I love this because it is making a practical, everyday item more accessible.

I know the toaster is not explicitly open source but I've been lamenting the fact that such an incredible amount of energy is spent making things more accessible but most of those things are not what 'normal people' actually need.

For example I think there is a greater need for more open source couches, bikes, houses, clothing, etc than the need for, say, software that helps us coordinate containerized web infrastructure (from a social good perspective)

I don’t mean this in an overly judgmental way, but how much utility is there to open source physical objects for most people if they don’t also include some sort of cost benefit? What’s the utility of an open source t-shirt you can make for $30 when a 5 pack of shirts from Walmart is $10? I like the idea in concept, but how does a normal person implement open source physical good production?

Companies pick it up and start selling the open source product. Since it's open anyone can fix it, modify it, upgrade it etc. Prices go down, both for devices and parts. Even if no new parts are available you still have giant used market.

Look at say washing machines.

How many different models/brands are on the market?

I estimate many hundreds, if not thousands.

Each model/brand comes with some degree of custom design and engineering, documentation, etc, etc. All for fragmented production runs, all to try to gain proprietary advantage.

Why do we need so many? We really don't actually, maybe just a dozen or two to address various niches.

If companies just picked up an open source design (which would be constantly improving, just as with software), they could save many of those costs, and potentially even more by scaling up volume of production.

Often the perfect item for you is not available at all. An open source version would allow you to modify the design to your specific needs and likes.

Agreed on the social good of open source everyday items. I'd love to go to a build-it-yourself store/workshop where they have tools, materials, experts, and open source designs available.

The social good of open source software is at an inflection point. Stallman has always been right, but for decades it's been an 'yeah, but so what' situation. In today's consumer tech, surveillance is pervasive and manipulation getting more effective. Of course, that's only a problem if we lived in a fascist state where the government could force companies to work against our interests. Or lived in a network state run by a software company.

The only prudent options are moving to open source SW infrastructure running on personally controlled HW, or moving to an off-grid cabin in the woods. I'm incredibly grateful to the folks that create software like immich and jellyfin that allow me to degoogle w/o losing capabilities that I've come to rely on.

applying algorithmic strategy concepts to growth strategy is an interesting idea. I wonder what other domains this could be useful for

I can't wait for fireship.io and the comment section here to tell me what to think about this

You appear to have the direction of causation reversed.

(In that fireship does the same)

I wonder if fireship reaction video scripts to AI models based on HN comments can be automated using said AI models.

I bet simonw will be adding it to `llm` and someone will be pasting his highlights here right after. Until then, my mind will remain a blank canvas.

the article says:

"if you want to look up a DID:PLC, you need to query the Bluesky servers. This is important because every user is identified by a DID:PLC, and all interactions need to reference them."

which is not strictly true.

almost every user is identified by a DID:PLC but DID:WEB is also supported. DID:WEB is not mentioned in the article at all

I think this is important because it means that users can opt into being their own source of truth for their "identity" in the ATPROTO system

Really like the idea. As someone who has been losing his limited spanish since college, I've been wanting something like this.

A couple pieces of feedback:

- It would be very useful to be able to get text translations of just one word at a time. Currently, I can give up entirely and have the whole message translated for me. But there's no way to just get help with the one word I can't remember the meaning of

- It would be very useful to be able to hide the text by default. I am interested in this app only because I am pretty bad at listening to spanish. That said, I am quite a bit better at reading it. Having the text always appear ruins my ability to practice listening

- The language selector at the top has 5 vertical bars that can be dark or not. I believe this might be a difficulty indicator? But it's not very clear

- When I speak some words are yellow. I assume this means my pronunciation was off leading the AI to not be very confident. That could also be a lot more clear

edit: fix formatting

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I thought about adding one-word translations but didn't think about hiding the text completely. The difficulty selector is disabled right now, which can be confusing. Thanks for pointing it out.

Please can you explain how translating a single word is different from using a dictionary?

I could see dropping the college requirement if it were to be replaced by some other stringent barrier to entry. Teaching as a trade school style profession makes sense to me.

naïve question: Is there anything regular consumers can/should do in light of this information? Changing passwords etc seems futile if hackers have internal developer access anyway

I doubt too many people are using Okta as a regular consumer. If your work stuff uses it, the general advice has always been to keep it aggressively partitioned from your personal life. Hacked or not, your IT admin has always had access to everything, and I don't know if I'd trust them with my data any more than Lapsus$.

is there an app that can send bulk gdpr data deletion requests for no-longer-used services?

seems like it'd be possible write an app that scans email history to detect services that have your data, scrape their websites to determine support email address(es), and send a GDPR data deletion request template to each of the selected ones.