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SanchoPanda··on The effects of grounding on inflammation
I was skeptical of those first as well, but seeing that paper and all the press it got, I did indeed feel sad. Must have been the crystals!
SanchoPanda··on ASCIIToSVG – Create beautiful SVG renderings of ASCII diagrams
As a webapp for the diagram to svg portion only:

https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-diagram-drafting-board

SanchoPanda··on DigitalOcean Was Down
Of course they (we included) do.

Is the implication no-one should?

SanchoPanda··on Okular – Universal document viewer
Do you often find yourself needing 3D in pdfs? I know it's there but have never encountered it in the wild. Is it a certain field or specialty that uses this feature?
SanchoPanda··on Okular – Universal document viewer
This is how I finally gave in to using FlatPak. I wanted Okular, but also wanted the rest of the QT stuff it's own little sandbox as I wasn't using it anywhere else.

I did the AppImage thing for a while, but it was too difficult to keep up to date without the developers prodiving that themselves.

Side Note: Flatpak is actually pretty nice, the lengthas I went to avoid it were pretty unreasonable in retrospect.

SanchoPanda··on Show HN: I made a 90s version of my landing page
Love it. I at first wrote that it should be fixed width at 800 or 640; though I guess that depends on whether you want to be accurate to the actual code of the 90's or the way it looked to users.
SanchoPanda··on KiwiX: Store any website on your mobile phone or computer, easily
They also have a tool available as a docker image to pull any website you want into their format effectively making it searchable and portable.
SanchoPanda··on Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, study finds
Here is a sample bayes rule calculcator made in my favorite web tool of all time, instacalc. This feels like the right way to do the math here. Random numbers provided, fill in your own as you deem appropriate.

<https://instacalc.com/55494/embed?d=&c=QWN0dWFsX3Byb2JhYmlsa...>

SanchoPanda··on Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners
And also install their spyware/crapware, deal with terrible performance, watch it fail every update, etc.

Vuscan is a gem for making computers just work the way people assume they should. I used to have deal with printer/scanner problems regularly for a particular family member; now I sometimes proactively ask to see if any issues have arisen - nope. It has just been working across two printers and a major OS upgrade.

SanchoPanda··on Microsoft says Win11 Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’
This got me thinking that MS might actually be telling the truth here. Maybe they only plan to enable it for pirated copies.
SanchoPanda··on Show HN: The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines
Great name
SanchoPanda··on Show HN: I made a Line graph maker
I love seeing the graph shape up in realtime as I enter the data, well done on making the animations there fun and smooth.

One thing that would have made it easier for me to get started was if I could enter the data in pairs, I had some trouble lining up my points when entering them manually.

SanchoPanda··on A new wave of Linux applications
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
SanchoPanda··on LibreOffice 7.3
Libreoffice is an integral piece of software, but I often bump into messages like the below, which does not exactly instill confidence if a workbook is important.

  Warning loading document SomeDocumentFinalVFUpdatedActuallyFinal.xlsx: The data could not be loaded completely because the maximum number of columns per sheet was exceeded.
SanchoPanda··on Show HN: Bang Bookmarks – replicate DuckDuckGo bangs in Firefox using Keymarks
Bunny1
SanchoPanda··on Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?
In addition to the screen sharing, numerous good tools are already mentioned, make sure you have a copy of the same OS available to you as you help.

Experimenting with other people having to do some of the steps (eg elevated permissions) is extremely tedious and far slower than you doing it on your own and then just telling them the correct answer which just magically works as far they are concerned. This also tends to be less stressful for everybody involved.

For windows and Android, VMs are the right tool as you can get the exact version right. iDevice VMs are possible but not worth it, a physical device is easiest. Fortunately even fairly old hardware runs the on-the-run OS version.

edit: clarity in second sentence

SanchoPanda··on Exodus – relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their deps–without containers
I often use exodus to move software onto a Synology NAS (after hosing my installation in the past through haphazard use of alternative package managers) and it has been incredibly helpful. It's great to be able to bring over utilities without fighting with docker, building appimages, or the like.

Thank you so much for it!

It just works most of the time, which is wild given how diverse the environments it operates in can be. One piece of software I have struggled with however is w3m.

   Wrong __data_start/_end pair
   Aborted (core dumped)
I get the above error messages which I understand to be related to libc, but I cannot get around it. Is this something anyone has seen before?
SanchoPanda··on Price increase on .io domains on January 1, 2022 (Renewal: $55.00)
This is not true if you want email to come from you main domain and you choose a remotely exotic TLD. I learned this the hard way. Don't be like me, choose a boring TLD, worry about less stupid things - there are so so many already.
SanchoPanda··on Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
$3.5 USD and up
SanchoPanda··on Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021
Correct, It was north of 100% for several quarters when HTC was flailing and Samsung was net burning money trying to establish the Galaxy as the dominant premium Android phone. I'll try to pull up the industry report that had those numbers.

Quick link while I look: https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2016/11/04/apple-gra...

SanchoPanda··on Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
I would like to give a shout out to `unison` for syncing needs. It can be used with a daemon, but I use it happily with cron and it has been absolutely bulletproof* for years. I have never noticed it's resource usage at all after running the initial sync.

I am never modifying the same file on two systems simultaneously, so I can afford to sync hourly with no issues. While not everyone can do this, I suspect many are in the same boat.

* Try to use literally the exact same binary where architectures allow, due to build dependencies.

SanchoPanda··on DietPi is more than just a minimal image
I adore projects like this, yunohost also comes to mind, for (among other things) the amount of wisdom captured in many of the build/install scripts. If I am trying to install somethning and banging my head against a wall, almost always I should have checked how they did it an hour and a half ago.
SanchoPanda··on The 'Fuck You' Pattern
You may be looking for iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome, the chrome repo has the firefox extension as well, fyi.
SanchoPanda··on Our Year in Review: How We’ve Made Firefox Faster in 2020
But most importantly, search keywords now become blue on activation. I am unreasonably pleased with this improvement.
SanchoPanda··on Hemingway Editor
This is a wonderful tool, thanks for making this available.
SanchoPanda··on Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?
Dear Chrome team,.

I'll give you this and one more if I can have igoogle back.

Love,

SanchoPanda

SanchoPanda··on Books in .txt format for AI training purposes
The naming of the txt files is of mixed to good usefulness for you. First ten listed as example.

    - 0/0.4 - Mike Lancaster.epub.txt
    - 0/0.721 - Gary Webster.epub.txt
    - 0/01 - Alec Dunn.epub.txt
    - 0/01 Kai_ Ninja Of Fire (Scholastic) - Greg Farshtey (retail).epub.txt
    - 0/02 Crescendo -  Becca Fitzpatrick.epub.txt
    - 0/03 Cole_ Ninja Of Earth (Scholastic) - Greg Farshtey (retail).epub.txt
    - 0/03 - Jean-Christophe Valtat.epub.txt
    - 0/04. R. W. Peake - Antony and Cleopatra Part I Antony (Marching With Caesar, Book 4) [Retail].epub.txt
    - 0/05. R. W. Peake - Antony and Cleopatra Part II Cleopatra (Marching With Caesar, Book 5) [Retail].epub.txt
    - 0/05 LEGO Ninjago - Snake Attack! (Scholastic) - Tracey West (retail).epub.txt
Apologies, I had included the wrong corpus originally, the correct list is this one.

Second edit - Books3 is much cleaner than Books1, I am editing my negative opinion to a more positive one to reflect that.

SanchoPanda··on Books in .txt format for AI training purposes
It looks like they are unix line endings, UTF-8, and markdown formatted.
SanchoPanda··on Ask HN: Why do VoIP vendors hate their customers?
This post may be relevant https://avc.com/2020/07/landline-phones/
SanchoPanda··on Why the U.S. government is allowing bears, wolves to be hunted in their dens
BLM management does seem to have improved in other areas, thinking of their interactions with the third largest city in Nevada each year for the week before labor day.
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