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JulienRbrton Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

HERE[0] or OpenStreetMap[1] are both pretty complete and good for a user and developer usage.

JulienRbrton Ask HN: Why would you choose a certified self-taught candidate over a graduated?

Interesting point of view, but is it only related to the Computer Science Engineering field?

JulienRbrton Show HN: Maskmail – anonymous email address service

There is as well anonbox.net[1] from the CCC which is pretty useful too, even if its functionalities are a little bit different

[1] https://anonbox.net/

JulienRbrton Alternatives to Google Products

I am personally using an often not mentioned solution.

I use Gandi.net as registrar for my domain name and they provide email hosting[1], CalDav and CardDav with it. They even have a web interface (using SoGo[2]).

So all my emails, contacts and calendars are properly managed[3] by a French company.

[1] https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/email

[2] https://sogo.nu/

[3] https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit

JulienRbrton Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

One thing I love to do is to block all the garbage of websites with uBlock Origin by adding my own filters. That does not give a result as good as this project but it quicker to do.

JulienRbrton Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community?

Is it not possible to just use GitHub? I mean, by creating a second repo which would be only for discussion, like tablesaw-support. I have no idea if is it again their ToS however.

JulienRbrton RSS is undead

I personally still have the "Subscribe" icon (Firefox 59). I had to move it from "Customize" to my toolbar but it is definitely there.

JulienRbrton Ask HN: Does HN respect the GDPR?

I have never understood why HN does not do like Reddit – replacing the username by [deleted] or ghost.

JulienRbrton Music for Programming

Yes, you can use the trial: https://brain.fm/app?v=0000#!/trial

JulienRbrton Be Kind

> I walked into the office certain I was about to be fired. Wait, can you be fired that easily ?

JulienRbrton OVH has been victim of a 1.5Tbps DDoS

The most interesting part is that the attack come from cameras, poorly secured IoT can lead us to that such and powerful attack..

JulienRbrton Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal

I am wondering, we always discuss about Snowden, OK he needs to be pardoned, but what about Assange... I would like to remind you that he (and WikiLeaks) revealed, as well, important documents about what do our governements and he's still stuck in an embassy in England...

JulienRbrton Mozilla Thimble

Isn't it exactly what was Mozilla Webmaker some years ago ?

JulienRbrton Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users

Yes. And everything works fine, but as it is not a real ad-blocker you can still see the place of the ads (e.g. Google Ads, you can see them but if you click it won't work, same for pop-up.)

JulienRbrton Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users

Good luck Facebook because we have this: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts