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NickBusey··on Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone
It's pretty common, I do it (shameless plug https://www.twitch.tv/nickbusey)

My stream setup is open source on GitLab https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/CodingStream

Here's an article I used in my early days to help get going https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2...

NickBusey··on Show HN: FrappeBooks – Free and Open Source, Modern Desktop Accounting for SMB
It is a desktop app.
NickBusey··on Domesticating Kubernetes
HomelabOS
NickBusey··on Dgit: Git with decentralized remotes
This is cool, but is anyone aware of a system that is like GitHub/GitLab, but PR/MRs and commits are actually voted on by the community rather than a handful of maintainers? Something like the way DAOs are supposed to work, but applied to code?
NickBusey··on The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years
Yup. There are plenty of dormant mines here in Colorado because "there is 100 million dollars worth of gold in that mine but it will cost 200 million dollars to extract it". Once the first number changes enough in relation to the second, those mines will start right back up.
NickBusey··on What Sets Us Apart: Filecoin’s Proof System
IPFS is by no means 'relatively unknown'. It is used in dozens of projects. See: https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
NickBusey··on Linkalot: A web-based inbox for your links
Yay for GitLab. Boo for no screenshot.
NickBusey··on Ask HN: Do You Miss IRC?
For everyone saying it's hard to set up a relay, if you use something like The Lounge, deployed by something like HomelabOS, it's pretty much a one-liner to deploy it, then you have a fantastic mobile and web interface accessible from anywhere. I've been using this setup for a while and it's been great.
NickBusey··on Why I'm open sourcing the financial side of my business
"All of this data is open to begin with, it’s published in our yearly financial statements (obligated in Belgium)"

Does this mean any company, no matter the size, has to publicly publish yearly financial statements in Belgium?

In the States only publicly traded companies need to do that.

NickBusey··on Children as young as 9 locked up by Indian Police for speech violation
Anyone being locked up anywhere for a "speech violation" is a travesty.
NickBusey··on Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
I was really impressed recently by Wealthfront's mobile site. It's so good and fast, they don't even push you to download their native app. You just don't need it when the website works that well on mobile.
NickBusey··on iOS 13's Music App Sucks
This looks quite nice, thanks for the recommendation.
NickBusey··on The Attempted Corporate Takeover of .Org
According to the article, no it didn't.

> ICANN must sign off on the deal in order for it to proceed. In December, it paused the sale for 30 days amid public outcry, expressing concern about the lack of transparency surrounding the deal.

NickBusey··on How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
This 100%. I'm not going to subscribe to the Economist to read one article every 6 months. I might pay $0.10 to read this particular article though.
NickBusey··on Show HN: Centric, a Programmable Automation Server
This looks nice, but very similar to a bunch of existing projects like http://www.celeryproject.org/ Are there any clear differentiators?

Also, I understand it's a new project, but some more documentation would be helpful. E.g., how does one backup and restore the tasks and settings? Does it provide alerting when a job fails?

NickBusey··on Adult site leaks data of cam models
And guys. And others.
NickBusey··on Adult site leaks data of cam models
I don't think GDPR covers people who have an actual written and signed financial contract with the service in question. How could any business function without the information needed on who to pay?
NickBusey··on Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It
"Most of them", you've done a global survey then, have you? Ski resorts here in Colorado very much care and advertise about their renewable energy usage.
NickBusey··on How to start a blog using Hugo
MkDocs is great for what it was built for, documentation. I also use the Material theme myself.

For a blog though, it would be a terrible format. They meet very different use cases.

NickBusey··on Please Don’t Abbreviate the Year ‘2020’ on Checks and Legal Documents
Please just never abbreviate the year. 100 years passes quickly these days.
NickBusey··on Build an Ioniser in Under $10
This is especially ironic in this case, because the entire premise of the article was: "I have always had the issue of dust settling in every week on everything if I open the windows. Cleaning that up every week is a pain."

They then proceed to build a device that will, if anything, exacerbate this exact issue.

NickBusey··on So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (2014)
Restaurants (and breweries) are purposely loud, as it leads to better sales.

[Source] https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/...

NickBusey··on Ask HN: Curious to know if people still use IRC?
What Twitch chat rooms are you in?
NickBusey··on Django 3
Thanks for your work on Zulip, I tend to be logged into at least 3 instances at any given time. Love the treaded model.
NickBusey··on My Experience as a Remote Worker
We may be looking to hire some remote embedded/hardware engineers soon. Shoot me an email.
NickBusey··on Eternal Terminal
At least one of your questions is answered above the fold of the homepage.

mosh: Mosh is a popular alternative to ET. While mosh provides the same core funtionality as ET, it does not support native scrolling nor tmux control mode (tmux -CC).

NickBusey··on Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?
The article starts by saying and showing with a graph, that people are now underestimating prices more than they used to.

It then ends with this quote:

> If you ever find yourself on the game show, the lesson from this research is that whatever you think the price is, your estimate should, as the host says, “come on down.”

Is it just me, or is this advice backwards, and based on the data and graph, you should add around 15% to your estimate to not overshoot the 20% average under-estimate?

NickBusey··on Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Drift, Zendesk, FreshChat
Look into Zulip before you settle on Mattermost. I've used both, and vastly prefer Zulip's threaded model.
NickBusey··on Ableton Connection Kit (2016)
Let me know if you need any help, I have written several control scripts. I should probably open source them..
NickBusey··on Ogre 1.12.3
For those who don't know what Ogre is like I didn't "OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes."
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