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dvcrn··on Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
I switched to almost only using Google Flights. I try to use Skyscanner because I want to support the underdog, but Google Flights gives me better, and more results.

For hotels, Google started displaying results from other search engines like Agoda, so I just use Google for that too and clickthrough to whatever is the cheapest. They could also just stop displaying agoda from one day to the next.

dvcrn··on Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1
Installed the dev edition that has the new design, and I like it as well. Especially the Alpenglow theme that ships with it looks fresh and colorful.

Will it make me consider trying it again? Who knows, right now I do like that the feel of it a lot. Might use it as my secondary browser for my while to see how it feels

dvcrn··on Vim Modes Transition Diagram
q + something else -> starts recording into buffer <something else>

q again -> finish recording

@ <somethinge else> -> replay recording of buffer <something else>

dvcrn··on Sublime Text 4
I've been using ST4 since the early dev builds and there is just no editor that makes me as productive as SublimeText. I tried everything under the sun from going with VIM/nvim for the majority of the time, vscode, atom, intellij, emacs (spacemacs).

The plugin ecosystem picked back up when Sublime started pushing out dev builds. The editor improved, got much faster, the plugin APIs expanded. Right now with my ST4 setup, I'm in coding ZEN. It's super snappy no matter what I throw at it, looks great, I know how to configure any keybinding I want, how to add new functionality with own plugins.

To me ST4 is a bit like VIM with customizations, except that it's much faster than VIM.

Happy to see ST4 got released and hoping it will attract people to consider it again.

(SublimeMerge is also a really great product)

dvcrn··on YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?
Your waitinglist link is giving a server error
dvcrn··on Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad
It's silly that when I want to watch something on Prime Video, I can see the title in the Prime app on AppleTV but can't rent it. I have to go to amazon.com on a different device, search the title, rent it, then it becomes available on the TV app.

As a person working in tech I understand it, but it's still silly.

dvcrn··on Notion API – public beta
I too tried notion for a while and I noticed that it's just getting slower and slower with each release. Even on my M1 mac it's not a very performant app which is sad. It's a bit of a jack of all trades, while doing nothing especially well.

Just recently I tried using it again for a small project (3-4 people) and it quickly got chaotic and messy (used for simple task board, wiki, blogpost drafts).

Right now, I recommend:

- Craft (http://craft.do/) for collaborating on documents, information sharing, knowledge (can't do tables and other fancy things yet, but is native and veeeery nice)

- Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) for personal knowledge database (although it's also electron...)

- DEVONthink (https://www.devontechnologies.com/) for digital office

dvcrn··on WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
People don't use the most secure option, but the option that other people they want to be in contact with use.

I've never heard of wire, so I doubt any of my friends or family have either

dvcrn··on FDA approves new ADHD drug for children
Reads a bit like Strattera/Atomoxetine with some mild GABA-effects? Although up-regulating GABA-B doesn't sound great in the long run

> More recent research has found that the mechanism of action of viloxazine may be more complex than previously assumed.[12] It appears to act as a potent antagonist of 5-HT2B receptors and as a potent agonist of 5-HT2C receptors.[12] These actions may be involved in its effectiveness for ADHD.[12]

This line here is interesting though. Curious to see where this research is going

dvcrn··on Vim-gh-line: Vim plugin to open the current line on GitHub
I'm using https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Github%20Tools
dvcrn··on Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog
I tell k8s: take this container, set up one or more pods with it, add some env variables and out a router on top, and restart the pods if they crash

If I add more physical hosts or scale the pods, k8s does everything for me like moving them around across the available resources

dvcrn··on Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding
Thanks for this!

I love Zapier but I can't justify spending so much on these small automations I use it for. I'm piggybacking on my company account currently but Integromat looks really nice! Exactly what I've been looking for

dvcrn··on AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique
Another AdGuard home user here!

I actually discovered it when I wanted to install pi-hole on my mac server and it just wouldn't work besides with the Docker container, which had other issues like not being able to see the client IP that made the request.

Been running AdGuard Home for a couple months now and it's really nice!

dvcrn··on Coding in Ada: Strings (IV) Unbounded to String
I thought this was related to the ADA (Cardano) blockchain
dvcrn··on Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
Brave doesn’t use googles sync
dvcrn··on Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?
Not likely your issue but I had something similar that exactly every day my Wi-Fi would act up and my computer disconnect. It also happened to be the same time a nearby church starts ringing it's bells and my room happened to be very close to it. It also didn't happen on days the church didn't use the bells.

Still don't know what exactly caused this and I don't live there anymore but because I was the only one in my family with these problems, and only my room was facing the church, I want to believe the bells rang at a frequency that messed with my old routers Wi-Fi.

If someone could tell me if this Is possible, I could finally get some closure on this.

dvcrn··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
The UDM is discontinued? I couldn't find anything on this, do you have a source?
dvcrn··on Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
It’s not about citizenship but where you live. In place A the rules of place A apply. If place A is part of the EU, EU laws apply.
dvcrn··on Watercooling a Canon R5 to enable unlimited 8K recording
Not true, the r5 and r6 come with a 30min hard limit despite tariffs no longer being relevant. This is besides the overheating issue so when it you manage for it to not overheat, it will stop at 29:99
dvcrn··on IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant
I’m also using homebridge but yes, HA is a good replacement for homebridge even if you mainly use HomeKit thanks to its integration.

Just give it a try and see how you like it

dvcrn··on Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors [pdf]
Roborock being xiamoi, I'd be cautious about data collection.

Reason why I got a Roomba was because I trust iRobot more

dvcrn··on DigitalOcean App Platform
Why not take the initial complexity cost and learn k8s and containerization? That's what I've been doing as a step-up from Heroku and have been very happy with it.

My project currently runs on Digitalocean managed k8s and setting it up really wasn't hard. I had everything already in containers for dev/prod anyway, and having those run on k8s just meant I had to write the deployment manifests that pull the containers and setup the pods.

What I love about managed k8s (and also shared a couple times in comments on HN) is that it's separated from the servers below. I can have 20 containers (that can be separate things all-together) running on the cheapest Droplet and would only pay whatever that droplet costs, so under $20. Then when I need more power, I just scale the Droplets used for the k8s cluster and my pods/containers get shoveled around the available resources automatically.

I liked this approach so much that I now have a private 'personal projects cluster' that runs on digitalocean with the cheapest/weakest droplet avvailable, and whenver I have a small hobby project that needs to be hosted somewhere, I just add that container to the k8s cluster and be done with it.

dvcrn··on How to Type 3x Faster
I use Keyboard Maestro with AppleScript to replace @@@ with email+currentsite.com@mydomain.com. No iOS though
dvcrn··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
I’m using Feedly or Inoreader + Reeder 4 currently
dvcrn··on Hotels of Pyongyang
Everyone country puts themselves in the center. If you live in America, then the maps you see have America in the center of the globe
dvcrn··on iOS 14 is available today
Have you tried the other tips? The AirPods Pro come with a bunch in different sizes
dvcrn··on Nova by Panic
wow you're right, it looks like LSP support is built in. It's just not individually configurable and needs an extension to be fully usable, apparently
dvcrn··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
Luckily I paid with credit card through PayPal and will use that option if the claim doesn't progress in the next few days
dvcrn··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
I am confident that I will get my money back too, it will just take some time. PayPal even called me on my phone to ask details about the case, so it's definitely in progress.

But there is a thread on the PayPal forums and a lot of people don't have the luck I have - https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-Limitations...

It's hard to believe that this seller is able to play PayPal like this though. There must be dozens over dozens of claims against the same vendor at this point.

dvcrn··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
Most ads I see these days on Instagram are scam. They usually lead to sites that have been built with a quick template and always offer 50-80% discount on little things I want, for example lamps.

They all offer PayPal so I took the bait once. The scam was clever: they ship something that isn’t what you ordered. Like a jump rope for $1 instead of the $30 lamp (discounted from $200) or drone. To get a 60% refund, you have to send it back on your own cost.

Now it gets more tricky: the parcel might not even be delivered to your address. Mine never arrived but got delivered to a zip code close to mine, but not mine. There are lots of reports of people that receive things without ordering anything and people who never get their stuff. There is also no guarantee what you ship back arrives back at them. If it doesn’t, the company doesn’t refund anything.

I quickly realized this is an obvious scam and asked them to cancel, and opened a PayPal claim before anything got shipped. The company said they are processing my refund and it will take 3 days for my money to be back (which is not how PayPal works). Guess what? In the 3 days, they just shipped something which threw the PayPal claim off because now they have to wait until the shipment arrived and gets sent back (info from PayPal cs).

It’s been over a month and I am still trying to get my money from PayPal back. It’s difficult because I haven’t received anything but the shipping number says it arrived. The site no longer exists and the email I previously used to reach out is gone too.

It’s crazy to me that PayPal enables all of these scammers. They clearly know how to play PayPal to get around the buyer protection.

These days I can’t trust any ads because of this unless I do a lot of research on the site. It’s very likely all scam. I saw similar sites on google shopping (the price comparison product), so it’s not just Facebook.

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