.


I hugely despise the Rust-like Code of Conduct. Also please provide actual build instructions instead of giving binary files to add to PATH and execute.


It's always DNS


>It's always DNS

How is this not the top comment? Underrated


Why not use FreeTube (https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube) then if it is based on Electron anyway? Freetube also has support for watching videos directly alongwith downloading and can also route the video through Invidious servers if you prefer not giving your IP address to Youtube.


It's a wholly different use case. FreeTube is meant as a full replacement for the YouTube site. This app is a frontend for youtube-dl and concentrates on quick downloads noly.


Isn't a phone number personal information as well? And what about countries where it is mandatory to register your SIM card? ProtonMail can't just reply to this part by saying "Just move to a different country bro". A phone number is personal information and should be treated as such.


A phone number is PI as long as it is tied to your ID. If you managed to get a SIM that is not in any way tied to your ID - then you are fine. This is assuming that nobody tracks your calls etc... but if you use Tor to register a PM account, then you probably know all the do's and dont's of both Tor and prepaid SIMs. As for the second part - yes and no. Yes, PM cannot answer suggesting to move. No, PM is not to blame for that. As it has been pointed out (in one of other threads about PM) this serves as a (not so high) hurdle for spammers, otherwise PMs free tier will turn into spam machine overnight. And paying customers still have to disclose their identity. Also, if one values their privacy _that much_ then that person should be able to expend some effort to protect it, and not just make a couple of clicks on the webpage.


Privacy is a human right.

I support providers that believe this as well, and act in accordance.

Your model more treats privacy as something to be earned or attained through technical knowledge. No thanks. Journalists and whistleblowers need others looking out for them when no one else will.

If Protonmail doesn't solve this by the time my account is up for renewal, I will not be renewing.


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