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It would be quite interesting to see how these “tire contact” motors will perform once it starts raining or your tires get really dirty.

I think there is a reason, why crank or hub located motors are the norm now.

Kind of semi related: What do you buy if you want to do tape backups at home?

We switched from Google Maps to OpenMapTiles for the same reason. Running OpenMapTiles via Docker was pretty easy. We bought a license for the Tiles (Europe) and it was a one time fee only.

I found "Standard Notes" a few days ago, could be of interest for people who're looking for apps like this: https://standardnotes.org

First, pretty cool idea! I have to try it, but it looks good at the first glance.

I think you should add a bigger "Download" button to your download documentation (i.e. here: http://www.pibakery.org/docs/install-mac.html).

It's good to have the explanation for beginners, but for people that just want to get the software (and kind of know what they're doing) there should be a bigger button in addition to the text link. :)

It works great! I used the Pinboard API to download my bookmarks and used readability to crawl the original text from the source url.

I basically do the same. I work 4 days a week and I feel that I'm not really less productive. The fact that I have one day per week off, gives me a reason to procrastinate less and do more with the time I have.

I remember the time from an old job, were most employees did nearly nothing on Friday afternoons. They were burned out from the week and waited until the time was up to finally go home.

I work 4-day weeks for a few years now and I can say that I don't want to change this anytime soon. Having more time for friends and family makes me much more happy than a bit more money. And of course, I feel much more relaxed on Mondays since every weekend is a "long weekend".

Hoooly diiiiveeerr! \m/

By that i mean, that our decisions today, will effect everything that follows.

If we educate people that privacy is a privilege, they might not do things (sharing personal information) in the future, that they would otherwise do.

And i'm not talking about world-changing stuff here, it's the little things, like sharing very personal information on social media, like my party picture example from above.

The problem is, most people don't understand the implecations of their doing. And that's why we, who understand those issues, need to educate them.

Another thing is, social media is sold as this warm and cozy place where all your friends are. But in reality, you share your information with big corporations that want to make money (which is totally fine, they provide a service).

People just need to understand, that social media is not a private and social environemnt, it's a tool, provided by a company that has (in most ways) no interest in your personal privacy.

So what you're saying is, just because our governments collect everything, everybody else should be allowed to do it too, or stop worrying?

The fight for privacy is not for us, it's for generations to come.

I have hope that this will change. Because more and more people live a fake life on social media.

Some people go crazy and share everything, but more and more people share less[^1] and if they share something, it's only something that holds together their "clean image".

1: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11387604/facebook-personal-...

That's the thing with personal pictures online. Most people can't imagine what is going to happen in the future. People on Hacker News well understand this issue, but ask your non-computer friends and family.

If you'd tell them, that you can take a picture of a random person and search that picture out of a pool of people and get their contact info (as a private company / random programmer with enough data), they won't believe you or tell you that something like this is only possible in movies.

Even today it's no problem to analyze the Facebook picture of some random person and calculate a chance of that person being an alcoholic in X years based on the number of party pictures they share.

Before sharing personal information online, people should not ask themselves what could be done with that data now, but what is possible with that data in the future.

If Facebook is going out of business (just as a thought), their data has a lot of value. Don't think that they will delete everything. It will go to the highest bidder!

But it's running inside a VM, so if you install it natively, it should be a lot smoother.

I'm wondering, is it possible to play games (from Steam / GOG et al) on ReactOS?

Thanks!

I'm going a little off-topic here, but i just found out about Nylas. What i don't understand is the Cloud integration. If i use Nylas with my IMAP account, does Nylas upload any data to your cloud?

Can i use it as a basic Mail.app/Thunderbird alternative, without leaking my personal data to your cloud?

In comparison to most GUI apps on Linux, this looks pretty good. It might not be perfect, but if i had to choose between no linux port, and a good-enough linux port, i'll choose the latter.

I'm working on an Ruby on Rails based open source reader, if your interested checkout https://github.com/aleks/HappyFeed

More or less off topic, but what is the best way to play DOOM on a modern Mac or PC? I have the CD of The Ultimate DOOM.

The same could be asked for Quake 1 & 2 :)

You do realize that other countries have space programs too?

It's clear that Microsoft is not targeting the same audience as Oculus and HTC. 3000 USD for a developer edition is a bold statement.

I guess hololens will "fail". A few big companies will buy them and develop random software to impress clients. But i'm pretty sure we will not see much else.

The article just describes how to use Tor as an alternative to port-forwarding/dynamic DNS. It does not say this is the best and most secure way to access your server.

Still, what you've said is true.

elaborate!

Just as a quick sidenote: If your plugin directory is inside your User folder, it seems that you have to add the +x flag to your plugins.

Example: chmod +x pluginname.sh

My guess is that this is just their launch device.

I bet they will add other tablets from other manufacturers over time. Like with normal laptops, you can choose the hardware based on your needs. To me the software is key, not if the tablet is Ubuntu-branded.

Cool plugin, but it's quiet ironic that their test utility uses (and needs) jQuery hosted by Google to work.

Checkout the source here: https://decentraleyes.org/test/

It would be much better to serve jQuery from the decentraleyes.org domain and run the test with that.

tl;dr: It needs jQuery from Google to test if jQuery from Google can be loaded via $.ajax.

It's a good solution if it's what you need. Focus on the content, not on the tech behind it!

Does it always have to make you money?

I feel blogging is much more about sharing content, building a community and meeting new people. In my personal experience i met a few people through various blogs and it was worth much more, than a few dollars.

If you're only blogging to make money, you're doing something wrong. It's the same with startups and other things. Do it for the fun, and not for the money!

That's kind of what the dotcom bubble was. Startups with only startups as their customers. All juggling fantasy money around until some investors wanted their money back.

I'm also working on an open source RSS Reader called HappyFeed. It's compatible with Fever RSS API, so you can use it with Reeder, ReadKit, Press and so on.

I work on this project mainly for myself, but if you're interested and want to contribute, feel free to get in touch!

Screenshots and development blog: https://need.computer/happyfeed/2015/12/20/happyfeed-drag-an...

GitHub: https://github.com/aleks/HappyFeed