AnonHP

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by AnonHP 6y ago
I don’t have direct experience using this app called Breaker [1], but it’s designed to have some social features for podcasts so you can connect with friends or check other recommendations. The fact that podcasts are distributed as RSS fe
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Would an open source app like Lockdown [1] help you? It can block requests and it also has logs. I haven’t used it, but you could check it out. I’d love to have something like Little Snitch/LuLu on iOS and by default disallow outgoing
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by AnonHP 6y ago
(Re-posting on this thread) What a bummer! As an iOS user, I was eagerly looking forward to this feature, wanting to tell others about it and how the upgrade to iOS 14 would be worth it just to clearly expose apps that want to track users.
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by AnonHP 6y ago
What a bummer! As an iOS user, I was eagerly looking forward to this feature, wanting to tell others about it and how the upgrade to iOS 14 would be worth it just to clearly expose apps that want to track users. I already have ad tracking l
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> I use Threema because it is the only messenger out there that is: > a) always end to end encrypted (unlike Telegram) > b) supports account creation without any phone number (unlike Signal) Wire (wire.com) has had these for a long
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by AnonHP 6y ago
What a landscape change a decade brings! The WebKit based Safari still reigns supreme in keeping mobile experience (user privacy, tracking) and standards at a level (to the consternation of many people). The WebKit based Safari on Mac is th
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by AnonHP 6y ago
For some reason I haven’t understood, syncthing would often miss transferring files but mark the entire transfer/sync as complete. No errors in the logs either. I tried it for a few months earlier this year, then gave up and switched t
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Could you please post this as a “Tell HN” post so that we can all favorite it and make it the most favorited post? Jokes aside, such an official list posted once in a while (once a year) could be useful.
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Whenever I see such news and then look around at what they’ve been doing and continue to do (revealed sometimes in congressional hearings), it seems to me that the executive and the legislature are truly toothless in the face of these three
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by AnonHP 6y ago
If my guess that you’re referring to Yahoo Mail is correct, I’ve seen the same problem but with spam. With all the hacks and data leaks that happened over the years, one of my mailboxes there receives a lot (like a whole lot) of spam. Yahoo
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> Google still has the original founders on the board While technically true, they signed out a long time ago from what Google ought to be or ought not to be. That much is evident from Google’s actions and the relegation of “Don’t be evi
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> That makes assumptions that you have an outdoor space / back yard available for a compost bin and a practical use for said compost... It made assumptions on using the compost (or disposing it), but no assumptions were made on back
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by AnonHP 6y ago
This applies mostly to food waste, and in home environments it's better to compost it than throw in a bin and send it to landfills. It takes some effort, but when it's done well, composting shouldn't cause a stink. A self-ope
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330983
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> So when Google rams half-baked APIs into their browser well before they even have gone through third party certification, often releasing features with glaring security holes, I seem to be behind the times. Could you please elaborate o
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by AnonHP 6y ago
I’m not a fan of VMs for older machines since they tend to perform poorly. And 4GB RAM wouldn’t be adequate for that. I’d suggest dual booting with a separate partition for Linux. You can also choose distros that have a lower hardware requ
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by AnonHP 6y ago
One thing not mentioned here is using regular expressions. Use regexes liberally to process all data [1] because eventually it will converge to it and if you haven’t looked around for a solution involving regexes, [2] you’re not working on
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by AnonHP 6y ago
It used to be a long running joke as well as practical wisdom on the Windows side to always wait for SP1 (Service Pack 1) for better stability and never to install the X.0 version. For all the “doubling down on Mac” that Apple’s senior empl
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> Crypto is hard because you don't get quick feedback on whether you are doing well. The feedback will only come if somebody hacks it. Not necessarily (for the part marked in italics). See all the grief that Telegram gets here in
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by AnonHP 6y ago
On smaller screens I’m kinda ok with scroll bars appearing only when scrolled, but what’s with no scroll bars at all on some websites? That irks me like nothing else. I can’t even figure out how long the page is and whether I can finish rea
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> Ultimately, despite our best efforts, Apple’s updates may render Audience Network so ineffective on iOS 14 that it may not make sense to offer it on iOS 14. Translation: The iOS changes are making the platform more like a printed newsp
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by AnonHP 6y ago
This is an area where iOS sucks. Having faced some undesirable consequences in the past from greedy and/or downright malicious developers, I don’t have automatic updates turned on for apps. But what makes things worse is that iOS doesn
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Maybe some people buy it as a status symbol, but the user experience in general, for someone who doesn't want root and other customizability but likes a nice smooth easy-to-use interface (as much as smartphones of today can even be use
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by AnonHP 6y ago
Quite funny, but I think it needs to take a bigger dig on hey.com's pricing and offering. > $100 for each "y" Ah, flipping hey.com's model of charging more for shorter addresses. Genius! > So expensive, you'll
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by AnonHP 6y ago
This has been a very long fight, and there are a few pockets to defeat to declare that we’ve eradicated polio. I see many comments talking about malaria. One of the most effective ways to tackle that is through the work done by organization
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by AnonHP 6y ago
>> Consider a potential suspect who can’t prove where they were at 11 pm on a Thursday, because they live alone. And they're fast asleep because 11 pm is not the time to be awake for them. How will the speaker save them? By recor
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by AnonHP 6y ago
As the article describes, many points apply to the specific team and team culture. One of the best things that I did (which was triggered for other reasons) was to remove my work email from my smartphone. When you only have a laptop to get
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by AnonHP 6y ago
> A $1250 iPhone had a $450 cost to make... Where do you even get numbers like this? Are you looking at the bill of materials cost and assuming that to be the cost of the device, ignoring the R&D, testing, iterations of development a
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by AnonHP 6y ago
How about Hugo’s stability when upgrading? I haven’t tried it myself, but have read many a comment (including on HN) on how even minor version upgrades end up breaking things.

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