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by gkbrk 6y ago
Web Bluetooth and Web USB, along with other useless things like Web Battery that Google loves don't make the web more powerful. It only serves to make the web more bloated and user hostile. And making new browsers that much harder to i
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by gkbrk 6y ago
>We just don't call them spyware. Who doesn't call trackers spyware? Everyone with a slightly-above-average sense of privacy has been calling them spyware and blocking them for years.
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Don't roll your own crypto if you are releasing a product or if you are working on critical software. DO roll your own crypto [1] for learning, messing around if you enjoy recreational programming. It's an awesome topic to play wi
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Unless you have a large sum of your life savings invested in hype-driven cryptos, why would you get emotional from the headlines? The only emotion I feel when I see cryptos going high or low is "wow, neat" or "hmm, too bad&qu
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by gkbrk 6y ago
In case you've been skipping the intros of your tech podcasts, TWiT hosts a large number of tech podcasts.
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by gkbrk 6y ago
If you want to go the other way, and have the phones ping the network instead of the other way around, there are applications that regularly publish to message queues. The Android app Presence Publisher [1] for example publishes to MQTT. [1
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Emacs will probably be better in the long run for Lisp, but you can use any editor to begin. For Common Lisp, SBCL [1] is probably the best free option. If you want to learn Scheme instead, Chicken Scheme [2] and Racket [3] are popular and
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by gkbrk 6y ago
I like using https://news.ycombinator.com
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Sway works with any GPU that implements the proper API on Linux. Nvidia has a bad case of NIH syndrome and does their own thing independent from other GPU manufacturers. So it would be more accurate to say Nvidia does not do sway.
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by gkbrk 6y ago
If the submission was for Sway, it would be equally sad that it was bound to Wayland. I think projects like this should link each other as alternatives though, to aid in discovery. Since they are for different protocols, I don't think
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by gkbrk 6y ago
You can also put a DuckDuckGo search box, works well for website search and supports DDG instead of Alphabet. EDIT: Shameless plug if it gets the author to go with a non-google option https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/DuckDuck
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Wow! The submission list for that account looks like an RSS feed for Microsoft stuff. Either a novice marketer from Microsoft, a huge Microsoft fan, or someone trying to farm karma without understanding the demographics of HN.
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by gkbrk 6y ago
I have a script [1] that uploads my website to BunnyCDN. [1]: https://github.com/gkbrk/scripts/blob/master/bunnycdn-sync.p...
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by gkbrk 6y ago
There was a recent discussion on this here [1]. Posting a link in case people who shared useful information in that thread miss this one. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513514
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A Syntax for Self-Tracking(gibney.de)
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by gkbrk 6y ago
It is cheaper or even profitable for corporations to take actions that either don't improve, or actively undermine the ecosystem and the environment. Make it profitable to be clean, or force them to be clean by government action, and t
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Very happy with Namecheap [1]. I have 3 domains registered with them, one of them going back a long time. Never had problems with anything from search to payment. They have 2FA support that works with the open source TOTP apps too. [1]: ht
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by gkbrk 6y ago
LinkedIn's sales pitch is basically a connected professional network of people that interact with each other, topics. and companies a lot. Their second strong point is the fact that they have valuable data hidden in their social graph.
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by gkbrk 6y ago
I use the bookmark manager that is built-in to Firefox. I also use a browser extension that checks for dead bookmarks and redirects in order to update them for me. I try to keep them organized and tidy in a hierarchy. I bookmark any website
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Just upvote stuff you like, and ignore stuff you don't like. If other people find similar stuff interesting, the front page will be filled with them. If something made front-page, there are enough people upvoting it that your downvote
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by gkbrk 6y ago
This is a great reason to avoid closed ecosystems. A raspi box, or just connecting your laptop over HDMI or Wifi will avoid this issue and you will always have your content available. Over time, the internet is filling up with horror storie
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Not sure if it will work for fiction books, but I have seen people self publish e-books hidden behind a simple Stripe payment. Should be relatively easy to set up as well. I believe ddevault published his Wayland book this way.
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by gkbrk 6y ago
I can recommend Thinkpads. I am very happy with my T495. It is a solid piece of hardware, really nice keyboard and probably has the best support for Linux. I heard they used to send their new laptops for free to kernel developers to ensure
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Since I write my emails in Vim/Emacs and then copy them to my email client, I just keep commonly sent emails as text files in a directory and :r them whenever I want to use them as a base. Speaking of, I should probably switch to a TUI
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by gkbrk 6y ago
Looks cool, although I would expect usage stats or demographics at least. Or perhaps URLs of GIFs that have the same emotion. As it stands, there isn't too much information on it and the smallest API tier probably has enough requests t
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by gkbrk 6y ago
The Android app "Sleep as Android" [1][2] is awesome as well. Uses ultrasound to detect your movement/breathing and wakes you up at the correct part of the sleep cycle, even if your calculation goes wrong due to falling aslee
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by gkbrk 6y ago
I use a plaintext double-entry system now. Wrote a small Python script to parse it as well. I put the code up here [1]. Before that, I was using SQLite with a shell script for a while to keep track of my expenses, code here [2]. [1]: https
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Linux Kernel Overlapping Internet Fragment Bug(metin.nextc.org)
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Plaintext Budgeting(gkbrk.com)
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Primordial Particle Systems(youtube.com)
2 points by gkbrk 7y ago|0 comments

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