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by jcul 7mo ago
It's funny, but double tapping the power button to switch on the light is one of the things I miss the most when using GrapheneOS. Most android phones I've had have had this feature, either double press or long press to get light.
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by jcul 7mo ago
I understand how transistors work too, and how they can result in a picture on a screen. But I think most people outside the software / electronics areas don't and to them it's just magic.
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by jcul 8mo ago
The last time I came across Forensic Architecture was their report on the Beirut Port Explosion, someone posted it here on HN. Mind blowing analysis. https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-...
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by jcul 8mo ago
This struck me too, the fact that this task is so impossible. Language changes in the time axis but also in the location and social axes. The best we can probably hope for is one snapshot in time. However this is meant to be a blogger, jour
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by jcul 8mo ago
Isn't organic maps itself a community fork of maps.me?
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by jcul 8mo ago
All of my banking related apps work fine. The only apps that haven't worked are Google wallet for NFC payments and, strangely "macrofactor" a calorie tracking app. Google wallet works for things like library cards, tickets et
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by jcul 8mo ago
Reminds me of Amelie's revenge in the movie.
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by jcul 8mo ago
I'm repeatedly shocked by the images of these ICE agents dressed like they are soldiers in a war zone. I was just thinking how in my country immigration officials would be probably wearing formal clothes and have clipboards and paperwo
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by jcul 9mo ago
I can understand the outrage. Was there any motivation given for why they cut it down? Just vandalism?
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by jcul 9mo ago
Yeah, even if I'm on a plane or a train I probably wouldn't pull out my laptop. Lack of space, vibrations etc. even though I can do a lot of work offline if the internet is spotty. It's just not enjoyable. I prefer to read or
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by jcul 9mo ago
In Ireland, many child care providers use it as the only way to communicate, posting service updates, photos etc to WhatsApp groups. Same goes for kids sports activities.
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by jcul 10mo ago
Like others I would recommend starting with spirited away, should be suitable, and enjoyable for kids in 10-15 bracket.
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by jcul 11mo ago
I don't believe that's true. The article suggests flooding the system with dummy "should send" transactions so that they become the majority. Quote: > One such solution that I know of is one that Carl Cook talked abou
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by jcul 11mo ago
Why not just make all the abandon transactions into fake discarded transactions, discard them at the send later. E.g. by poisoning the frame checksum or setting something invalid on them, so they get discarded. Seems you'd be doing thi
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by jcul 11mo ago
Yup, another inbox only user here. Unread means it's a to-do. In Gmail you can set it to group all unread at the top. Sometimes I'll open an email and mark unread again if I need to come back to it.
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by jcul 11mo ago
> The only victim of the accident was Wim Delaere, a computer science student reported to have been either 18 or 19 years old.[4][5][1] He was sleeping alone after celebrating the end of his university exams the previous day when the MiG
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by jcul 1y ago
This sounds really annoying. I prefer claudes opt in implementation, where if you want to reference an earlier chat you can just say, remember we spoke about xyz and otherwise the feature seems to be completely off.
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by jcul 1y ago
Do you browse hacker news on your phone? Genuine question, I don't use social media but I do spend a lot of time on HN on my phone.
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by jcul 1y ago
Yeah that's what I was referring to. In relation to the tonies. It would be a competitor to the tonie box. Both are popular in Ireland. I did see some stuff about people reverse engineering the tonies back when we first got it, not sur
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by jcul 1y ago
There's also yoto box, which lets you create "make your own" cards.
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by jcul 1y ago
This is actually pretty amazing, definitely the most impressive pwa I've ever seen. It took me about 3 minutes to add to my home screen, export a opml from pocket casts and import it to whatever. Having offline downloads, ability to ad
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by jcul 1y ago
This looks really cool. I thought in the past about implementing something like this myself. I have use anki, and briefly mochi. Having plain text cards that are simple to edit and manage with basic linux tools is really important. I have u
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by jcul 1y ago
I believe most of those POS systems can operate in offline mode, in Europe at least. I have friends who work for large event organizers, and they have spoken about how if the system is offline the bars can continue to take payments, but the
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by jcul 1y ago
That's actually a good idea. I actually hate leaving something not compiling in the evening, it feels like things are unfinished, but it helps getting back into it. I tend to use this more when taking a break for an hour or two. But it
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by jcul 1y ago
To add to that, leaving something in a very obviously broken unfinished state really helps to jump back into the flow the next morning, or whenever you come back. I actually find it very hard to do this, to walk away with some code that isn
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by jcul 1y ago
Most people take no notice of this stuff IMO. I see it regularly in WhatsApp groups when someone gets a new phone (presumably, or they are being impersonated!).
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by jcul 1y ago
Thanks, I was puzzled by that. They kind of gloss over it in the original link. Looking forward to reading those.
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by jcul 1y ago
I read something before about how if you've bought a vacuum cleaner, maybe there is an issue and you return it, so you are still more likely than a random person in purchasing one again soon. Not sure if there's ant truth in that.
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by jcul 1y ago
Same here, funny to find there are others. I got a laugh from how this page ironically disables select, actually makes it difficult for me to read it!
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by jcul 1y ago
Tailscale works great, but it's annoying to have to have an always on VPN on android for it. I need to switch tailscale off if I need to switch to another VPN. Also when I have it on my private DNS stops working, which to be fair I hav

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