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Boltgolt··on I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)
Maybe, but i don't think the best soap the world has ever seen will keep me from smelling like sweat after a few hot days
Boltgolt··on PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
The costs of shipping? Import taxes or tariffs? High rates of DOA or returns?
Boltgolt··on Bosch eBike Systems presents its new eBike ABS
E-bikes are limited to 26 km/h here, much faster than "most people regularly go on a pedal bicycle" and these faster bikes are used disproportionately often by older (more fragile) people.
Boltgolt··on Show HN: Remove unwanted objects in photos simply by dragging boxes
Worka absolutely fine for me with Firefox for Android 102
Boltgolt··on Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster
What a strange comparison. Driving an (automatic) car can be learned through trail and error in no time at all. It's the external factors like other traffic that are hard to get right.
Boltgolt··on Tiny Core Linux 13.0 is a full Linux desktop in 22 MB
Well for one, GNOME is now running javascript code for many parts of the UI
Boltgolt··on Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement?
I just want to note here: There is no evidence that there is such a thing as electromagnetic hypersensitivity. In double blind trials people would experience the same symptoms (headaches etc.) independent of if a router in the room was turned on or not.
Boltgolt··on Two European countries won’t get Diablo Immortal because of loot box laws
Good. If more countries would be as strict on this there might be less pay-to-win games around
Boltgolt··on Starlink for RVs
Right, the invasion of Ukraine is totally fins cause the invasion of Iraq also happened
Boltgolt··on Rejecting candidates unwilling to acknowledge female interviewers
The point is that these candidates were only looking at (and talking to) the man in the room. Not making eye contact at all is very different from only making eye contact with men and ignoring women
Boltgolt··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
It's very pessimistic, no false positive reports over the last four years but i rather set expectations low.
Boltgolt··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
It really does not, it's simply identifying you from a picture: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev... Notice how Microsoft shows how Hello can't be fooled by phones or by a picture. Howdy uses the same IR camera of course and thus would also not be fooled by that picture. Some (industrial) printers DO print in the IR-spectrum and can fool both.
Boltgolt··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Howdy is specifically made for IR cameras, normal cameras are not officially supported. Windows Hello works almost exactly the same way.
Boltgolt··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Howdy 3.0.0 will actually introduce a feature that allows login consent. Nod yes to authenticate, shake no to abort. https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/wiki/Rubber-Stamp-Guide#av...
Boltgolt··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Hey main developer of Howdy here, bizarre to see this on HN :)

To emphasize: Howdy is about convenience for people that are okay with a less secure installation. It can also be used as a second factor.

3.0.0 has been in the works for 2 years now and will introduce a GTK UI, native PAM module and many other changes. Let me know if you have any questions!

Boltgolt··on Crime scene investigators learn to dowse for the dead
The thing is that you don't know how often that guy has been wrong.
Boltgolt··on Why do we round corners?
Anyone reading this really needs to take a look at the articles side by side, this is extremely blatant plagiarism. They couldn't even be bothered to pick different objects for the ball and the fork
Boltgolt··on Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
"just find another job" like it's that easy for everyone
Boltgolt··on AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English data (2020)
I find it really interesting how idioms survive, even if the language around them changes. In Dutch it's "Morgenstond heeft goud in de mond" which is in incredibly close to German and Norwegian, and also the only place you would realistically find the word "Morgenstond" as it has fallen completely out of use.
Boltgolt··on Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
Would you prefer young children picking their own name?
Boltgolt··on California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
This would have consequences for wealth inequality. Households with lower incomes spend much larger percentage of their money on goods with sales tax than more wealthy households. This plan would increase tax for low income families and majorly decrease it for families with where a lot ad money flows into investments or savings.
Boltgolt··on California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
Imagine paying $100 just to be able to pay your government and thinking that's "not that big of a deal"
Boltgolt··on Crypto CEO threatens customers after mistakenly sending them millions
Usually, it's copyright on images and TOS problems
Boltgolt··on Apple’s new Private Relay is leaking your original address through WebRTC
Most video or audio calling sites for starters
Boltgolt··on Out of control and rising: why Bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic
So all we need to do is have everyone use the same centralized vendor/institution and bitcoin is fast and free!! Wait a second...
Boltgolt··on Apple expanding outside of SV as it struggles to recruit and retain talent
As an intelligence agency the GCHQ should have added a boxy extention to the circle, turning it into a massive magnifying glass
Boltgolt··on 25 Years of CSS
That's a hot take. Pretty impressive that you're able to ignore decades of innovation and increased accessibility to tools because of JS & CSS.
Boltgolt··on Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
And then there's Instagram, who only did square photos and nothing else for years
Boltgolt··on Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing
One word: Compatibility. There are already protections against XSS and CSRF build in, and adding stricter rules would cause sites to break. Do you want to maintain a list of all sites that need cross origin GET requests to function?
Boltgolt··on Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
This "Carrier Alliance" does sound an awful lot like a Carrier Cartel
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