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by ckrailo 7y ago
I mostly shared the Wired author's experience, but theming is what made me switch to DDG everywhere! If you've themed your whole OS, terminal, text editor, etc to your favorite theme (solarized, nord, etc), then DDG is the search
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Would_you_like_to_know_more.gif? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier (I found this mildly interesting!)
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by ckrailo 7y ago
It's definitely public, but it might not have an easy-to-use online portal. I bet a FOIA request or similar offline method would get the whole set. (Source: https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/for-voters/voter
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Political party affiliations are set during voter registration, which in some states can occur at the same time as getting a driver's license. (Setting a party affiliation gets you a ballot for that party's primaries.) So it'
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by ckrailo 7y ago
On top of using Firefox as my default browser everywhere because I want to see it have more than the 5% user share mentioned at the end of the article, I've additionally replaced Chrome itself with Brave when I need Chromium rendering.
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Your DNS (lots of threads/comments on HN, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 ). tl;dr: Don't use 1.1.1.1
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by ckrailo 7y ago
I'd like a locally-hosted IFTTT+Appium type thing that'd use my local hardware/software/applications in place of myself... basically turning all interactions (viewing data, posting data, checking for updates/changes
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by ckrailo 7y ago
I'm surprised that FB after all these years hasn't offered something as simple as a paid upgrade for removing ads and maybe better photo storage or something. Maybe that lack of long-term feature is endemic to the capitalist syste
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by ckrailo 7y ago
^ This. My iPhones usually got janky after using tons of apps but always after jailbreaking them (and installing yet more apps). Same with Android. Stay clean on mobile!
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by ckrailo 7y ago
I appreciate and agree with lots of your commentary, but just wanted to point out that Messages on the web is a thing now via https://messages.google.com/ and scanning a QR code in the Messages app. (It's one of the th
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by ckrailo 7y ago
It's a good thing the post is a teaching tool and not documentation!
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by ckrailo 7y ago
I wish there was more content about that on HN in general. The book On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins was a fantastic read on HTM and similar concepts. ( https://amzn.to/2JyQDF3 )
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Super scratch-notes version: - Use sendgrid to send emails, it'll be free at your usage - Make the login form only accept an email address, dont risk saving passwords, display a generic "if you signed up you'll get an email s
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Browsers already follow developer whims, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Fe... YouTubeTV uses feature policy to disable the browser's picture-in-picture feature.
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by ckrailo 7y ago
I'm a fan of https://unifi-protect.ui.com/
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Discovered I can share it as a link: https://start.duckduckgo.com/?kae=%23073642&kj=%23073642++&k...
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Solarized DuckDuckGo made me switch... here's a shareable link with the custom colors: https://start.duckduckgo.com/?kae=%23073642&kj=%23073642++&k...
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Solarized Dark Duck Go Theme: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance Background Color: #002b36 Header Color: #073642 Result Title Color: #fdf6e3 Result Visited Title Color: #93a1a1 Result Description Color:
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by ckrailo 7y ago
Unfortunately, I found this wholly unconvincing. I sincerely doubt it is a grand ideal, carefully thought-out, or well-funded. Expecting an idealized set of well-crafted axioms for accessing public spaces with demand outstripping supply at
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by ckrailo 7y ago
I think all of the above should be the expected experiences, including expecting poor customer service and shopping at stores on Black Friday and subpar dining on Valentines. Businesses are human and every business has their most stressful
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by ckrailo 8y ago
Great work on the book and RubyMotion!
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by ckrailo 9y ago
The envelopes are not prepaid in Oregon either, that was an oops. (Or, at least they aren't in Washington and Clackamas counties!)
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by ckrailo 9y ago
A friend's software company has seen very low turnover by increasing retirement benefits by an order of magnitude and sinking them into SEP IRAs.
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Zuckerberg and Musk are both wrong about AI(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ckrailo 9y ago|0 comments
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by ckrailo 9y ago
I don't think a parking lot in rural Bend (or any rural American town) is the best example to use. People in Bend are going to rely on cars a lot more than people in downtown Portland and property is likely cheaper + regulated less.
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Moom 3.2.8 Released(manytricks.com)
2 points by ckrailo 9y ago|0 comments
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by ckrailo 9y ago
I wish ScreenHero would get open-sourced or at least fully supported as a separate piece of software. I actually think it's pretty perfect in it's current feature set. I was blown away when it got axed so fast. The multi-mouse cap
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by ckrailo 9y ago
I found this story by checking Google for updates in the news... sounds like the TSA has reversed course: http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2017/05/05/tsa-fo...
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by ckrailo 10y ago
It might be. For example, I'm in the US and my friends that /work for Apple/ can't figure out how to get me a Korean keyboard like http://www.apple.com/kr/shop/product/MB110KH/ .
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Adobe angers Chrome users by bundling browser plugin with security update(arstechnica.com)
224 points by ckrailo 10y ago|40 comments

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