AnonHP

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by AnonHP 3y ago
> A human could easily travel billions of light years in a single lifetime. Serious questions follow. How and using what technology? Why are we still struggling to go to the moon or Mars by taking weeks or months?
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by AnonHP 3y ago
I didn’t even know that this existed. But I upload images for public sharing perhaps once a year or once in two years. So I don’t need this service. I’m not writing an email as requested in the blog post because that entire post has not ev
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by AnonHP 3y ago
Israelis are usually off from the evening of Friday (sundown) till the evening of Saturday (sundown) for Shabbat. Where did you get the idea that they’re off on Fridays during daytime? In this context, middle eastern countries with Islam as
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> Nitpick, but no it shouldn’t. The HASH of your password is recorded. You never submit your password, you submit that hash and they compare it. Nitpick, but the password is submitted as-is by most client applications, and the server has
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by AnonHP 3y ago
What’s the planned business model? Neither the website nor the app page mention “free”. There is no pricing link or an FAQ page on the website about the business model. Clarity in this area would be helpful. Until then, I wouldn’t want to s
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> Deleting simple things like email, which are just a swipe away on Android, are notoriously difficult on the native email app, Not sure what exactly you’re talking about, because deleting an email (from the mailbox list) is a long swipe
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> The main question I want addressed is: If SMS messages can be directly shown in iMessage, and are not secure, then the argument of not allowing "insecure" 3rd-parties to integrate with iMessage goes out the window. All I want
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> That and a low carb diet is essential. Not essential. There are people who manage it or even get into remission with high carb diets (high carb low fat) too. One common thread across all these diets is avoiding processed foods.
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by AnonHP 3y ago
Maybe. But price is still one of the larger concerns for many people. When I checked this a couple of years ago, it seemed like Hetzner’s Storage Box (the one sorta competes with your rsync.net) had a much lower price, a much larger capacit
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by AnonHP 3y ago
They ask for a government ID in some cases. I was able to provide one with some details masked, and they wanted the name on my account to match the name on the government ID. This is a commercial transaction, not Facebook. So I was kinda ok
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by AnonHP 3y ago
I’ve been waiting for Hetzner to allow adding credits into one’s account using credit cards or debit cards (or other modes like PayPal). Being outside Germany (and the EU), a bank transfer is not possible or is difficult and prohibitively e
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by AnonHP 3y ago
DigitalOcean, even before it had huge layoffs, blocked my new account and wouldn’t allow me to pay. There was absolutely no support whatsoever for that. Just a template email and no other way to escalate or write to a human. I can only imag
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> It was probably built around the assumption that Apple can always fully scrutinize the binary of each application that makes it onto the device and remotely delete any apps that misbehave AFAIK, Play Protect on Android already does thi
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by AnonHP 3y ago
What would you classify Signal as, with its stickers, cryptocurrency (MobileCoin), etc.?
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by AnonHP 3y ago
I kept getting closer and closer to the speed of light, but before I crossed even 2 million light years (I think), I was staring at the Big Bang. Then I remembered that the diameter of the observable universe is about 90 billion light years
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by AnonHP 3y ago
My need is actually when I’m out somewhere fairly remote where there’s no WiFi Internet connection, but there’s either 4G or 5G data, the phones are running iOS and Android and are in close physical proximity with each other. Is there somet
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> So what do you, the reader, do next? Sadly (for me), this section only lists alternatives like Mastodon and Pleroma (for Twitter), Pixelfed for Instagram and PeerTube for YouTube. What I would like to see is something like Facebook Gro
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by AnonHP 3y ago
These look nice. You can do a lot more to customize an icon with the “Studio” on this site as long as you’re using a desktop browser. Pasting from the Studio page [1] (emphasis mine): > The Studio is the set of tools displayed in the lef
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by AnonHP 3y ago
Another layperson here. Yes, higher unemployment is certainly a possibility. But with higher interest rates, it’s not just businesses that are affected. It’s anyone who needs credit for any purpose (buying a home appliance, buying a home, b
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> On iPhone at least you can require passcode by holding down the side button and either of the volume buttons for three seconds. Just ignore the power down/SoS screen that comes up (or tap cancel) - by the time you see it Face&#x2F
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by AnonHP 3y ago
I think the only point you either didn’t get from the comments or have ignored is that there are some people who are willing to pay a small price just for push notifications while self hosting, but not needing support or anything else. That
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by AnonHP 3y ago
Tangential question, since I use feeds but am not an expert in this: why do some feeds lose the articles after sometime while others don’t? Say I have two feeds from two different sites. The newsreader shows only the most recent (10 or 20 o
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> Even if messages are queued, how do you get millions of dollars in queued storage? It's hard for me to imagine... The details are there in this post, but I can offer a few guesses. Users may be using multiple devices. And the serv
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by AnonHP 3y ago
That’s only phone number privacy from other users. Registration would still require a phone number, which is what GP seems to be unhappy about.
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> Signal already has a very hard time competing against the network effects of WhatsApp and Telegram May not be the best thread to say this in, but Signal isn’t as good as Telegram and WhatsApp on features. People can be persuaded to swi
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by AnonHP 3y ago
Not sure the @ symbol does any sort of tagging or notification. You may have better luck by emailing the suggestion to hn@ycombinator.com.
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by AnonHP 3y ago
> Let's assume that out of the 29 bn USD revenue that YouTube brings in 55% is shared with creators. Thus we are left with 13 bn USD. That’s a very poor and totally off assumption to start with, and makes it seem like YouTube is ext
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by AnonHP 3y ago
There's no pricing information for mailpass.io. There isn't even a contact email address or form. I'm hesitant to trust services that do not list the pricing (or future plans for pricing) transparently. Same for not having a
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by AnonHP 3y ago
I’m looking at this on a smartphone screen. The design and fonts are way nicer than HN (which is unimaginative and ugly in comparison). But the fonts on your site are also small and the link/buttons (for collapsing comments) are small
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by AnonHP 3y ago
What do you mean by “losing Apple to India”? It’s not clear to me.

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