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carlinmack··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
You may already have a list of public domain movies, but I wrote a query to find the ones on Wikimedia Commons [1] :) WikiFlix [2] is a nicer interface for browsing them

[1] - https://w.wiki/6dxC

[2] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster/WikiFlix

carlinmack··on Weekly Top 10 lists of the most-watched TV and films
It has 1 billion more total hours viewed in the first 28 days than the highest ever English TV show (Bridgerton)
carlinmack··on OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
if you click on individual emoji's you can see the skin tone variants for it. You can filter for only emojis with skin tone variants using the "All Emoji <Filter Icon>" button :)
carlinmack··on OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
The plan is to stay up to date with Unicode emoji releases, and add extra ones (unicode [1] and original [2]) as they are designed

[1] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode [2] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji

carlinmack··on OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
The creator of the project suggests that the license is for edits of the emojis, rather than the projects which use the emoji. [1] As someone involved with the project, I'm not sure how this should be communicated so that this is clear

[1] https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/issues/155

carlinmack··on OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
you can see them all a little easier at https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/
carlinmack··on The Rise of Mobile Wikipedia
The app allows you to search within the article. Normally apps are a hard sell, but it's genuinely good
carlinmack··on The LaTeX Font Catalogue
Charter is decent
carlinmack··on Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy
easily solved with @media print {...}
carlinmack··on Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder
Shootings that the contemporary liberal media highlight. We can't recall mass violence that target Asian, Romani, or global south communities because our media doesn't think it's notable enough.
carlinmack··on The Social Dilemma
thoughts on nationalisation or decentralization as ways to solve this?
carlinmack··on WireHole: Set up Pihole, WireGuard, and Unbound instantly
Weird to see the OP of a post being aggressive towards other commenters
carlinmack··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
if you don't already, contributing to OpenStreetMap from your phone is easy and feels very rewarding. I recommend StreetComplete for beginners and OSM Go! once you want to start editing features
carlinmack··on ‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names
your experience is not universal :)
carlinmack··on Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”
every generation has older people thinking the new generation of music is bad :)
carlinmack··on The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
maybe so, but there is a certain level of self-discipline and privilege needed to be able to study just from books. Lots of people on CS and other courses want friendly exposure to new ideas, not a recommendation of a list of text books
carlinmack··on Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
I've been creating a tool to make a database of Wikipedia edits Namespace Database [1] and since lockdown I've been making plots of the data! [2] Feel free to ask any questions!

[1] https://github.com/carlinmack/NamespaceDatabase

[2] https://carlinmack.com/blog/article/wikipediaplots/

carlinmack··on Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition technology
you can find more information about the movement here 8toabolition.com
carlinmack··on Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
what laws are they breaking by doing their job
carlinmack··on Show HN: Chartss.css – accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support
Please don't use ultra light font weights, they are not accessible
carlinmack··on Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
perhaps you're not a part of Microsoft's target audience
carlinmack··on Organ donation in England has moved to an opt-out system
how is totalitarianism giving the option to opt-out?
carlinmack··on Introducing Facebook Shops
Do you know about Facebook Watch, their streaming service with real original TV shows? Their switch from 'just' a social network was years and years ago
carlinmack··on New species of fungus identified via Twitter
iNaturalist, their license allows your pictures/data to be used in academic research
carlinmack··on WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
thoughts on send.firefox.com?
carlinmack··on Refilling an ink jet cartridge with highlighter ink
If we gave people UBI we could have this "creative creation" happening all the time
carlinmack··on Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
this robot can walk better than a disabled human in a wheelchair? something does not sit well.
carlinmack··on Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
there are bots that patrol Twitter, upload permissive content with the correct attribution and link back to the source. See more here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickr2Commons
carlinmack··on The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot
All of those languages and more are linked in the sidebar, what would you prefer to see?
carlinmack··on Show HN: Dating app focused on chatting and gamification
This is a very heterosexual perspective. Gay bashing is still a thing in most of the world for much less than asking "are you single?"
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