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IRegretNothing

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IRegretNothing··on How to Leave Work at Work
I encouraged my girlfriend to get a separate cellphone. As a kindergarten teacher it doesn't seem obvious, it is incredible how much they plan and discuss after hours. Now she switches off her phone and enjoys her leisure.
IRegretNothing··on NSA's Tips to Keep Your Phone from Tracking You
Month ago I built my own android app that automatically switches on airplane mode whenever the display switches off (and vice versa). Made in 10 minutes with Tasker, it's even in the play store.

Since then I really enjoy life again without any notifications, it's just wonderful.

IRegretNothing··on Wireless Is a Trap
We tried it years ago. Performance was bad and it seemed like it's a source of a lot of electrosmog. We went back to cables after 1 week.
IRegretNothing··on Show HN: A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2
Very interesting results

>>> ai.generate(1, prompt="Trump") Trump] The best way to start your life is to have sex with someone who is still a virus

As funny as it seems, it shows what things are being associated with

IRegretNothing··on Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole
I've tested pihole for months now, it's working really well.

Set up a VPN to an EC2 with pihole on it, no more ads on Spotify. Even family members wanted the VPN config, they really appreciate it.

IRegretNothing··on Ask HN: Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?
They removed access for 'insecure apps'. Go to your Google account > Settings > activate 2 factor authentication and get an individual password for each app.

Source: Had to do this to all my superb python bots that we using mails for error reporting.