Not that it answers your question, but the move happened in 2020 to "hire more easily, act more swiftly, and pursue ideas that were previously not possible".
Just in case you need sources: Kagi is using [1] Yandex and paying them as of June 2025. This is a long-standing position, which was also voiced [2] in November 2024.
Regarding Yandex. The founder sold [3] the assets (seemingly including the index and Yandex trademark) to VK (Mail.ru) in 2022. VK are known supporters of the war [4]. The founder subsequently renamed [5] his original company to Nebius Group and pivoted towards compute for AI.
I was browsing through the issues of extrepo and found deb-get, seems pretty useful too:
> deb-get makes it easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or GitHub release pages.
Keep in mind that using Beeper for Instagram breaks their ToS and often gets your account suspended or banned. This happens with both cloud and local bridges.
Isn't this something we already know from the mass–energy equivalence? In the same way that a nuclear reaction that produces heat must cost the object mass (and therefore gravitational pull)
Lem himself talks about the movie a bit there too, around the 24th minute. He didn't seem fond of Tarkowsky's religiousness and the impact it had on the movie.
Promising efficiency, "new functionality written in Rust".
But also:
> Available under a commercial license, Synapse Pro will alhelp fund and accelerate the continued open source development of Synapse for the benefit of all of Matrix.
Certainly, the problem is bigger than just computers. I was trying to say that if you don't understand how computers work your chances of getting confused are higher since they are ubiquitous and often the interactions with them are so poorly designed that it's easy to get confused.
Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of sorts?
Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun — a lot of them are from people who seem like they need urgent help and obviously aren't getting it.
His "summary" is "somehow they help me remember that the world we live in is super complicated" and while true, it was more of testament how confused a lot of people are, how lost. And how privileged people who understand computers are, being able to avoid this confusion.
I've collected some links here last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057759