mcnesium

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by mcnesium 2y ago
What are some use cases for this?
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by mcnesium 3y ago
HN, please explain why everyone is so upset with having a time offset in the city/region/country next door. In Germany, there are 16 states. Many of them have different laws, e.g. regarding store hours and so on. Neighboring count
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by mcnesium 4y ago
> discuss the topic of being removed from mailing lists with people with similar interests lol
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by mcnesium 5y ago
for the majority of people it should also be fine to walk (yes, walk!) from their appartment to the next bus/tram/subway station around the corner.
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by mcnesium 5y ago
and I use it almost every day. It's great, thank you very much!
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by mcnesium 5y ago
Arthur est un perroquet!
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by mcnesium 5y ago
reply to my e-mail to support@twitter.com: > We appreciate you reaching out, but Twitter doesn’t monitor emails sent to this support address. To contact our support team, please submit a request through our online form. We also have reso
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by mcnesium 5y ago
Sorry for the noise everyone, I found out how to do it: Do not register an account only with an e-mail address of yours and then ruefully append your phone number later because you are denied any usefulness of the account otherwise. Instead
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by mcnesium 5y ago
I would, but what address should I use? I mean, I could just write to support@twitter.com or whatever, but I would be amazed if that would return anything. They do not announce an official mail contact anywhere. Looks like they don't a
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by mcnesium 5y ago
Sorry for sort of OT, but my post on Reddit has been removed, and I hope that Twitter people might read this here.
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Ask HN: How do I successfully register a new Twitter account these days
3 points by mcnesium 5y ago|5 comments
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by mcnesium 5y ago
My almost 70 years old dad uses Pass for iOS in his everyday life. He does not have a clue about what's going on under the hood (gpg, git, my instance of gitea where it pushes to, me being able to intervene or fix stuff from somewhere
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by mcnesium 6y ago
Using Wikipedias language switcher to translate things seems to be quite common here, so I thought I'd share how I moved the languages up on top, so I don't have to scroll down on smaller screens or when zoomed in. In `<firefox
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by mcnesium 6y ago
OT: is that level difference to baseline in the logo intended?
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by mcnesium 7y ago
but then you wouldn't do "search engine optimization", but rather proper web engineering.
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by mcnesium 8y ago
It is clearly explained in this 1968 movie, how and why the Sphinx happens to lack her nose: https://youtu.be/RFnfR26jnzo?t=2033
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by mcnesium 8y ago
> Easter Egg during Christmas season true punk!
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by mcnesium 8y ago
This is why we all should not be using these kinds of services, at least in a production setting. We should run our own services based on open source software, federate them, share and improve them, and never depend on any third party.
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by mcnesium 8y ago
Google and Facebook are the first proof for why the Do Not Track header is bullshit. Privacy should be the default, and if I for some reason want to be sniffed all around the web, I can happily opt-in.
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by mcnesium 8y ago
> "Why would you want to do that?" I don't remember a Linus Torvalds say "you're not supposed to hold it this way" to anyone. Instead, …
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by mcnesium 8y ago
It feels awkward that it is called "exotic". This exposes the common understanding of todays web as a set of services, that everyone is supposed and used to consume, while anything out of that scope is not regarded as normal. This
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by mcnesium 8y ago
Why? Because it does not look like todays medium.com blogs or default-skinned github.io pages? Twitter or Facebook posts? Having indiviually looking web sites is the internet. Sadly, most people today don't even actually use the inte
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The story of my Thinkpad trackpoint(mcnesium.com)
1 points by mcnesium 9y ago|0 comments
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by mcnesium 9y ago
What's wrong with passwordstore.org? It's not a service which I am giving my stuff, but just some handy script sitting on top of well-known distribution and security software. Plus tools and plugins for all the clients. There is n
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by mcnesium 9y ago
The very first sentence of the abstract seems a bit too optimistic to me