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NowhereMan··on Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails
The menu takes up the entire screen on my phone and it is not clear how to close it.
NowhereMan··on Super Bowl will not feature any crypto ads this year
I was thinking it would be sports betting.
NowhereMan··on Perfect Circle
I think I have become more interested in getting the lowest score possible. Triangles score pretty low. Squares score better than some of my circles.
NowhereMan··on Thousands of Yeti Coolers Are Washing Up on the Alaskan Shore
Flotsam? I wonder if ZIM can claim them back.
NowhereMan··on Patreon laid off their security team
Maybe I won't have to log in to Patreon every week now.
NowhereMan··on Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages
On another note, I tried to make a throwaway on `old.reddit.com`. I couldn't find a way to make an account without using an email. I had to manually type in `old.reddit.com/register` to get to a form that would let me not type in an email and even then it wasn't obvious that the email wasn't required.
NowhereMan··on Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform
Since I like to build custom electronics using JLCPCB, I went on there and looked for RISC-V chips. I found the ESP32-C3 and a dozen or so Chinese chips that seemed to only have Chinese datasheets. It seems that things are still pretty immature in RISC-V adoption. I will be getting a ESP32-C3 dev board to tinker with at least.
NowhereMan··on Chainless electric drive system “Free Drive” for bicycles (2021)
I am surprised automatic shifting technology doesn't exist. Wireless electronic shifters are readily available now, in addition to power meters. We have devices to shift and devices to tell us when to shift. All that is needed is to marry the two together.
NowhereMan··on Adafruit requires 2FA to prevent bots buying out Raspberry Pi
Looks like you can use OATH TOTP, which can be easily automated. I don't understand how this is an effective countermeasure against bots.
NowhereMan··on uBlock Origin review
I've been using the eye dropper a lot lately. It's great for making websites usable. It even works on mobile for disabling hostile ux elements such as "xyz is better with the app" nags.
NowhereMan··on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
Do they whitelist accounts of public officials? For instance, having the POTUS account behind an auth wall seems like a horrible practice.
NowhereMan··on Peloton's $3k treadmill now comes with surprise 'subscription fee'
I believe by "darken" they mean the ability to turn off the screen while watching a video, or more likely, listening to music.
NowhereMan··on Phil's Old Radios
If you enjoy this website, you will probably enjoy Jeri Ellsworth's visit to the Museum of Radio and Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyZ87wNotBg

NowhereMan··on Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction
Anyone can embed messages in a Bitcoin transaction. It looks like this one was sent using a transaction script.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3440

NowhereMan··on Git commit allegedly from Satoshi embedded inside a Bitcoin transaction
The problem here is that Satoshi has a GPG key, and this message is not signed with it.

http://bitcoin.org/satoshinakamoto.asc

NowhereMan··on Google 'down,' let's do an experiment
ISP: Comcast

Location: Huntsville, AL

NowhereMan··on Bitcoin up 15+ percent in 1 day
They are not infinitely divisible. Bitcoins are divisible to 8 decimal places. This means that there are 21 quadrillion unitary elements.