Use LineageOS+microG and (at the very least) Aurora Store on your phone. Use Firefox containers to sequester all Google services away from your other activity. Of course, use uBlock Origin. Achieve near total peace of mind when faced with things like this.
Soon, I want to unsubscribe from all YouTube channels and move them over to RSS. I'll use a third-party YouTube client to watch videos queued from my feeds. Then, gradually replace the YouTube feeds with equivalent PeerTube/other feeds, since some creators I follow are doing that. I am thinking Brave Search might be a good replacement for Google as well. After this, I may not even need the Firefox container.
I heard the problem is so prevalent that they started making custom ASIC boards for calculating SHA-256 and building big farms full of them. At least we know that each and every one of the hashes calculated were useful and necessary, right?
My first home server was IPv6-only, straight off of my ADSL router with a public static IPv6 address and domain dedicated to entirely to a Raspberry Pi. It worked perfectly on mobile and at home. What a pain in the ass when I discovered my university didn't support IPv6 in any capacity. Their ASN has v6 blocks but no v6 routes on campus.
Lots of people are saying it's a collective nostalgia or a blast to the past to consider using RSS. Even in my daily life I hear this from other people. It's not just nostalgia, I've been using it since my last year of high school as a gen Z. I don't see how people can repeatedly check websites or put faith in twitter or whatever non-RSS users do to get their new information. RSS is very practical, it's just a server/app repeatedly checking websites for me, in an XML document that fits a standard. Use createfeed.fivefilters.org to make given HTML conform to RSS with CSS selectors if need be. Why check websites when this app can do it for me?
Mirror.xyz currently renders HTML from its Arweave backend, but not RSS, which is a bit disappointing, as there are a few Mirror blogs I'd love to have in my news reader. If it's capable of rendering HTML, RSS should be just a few lines of code away, but I can't find any repository for the frontend to try and implement it myself. More disappointing is the overall reactions to this comment including totally unhelpful comments that are basically just "OMG GTFO" and likely violating HN guidelines.
It's exciting to see apps adopt these features, but Ethereum is extremely expensive to participate in. I hope to see support for ENS implementations on alternative chains like Celo's NomSpace or Avalanche's Avvy.
Electrum, one of the most popular desktop Bitcoin wallets, has a server component which can use your Bitcoin public keys on a web server to process transactions. It generates a verified request for payment in BTC using your existing SSL keys. Bitcoin still is the most ubiquitous for payments, even from Ethereum (e.g. via renBTC) but the transaction fees are still prohibitive for smaller sums less than $20 unless you involve Lightning network which may become much less turnkey.
What did you find wrong with them? In my experience, Telegram's notifications worked better than any other app on a phone where Google Play Services was replaced with microG. I wish more apps would see how they're doing it without killing battery.
I agree it's a good indicator, only given it isn't exclusive to a restricted platform (or expensive platform, therefore making it a status symbol). I think Signal does this right, 1. by supporting all major platforms, 2. by showing standard SMS as "dull grey" and allowing you to choose your own color for a contact (otherwise having a random color) when the conversation is Signal enhanced. On that note, I have hopes that Signal can become The One True Messenger after they iron out a few more quirks.
Apparently a company called VirnetX is seeking damages from Apple over iMessage and FaceTime, which some people (in my previous discussion among others) point out as their excuse not to develop cross-platform iMessage as they do cross-platform Apple Music. I don't have any evidence of Apple themselves claiming this as the excuse.
iMessage is a true marketing innovation in America, where the only "alternatives" are Facebook and (barely usable) SMS. It restricts communication and makes life more difficult for everyone who doesn't have an iPhone, which in turn increases iPhone sales. Meanwhile, while holding basically infinite money, they pretend some patent troll is holding them back from making it cross-platform. Pure genius.
Each in-game particle ('pixel') has its own physics and interactions with other particles. There are other games which did this before Noita, but none of them have the same depth or gameplay. The other major "falling sand" games are just sandboxes.
The opposite is true. In rural places, you often only have Wi-Fi by way of AT&T DSL or WildBlue/HughesNet satellite broadband. Your iMessage messages always deliver instantly. Meanwhile, the SS7 SMS messages always fail to send, because you have 0 bars of cellular service. Even in cases where there is cellular service, iMessage and other IP-based messaging is far more reliable.
Apple's iMessage lock-in and the effect it has on teens in the USA is disgusting. I think it's worse and deserves more attention than all of Apple's other atrocities combined; sadly, it won't get it, because it doesn't cause x rich people to lose money. Nobody loses money on iMessage except the parents (likely low-income) which are forced to buy an iPhone because their teens were left out of groups with friends and essentially excluded from socialization in school. This even comes down to bullying and exclusion over something as simple as a "green bubble" or a "blue bubble" just like bullying for having a more affordable brand of shoes. The effects are especially clear in rural places where standard SMS is far less reliable than Wi-Fi-based messaging. Nearly every peer I've asked has stated they know for a fact they would be plum left out of groups if they were to buy a phone without built-in iMessage. Props to Apple for developing the iMessage technology and making it accessible in the ways they already have, but very shameful and evil of them to pit iPhone users against non-iPhone users with something vital to humans like communication just so they can sell more iPhones. They've found a fantastically profitable way to abuse psychology in teens, as if it wasn't already bad enough that they're considered a designer brand. I'm honestly shocked that no one seems to care about this, and I haven't heard much protest other than from the many parents who were forced into buying an iPhone. Just buy an iPhone, problem solved. Just stay in debt to a major mobile carrier. Just keep upgrading. Just stay locked in. I would say the forced iMessage segregation alone is responsible for much of Apple's growth in the USA, and it's disturbing that it's allowed to continue without much protest from anyone.
Doing some "related:" queries returns some interesting results that look human-curated and out-of-date. related:google.com shows results for Yahoo, Bing, AOL Search, and HotBot (which used to be a search engine, but the brand is now for a VPN provider).
Been using TTRSS hosted on a Raspberry Pi 3 every day for over a year now. I can't believe how many people think RSS has fallen out of style. It's great to keep on the pulse of everything interesting to me, and quickly tab through the stuff that isn't, without potentially missing something.
I'm not glued to TTRSS though, there may be a better self-hosted feed reader out there. TTRSS has some important features I wouldn't want to be missing, though; it has a built-in feed aggregator where you can choose which posts to re-post to your own feed, which you could distribute to others if they were interested in what you find interesting.
From what I can tell, Parcel v1 does not have linting, but I rely on linting and typechecking in my editor anyway, so I didn't notice. It's actually pretty handy to bypass typechecking and write untyped JS to quickly check if something will work then add types to it gradually. VS Code yells at me until I fix it, so it doesn't go unfixed.
https://parceljs.org/ is the homepage. Run the command (or put the command in an npm script) like `parcel whatever.ts` and it will output your bundle with all dependencies transpiled to JS and CSS. The simplicity does come at a cost; it's not as readily customizable as something like Rollup. I've been eagerly tracking v2 and it appears they are adding linting and much more into Parcel.
> I won't pretend tsconfig/webpack or any other bundler out there is "fun" to work with
For me, Parcel is fun to work with. Rollup is my favorite for more advanced or customized pipelines, but Parcel has a silky smooth workflow for the typical bundling tasks in most projects. I've started using it for Node.js as well (since I want to avoid ts-node) but it seems best for frontend-only projects and components. Speaking as someone who has managed to avoid Webpack thus far despite its status as the "industry standard".
Oops! I made an account and logged out from within Settings so I could read over more of the about page, but I got stuck with Internal Server Error on the whole site. I deleted the "identity" cookie from site storage, which was an empty string after logging out. I logged back in and it seems to be working as normal. Other than that, I really like the vibe of Subreply, nice work.
A VS Code extension that contributes a command to search it which opens the search results in the right pane. I assume you may already have a VS Code extension in the works, as that would be the best way to find out what project/language is being worked on.
They named this blog post after a component of Unix/Linux (/dev/null); ironically, it doesn't look like their games will ever be available for macOS or Linux, especially when they're doing something like this.
There's a VS Code plugin for Kakoune-like editing called Dance. I was looking for a quick way to put multiple cursors over a given word in VSCodeVim; Kakoune (and therefore Dance) is more focused on multi-cursor editing and searching which made it possible for me to do that. Dance is also a much lighter layer over VS Code's built-in commands, making it easier to write custom keybinds and have better compatibility with other extensions.