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What Does History Smell Like?
- pattusk 6y agoIf you are interested in the history of smell, one of the first book to touch upon the subject in the 80's is a highly recommended read: https://www.amazon.com/Foul-Fragrant-French-Social-Imagination/dp/0674311760 https://www.amazon.com/Foul-Fragrant-French-Social-Imaginati... The lack of smell pollution nowadays is something we really take for granted and the book is a nice reminder of how much of a luxury (although in other cases also a loss) that is.
- webdog 6y agoAgreed. I was humbled of this fact when traveling abroad for work to a new place where the airport's septic system was next to the main road. I was holding my breath trying to not to make a scene as all the other people around me seemed to not even notice the smell.
- fsflover 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415895
- mikece 6y agoRequires physical access to an unlocked Android device... at which point you could just open the app and read the messages instead of trying to brute-force it. https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1337434126186553345 https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1337434126186553345 Would be nice if Signal added biometric unlock of the app like MySudo offers so that even if my unlocked device is picked up/snagged you still need biometric of passcode entry to open the app. EDIT: Looks like this is an option on iOS... never knew about it until now. Just turned on biometric unlock!