Pooge

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by Pooge 5y ago
I don't remember hearing "jokes about white people", but literally every country in Europe has some very stereotypical jokes (those that get old very quickly, especially if you immigrated) about it or its citizens. It's
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Ask HN: Are Wise and Revolut good?
2 points by Pooge 5y ago|3 comments
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by Pooge 5y ago
It doesn't require any special software to get in the beta. You sign up, get invited, log in and search. I quite like it, but the price tag will not be justified if it's just a Google frontend. This is another universe in itself,
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by Pooge 5y ago
I would much rather have a repository system like F-Droid (or you could compare it to Debian/AUR/openSUSE) where the publisher has to create a repository that respects some kind of standard so that they can distribute their softwa
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Ask HN: What's the best way to generate strong passwords?
4 points by Pooge 5y ago|2 comments
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by Pooge 5y ago
> I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues This is not my experience with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Worked flawlessly with Proton but it didn't even launch correctly on Windo
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by Pooge 5y ago
Do you think this will lead to the downfall of Vimeo? How are you and your colleagues interpreting this move?
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by Pooge 5y ago
As long as the standard[1] is respected (looking at you, Steam), I don't mind having the option to turn it on. I don't like it being forced on me, though. > The authenticator apps are probably worse than SMS in terms of the int
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by Pooge 5y ago
I'm not a Ubuntu user anymore, but I still want to give my opinion: I hate staying behind on updates. I'd rather have it break a few days after release than postpone the trouble and wait until EOL. But that's just me. From my
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by Pooge 5y ago
I've just seen your article[1] about business model. Do you think ads will be more sustainable than a subscription-based model? Since a lot of people that will use your search engine know how a computer works (i.e., they know something
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by Pooge 5y ago
How do providers check that the traffic is BitTorrent? I've always wondered.
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by Pooge 5y ago
> Grievance study majors At this point I'm convinced you're not willing to argue in good faith. > this number can be considered zero or statistically insignificant noise Fair enough. According to the ACLU[1], "many inca
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by Pooge 5y ago
> Imagine thinking those quoted people are "experts in the field" instead of woke virtue signalers. I mean... you'd think that a "doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan studying gender and sexual violence wi
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Firefox Privacy – The Complete How-To Guide for 2022(restoreprivacy.com)
2 points by Pooge 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pooge 5y ago
I do it manually every now and then. As for an automatic approach, you could try KeeShare[1] or Syncthing[2]. [1]: https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide.html#_databas... [2]: https://syncthing.net&#
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by Pooge 5y ago
KeePassXC is the way to go. Install F-Droid on your Android smartphone, get KeePassDX. This way, you have a desktop and Android client. I'd recommend setting a very strong password, with a key (you can generate one when you create the
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by Pooge 5y ago
> If a file leaks some day and attacker gains an access to the file, he has infinite time to try to break a password and you cannot do anything about it. Yes, good point. However, in the database security settings, you can set a decrypti
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by Pooge 5y ago
> The purpose of saying “hi” is to check for presence in order to initiate a live conversation. It sends a message that the person wishes to speak live whenever that is convenient. No, it does not. If the person wants to do a call, you e
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by Pooge 5y ago
> If the opening message doesn't have enough information for an immediate action to be taken, it doesn't have enough information. Indeed, this is what I wanted to convey in the pseudo-conversation in my previous comment.
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by Pooge 5y ago
> Do you just run up to people and ask them a question in person, or do some kind of greeting first? The problem is not whether you're greeting or not. Nobody complained about having a greeting in their messages. The problem is that
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by Pooge 5y ago
Bonus points if the greeting is included in the same message as the inquiry, so as to not be notified multiple times for the same thing.
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by Pooge 5y ago
Yes! I'm with you there. I didn't see it much in IM services, but Reddit is a pro in terms of "Let me post the screenshot of the Tweet instead of linking to it".
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by Pooge 5y ago
I was reminded of this when I saw a similar website on the frontpage earlier[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639225
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No hello – please don't just say hello in chat(nohello.net)
249 points by Pooge 5y ago|77 comments
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by Pooge 5y ago
The pronoun "they" is enough if you don't know the person's gender[1] ;). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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by Pooge 5y ago
What about 1347? Or 1816? Or 1914 and the 40 years that followed? Worse years did exist.
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by Pooge 5y ago
I've been using it for a few months now and I like it. However, I don't want to pay more than $100/year for a Google/Bing frontend. Startpage works quite well for that. If they made their own indexer I would go all-in, a
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by Pooge 5y ago
It will be a paid service after it exits beta. I guess accounts will still be required.
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by Pooge 5y ago
We are cutting more and more trees, despite their well-established effectiveness at absorbing CO2[1]. What can we even do? We are pushing in the right direction for EVs - albeit 10 years too late in my opinion, but we are hurting the planet
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by Pooge 5y ago
The 1% rule[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

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