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by danirod 6y ago
The Silbo Gomero [1] in the Canary Islands falls in this category as well. It was designed to allow far distance communication through the valleys and ravines of the islands. Here [2] is an example. There are now efforts to preserve the lan
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by danirod 6y ago
In countries such as Spain, it is very easy to understand why the country took the lockdown so seriously. For most people, it was easy to choose to stay home when the alternative was to get fined by police, who thoughtfully were patrolling
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by danirod 6y ago
A cool alternative for getting into SDR without purchasing a real device is WebSDR, a webapp to tune and listen to SDR devices that some people have connected online, such as this one (beware, autoplays) [1]. Tune in to 4625 kHZ, and there
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by danirod 6y ago
I remember being a little too hyped over the Pinebook Pro a few months ago and almost getting one, as it looked like a cheap and promising device I could use to test the state of GNU/Linux desktops again, after switching to macOS 6 yea
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by danirod 6y ago
I just tested this with VoiceOver and when it reaches the image, it tries to read aloud the alt text of the image, so it starts reading each character and number, almost as if it went bonkers. Therefore yeah, while it is a cool experiment t
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by danirod 8y ago
You know what else respects users privacy, it's cheaper than newsletters for the content owner, and it's so anonymous you don't even need an e-mail address to start using it? RSS feeds. And please, don't just tell me tha
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Talk, then code(dave.cheney.net)
2 points by danirod 8y ago|0 comments
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Good-Night Tokyo: Pictures from Tokyo in 1992 at 1080p60(youtube.com)
2 points by danirod 8y ago|1 comments
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by danirod 8y ago
> Any local time calculations will need to take into account which country the user is currently in, whether the country has passed a law terminating daylight savings time, and whether the law has now taken effect. I mean, isn't thi
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by danirod 8y ago
Remember when WhatsApp required a subscription? One of the first changes made by Facebook after purchasing WhatsApp was to make it available for free. And now they're complaining they can't milk it enough? Oh dear. I know that a p
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by danirod 8y ago
I changed my privacy settings set on LinkedIn so that no one could see my connections after I started noticing that many recruiters sending invitations were already connected to other people I know or have as a contact otherwise. I strongly
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by danirod 8y ago
Once again, it seems the only way to reach actual human support on the Google ecosystem is by having a "locked out of my account" thread trending on some social network. It simply blows my mind that one of the most powerful tech c
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by danirod 8y ago
They seem to have an union at least here in Spain, and maybe in other countries as well. Last month, workers at a local Amazon ware house in Madrid did a 2-day strike, which was pushed by a national workers union as a complain on the workin
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by danirod 9y ago
> Unfortunately, that means we have to shut down Gemnasium soon. Which is a shame as a non-GitLab, GitHub user, although now I have a reason to migrate to their dependency graph feature introduced last year.
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by danirod 9y ago
It used to be the case. There were yearly subscriptions until some time after Facebook bought the service.
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by danirod 9y ago
The protocols that drive the Indie Web movement are actually open standards published by the W3C Social Web Working Group [1]. This year, some of these standards became W3C Recommendations. Webmentions is the successor to pingbacks and it c
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by danirod 9y ago
Even though I prefer accessing my mail and notes through IMAP, and my calendar, contacts and files through DAV using native apps on my computer and phone, I love using Fastmail's web user interface. It's fast, it's responsive
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by danirod 9y ago
Honestly, I'm all in for PWAs in favour of Chrome Apps. To the final user, a PWA will work the same: an icon and a chrome-less window. However, they are built on top of open standards, so any browser can support PWAs and provide the sa
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by danirod 9y ago
They made an announcement on their blog for this community a few weeks ago [1]. However, it's true it's been quite a silent announcement. No banners on the site, no links... [1] https://github.com/blog/2457-co
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by danirod 9y ago
What is this nightmare? Neither the Space bar, Down Arrow or Page Down keys are working on this page in Firefox. I don't see the scrollbar either, so I cannot guess how much will I have to scroll using the [sigh] mousewheel.
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Introducing the Outlook.com beta(blogs.office.com)
3 points by danirod 9y ago|0 comments
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by danirod 9y ago
Humble Bundle content is DRM-free. Once you pay you get download links in your e-mail for downloading the content. Books are offered in PDF, ePub and Mobi formats. You can back up the books and/or keep the e-mail for future. If you sig
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by danirod 9y ago
Why are Twitter threads so common? What makes them better than a real and accessible blog post? I don't condemn threads, but the user interface and reading experience is so awful that I cannot like them as they currently are. It's
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by danirod 9y ago
Regarding the 'always listening' concerns, on Android 6.0 and above it is possible to grant granular permissions for resources such as microphone or location to applications. Even on applications that use an older SDK where granul
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by danirod 9y ago
Electronic voting is a bad idea and I'd be suspicious on anyone trying to promote it. How can you know that even if the source code for the voting machine is open, the voting machine is running the exact same source code? How can you k
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Photon Rectangular tabs have landed in Firefox Nightly(twitter.com)
2 points by danirod 9y ago|0 comments
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by danirod 9y ago
Researching ideas that previously came to my mind minutes before when I was busier. I write down these kinds of ideas to save them for later and them I put them out of my mind as I'm trying to do my work. Or, I just browse HN. Usually
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by danirod 9y ago
I've been using password managers (KeePass, in my case) for about a year and all I can think is, why I didn't start using them earlier. It is cheaper to generate a long, random password using alphanumerical and special characters
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by danirod 9y ago
I use KeePass to store my passwords plus other sensible data. It's multiplatform and I can have access to my passwords file on macOS using MacPass, on Linux and Windows using KeePassX, and on Android using KeePass2Android. I use Dropbo
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by danirod 9y ago
Who could have predicted that bloating PID 1 process could result in funny CVEs like this!

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