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“Eleven healthy participants” — how is this being extrapolated as a general benefit? The conclusion that it helps only if blood pressure is high and that it doesn’t cause any issues if blood pressure is normal or low seems like a stretch.

Using Signal has been frustrating for me too, though my usage is minimal. In the last few months I’ve seen messages getting delayed in delivery (like the next day or two). That along with user experience issues (pestering often to sync contacts and turn on notifications, not allowing backups on iOS) makes it hard to recommend it.

It’s not about just opinions. Signal is actively hostile to user privacy and experience in certain ways (note that I’m not saying it’s hostile to user privacy in all ways).

As I wrote in this comment in the past [1]:

> Additional irritants that nobody in the development team has thought about for years:

> * I decline Signal’s prompt to turn on notifications with the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days.

> * I decline Signal’s prompt to share my contacts with it using the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days.

> Signal may be good at security, but whoever designed the app has no respect for users’ time, and it doesn’t seem like they respect a user’s privacy choices either.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641137

Correlations. Confounding factors. Conclusions.

This is bad research and a bad report.

For something that seems to be lightweight and simple, I’d have liked to see it being file based or like a static site generator. The official documentation for self-hosting this refers to Postgres (and Docker, to make it easier). That seems heavy on resource requirements.

I also didn’t find any pricing information for the hosted version. I don’t think supporting custom domains and images (the latter said to be coming soon) can be effortless for the platform maintainers. Since that author is here responding to comments, I’d like to know more about plans for pricing.

Only dried fruits may be 90% sugar. Most fresh fruits are mostly water, followed by sugar, fiber, minerals and other things. They may be richer in sugar on a comparative scale (because we cultivated sweeter varieties), and some of them may have a high glycemic index.

It seems like a simplistic find and replace. It censored “pussyfoot”, which is not bad language.

In my experience on Windows watching for file events, I’ve seen that it’s not very reliable. As the article notes, it’s possible that the operating system may drop events. Nevertheless, this solution should help improve performance and reduce disk scans. If you have any other applications dependent on watching for file system events, enabling this may hinder those (again, this is based on my experience with Windows).

> Not that Facebook is any better, but Facebook is not the gatekeeper for millions of peoples lives. When Apple boots you as a customer, you most likely will lose everything about your digital life.

What??? Maybe you're referring to one or two countries. Facebook is the gatekeeper for billions of people's (online) lives around the world. With WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, etc., the influence that Meta has is huge. It's far larger than Apple in terms of number of people who rely on it.

Bitwarden pivoted to serving enterprise needs (like SSO, collaboration) a few years ago and hasn’t given much attention to improving the basic product itself (there still aren’t additional types, like licenses, WiFi passwords, etc.). You can file this as an issue and wait.

One thing that really annoys me is how keyboard hostile the apps, including Apple’s apps on macOS, have become. The apps developed lazily with Catalyst are probably the worst, but I’m guessing it’s a general issue with the newer SDKs like SwiftUI.

An example: in the Reminders app on macOS, using the Tab key to navigate from one input to another (like date, time, location, etc.) is so broken in the tab order that it begs the question if Apple has:

1. a development team that knows macOS and cares about productivity

2. a QA team

3. a QA team that understands keyboard usage, tab order and other navigation elements

I recall seeing similar brain damaged (yeah, I’m really annoyed that I’m using such terms in frustration) tab order implementations in Finder and elsewhere.

Some companies decline gradually before they look like a creature with an entirely different DNA, and that’s been happening with Apple ever since the convergence between iOS and macOS started. Doesn’t matter what the top execs like Craig Federighi say about the Mac being important. The user experience and user friendliness cultivated over decades has been eroding over time, and that’s sad to see because the competition doesn’t seem to be doing better either, though on other fronts.

Things weren’t completely perfect in Apple’s Mac operating systems in the past either. But it was close to getting to that, and I will remember it as “the golden age”. The M1 chips are phenomenal, but crippled by this cavalier attitude to software.

A tangential correction: it’s PEBKAC, not PEBKAK, as written in your comment. The last letter stands for “chair”.

Signal does have an inferior experience. Signal has many UX issues, including the lack of a backup mechanism for iOS (if you lose your device or have to reset it, there is no way to restore old chats, and that’s by design). Additional irritants that nobody in the development team has thought about for years:

* I decline Signal’s prompt to turn on notifications with the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days.

* I decline Signal’s prompt to share my contacts with it using the “Not now” button (there is no “No thanks” button). It responds with “We’ll remind you later” and nags me again in a few days.

Signal may be good at security, but whoever designed the app has no respect for users’ time, and it doesn’t seem like they respect a user’s privacy choices either. Telegram, on the other hand, does not have E2EE chats by default, but the privacy features are far ahead.

OP, this is a good start. Everyone can do with criticism and introspection mixed with humor. Please continue making more. I’m sure Reddit would also be good source material for ideas.

That was annoying for me too. I kept tapping on the underlines to see if those were links, and found that they weren’t.

I didn’t find a lot of substance in this article to make bold claims like “In two or three years, people won’t even talk about crypto.” My guess is that the author is shorting the major cryptocurrencies and could do with more negative sentiment. I’m sure the claims about crypto dying will age terribly. It may die in a decade, who knows? But in two or three years, with recessions and people wanting more than what governments and corporations can offer? I don’t think so.

Your analogy with the car don’t make sense to me because it doesn’t seem like an apt comparison. I could ask you what you’d do if your car were obliterated by a tsunami or an explosive. There would be no intrinsic value to redeem in that case. Same if the bitcoin network goes down or is compromised.

This is a good suggestion. At some points in our lives, we all will have to decide who to stay in touch with and who we can detach from and not worry about daily or weekly updates. If too many apps and messages/notifications are difficult to deal with, then cutting it down (to whatever is manageable) does help.

I found more than a few links in your README to be broken. I don’t have a GitHub account to raise issues though.

> No, not really. Much more commonly it is a security token (like a yubikey) or a TMP in another device.

If you see this reply within the short edit window, did you mean TPM (and not TMP)? I don't know what a TMP is in this context.

The blogsurf.io site cannot fulfill this need as it is a manual effort by the maintainer. I submitted a blog around the time it was on a Show HN here and that’s still not added (said blog is not some marketing or sales blog with low value). Seems like the maintainer is selective in accepting submissions based on their biases or is too busy.

Interesting feature, but it looks like this has some rough edges. I saw this option a little while ago today from the browser extension (latest version of Firefox on Windows) when I created a new item and wanted to generate a password for it (I didn't want to generate the username since it was assigned by the service), but it wasn't possible to select either of the radio buttons to choose between username and password and the regenerate button also didn't seem to work. I didn't have time to dig in further, and so I chose to generate a passphrase and use that.

@dang/mods Please detach the responses here (from people who believed that this is the official post) and attach them to the official post by whoishiring.

Anyone else seeing this thread meanwhile, please check out the official one for May 2022 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235968

> The Muslim holy month of Ramadan/Ramzan falls in the summer,

A tangential nitpick. Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, the month of Ramadan/Ramzan maps to different months in the Gregorian calendar depending on the year. [1] It has been and will be in the winter months during some of the years.

[1]: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan#Important_Dates

This announcement is deficient in multiple ways. Key information is hidden away in help pages elsewhere on the site. I had to search and find the duration for versions retained:

> How far back you can view and restore is referred to as version history and depends on the Dropbox plan you have.

> Dropbox Basic, Plus, and Family users have 30 days.

> Dropbox Professional and Business users have 180 days.

> However, there are several add-ons that extend your version history.

IMO, the Dropbox Basic, Plus and Family plans are useless with the meager 30-day retention period for older versions of files. It would’ve been better if this whole solution had a storage limit but allowed for longer retention periods. The purpose of backups is to be able to get back farther in time when necessary. That may be a week, a month or even a year. Limiting the version history makes this closer to the standard “sync and check soon if you accidentally deleted/overwrote a file you wanted” solution.

While I’m ranting about this, what’s wrong with the CMS used for the Dropbox blog and website?! The blog post wouldn’t even load unless and until I disabled ad and tracker blockers. Declining the cookie prompt shows an error page. Why have that prompt if it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to?

Not working too hard and certainly not being exhausted by work at the end of the day everyday, through the year. That’s what I do. It seems like your job isn’t the right one for you. I’d suggest changing that to something less demanding. You only get 24 hours a day and a specific range of energy expenditure (physical, mental and emotional) to play with. Trying to do a lot with life and “work/life balance” doesn’t work. Something’s gotta give.

Once you find a different job, you could focus on cultivating and nurturing (note the words used) a routine before work, during work, and after work. If there aren’t clear boundaries, the cycle of being exhausted will continue. The routine could be showers, cooking, cycling, working out at home, running, yoga, meditation or activities you do with others or anything else.

I know I speak from different circumstances, and it may not be possible for you to change your job. If that’s true, then you need to reconcile yourself to this life. Don’t get swayed away by pretty pictures of people who “have it all”. It’s all a mirage that hides the ugly parts in public.

Totally on a tangent here (and I realize that this may rub some people the wrong way):

Maybe just ditch O’Reilly learning altogether? The publisher stopped selling ebooks online several years ago and left people with the only option of subscribing to the online service (it does participate in the discounted Humble Bundle sales once in a while). Now these subscription prices are way higher than before. Maybe this is working out quite well for O’Reilly or maybe O’Reilly is grasping at straws (to make more money), but if an individual balks at the prices, isn’t every access a vote for the pricing and the platform, and an indirect encouragement to do away with partnerships that don’t pay “full price”?

What I’d be interested to know is what alternatives exist, even if they aren’t as broad as this one.

You can still play those using Dosbox (an emulator) and downloading the games from various archives. There are also browser ports for several games. One of the recent ones I saw, which was also shared here, was Prince of Persia (https://princejs.com/ ).

Media Rage, a Mac application that had a broad and rich set of features to manage metadata, find duplicates, and organize media files like music, photos, etc.

The developer’s site (Chaotic Software) doesn’t exist any longer, but here’s an old page elsewhere [1] with a description of what it could do.

[1]: http://mac.majorgeeks.com/files/details/media_rage.html

Assuming the devices are all from Apple, I’m curious to understand what Plex provides when it’s serving Infuse on the frontend. In other words, what does Infuse lack when it’s connected to a plain file share or file server as compared to having Plex in the backend? Infuse is already able to transcode various formats as necessary. It’s also able to index media, fetch cover images, etc. Other than offloading the power usage for transcoding (which may be important in battery powered devices), what benefits does Plex or Jellyfin (or anything else) provide here?