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aruggirello

731 karma · joined September 28, 2013

PHP developer, web designer, VR photographer, Italy.
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aruggirello··on Digital books wear out faster than physical books
It doesn't if you're using Magisk - which is the case 99% of the time. Magisk has been updated and passes SafetyNet under Android 12 too - no other means of rooting a modern phone is safe anyway.
aruggirello··on Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
Did you know about Waydroid? It's still at a relatively early stage, but it rocks!

https://waydro.id/

aruggirello··on Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux
> GUI creation (no common tool I am aware of)

You can create simple GUIs straight from bash too - take a look at zenity (I'm aware it's not the only option BTW)

aruggirello··on Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux
KDE Connect can be used to move your mouse, too.
aruggirello··on How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb
I think he's referring to finger thickness, not length. Index and middle fingers together supports this view, as well as the closed fist.
aruggirello··on Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary
Boötes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDSS_J1430%2B2303

aruggirello··on Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary
> SDSSJ143016.05+230344.4 (hereafter SDSSJ1430+2303) is known as a Seyfert 1 galaxy at redshift 0.08105

https://astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html says this galaxy is ~1.1 Gly, so "not exactly close" whatever that means on a cosmic scale. Intriguingly, this event took place when life on Earth barely existed at all...

Edit: at 1,5x10¹¹ solar masses, the galaxy is not at all small (and neither are the BH involved!!!) it's in the same ballpark of the Milky Way.

aruggirello··on Imminent merger of a supermassive black hole binary
“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”
aruggirello··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
Why not prevent such cancers in the first place? Forbidding sales of sugar, cigarettes, and trash food would go a long way to prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. Sh*t happens, you can't have a vaccine for everything.
aruggirello··on Turkmen Internet Users Forced to Swear on Koran They Won't Use VPN
Is this the launcher you're referring to?

https://apkpure.com/evie-launcher/is.shortcut

It was removed from Google Play...

Edit: apparently, it was removed because not actively developed anymore: https://www.reddit.com/r/EvieLauncher/

aruggirello··on Eradication of Covid Is a Dangerous and Expensive Fantasy
BTW, coronavirus infecting domestic and wild animals means that, like it or not, Covid is here to stay. There simply is no chance we can vaccinate wild deer:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02110-8

aruggirello··on Starlink review, four months in
How does it compare to autossh?
aruggirello··on How Indian Zoroastrians helped shape modern Iran
You can visit a Mithraeum at Sutri (VT), ~50 Km north of Rome: (in Italian)

https://www.tripadvisor.it/Attraction_Review-g1064663-d10823...

aruggirello··on Wikipedia is up (2001)
You can download zim files with all Wikipedia content (for offline browsing via Kiwix) here:

http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/

aruggirello··on No ID, no vaccines for Indonesia’s invisible people
...with an enforced ACL.
aruggirello··on Europe Is Trying to Reclaim Its Lost Chipmaking Glory
Unfortunately that wouldn't count as European, after Brexit :-)
aruggirello··on Prank Windows XP simulator
Old Amiga user here - There's something about GNU/Linux that felt instantly familiar for me - it instantly clicked. I too lost too many years on Windows...

BTW as an Amiga fan, let me take you back to Kickstart 1.3 and a few demos:

http://www.chiptune.com/

aruggirello··on PSPad: A freeware programmer's editor for Windows
You can also use containers for that.

I'm running Phatch under Ubuntu 12.04 via LXD on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine (which was maybe 14.04 or 16.04 when I first set it up to do some batch image processing), and it's working fine.

aruggirello··on Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
that wouldn't work nicely with the mouse :)
aruggirello··on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade EGA/VGA Comparison
Nitpicking, but the OCS ("classic") Amiga can also display 64 colors (in half brite mode) or even the full 4096 color palette (in hold and modify/HAM mode). That's what made people's jaws drop back then.
aruggirello··on Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money
Shameless plug, I'm selling such wooden "sheds" (in Italy, but could ship EU-wide if required) with up to 45mm thick walls (mostly garden / leisure / party oriented though) on my website. I'm willing to give a little discount if any fellow HNers are interested (sorry, you'll have to use Google Translate - it's in Italian :)

https://www.h2oreca.it/cerca.php?categoria=giardino%2Fcasett...

aruggirello··on The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets
Not the author, but since nobody did, I feel compelled to mention htmx:

https://htmx.org/

aruggirello··on What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
I don't know if Teamviewer or Anydesk support *BSD, but you can always use xpra - though they say "All BSD variants should work, but are not regularly tested." so you might find a couple hiccups maybe.

I've found xpra --shadow to be almost on par with Anydesk on Linux - even passing through an ssh proxy. But obviously that might depend on GPU encoding which might not always be available on BSD.

aruggirello··on “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
I'm all for Occam's Razor and don't usually buy corporate bullshit, but this comes to my mind:

- Azure is the second largest cloud provider worldwide

- Ubuntu is probably the most common Linux distro installed in the cloud

- We never heard about another episode like this before

Now if Canonical was allowing / encouraging this kind of behavior from their sales rep, I think we should have seen it happen in the wild before (like, a thousand times?) already; since it only happened once, I'm inclined to believe them. Also see [1]

Now let me think: I'm not OK with Canonical accessing my contact information because I spin up a VM, but I'm also not OK with Microsoft sharing my contact information with Canonical. What's wrong with "let me call them if and when I need?" But I'm European so maybe a little too privacy focused.

[1] BTW: let's say 99% Ubuntu VMs are spun to host some boring Wordpress site, nuvelle cuisine blog or leather shoe shop. What's the chance of an Ubuntu sales representative to ever make a sale this way? I guess it must be pretty slim, so he'd have to contact hundreds of potential customers to turn a few sales - something that would quickly get reported if it was a corporate business habit. This reinforces my first impression.

aruggirello··on Show HN: Keynavish – Control the mouse with the keyboard (Windows)
On KDE you can choose to control the mouse with the numeric keypad under accessibility settings - no need for external apps. BTW we also have KDE Connect, where you can control your mouse with your smartphone too.
aruggirello··on Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology
HN thread also worth reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558182

aruggirello··on Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen
Looks like Weylus is what you're looking for:

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

aruggirello··on JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
Makes sense, since they're downstream from Ubuntu, and this is Ubuntu's release cadence.
aruggirello··on Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
Since the author mentions Cinnamon and Gnome, I'd expect GTK land to be more susceptible (so I'd expect to perhaps run into similar issues with other GTK-based DE's).

Note how starting from Plasma 5, KDE doesn't officially come with a screen saver installed anymore, and only has a screen locking mechanism (kscreenlocker, which isn't exempt from its own share of bugs BTW).

aruggirello··on Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
On another thread today, BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810250

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