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I don't know if it even matters.

Emails are like postcards, easily read by anyone who handles them. Just because your mailbox provider isn't google, doesn't mean it doesn't come in contact with google somewhere else.

If you really don't want them to be able to collect the content of your mails then you and all who write to you have to encrypt them. And then you would still have the problem of the metadata to be accessible.

bebnaon Steganographic Packets

For more like this, see pluggable transports [0] from tor.

[0] https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en...

bebnaon Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances

Never heard of it, thanks for showing me!

bebnaon B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens

"FL380" on the far right got no slash.

bebnaon Falcon: A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/2 and HTTPS

There is even the older phalcon framework from 2012.

bebnaon Tesla’s Model 3 Is Becoming One of America’s Best-Selling Sedans

Where do you get those prices? Since months[1] it is more like 1.45-1.60€/l ($6.311-$6.964/gal) for regular petrol.

In 1.519€/l($6.611/gal) are 0.8678€/l($3.777/gal) taxes[2].

What they see as a expensive price, we only pay to the fiskus alone!

[1] https://ich-tanke.de/statistik/

[2] https://service.aral.de/netto-spritpreise

bebnaon Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout

Burnout!=Media Addiction

bebnaon Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout

Don't think so. People in my country are in average old (Germany), we have long standing history in IT, than any other western nation (see CCC for example), but despite both of these, I can count on one hand how many seniors I have seen at work in different companies. Finding a 50+ year old programmer, is like catching an unicorn.

Our industry is full of over time and late hours. Full of pressure because of time constraints. And all that focused on only on small part of our body.

No wonder that so many get hurt.

bebnaon Ask HN: What software should I use to write a textbook?

Your favorite coding editor (intellij, vim, emacs, notepad++,...), markdown and pandoc.

Markdown lets you focus on content and structure, pandoc creates a PDF of it by using latex, which you can later use to define how the text shall be printed (twosided? Us legal/a4/a5? Title, author,... ) and gives you latex formatted text, which is always correct & professional.

Pandoc also allows tables and images in markdown.

bebnaon A way to track people with cellphones with GPS capabilities turned off

In-car navigation systems do that, because they have access of stearing angles and speed.

bebnaon A simple distraction-free, no gimmick writing tool

VIM [1], Emacs [2], intellij based ides over ideavim's set scrolloff 999 command like in vim [3], Atom [4], ...

[1] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Keep_your_cursor_centered_vertical...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/edt/Scro...

[3] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/doc/set-com...

[4] https://atom.io/packages/scrolloff

bebnaon Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion

My notebook is from a time, where HDMI wasn't the most common port yet for modern displays and it came with regular display port and an VGA. While I do have an adapter for the display port, the VGA shows significant marks from all its usage over the years. So many locations still only supply VGA from their beamers. Sometimes I find those mini-dp to vga adapters broken in the corners of those rooms. They seem to work fine for you mac users...

bebnaon Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy

Sony has some open source phones, aren't there an alternative to Pixel 2s for you?

bebnaon VLC removed from Amazon Fire TV store by VLC developers

U must be my soul buddy...

bebnaon VLC removed from Amazon Fire TV store by VLC developers

It is HDMI CEC channel (existing since 1.1) that allows the TV to control its source.

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

bebnaon Linux Raw Sockets

It is worse on mobile firefox: https://imgur.com/a/WgS3d

bebnaon Eastern Germany: the most godless place on Earth

What does it have to do with Hacker News?

bebnaon New “Android Go” phones show how much you can get for $100

Can one "downgrade" a normal android to go? Would be interesting to see what it does to your battery runtime, for people like me, who use their phones mainly for different forms of text messaging, some news browsing and some once in a while google maps routing.

bebnaon Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations

https://buymeacoff.ee/bebna

Will keep it in reserve, I have some personal projects in the pipeline who could go over the free tiers of some cloud service providers. Perhaps the users want help me with that.

bebnaon After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea

Tja.

bebnaon Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions

Sorry but, did you really had to use HH? I'm German and that only rings my right extremists alarm bells, because they use that for "Heil Hitler" (fuck them and him) for generations.

bebnaon Amazon Prime Wardrobe lets you try on and return clothes free

The question unanswered is: What are the limits?

- Can I have a box each week?

- How many items can I put in the box?

- Do they need to be washed until return?

Why buy, when I can get free ones every week for a fee I already potentionally pay?

bebnaon Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8

That is what he meant. Doing it better is that easy, that the cost of the S8 is more expensive then the hours of programming labor.

bebnaon Blackberry Keyone Review: Part Productivity, Part Nostalgia

Does GPG work in the hub?

bebnaon How I Kicked My Smartphone Addiction, and Never Looked Back

I'm trying to get my Kobo E-ink reader, which runs linux [0] to cooperate with an usb keyboard as an mobile work notebook. The problem lies in serving power to the keyboard, because the kobo itself can do USB-OTG but doesn't serve power. And together with an y cable and usb akku doesn't work either, because their won't deliver power to my keyboards. (Didn't have the time to solder my own power yet)

[0]: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222123

bebnaon German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears

I only have seen one guy asking Siri a question to this day. Everybody in the room was frowning to that, he never repeated it.

Killing Cortana is one of the first steps of everybody I know who switched to Win10.

Haven't seen an Amazon Echos yet, not even in flats which homeowners use a massive amount of home automation gadgets.

- East German

bebnaon Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?

Perhaps you should look at this two presentations first:

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6243_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412292...

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7130-the_perl_jam_2

bebnaon Show HN: UZoom, Marketplace for customized live video experiences

Link doesn't work. Instead it leads directly to producthunt. Or was that intended?

bebnaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)

  Location: Germany, Leipzig
  Remote: If needed
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Golang, C/C++, PHP, Python, Java | Network Security, Android, Web Backend
  Résumé/CV: One request. +6yrs Experience
  Email: mail@bebna.de

Looking for a job where I can go study on the side, ideally 20h week. Free after 30.11.