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Photographer, software architect, whatever.
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75central··on Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
Out of curiosity, why KeePass versus Bitwarden? I've been using Bitwarden for years, but if there's a specific reason I should be using KeePass instead, I'm open to changing.
75central··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
My photography: https://www.75centralphotography.com

Everything else: https://www.robotsprocket.dev

75central··on Helicopter Footage Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities
I found this footage with its overlay from the Dallas Police to be interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXK5mx8NBf4
75central··on 1Password delisting forum posts critical of their new Electron based 1Password 8
What do you mean by "Touch ID support"? Bitwarden has Touch ID support.
75central··on Levitator 1: copter flys from the tips
Reminds me of a tip jet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_jet
75central··on Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world
Another weird data oddity...it's show Jake Gyllenhall as being born in Los Angeles, Texas, but he's actually from Los Angeles, California.
75central··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
When I briefly returned to the Windows world, I wrote a quick-and-dirty application that would clean the shortcut links that installs would clutter my desktop with. https://github.com/MattGHarvey/ShortcutCleaner
75central··on U.S. to release oil from reserves in coordination with other countries
Wouldn't make much of a difference. The MAGA crowd would just start using even more gas "to own the libs".
75central··on Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
I'd love to switch to Jellyfin, but I'm still using Plex as their apps are ubiquitous...It comes pre-installed on most Smart TVs and is available on pretty much every platform.
75central··on France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one
Kind of reminds me of the M/V Stewart J. Cort: http://www.interlake-steamship.com/our-fleet/m-v-stewart-j.-... The "before" pic is amazing: https://imgur.com/dBydq17
75central··on George Bass has died
I worked for him at INA as a researcher and IT guy while a student at Texas A&M in the 1990s and helped design and build INA's first computer-based system for tracking and tagging artifacts and photographs. We had a couple of early Nikon Coolscans and had interns feed those all day long to scan what had to be hundreds of thousands of negatives and slides...they still hadn't finished by the time I left a couple of years later. Dr. Bass had great stories to tell and I always liked hearing about his adventures. RIP.
75central··on Ask HN: Where do you write?
I self-host a couple of blogs using Wordpress. For over eleven years, I've posted a photo every day at https://www.75centralphotography.com/, but that's not really writing. For writing, I've just recently spun up http://www.robotsprocket.com/ to share ephemera, code and other things I've found interesting. Having played around with Medium, Squarespace and Wix, I find WP to be superior in its flexibility and the fact that I'm ensured that I own the content.
75central··on How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom
One of my previous companies did this same thing, but the meeting where people were being laid off (myself included in that group) was held in the large break room. Everyone was crammed in there while a rep from an outside firm retained to actually do the layoffs read a pre-prepared statement. What made it super-awkward was the vending machine guy was there restocking the Coke machine and no one asked him to leave.
75central··on Netflix urged by EU to slow streaming to save internet
Same here. I work from home and before this whole thing started, I'd generally get ~250 Mbps down. Over the last few days, since people started WFH and kids were out of school, I'm lucky to get maybe 15 Mbps. At one point yesterday, I was getting 1.2. Also have seen DNS resolution issues off and on for the past couple of days.
75central··on Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers
My idly wondering one day was when in history did the worldwide available compute power (roughly) equal that of my iPhone 11?
75central··on Impossible Pork
My problem with the Impossible Whopper, at least when I tried it, was that the texture was too much like the bread, so the mouth-feel was off. But maybe I'm so use to eating beef burgers that I expect there to be be gristle/other weird bits to give some texture. I thoroughly enjoy the Beyond Meat burgers, though, as their texture is more meat-like than my admittedly-limited exposure to the Impossible burger.