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by arendtio 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder if I should just quit starting my own side projects and instead take one open-source project and just work to improve the quality. No new and shiny stuff, but boring bread and butter business. For example, I like XMPP, bu
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by arendtio 6y ago
I like the idea :-) Could even become something like an interactive search experience e.g. having a button 'remove all search results from this domain' or 'add domain to blocklist'.
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by arendtio 6y ago
I wonder who tells the story that cloud computing has something to do with reducing complexity. In my world, cloud computing is a bout scalability and making things as complex as they need to be to be scalable. This rarely means that comple
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by arendtio 6y ago
Is there some kind of search phrase where you would say, that your search engine returns better results than the competition?
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by arendtio 6y ago
new-hacker-tab.com Motivation: I wanted to have a new-tab page for my browser that show things that are actually useful for me like a few links, a weather forecast, best-HN and a notepad to dump some information. So I built a website, which
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by arendtio 6y ago
Not necessarily. In the past, there were also reports which showed, that if the Facebook App is installed on the same device, it would have access to the decrypted messages (not sure for which platform though).
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by arendtio 6y ago
Well, what is not fine though, is the fact, that Apple neither allows other browsers on iOS nor implements the 'Push API' for Safari. This combination makes it impossible to build a chat apps using web technologies (which would lo
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by arendtio 6y ago
A good XMPP solution for non-techs is quicksy.im (which is based on the very solid Android Client 'Conversations'). However, while I use XMPP on a daily basis, we have one big issue: There is no good iOS client. So far I have test
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by arendtio 6y ago
The core issue seems to be, that companies want to profit from the information they can extract from communication and governments don't want to create laws, to make end-to-end encryption mandatory and information extraction illegal, a
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by arendtio 6y ago
> But the data isn't so clear. While I am not going to answer your questions, I am very careful when it comes to comparing data across countries. There are enough open questions when it comes to interpreting the data from a single c
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by arendtio 6y ago
It would be interesting to see how many more kernel oops appear on machines without ECC compared to those with ECC.
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by arendtio 6y ago
Yes, the real problem is the perspective and not the actual development. New languages are of no value by themselves. It is like counting the tools in your toolbox instead of the things you built with them. So looking at the number of proje
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by arendtio 6y ago
Sounds like the computer game mud runners was inspired by a similar story.
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by arendtio 6y ago
Depends on the importance of the meeting and the status of the person who is responsible. If you live in a corporate environment where status matters, your kids should better not detail a meeting where you are the person with a low status c
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by arendtio 6y ago
Would be cool if it was compatible with Tree Style Tabs ;-) In fact, one feature I am missing in Tree Style Tabs is the ability to save a list of tabs as a text file to archive it and to open/import it at a later point in time again. S
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by arendtio 6y ago
I use Nextcloud for many years now and for many different use-cases, but photos is not part of it. Mostly because my Nextcloud runs on a SSD and my photos are too many. In addition, I feel like the Nextcloud performance and feature set woul
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by arendtio 6y ago
There are two projects I would mention in the same spirit: - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed While I think photoprism has a very similar scope, pixe
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by arendtio 6y ago
> We used an Excel spreadsheet-based model with dozens of tabs containing complex formulas, endless pivot tables and unintelligible VBA code. > The tangled mess of VBA was re-written into independent Python modules, each of which perf
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by arendtio 6y ago
Exactly what I thought :D The QR-Code scrolling with a marquee effect, the globe turning at the bottom and the retro icon style combined with modern fonts. Looks awesome!
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by arendtio 6y ago
In this article you can find statistics about the amount of old Android versions still in use: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/lets-encrypt-comes-u...
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by arendtio 6y ago
So you mean 'Non Government' == 'Non Profit'? I know that the term NGO is used for Non Profits, but strictly speaking I think that comes more from the term 'Organization' (as opposed to company) than from the t
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by arendtio 6y ago
Took me a while to find out that just because my Thinkpad Notebook supports DisplayPort 1.2 and has Thunderbolt, it does not mean I can actually use the specified resolutions with the Thinkpad USB-C Dock Gen 2. For reference, DisplayPort 1.
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by arendtio 6y ago
I prefer Vue but I think both are valid mainstream choices nowadays.
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by arendtio 6y ago
Not having bash installed by default is not the issue here. The issue is that macOS comes with a buggy version of bash and those bugs cause valid scripts to fail in a unique way. So at first you might think everything is just fine (because
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by arendtio 6y ago
Yes, I wonder too why is is necessary, especially because my PC is completely fan-less :-/ However, over the day is is barely audible and it only comes to my mind when I am sitting in front of the PC late at night (+ without headphones
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by arendtio 6y ago
Yes, fractional scaling is an issue, but I don't think it is as much of an issue as it was a few years ago. In fact, I think the only application that doesn't scale for me is steam currently. Everything else seems to be handled by
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by arendtio 6y ago
Why do you think the LG monitors outside of the Apple collaboration are not good? Recently, I bought two 27GN950, which is a 27" 4k@144Hz gaming monitor with good colors. So far the worst part is the fan and in the long run the absence
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by arendtio 6y ago
This sounds somewhat cynical, but there is certainly some truth to it ;-)
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by arendtio 6y ago
AFAIK Windows doesn't come with any bash out of the box, do you mean, that the WSL bash is an old one too? What is wrong with Alpine and the BSDs? Do they also use old bash versions?
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by arendtio 6y ago
Actually, I think working with a team is a core factor. If you enjoy working with your team there are a lot of things others can help you out with. However, you are right, many company cultures happen to struggle to offer a place were you e

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