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by benja123 6y ago
Israel is dealing with a more aggressive strain right now (the UK mutation). What they have found, according to our news sites at least, is that it is causing a lot more of the under 65 group to become severely ill. Some groups are more aff
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by benja123 6y ago
Maker here. Over the past few years I have become more and more interested in how we can replace some traditional SaaS offerings with versions that don’t use cookies or track customers. I don’t view myself as someone who is massively anti
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Show HN: I made a cookie free, zero tracking embeddable live chat widget(tinylivechat.com)
3 points by benja123 6y ago|1 comments
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by benja123 6y ago
Fair comment. On the other hand, I don't think every site wants to have to build each feature themselves - and self hosting also isn't always an option. I wonder how we can solve that issue - it's definitely a problem.
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by benja123 6y ago
I tend to agree. I think the big issue is that when we use a site, we are being tracked by that site and most of the third party providers they use. Be it Analytics, Livechat or something else.
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by benja123 6y ago
Built with phoenix liveview - this is a zero tracking embeddable live chat for your website. We don't use cookies or store your sites visitors IP addresses. Moreover you can give your site visitors a way to delete the chats they had
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Show HN: Tinylivechat - A cookie free, privacy friendly embeddable LiveChat(tinylivechat.com)
6 points by benja123 6y ago|5 comments
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by benja123 6y ago
You are mistaken to assume the west is the reason for the present instability in the Middle East. You can argue it plays a large part, but it's part is no bigger than Russia, China and Turkey (I am intentionally leaving out Iran and S
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by benja123 6y ago
I didn't read the entire article. I take issue with any article that uses female education as a reason for the decrease in family size. I understand where it is coming from, but I think it is oversimplified... Increased female educatio
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by benja123 6y ago
Not an expert on the subject but I am sure when it comes to reform judaism this is incorrect. Reform judaism started in the late 1700s and the numbers grew significantly until relatively recently. Having 2-3 kids among reform Jews was the
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by benja123 6y ago
Thanks!
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by benja123 6y ago
I have never liked AMP and I really don't like this. I also find myself wondering if this has any security implications. I mean if AMP effectively disguises the original URL could it not be used for phishing? To be clear I know very li
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by benja123 6y ago
Congrats! If you don't mind sharing what made you make the jump to full time?
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by benja123 6y ago
I definitely get that. We were pretty lucky - we were able to bring in a babysitter in the morning which was really helpful (still allowed here in IL). Also when our first child was born my wife and I had a business together so we had a
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by benja123 6y ago
https://readastorytome.com I did a show hackernews a month ago and it did pretty well. It's been pretty great since then. I have had people write to me thank you emails and some pretty cool stories like one grandparent t
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by benja123 6y ago
No - video stream is webrtc, pdf viewer is pdf.js We use liveview + hooks(where necessary) for all of the interactive parts on the site, switching pages, changing books etc...
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by benja123 6y ago
Congratulations Chris, Jose and the Phoenix core team on Phoenix 1.5 and the livedashboard. I used liveview in https://readastorytome.com . I posted it here last week and it stayed on the front page for a good few hours. I was
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by benja123 7y ago
Thank you so much for this comment. Really made my day.
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by benja123 7y ago
Thanks hoomank. I will look at adding that option in the future. When you say it could be used to help people study for their exams, do you mean in one on one sessions or do you mean group sessions?
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by benja123 7y ago
You are correct - that is one way, but with webrtc there is also a way to give users an option to pick which audio/video source
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by benja123 7y ago
They are all CC licensed books. See the footer and bookshelf where I include the license and link back to the sources
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by benja123 7y ago
I don't use docker - I have never really used it and wasn't going to start. It's using one DO server, a 4 vCPU, but could be using much much less. Before posting I upgraded it from a 5$ machine The turnserver is a $5 DO serve
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by benja123 7y ago
You could actually build this really quickly. - Create a site where people can manually upload phone videos of them reading a story to their child. - Store it in S3 or Glacier - Have a request access section - basically a contact me form.
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by benja123 7y ago
edeliver + distillery Followed this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-auto...
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by benja123 7y ago
When you think about it, these files won't need to be accessed very often or quickly, so you could reduce the costs to $2.5 per GB by using AWS Glacier. I mean what is an extra 3-5 hour wait when you have already been waiting 50 years
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by benja123 7y ago
That story really gets to me. With Covid-19 it's not just getting sick, it's getting sick and then being isolated from your family and loved ones knowing you may never see them again. Then you have the health care workers who are
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by benja123 7y ago
Thank you!
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by benja123 7y ago
Can you send me a screenshot? Send it to ben@readastorytome.com
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by benja123 7y ago
Interesting - I tried it and it worked in firefox. Are you blocking Websockets by any chance? Perhaps it's your firewall. I am using phoenix liveview which uses websockets for everything.
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by benja123 7y ago
Mobile or desktop?

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