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Fastidious··on Show HN: Email Signature Generator
I added the space, I believe HN trimmed it.
Fastidious··on Show HN: Email Signature Generator

  -- 
  The Feld
  HackerNews Extraordinaire
  the_feld@feldfields.org
  "Growing Turnips, one at a time!"
There, all set! :-)
Fastidious··on Show HN: Email Signature Generator
I really dislike this type of things, I prefer plain text on email, HTML adds bloat to an otherwise small email. The site, and end result, though, looks nice!

If your service becomes known at work (a university) I will have to block it; my users (faculty, that is) will swarm it like bees to a hive. :-)

Fastidious··on Transgender Today – Karen Topham
I guess it is something someone might find interesting, or worth of reading. HN is not only about hacking. If you are not interested (I am not, for example), simply pass.
Fastidious··on The last male northern white rhino
That article is so painfully sad. I have done nothing to cause their extinction, yet can't help but feeling guilty. It might be because I have done nothing.

"Human beings – we always kill the things we love."

Fastidious··on Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
Could you elaborate on this? Before you reply, let us pretend you have uploaded--from your computer--128 GB of photos and videos to iCloud. Let me know.
Fastidious··on Arq for Windows finally available
I wonder. Assume you do not have arqbackup, and--for the sake of your short open format comment--arq_restore is outdated. You have downloaded all the data chunks (the many, many, many arq creates), how do you go by to decrypt it and get the original data in working state?
Fastidious··on Show HN: Open source password manager for GNU/Linux
Keep it up, it is looking great, clean and simple. I like it!
Fastidious··on Show HN: Open source password manager for GNU/Linux
There might not be an advantage now. Just as KeePass has grown, this one might too. Competition, even in open source, is great!
Fastidious··on Show HN: Easy self-made OS X context menu file uploader
This is very nice, thanks!

Could you come up with another service that would create an "empty.txt" as well?

Fastidious··on Nim binary size from 160 KB to 150 Bytes
I read this, and wonder why software has gotten so fat? Any simple application these days is easily on the few dozen of MB, most a few hundred, with a few on a few GB in size. Why aren't we streamlining software to reduce its size? I understand we have gotten "rich" on storage, but if the trend continues...

I am sure many portable devices would benefit if applications were trimmed down.

Fastidious··on Iridium – Secure Browser
Couldn't those recommendations be pushed to the Chromium project, without the need to create yet another brand of Chromium?
Fastidious··on Iridium – Secure Browser
Yet Another Chromium Fork. "Iridium has various enhancements where it forces strict security to provide the maximum level of security without compromising compatibility." -- what does that means, exactly?
Fastidious··on How to Beat a Polygraph Test
There is no citation for those three sentences. Nevertheless, all it says is that "are not generally used," not that aren't used at all.
Fastidious··on Microsoft Edge – The Browser for Doing
Anyone knows how this relates to "Spartan?" I have Windows 10 preview installed, subscribed to "fast" (nighties) and Spartan looks like Edge.
Fastidious··on If you use 'haha', you're probably old
Interestingly enough, I use "Haha" to denote sincere laughing. Mischievous laughing goes as "Hehe"; imitating an overweight person goes "Hoho" and normally imitating a timid person (or a woman, and I swear they are not related!) goes as "Hihi."
Fastidious··on TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
MacDown is great! Thanks for the link.
Fastidious··on TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
There is a misspelled word on the "View" menu, first item. It is "libary."
Fastidious··on TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac
This is a beautifully made application, very feature complete. Congratulations! Now my problem is to choose which one to use, with so many good ones!
Fastidious··on Finally, a “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
As seing six days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416993
Fastidious··on Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform
Wow! I did not realize there was more on the website. Thanks!
Fastidious··on Building Better Nursing Homes
Plenty of money is needed to create a better nursing home. Then finding the staff with "the call" to perform the very difficult job of caring and serving others.

Once that better nursing home is built, very few will be able to afford it. I know I will not. Yet, I do not lose hope.

Fastidious··on Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform
Could someone post screenshots? (OS X if possible, but any platform would do)
Fastidious··on The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
Fully agree with everything written there, with the exception of "apps." I believe it is not a Microsoft term, but an Apple term. Is it not?
Fastidious··on 3,000 floppy disk archive (1982–1994)
Let the 1980-1990 viruses resurrect! :-)
Fastidious··on Ask HN: “Do Not Call” for domains?
Google Domains have Whois guard free.
Fastidious··on BitBucket vs. GitLab.com
It is not BitBucket vs. GitLab, as nothing is noted on BitBucket, but only GitLab. Their title should have been, "Look, it is GitLab, use it!"

I think GitLab is great, but still prefer GitHub: no need to worry about hardware failures, or management. Someone does that for me, and does it well.

Fastidious··on CryptDown – Client-side AES-encrypted Markdown pastes
It is not open source. Will that make a difference?
Fastidious··on CryptDown – Client-side AES-encrypted Markdown pastes
Going to open source it?
Fastidious··on CryptDown – Client-side AES-encrypted Markdown pastes
Duh! I missed that one, amongst so many JS ones. My mistake. Thanks!
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