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aembletonon Frustrated Ranchers Want People to Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs

It already had a collar with the owners details. They could have just contacted them.

aembletonon Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

Worth checking out Yaak too: https://yaak.app/

I can't remember why I settled on this over Bruno, but its much better than dealing with Postman.

aembletonon StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

MooTools. Also, I fondly remember YUI Library that Yahoo created.

aembletonon Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

There is SVG. File > Export > SVG

aembletonon Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

I hope you have a good animated 'under construction' gif

aembletonon Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

I think there was something on Acorn computers that did that. Maybe it was in its word processor.

aembletonon Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

This is so much more fun than AI. I love playing around with it

aembletonon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Very well, I'll install Graphene OS at step 4, or step 3 if I'm getting a new phone.

aembletonon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Enable developer mode now, then you'll be ready for this.

aembletonon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

A scammer would stay on the phone for an hour so they don't talk to anyone else about it. A few screens would be ignored.

24 hours might not be enough, and there is a risk that a scammer gets a user to go into developer mode and then calls back a few days later to try and 'fix the issue' or something. At least in 24 hours the victim might talk to someone about it and then find they're being scammed.

aembletonon Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Then you switch banks

aembletonon Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

Comaps also has offline wikipedia entries. So you can be on a hill, and read about the iron age fort that was once there.

aembletonon An ad-free Android TV

But now we have a lower price anchor so people won't pay that much for them

aembletonon AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

It lasted whilst it was still in living memory

aembletonon Tiny Little Office

That's amazing, thank you. I love that you can export JSON, edit it in your favourite text editor and then import it back. Its exactly what I want.

aembletonon Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

For the cheap stuff, I usually find the quality better and sometimes lower prices by going to a shop like Home Bargains or B&M. Thats UK specific but I'm guessing there must be these sort of shops in the US too.

Wikipedia describes them as variety stores and has a list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_store#North_America

aembletonon How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

> Both have a pattern where they might list let’s say an MP3 player which costs $30 but the price on the listing will be $3 because one of the product variants is just the case.

eBay do that too. Really annoying. Some day I'll make a browser extension to highlight it.

aembletonon How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

There's a scene from Back to the Future, where 1955 doc notices that one of the failed circuits says Made in Japan. Marty then points out that all the best stuff is made in Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1QcjsjjtRc

aembletonon Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

How did you find your sourcing agent?

aembletonon Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

\bai\b

aembletonon The people holding up the internet

If you use Reader View in your browser, its much easier to read.

aembletonon Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

Coolant - at least in the Hyundai Kona ev

aembletonon PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

I just accepted that in exchange for it working some of the time. Also, I found that it didn't break for everything, just some videos.

Most of my YouTube viewing is done with SmartTube on my TV. My phone is mostly used for watching a DIY video when I'm trying to fix something.

aembletonon PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

I've been using Tubular which was a NewPipe fork that implemented SponsorBlock. Works really well, and I was going to see what the differences are. Just noticed, now that Tubular is no longer maintained.

I'll move over to PipePipe now.

aembletonon F-Droid 2.0

Pretty bright. So long as you can wait at least 24 hours from making yourself a developer.

aembletonon F-Droid 2.0

I use the Google Play reviews, and yes they can be manipulated but that is even less likely on F-Droid where there is less money involved.

aembletonon I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information

Just use reader view in your browser.

aembletonon Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

> I think they actively do trial sessions with public running groups?

Probably, they certainly do in the UK

aembletonon Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

Yes. This is where most of Googles and Metas revenue comes from.

aembletonon Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

I've read through these comments, and one useful app that has not been mentioned is Vespucci: https://vespucci.io/

It's not got the best UX, but it does let me edit anything from my phone. This means that I can easily check and/or edit the tags for a path or a track. For example, recently I was on a track that had steps. These weren't on OSM, but I could modify the track on Vespucci to add them. Easier to do on my laptop, but I'd forget to do them by the time I got home.

The other OSM apps, I can recommend but have been mentioned are CoMaps (https://www.comaps.app/) for viewing and route finding and Street Complete for easily updating data. Street Complete (https://streetcomplete.app/) has got a bit more powerful recently as you can now add things like toilets, bins, and benches