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grishka

13,337 karmajoined il y a 9 ans
Android/Java developer. Ex VKontakte, Telegram.

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Show HN: Smithereen – an early-Facebook-style Fediverse server

smithereen.software
15 points·by grishka·il y a 2 mois·3 comments

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grishka
·il y a 7 heures·discuss
Related: different people think of time different ways. I myself have never liked analog clocks because they require a conversion to make sense. Technology Connections made a video about this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag

And another thing: I considered trying 28-hour days because my sleeping schedule always drifts. A 28-hour clock that's in sync with me sleeping would be nice if I ever do try that.
grishka
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
Afaik they aren't manufactured any more
grishka
·il y a 17 jours·discuss
Getting someone else's preexisting code to meaningfully run on a thing you made from scratch is quite rewarding. I haven't made an OS but I did make a Game Boy emulator. It runs most of my childhood games just fine, which made it totally worth it for me.
grishka
·il y a 26 jours·discuss
The use of AI is still optional.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
Can't Chromium-based browser developers work together to fork the entire thing? Ideally becoming independent of Google altogether.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
I wonder what will Vivaldi do. They say that their built-in content blocker is "good enough" that you supposedly don't need uBO (I very much disagree) but they also keep MV2 extensions working to this day.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
TSPU isn't for spying, it's for censorship enforcement and everything else that makes the experience of using the internet here miserable without a VPN. It's SORM that's for spying. And Roskomnadzor is very much part of the government.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
Yes, that's another law they have. Can't access the internet anonymously, basically. And yes, foreign phone numbers do work.

Though I've seen, plenty of times, smaller places have a "public" wifi with a password, and the password is just written on a piece of paper somewhere. That must technically violate that law. But you know, laws in Russia...
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
> Chile, you virtually needed to be a citizen, as I recall.

I heard something similar about Russia after recent changes actually, it could as well be impossible for non-residents so tourists just stick with international roaming and public wifi. IIRC there's a catch-22 situation where you need a Gosuslugi (online government services portal) account to buy a sim, but you need a Russian phone number to sign up for one. As a citizen, you just need your ID (internal passport).
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
As a Russian: huh, you guys could still just buy a sim card without any kind of identification? Impressive. We had that ID requirement introduced way back in the 00s.

Even EU countries seem to require an ID now. When I traveled to France and Belgium in 2024, I bought a French tourist sim card, and the carrier kept sending me some rather insistent messages that my line would get disconnected if I don't upload my passport in 30 days.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
There's this: https://codeberg.org/fsphil/hacktv

It's not "VHS footage" though, but it can generate all kinds of analog video signals, some of which my decoder can decode.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
Well I made this: https://github.com/grishka/miscellaneous/tree/master/AVDecod...
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
Relatedly, I recently made a software decoder for SECAM and PAL: https://github.com/grishka/miscellaneous/tree/master/AVDecod...

Though in my case the purpose was to digitize my video tapes and teach myself about DSP.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
> USB-C port to receive firmware updates.

So do you mean that even camera lenses now ship unfinished?
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
So weird to me to realize that for some people, email providers have a UX, and enough of it that they could consider switching.

I've been using email through a client for decades. My primary email is Gmail, but I have no idea what Gmail is like on the web these days. Save for providers like hey.com, whose entire selling point is their unique web UX, I never understood why would someone use email in their web browser.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
Instagram is blocked in Russia so everyone here uses it through some sort of VPN. No one I know has ever got banned for that.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
HN has this thing where it would automatically "fix" submission titles.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
I always enjoy it when someone makes "obsolete" hardware natively talk to modern network services that it was never meant to talk to. And bringing an entire browser to a system this old is a serious achievement. I don't own any hardware that can run classic Mac OS, but I'm gonna try it on an emulator later, really curious how it handles several of my own websites.

Though the fact that the author uses AI is kinda meh.
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
Or Alisa
grishka
·le mois dernier·discuss
Thankfully, once something is on the internet, it's here forever.