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  • According to Iran's Khamenei, 90% of the Palestinian Resistance's equipment and capabilities are intact

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  • TBH it's not like Palestinian's resistance equipment and capabilities have seemed much of a concern for Israel even when they were at 100%...

    As it's often the case with statements published during wartime (and also ones in more peaceful times), it's more interesting to look at where the statement comes from and ask oneself why they say so now than the actual contents of the statement (which are often unverifiable anyways).

  • Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

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  • almost every website has some sort of tracking

    Yeah... and most send info to the same mega companies, which is why it's creepy :)

    BTW: I'm 100% ok with a website collecting stats on which of their pages are more popular and even with profiling my session to see which pages correlate to which - I'm not ok with websites remembering me across sessions and definitely not ok with Google (and others) tracking my whole web history and using/selling it to show me shitty ads.

  • Pope says Ukraine should have 'courage of the white flag' of negotiations

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  • Yeah, he's old and didn't use the happiest words.. but the Vatican clarified he didn't mean "unconditional surrender" and instead only meant "negotiate a peace deal".

    AFAIU (and also AFAIC - "as far as I care") It's not entirely clear yet if the Pope suggests that Ukraine should give up territory in exchange for peace (and what about reparations?) or if he just means "be good people and make peace" (which would be much more in line with how he usually talks). I don't think whatever the Pope thinks will really be of much consequence given how geopolitically relevant this war is ("The Pope? How many divisions has he got?")

    This whole news/argument serves as great marketing for the TV program where the the interview will be broadcasted (which I'd assume is not unintentional)

  • Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

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  • Great list, thanks!

    Are you the author? Because I might have some additions to suggest. (one is Equate which combines a calculator with unit/currency conversion - I have not gone through the whole list)

  • Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

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  • Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software

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  • Creepy tracking, less functionality than the old alternativeto.net (also less content, but of course content takes time so that's understandable), plus desperate-looking "enroll to our newsletter" and "advertise" pleads. Looks like a cheap attempt at making a couple bucks to me.

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    China destroyed 21,000 acres of West Philippine Sea coral reefs

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  • For the non-US people: 21,000 acres are around 84km² (a bit more than a 9 by 9km square).

    I have zero idea how big the reef was to begin with (and God must have forbidden journalists from publishing data that would allow readers to make sense of the numbers they put in the headlines), but still it seems like decent amount was destroyed.

  • Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration

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  • It's not like a judge said it's illegal... what happened is that a huge multinational company sent a menacing letter to a developer regarding their hobby project, and the developer —understandably— decided to comply.

  • Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

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  • Err... KDE Connect works for me. Have you tried it?

  • Don't be that guy.

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  • User: "I have to waste my whole life fixing this" Dev: "you are complaining that you have to spend a few minutes"

    Savage.

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    Biggest Linux Kernel Release Ever Welcomes bcachefs File System

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  • Most filesystems (I'd say all the relatively modern ones?) have extended attributes.

  • Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

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  • To me, saying "wayland breaks things" is putting it backwards: at this point, it should be "[thing] still doesn't work on wayland".

  • Wayland really breaks things… Just for now?

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  • Same here (thumbleweed, kde, amd), I've been using wayland for around a year with zero issues.

  • Selfhostable alternative to last.fm

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  • You'll need some kind of database if you want recommendations... Listenbrainz's data is open, so you might find some self-hosted service that uses that database and local history for recomendations, but... why not just contributing your scrobbles to that awesome project?

    They do require an email for signup, but IMO they are trustworthy and you can just use some anonymous email if it's important to you to really stay anonymous.

  • Privacy = no free speech

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  • Didn't you know? Disabling ad blockers ensures free speech and apparently may also peacefully end the current crisis in the middle east... oh, did I mention it helps with world hunger too?

  • Im going to get banned for this

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  • The really important sosftware gets ported to all the platforms

  • In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here.

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  • Yeah.. people should rewrite post titles for the context of this community, rather than reusing article titles verbatim

  • Brazilian intelligence will stop using WhatsApp for communication

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  • I'm shocked! ...that so far they were using whatsapp.