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alien1993··on GitHub Source Code Leak
Problem solved people.
alien1993··on Stripe Climate
Yet another way to feel like you're doing something while doing absolutely nothing, or maybe even worse.

Keep it up people!

alien1993··on Giant Pacific Octopus
I STRONGLY suggest you first read Children of Time and only then Children of Ruin, you'd miss a ton of pieces and some parts of the story wouldn't be clear at all.
alien1993··on Global air pollution maps by the European Space Agency
It's not really house heating fault, when the lockdown started everyone was at home and pollution actually went down; the strong winds those days certainly contributed to clean up the air too. And yes, those days was still cold, people were actually using heating.

Anyway the Pianura Padana is completely flat and surrounded by mountains east, north and south, the sea on the east doesn't help that much either with its winds. If you compare the shape of that red/black blob to a satellite image you can clearly see it traces the shapes of the mountains.

Count the fact that it's also heavily industrialized and populated and I guess you get why it's not like other industrialized regions.

alien1993··on Deep sea squid communicate by glowing like e-readers
Children of Ruin is the sequel of Children of Time, I strongly suggest you read the first book or you'll have quite an hard time to understand certain things.

I'm reading Children of Ruin right now and it's quite funny finding this article here right now. :)

alien1993··on What the Heck Is Pyproject.toml?
> The pytoml TOML parser is ~300 lines of pure Python code, so being outside the standard library didn't count heavily against it.

From the link. Makes sense I think.

alien1993··on Sonos is getting rid of its controversial “recycle mode”
>> Imagine if a car manufacturer would give you a discount on a new car, if you took your old one to the scrapyard first - everyone would immediately how this is a huge waste of resources if the car was still working. How is this acceptable with speakers??

This is pretty standard in Italy, nevertheless bricking devices is shit.

alien1993··on Google Maps Hacks
Would it be possible to do this by using the Android emulator and simulate its position?
alien1993··on Off-Facebook activity
Seems like most of my data they got from apps on my Android phone, there was even an app that I just installed, opened and uninstalled in less then a minute without even logging in or anything.

How can I block them in the future?

alien1993··on Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
I use Hugo too but I suggest anyone pay attention since they can introduce breaking changes with minor versions. With v0.58.0 they broke lots of themes, including mine, so if you want to create a theme for it, or even use an existing one, remember that just a small update might break it.

This[0] is the issue that broke lots of themes. The fix was certainly an easy and small one but still a breaking change, and not the only one, in a minor version change; that should have been a major version change, if you want to use semver[1] as a convention you must respect it.

[0]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoThemes/issues/682 [1]: https://semver.org/

alien1993··on How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
How do you achieve this? Are you using some framework like Qt? Or is it custom?
alien1993··on The Man Who Guards America's Ketchup
> It is easy to make tomato sauce without any ketchup

What do you mean? Tomato sauce is not ketchup, it's a completely different thing. Is there people actually making tomato sauce with ketchup!?

alien1993··on Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day
I'm on Firefox 68.0.1 on Arch and it's not working.
alien1993··on Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise cannabis
Portugal decriminalized it, you can't buy it legally anyway.

> If someone is found in the possession of less than a 10-day supply of anything from marijuana to heroin, he or she is sent to a three-person Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction, typically made up of a lawyer, a doctor and a social worker. The commission recommends treatment or a minor fine; otherwise, the person is sent off without any penalty. A vast majority of the time, there is no penalty.

Quote from: https://www.mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-...

alien1993··on Ask HN: Germans, how to work legally remote?
In Italy there is a similar law for freelancers, but it's only valid if the client is another italian company, so if I work only for a US company for example there should be no issues.

In any case I suggest you ask a German lawyer, he know best for sure.

alien1993··on Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL
I obtain a similar thing by adding this snippet to my .zshrc[0]. Notice I use bat[1] and exa[2] as alternative to cat and ls.

This is the result: https://gfycat.com/brokengiantcockerspaniel

[0]: https://github.com/silvanocerza/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/zsh...

[1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[2]: https://github.com/ogham/exa

alien1993··on Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them
It's probably because they announced it like this.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BykT-NOA6_m/?igshid=6nm3aw87qo8d

alien1993··on Show HN: A LaTeX-based resume building app
I had to recently redo my CV, I made the previous one in InDesign but I needed to work on it both on Linux and Windows so I aimed for something easily editable and portable.

I tried creating in markdown and converting it to pdf with pandoc but the result wasn't that great since I could not style it, I discarded LaTeX too since I didn't really have the time to learn a new tool.

After a bit I settled on HTML and SCSS, I also written a small Dart script to compile to CSS using lib-sass, converting to pdf is really easy since I just print the page directly from the browser. While writing it I also discovered that there are certain CSS media queries just for printing a page, I used it hide certain elements when saving to pdf so I can have just one source for both browser and print.

If you're in a rush I suggest you take this approach into consideration.

If you want to have a look here's the links to the hosted version and the source.

https://www.silvanocerza.com/resume/

https://github.com/silvanocerza/resume/

alien1993··on Firefox Monitor
When you submit your email after the breaches list there's this notice "Breach data provided by Have I Been Pwned", so I guess it's a joint effort.
alien1993··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2019)

  Location: Perugia, Italy
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Yes (Only in Italy)
  Technologies: 
   - Languages
      C++ (Proficient), Python (Proficient), JS (Intermediate), Sass/CSS (Intermediate), Dart (Beginner), Rust (Beginner), Go (Beginner), Java (Prior experiences)
   - Other:
      Qt (Proficient), Django (Proficient), Vue.js (Beginner), Flutter (Beginner), Android (Prior experiences)
  Résumé/CV: https://www.silvanocerza.com/resume
  Email: You can find it on my resume
  Github: https://github.com/silvanocerza/
I work mostly on multiplaftorm application in C++ using the Qt framework and from time to time on web applications in Python using Django. As of now I'm mostly interested in either a position using Python, Dart or Rust. If you have any question feel free to ask.
alien1993··on Show HN: Ethical Resources – 300 ethical alternatives to mainstream stuff
Some categories show a blank page, selecting the category all works fine though.
alien1993··on Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge
Offscreen canvas is disabled by default on Firefox because it's still experimental, you can enable it though. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...
alien1993··on A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card
He's the same guy that wrote the book Game Programming Patterns. http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
alien1993··on Qt Design Studio 1.0
You could use Quick Controls 2, they can be styled easily. http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-index.html
alien1993··on Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking
That's great news, will this be on par with Ghostery features wise or will it be less granular?
alien1993··on Bye bye BetterSlack
Don't think they can enforce this at all, I would just change the name and call it a day. The burden is on you though, certainly no one can force you to make decisions. :)
alien1993··on Bye bye BetterSlack
I understand the naming issue but from the look of it the extension only works locally, where's the issue with that?
alien1993··on Open Source REST API for SpaceX data
Just want to point out that this is not an official API made by SpaceX, but by people hanging around https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex.
alien1993··on Spite buildings: when human grudges get architectural
An old spite building could be the Rocca Paolina in Perugia, Italy, it was ordered by Pope Paul III and it has been built atop the Baglioni family's houses after they revolted against the Pope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocca_Paolina

alien1993··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
> As for Ghostery having a breach and exposing email, etc. that would require that I actually create an account for Ghostery. It works just fine without.

For now, sooner or later it's going to be mandatory for sure.

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