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andimm··on A 'third way' between buying or renting? Swiss co-ops say they've found it
It is mentioned in an image description:

> Claude Waelti’s 1,180-square-foot apartment in Lausanne costs around $2,200 a month. The rent has barely increased since he arrived in 1991.

So about 110 square meters which is pretty good for number of rooms in Switzerland.

andimm··on Canon ships its first nanoprint lithography machine, rivals ASML
For those like me who haven‘t heard of ASML before. There was a recent NPR Planet Money episode (26 minutes) about the company. I found it quite interesting:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/1212604208/asml-euv-extreme-u...

andimm··on Sailfish Mobile OS
I have the option "show details" and there to choose "strictly necessary". (on mobile Safari and Desktop Edge, Desktop Firefox blocks the cookie screen automatically)
andimm··on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
If you are like me and did not know what Duns stands for:

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

andimm··on A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
I think you mixed envelope (RFC5321) and headers (RFC5322) in your text.

The domain name in the From: field in the email envelop header is inspected and aligned with other domains authenticated by either SPF or DKIM:

The envelope does not have any header, the headers are in the content/body of the email. Also your screenshot of the "Here’s an example email envelop from an organization that passes all of the email security guidelines:" are the mail headers and not the envelope information.

Great presentation on this topic from dmarc.org

https://dmarc.org/presentations/Email-Authentication-Basics-...

andimm··on Swiss Post Design System
Did you mean Bootstrap gives you 1-5 and you can focus on #6 or do I not understand what #7 is?
andimm··on All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
ot: the first two links are "swapped"
andimm··on Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland
They are called Bundesweibel, took me a while to find them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huissier https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibel_(Amtsdiener)

andimm··on Does storing bread in the fridge make it last longer? (2019)
My trick, is to keep the bread in the oven. It's almost air tight and I have the feeling that a bread stays fresh a couple of days longer than by any other method. Normally my oven is empty so I have some room there for free. And when I use the oven to heat i.e. a pizza I hope any fungi are killed.
andimm··on The gap between learning code and producing usable software
With Firefox you can use the Picture-in-Picture feature for videos and size it as you like. For me it worked fine to read what's in the video.

Additionally you can then watch the movie and have i.e. your terminal open.

andimm··on FreeBSD 11.4
I am no expert at all but maybe the desktop environment is a combination of KDE Plasma 5.18.4 and KDE Applications 19.12

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

andimm··on Web Application Exploits and Defenses
appartently the french Gruyère has small holes. who knew...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruy%C3%A8re_(K%C3%A4se)

andimm··on Mind your Logs: How a build log from a Jenkins leaked everything
I found this small explanation

> Google “Dorking” is the practice of using Google to find vulnerable web applications and servers by using native Google search engine capabilities. [0]

[0] https://securitytrails.com/blog/google-hacking-techniques

andimm··on Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment
Or on Firefox: Reload and quickly toggle "reader mode" (F9) I used a private window.
andimm··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
I know Yubkeys can be used as a second factor for apps but can you use them to unlock a phone aswell?
andimm··on Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
8bitdo once hat an N64 controller, but seems like it's not available anymore, maybe you find a used one somewhere.

Also there are "Controller Converter" N64->USB available on i.e. Amazon and iNNEXT has an Retro 64-Bit N64 Controller on Amazon as well.

Don't know if any of these will work for you, at least the iNNEXT is mentioned in the retropie wiki[0].

[0] https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Nintendo-64/

andimm··on Tell HN: Pluralsight and the dark-pattern of auto-renewals
You can get virtual cards and virtual disposable cards with Revolut but it costs a little fee or it‘s free with the premium/metal subscription
andimm··on Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
You're right, he once worte:

>I won’t be working for Pluralsight in the traditional sense of drawing a salary, but rather continuing to work with them on a heap of new things.

andimm··on I rode all the e-scooters, and most of them are awful except two
As I understand the speed is throttled on bike ways. So is it only allowed to ride e-scooters on the sidewalk?

In Switzerland e-scooters are categorized similar like Mopeds, so they are allowed (or required) to use the bike lanes or the street.

I wonder how this is handled in other countries as I just was in Spain and we saw a lot of e-scooters and I wondered what the rules are there.

andimm··on Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
He was not a Microsoft employee. He is a MVP but worked for Pfizer iirc. Now he is with Pluralsight.
andimm··on Le Bolze: Switzerland's Fifth Language
That example raised my eyebrow as well while reading.

My guess is, that it's be most famous example city for the eastern parts, although for British people Klosters would be a known alternative as well, their cable car booth is name "Prince of Wales" and in the Prättigau they rarely speak Romansh

andimm··on Le Bolze: Switzerland's Fifth Language
To be fair, the article mentions Romansh and links to another article only about our fourth language[0]

I agree the sample is not difficult to understand as a nativ Swiss-German speaker. Only thing that comes to mind is that it's a Bernese (?) Swiss-German dialect which is not always easy to understand for 'proper' German speakers.

But in my opinion almost every single dialect in Switzerland has it's own specific words and almost every canton has it's own dialect so I wouldn't call them a language.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180627-switzerlands-myster...

andimm··on Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
Can't you also block it completely in Chrome and whitelist some websites? Settings -> Privacy.. -> Content Settings.. -> Notifications (Blocked)

I haven't seen any prompts since I changed that. Although I don't use this feature at all.

andimm··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
Open Systems | Systems / DevOps Engineers, Full Stack Engineers | Zurich, Switzerland | ONSITE | Fulltime | www.open.ch

In close collaboration with all engineers of the development department and product owners, you develop components of our managed security services. You ensure that these components and systems around the world can be configured, operated and monitored in a highly scalable manner. As part of the Mission Control team, you share operational duties with your colleagues.

Do you have existing know-how or a high motivation to acquire new knowledge in the following areas:

- Internet protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, SMTP, DNS)

- Knowledge of network security concepts and practices

- UNIX/Linux

- Experience in software engineering with programming languages (e.g. golang, C, C++) and scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl)

Are you ready to face the challenge of extending and improving our fully managed secure SD-WAN, apply for our Systems / DevOps Engineer positions:

https://opench.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=42

Do you have existing know-how or a high motivation to acquire new knowledge in the following areas:

- Experience in web application development on the client side (JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, React) and the server side (Java, Spring)

- Familiarity with SQL and relational databases

- Basic knowledge of build and deployment environments (Atlassian Bamboo, Maven, Tomcat)

Are you ready to face the challenge of making IT security visible, understandable and beautiful, apply for our Full Stack Web Application Engineer positions:

https://opench.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=111

You will join one of our small development teams that work with agile methods. The team will rely on you to focus on its goals and efforts as a team player while being able to work independently. At Open Systems we are passionate about what we do. We work in an environment in which innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, creativity and open communication are practiced and continuously fostered. The pursuit of technical advancement is at the center of our attention. You will be based at our office in Zurich (Switzerland) and will get the opportunity to work out of our office in Redwood City (US) for a few months.

andimm··on Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium
My experience is, the more business traveler oriented the hotel, the more likely you'll be charged for WiFi.

My theory is, often companies have a limit for room prices for their employees, but WiFi fees count additional other expenses so they won't matter for the selection of the hotel.

So as a business traveler you don't care to be charged 20$/day for WiFi, your employer will pay for it. Hotels make nice extra money. Only "normal" guests who care, will be annoyed.

In medium tier Hotels and especially Hostels all around the world I never experienced any WiFi restrictions.

andimm··on Improving DuckDuckGo
about 3: I have set DDG as default search engine and I can just type "site:ycombinator.com rust programming langugage" in the address bar and get the results from ycombinator only.

Also lots of sites have !bangs available, like "!hackernews rust programming langugage" will go the the HN search directly.

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Maybe that helps.

andimm··on ODNS: Oblivious DNS
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16741031
andimm··on Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
I switched the Encoding to ANSI and it showed me the pasted text like this:

F?or exam?ple, I’ve ins?erted 10 ze?ro-width spa?ces in?to thi?s sentence, c?an you tel??l?

andimm··on Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records
Krebs doesn't have to write his own blog series on how to handle breaches (although I might be interested in his version as well) Troy wrote a nice post about it

https://www.troyhunt.com/data-breach-disclosure-101-how-to-s...

andimm··on The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned
you can donate on HIBP: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Donate
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