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akerro··on Carbon – Create and share images of your source code
What are usecases of sharing text as image? Is it to force user type from from image or use OCR to get the text?
akerro··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
Also no support for ELK and plain-text-folder-managed data structure, so what? do one thing and do it well.
akerro··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
No, these cannot be skipped without external request blocking, like on DNS level. Even µblock won't block GA built-in in Firefox.
akerro··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
I used to have piwik instead GA 2-5 years ago, according to piwik my website had 23% more visitors than on GA.

https://matomo.org/

akerro··on Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
It's much better than Apple not hiring people based on their political views expressed online.
akerro··on OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits
KDE used to be monorepo right?
akerro··on OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits
Number of commits highly depends on people in a project and workflow of the team. I make commits every 5, up to 10 minutes, so I do like 30-70 commits per day[1], some people in another team make a commit per day. Linux on github is close to 900k [2]

https://imgur.com/a/nCuOJHU

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

akerro··on RISC V: A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants
Will any BSD run on it?
akerro··on Mun Programming Language
Let's say technical documentation says

>Message content is ended with \0 byte, followed by a digit between 0-10 describing font colour.

What hacker does is pass `\0\0` to check if null byte is valid digit or painfully crashes system an if invalid values are handled correctly when error handling mechanisms aren't described in documentation. I think what you mean by hacking is closer to RE.

akerro··on After discovering he has at least 17 kids, man sues fertility clinic
>alleges that the OHSU clinic used his 1989 sperm donation to father at least 17 children—some who live in his area—despite him making an agreement with the clinic at the time that his sperm would be used for no more than five children, all born to women living out of the state.

>Some go to the same school as the kids he has with his wife.

That's so awkward and uncomfortable for me to even think about it, being in this situation...

akerro··on 20,000 Startup Ideas
>20,000

there aren't even 20k ideas...

akerro··on 20,000 Startup Ideas
>* Check with customers to determine their usefulness.

Nice, I always say that customers and testers are source of all bugs!

akerro··on Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
I'm not necessary criticizing, but it's a bit sad that most popular search engine turned to be manipulation and persuasion machine. I no longer thing about it as search engine, more like "what's trendy network", BUT I recognize that Google Search belongs to google and google is a business, and business does what's most profitable! That's good for them, not necessary for us, I personally almost never use google search, but I use android with google account, just because duck duck go is better search engine and google android is really comfortable.
akerro··on Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
This isn't a rant, it's a statement of facts.
akerro··on Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyO_MC9g3k
akerro··on Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
> breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics

Google wasn't tricked, it's intentional. Their business model is generating money from clicks. It's not showing you best results for what you search for. It's showing latest news, tragedy, and what people talk about. 10h old news? OLD, BORING. New shiny 2h young news? YEA, more clicks, clicks and more click, more ads, more clicks, more revenue. The sponsored content online must be constantly changing and adapting to new information to generate more profits and more clicks and keep people clicking and visiting and searching. Don't forget that it's not only sponsored content, but also targeted content with user tracking, because clicks count, on one day they will show you news to annoy you to generate more searches and clicks, on another day they will show you majority of stuff to calm you down. Keep clicking.

akerro··on Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
Ok, so next years WhatsApp will have backdoor and ads.
akerro··on Show HN: Best of Show HN
https://bestofshowhn.com/search?q=[java] ;)
akerro··on Show HN: Best of Show HN
Mmmm filtering for Java shows javascript

https://bestofshowhn.com/search?q=java

akerro··on Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
I use my car for 6km per day, but I do 700km in a day on motorcycle on a weekend day.
akerro··on Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
>If the car is driven four days a week for a maximum of 50 kilometers a day, there’s no need to plug into an outlet, NEDO’s Yamazaki said.

50km is just as many kms as I commute to work during a week. Perfect prototype for me already. For longer trips I prefer motorcycle.

akerro··on Turn off DoH, Firefox
You can use different DoH server, you can setup your own, that's not a problem

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/02/configure-dns-over-https-i...

I use https://odvr.nic.cz/doh

akerro··on Turn off DoH, Firefox
Many ISPs won't offer such thing https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-group-names-mozilla-int...
akerro··on Turn off DoH, Firefox
Of course, I'd rather trust unecncrypted plaintext DNS queries that go to my ISP and government!

If you don't like CF just switch to different provider https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS

akerro··on Ask HN: How do you keep your programming motivation up?
https://www.codingame.com/blog/the-secrets-to-staying-motiva...
akerro··on Facebook Dating
> It takes the work out of creating a dating profile and gives you a more authentic look at who someone is.

It feels like most people post too many fake pictures, news and crap on their profiles and this isn't going to be a good idea. "Look guys, I'm happy on Virgin Islands, like this!" (also on Prozac)

akerro··on A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
>ability to find others using their phone numbers."

Ah right, that's why I couldn't find someone...

akerro··on Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home
So I read the frontpage, download/try page and installation and still have absolutely no idea what this project is about.
akerro··on 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
Facebook for a few weeks didn't want to remove video of a Mexican woman being beheaded. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fa...
akerro··on I replicated an $86M project using open-source libraries (2017)
OK, this story gets posted on HN every now and then, and this question always appears there. Like, really always. People always recommend reading "The Mythical Man-Month", also this link is always posted somewhere in the comments: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

my time this time!

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