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by mlok 5y ago
This was my latest comment on HN, when, 5 days later, I stumbled upon this comment at the top of a random dicussion, and it was exactly that calendar story I was looking for all these years. So here it is for reference, if anyone happen to
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by mlok 5y ago
Wow !! This is amazing. My last comment on HN was 5 days ago when I threw a bottle to the sea for a website I saw years ago : a story told in a calendar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29009014 And there it is !!! I f
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by mlok 5y ago
Maybe the web 1.0 was for exploring ? Maybe the web 2.0 changed that ?
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by mlok 5y ago
A few years ago a few links on HN talked about "the small web", webrings, and drove me to a trove of amazing original little websites exploring the possibilities offered by the web 1.0 mostly. Just like back in the days. And some
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by mlok 5y ago
I didn't know about the centralized vacuum municipal trash collection. I found this short video showing the concept : https://youtu.be/gHmt1GTVlnM
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by mlok 5y ago
When you deactivate your FB account they keep all your datas. I hope you know that. Deleting your account should delete your datas, though. (But I don't 100% trust they do. And maybe some national agencies keep a copy)
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by mlok 5y ago
An alternative may be to listen to songs in a language you don't understand.
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by mlok 5y ago
I agree. Here is one : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD6Ud9BWAAAwVsM.jpg
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by mlok 5y ago
I would make him type his password from muscle memory, into a text editor (he wouldn't see the screen). Then use this "Rosetta Stone 2.0" to manually translate the keys sequence into QWERTY : http://thekindle3books
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by mlok 5y ago
Firefox Multi-Accounts Containers might help a lot in this case : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multi-account-co...
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by mlok 5y ago
This reminds me of the French Fries renamed Freedom Fries in the USA because of France opposition to the invasion of Iraq after 9/11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries The funny thing is that this name c
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by mlok 5y ago
I was attending my client conference when the invited speaker had his windows machine update right in the middle of his powerpoint presentation ! The whole room had to wait about 15 minutes for windows to finish its "important update&q
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by mlok 5y ago
Thank you, I did not know EWG. It looks like the US part of Open Beauty Facts is still lacking (618 products in the USA, whereas there are 16500 products in France). Here visitors add products infos and images which are then free for all to
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by mlok 5y ago
Related : Open Beauty Facts : https://world.openbeautyfacts.org/ This database of products is a sister project of Open Food Facts : https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ Many apps are based on these two DB.
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by mlok 5y ago
I had a look at OnePlus and checked wikipedia to know which country it comes from, and... wow : * benchmark results faked by software * personal data collection * backdoor All of these do not appear on the English page so there's a lin
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by mlok 5y ago
> Frankly, before some of the PinePhone distro mature, this is the only really usable Linux distro based independent mobile OS. Did you take PureOS into account ? It is the Linux OS installed on the Librem 5 phone. https://pur
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by mlok 5y ago
Mobile Linux is here : https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
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by mlok 5y ago
Hello, I am using Firefox on Ubuntu with an AZERTY keyboard. I couldn't move with (unnatural) WASD, nor (more natural) ZQSD, nor (most natural) arrow keys. I could look around using the mouse. A couple of empty white rectangles were in
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by mlok 5y ago
The show for these experimental animations was called "MTV's oddities" [1] and my favorite one was The Maxx [2]. I've never seen anything better actually. [1] https://youtu.be/JlkzHSDoMpc [2] https:&#x2
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by mlok 5y ago
I just discovered this and it looks promising : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27870399
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by mlok 5y ago
If I understand well, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people (not the French State) but the pedestal was american : there was none when the statue arrived, and it waited for a year there in its crates. "The promoters
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by mlok 5y ago
I haven't had the chance to try on PC yet, but please make sure that WASD keys map to something usable on an AZERTY keyboards. It's a common problem with QWERTY-centric games (ESDF or arrows keys would work on any keyboard maybe ?
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by mlok 5y ago
The demo is very buggy and unplayable on iPhone/Firefox : screen size is wrong, plane can only fire and cannot move, and the demo ends up crashing.
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by mlok 5y ago
It works with or without internet : Bluetooth is enough. Check their "How it works" page.
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by mlok 5y ago
I have long dark hair. I can notice this myself. Some of my hairs are dark at the tip, then turn white, then turn dark again nearing the root. That surprised me the first time ! And yes I can count them : easy to spot the white loners in th
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by mlok 5y ago
Lots of problems for me too. First reaction : angry at that bloated FB nudging me hard to switch to their app Second reaction : thankful for this pain to help me quit (removal of messenger from the mobile web version finally coming to iPhon
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by mlok 5y ago
Leonardo Da Vinci used to write backwards in his notebooks, in order for his ideas and secrets not to be stolen.
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by mlok 5y ago
Grobid sounds like "gros bide" in French, meaning either "fat belly" (slang) or "big fail".
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by mlok 5y ago
I would say that if you change a physical address it makes sense to be there in person to prove it. This could be seen as a kind of security/verification feature.
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by mlok 5y ago
I didn't know about actibump thank you. I have long wanted to see solutions like this (although I would have loved it to be low tech : some clever engineering device that would mechanically make a bump if speed is too high) I wish they

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