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_lce0on Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history

OT but .. I love the rubik loading[0] intro!!

[0]: https://getfetch.net/img/status.gif

_lce0on Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick

Initially, I tried this setup..

    disk [usb]-> router <-[wifi]-> raspB+ <- tv

but it wasn't good for streaming videos over the network. The router was the problem.

so when we upgraded to rasp2, I tried this setup..

    disk [usb]-> raspB+ <-[eth]-> router <-[wifi]-> rasp2

..and it's been working like that, flawless, for almost a year so far.

The raspB+ shares the media collection over upnp, so we can consume it from pretty much everywhere on the house, and the rasp2 consumes using upnp so when can control it remotely.

With a combination of these apps, you can do pretty much everything remotely from your phone..

- upnp: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.droidupnp

- torrents: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.sugr.gearshi...

- run stuff: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.littlebyteso...

Now I just need a good radio support .. any ideas?

_lce0on Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick

Second this.

We also use it as a upnp-server to stream (over usb wifi) music/movies to the kids room.

Plus the kids run emulation-station[0] on _top_ of OSMC to play games --we had a hell of fun playing 4 players games.

[0] http://emulationstation.org/

_lce0on Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick

I hope the same.

TV, as pretty much every device, should be as dumb as cables .. must be reliable and work with pretty much anything that it's plugged to, no matter what that is

_lce0on An Abrupt End to Debian Live

Call me suspicious, but taking over that project means that the replacement will get run whenever downstream distribution are live booted

If you were evil .. Isn't that a nice project to hijack?

_lce0on Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone

I've found the phone specs[0] and seems to be pretty good for thinkers and makers!

There's plenty of sensors --and opportunities-- for less than $10.

- Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 1.2 GHz Dual-Core MSM8610

- 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA

- 65K Color TFT, 480 x 320 pixels, 3.8" (HVGA)

- 1,540 mAh / 7hours talk - 9day stand by

- microSD 4Gb (included) -- up to 32Gb

- 3MP Rear-Facing Fixed Focus Camera with Flash and WVGA Camcorder

- Accelerometer

- 802.11 b/g/n

- Bluetooth 4.0

- GPS

I'd like of another sensors not listed there; like light, proximity, or magnetic .. maybe anyone with the phone can confirm?

[0] http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-L16C-lucky

_lce0on Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due to Expired Security Certificate

Curious about how do the user launches the app store if any app-store app cannot be launched?

Isn't then the app store validated with the same method?

_lce0on In-N-Out sues startup DoorDash, says burger delivery is a trademark violation

internet archive has a bunch of pages .. seems it was active during 2012

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.burgerto.me/

_lce0on Tumblr Rolls Out Instant Messaging on Both Web and Mobile

welcome to the walled garden game, where everybody gets their own!

standards..? Where we're going we don't need standards!

;)

_lce0on Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test

I wonder if there's code available, from that paper. Results look promising.

Thanks for sharing!

_lce0on Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Personal Data from Non-Users

so what are we waiting to deny third-party cookies?

_lce0on The Atlantic Was Wrong. Software Engineers Do Exist

The degree of "Engineer" does matter. Like the work and pay do ;)

_lce0on The Atlantic Was Wrong. Software Engineers Do Exist

> Perhaps, if these software engineers make a mistake, people will not die, as with the civil engineers building bridges.

(these == infrastructure engineers)

When you have software that decides upon real life's objects, a small bug could end up in a disaster, even death.

_lce0on Facebook won't let you type this

We'd see how much upvotes this history gets --although the fact that we're talking about that in here could bias the results?

_lce0on Twitch Installs Arch Linux: They Installed Xorg

yep, it took like one hour to them write the "install xorg" command

What a moment when they actually accomplished!!

.. now they realized that there's no `grub` installed, so they will attempt to download via curl

hey nice trick to reference background tasks!

Thanks for sharing

_lce0on Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (2011)

Actually there are two types of ";", expression-separator (the one you mentioned) and statement-separator (the one parent meant)

The problem with using those for code metrics is that many systems don't require separators, like `if`, `for` and friends

_lce0on Frequent Social Networking Associated with Poor Functioning Among Children [pdf]

In the past I joked that whenever I'm coding something really really fun, I missed a couple of days of HN, as always YMMV

_lce0on The Collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor

> I try very hard to never use Microsoft products

I also went ahead to not help anyone to install, fix, or do any type of support for such systems; instead I always have with me a usb drive ready to live-test linux, and to replace that ugly thing.

Divulge, Replace, and Extinguish.

_lce0on Control your server using Whatsapp

I like the fact that WhatsApp's lawyers required the guy to preserve any digital evidence so they can use it to screw the guy later .. Yeah, let me help you screw me

_lce0on Infographic about Hacker News Commenters

OT but the fact that resources were spent to prevent us from selecting text is disturbing.

is there a script to disable the disabler-scripts of any page?

_lce0on The xkcd survey

I like that it was allowed to put negative numbers of siblings/twins .. which I did :)

_lce0on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)

I am interested, is there a link to the job description somewhere?

_lce0on Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web

If you're on linux, there's Diodon, which can handle a list of your last 25 clipboard copies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diodon_%28software%29

_lce0on Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade

> In addition, searching for "angular" in Google provides no obvious distinction between the different sites.

You can try to search using DuckDuckGo as it highlights _official sites_. Really useful feature, even for quick one-time searches.

https://duckduckgo.com

_lce0on WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages

In Spanish it's exactly the same.

I wonder were the roots of that is?

_lce0on Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

> [...] becomes everything the OS can suck up including everything on the hard drive and keystrokes from the keyboard.

Not just on the machine.

It can scan the whole local network, understanding about LAN, devices, services, all of which could be hard to reach from WAN.

_lce0on Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites

Hey on the bright side, just look how far we have already got without too much financial incentives!!

My motivation for using libre software is:

- When you use a proprietary software, you are using "somebody else's software, licensed for your usage".

- When you are using libre software, you are using YOUR software.

Software built for profit have better incentives for financial development support, and that's why it's hard for libre software to catch up on features.

We can support libre software with donations (or better not giving money to the locked competence), and more importantly using the libre software that lacks of the non-vital features, at least at personal level.

In the long run, libre will outlast the locked, it's a matter of financial incentives.

_lce0on Two Danes face up to six years in jail for explaining how to use Popcorn Time

    "guilty of sharing knowledge"

I don't know anything of law, does illegal knowledge exists? If so, can you name an example?

_lce0on Show HN: Vintage pure CSS cassette

nice!

the roll effect doesn't work on firefox ;(