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carte_blancheon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

I've been using noTunes to do this for years, works like a charm: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

Also a bit unfortunate that a software like this has to exist in the first place.

carte_blancheon Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

Looks nice!

It's getting hard to keep up with all the recent posts on indie web aggregators (a good problem to have!). I've observed that I always get excited about seeing one such tool -> try to make it a habit to visit those aggregators occasionally -> forget about them -> rinse and repeat.

A great execution on the problem of discovery within the blogosphere is Wander, which was posted here a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759. I discover great, small websites not because I found them in any aggregator's list, but more often via someone whose opinions I trust recommended a particular post to me. Wander executes on that idea rather brilliantly.

I've found myself going to my Wander console[^1] more regularly now and I keep finding great folks to follow.

[^1]: https://www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/

carte_blancheon Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

Do you have any documentation/blog post for this? I would love to do something similar for my own use.

carte_blancheon Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

Thank you for that recommendation. Added this 10-hour documentary featuring Milton Friedman to the top of my to-watch list: https://www.freetochoosenetwork.org/programs/free_to_choose/...

carte_blancheon I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

I've been using Stirling-PDF as my go-to solution for any pdf needs and have never needed any other service. Open source gold standard for any pdf needs: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

carte_blancheon Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

Getting "Argo tunnel error" on the page

carte_blancheon Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

I loved this book, and honestly it's one of the best books I read in the past decade. There does exist an eBook, because I read it on Kindle and I remember I used to wonder how amazing it would be to read it in hard copy. Well, it's been almost 3 years now - time for a re-read in Hardcover!

carte_blancheon Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore

> The major DEs like KDE and Gnome3 are full of exploits and memory leaks.

Can you give any supporting evidence for this?

carte_blancheon Google Is Eating Our Mail

Yandex.com does all that.

carte_blancheon SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

OSM is better than GMaps?

I hate having to go to Google for everything as much as the next guy, but I just can't bring myself to use OSM over Google Maps. GMpas are just.. better in every case.

carte_blancheon Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

Like the majority of the people here, I use Facebook sparingly, but I constantly need to go back there because of numerous groups that I follow. Is there any way to sideline the infamous "news feed" and instead curate a manual feed containing only group posts?