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gen3··on Medium Embraces Mastodon
Interesting idea. You would have a similar problem that you have with email. It's hard to own a fake .gov email, but many people could be tricked by something like mastodongov.com (which is still currently for sale)
gen3··on Medium Embraces Mastodon
I wonder if this is the start of other companies spinning up their own Mastodon instances. I think it makes a lot of sense for Medium to do so, specifically for communication to the writers that's not attached to a specific post.

Archive.org has their own instance @ https://mastodon.archive.org

gen3··on A small fleet of CubeStats joins three mannequins, fungus, algae on Artemis-1
Hey, that's awesome! Do you know if there are plans to release the data publicly (or where I will find it when it does?)
gen3··on Ask HN: How long could Twitter operate if the remaining staff quit?
SEV as in sev-1,sev-2,etc incident. Ie something would go down and people would normally be called in to fix it.
gen3··on “So much screaming inside me”–Google Stadia shutdown stuns indie developers
For games that need it, yes. Proton works very will and Valve has done a ton of work to certify that games work on the handheld. There are currently 5.5k+ games with the verified or playable status, and if a game isn't on the list it still might work fine.
gen3··on “So much screaming inside me”–Google Stadia shutdown stuns indie developers
That can't be the only reason. Valve's Steamdeck has been a big success and it runs linux.
gen3··on New third-generation Formula E car is fastest ever electric racer
I went to the New York race a couple weeks ago. When they pass by you as a group, they really sound like a TV spaceship taking off
gen3··on Google Timer is gone
KDE will do it in Krunner. All units and currency
gen3··on Ask HN: Why are there so few artificial sunlight or artificial window products?
That's pretty cool. It's just like Portal
gen3··on Newer, better sunscreens have not been approved by the FDA
Where do you buy it from?
gen3··on Ask HN: Is anyone using Fastmail for their business?
I've used both. If you don't care that Fastmail is Australian and that your emails don't sit encrypted at rest, they come with more features.

ie:

Mobile client that does contacts/calendar/notes/drive

Mobile setup was really easy on iOS with a policy

Drive lets you host a static website or photo gallery

Custom domain catchall

Proton needs a bridge to use any client but theirs. DMARC/SPF/DKIM was a pretty easy setup for both. Proton is missing mobile clients for their new apps (drive/calendar). Its nice they give you another GB of storage a year, a VPN, and a bunch of the nolog/encryption niceties.

gen3··on Group of senators, including 10 Republicans, announce gun reform deal
The group said its proposal includes:

    Support for state crisis intervention
    Investment in children and family mental health services
    Protections for victims of domestic violence
    Funding for school-based mental health and supportive services
    Funding for school safety resources
    Clarification of definition of federally licensed firearms dealer
    Telehealth investments
    Penalties for straw purchasing
The plan also calls for an "enhanced review process" for young gun buyers.

"For buyers under 21 years of age, requires an investigative period to review juvenile and mental health records, including checks with state databases and local law enforcement," the statement said.

gen3··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
They have an ad supported free tier now
gen3··on Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
" I can’t blackhole their IP addresses, because that would make all Go modules hosted on git.sr.ht stop working for default Go configurations (i.e. without GOPROXY=direct)"
gen3··on The benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
My parents electric stove with knobs also had a child lock on it. Like the rest of the controls, it’s also a dial. It’s just harder to turn
gen3··on How to Paint a Crosswalk
Reminds me of the story of Richard Ankroms, who installed his own Interstate 5 exit sign. It hung for 8 years. Video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clgl63CWOkM

https://www.laweekly.com/richard-ankroms-freeway-art-caltran...

gen3··on Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer
> A second interesting age-related finding from the new study is that different fonts performed differently for young and old readers. The authors set their dividing line between young and old at 35 years, which is a lower number than I usually employ, but possibly quite realistic given the age-related performance deterioration they measured.

> 3 fonts were actually better for older users than for younger users: Garamond, Montserrat, and Poynter Gothic. The remaining 13 fonts were better for younger users than for older users, which is to be expected, given that younger users generally performed better in the study.

They kinda did touch on it. From what I can see, letter sizing and kerning looks to make more of a difference.

gen3··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
Sure the actual change might not sound super complicated, but hunting down all the little machines, services, and ancient code isn't easy for all organizations.
gen3··on Ask HN: What messaging tool should I use for a local affinity group?
It’s definitely best to meet people where they are. Discord is more user friendly for a lot of people, but something like a signal/instagram group could work depending on your group size.

If you are interested in Matrix, I am currently running one for a local security conference, and can answer some questions. I have it configured to automatically add you to rooms when you make an account. You can signup here: https://matrix.carolinacon.org/ . Or read my matrix info blurb here: https://carolinacon.org/coms.html

gen3··on Ask HN: Getting film developed cheap in the US
I’ve been really happy with Memphis film lab. It’s cheaper then all the labs around me and they are better quality. I’ve only shot 35, and I get it scanned at the “standard” tier so it comes out to about 10$ a roll. I think it’s something like 4$ to get your negatives mailed back. I develop in batches to save on shipping.

https://www.memphisfilmlab.org/

gen3··on Show HN: Bytle – A Wordle-like game where you guess an unsigned 8-bit binary int
Hey James, this is a really cool idea. I don't think HN is really your target audience, but early CS students sure are. I could have seen a teacher using this in Highschool or early college. It seems like a great way to practice base conversion. Thanks for sharing.
gen3··on Nine-year-old kids are launching DDoS attacks against schools
Back in highschool I had an old USB drive with a Linux install, it worked fine. I also had a copy of tor browser, so I could watch YouTube. Good times. I learned quite a bit about networking and windows security.
gen3··on Ask HN: How can I improve my reading comprehension as a person who has dyslexia?
Shoot me an email hello {at) wesring d0t com
gen3··on Ask HN: How can I improve my reading comprehension as a person who has dyslexia?
You are not alone with then attention issues, all my friends and myself have been or are currently in the same situation. It's easy to get lost and scroll for hours. Longer form content feels like too much of a commitment, but you waste the same amount of time anyways. I would tell myself I cannot waste time on a (probably good) movie, but then watch YouTube for three hours. The time commitment is low, and I was still able to receive enough satisfaction to keep me there, but would leave feeling like my time was wasted.

Waning off was hard. For Reddit/FB/Insta I found the best method was to uninstalling the app and logout online. On iphone you can set time limits of usage, which really helped me. I think I set each to 10 minutes per day. When I decide to watch a movie, I make that the only thing I am doing. No phone. If it becomes boring, I'm willing to watch something else.

Its been easy for me to regress and watch way too much Youtube. I'll occasionally be struck with the thought of "I don't care about this, why am I watching this?". Removing recommendations and comments has helped me (there are extensions, or the select tool in ublock). Building the skill and self control to walk away has been hard, but is what I would consider the goal. I've spent months not going on youtube, but will come back and spend hours

> I've been left feeling horrified and wondering how different would my life had been if i was occupied with different stuff during my teenager years

I think it is great to be self aware of things like this, but try not too get too caught up in the "what if" type train of thought. Its good and healthy to reflect and see how you can do better, but can also be a dangerous way to fall into a rut of self pity.

If you want to chat more over email/signal/matrix, I would be more than happy too. It looks like you are slightly younger then me. I just graduated college.

gen3··on Ask HN: How can I improve my reading comprehension as a person who has dyslexia?
I think it really boils down to what works best for you. If you have really bad dyslexia, picking a different font might help when it comes to line tracking. http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/sites/default/files/good_fonts...

One of the hardest things about getting back into reading for me was maintaining my attention. Instant gratification and small dopamine hits from years of youtube and Reddit had burnt my attention span. My solution was to minimize distractions, build a habit, and read something I found interesting. For me, I was recommended the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. I had a slow start. I found book 1 interesting, but felt like I had to force myself to continue for the first ~100 or so pages. It eventually got easier, and I built a ritual.

Listening to music works for me. I now have time set aside before I go to bed, where I use an old iPod and have a cup of tea while reading (with my phone out of reach). This summer I was able to get through “Words of Radiance”, a book from another one of his series, in a week (1000pgs). This took me about 3 years, but I would say it is worth it. The level of satisfaction from finishing a longer story is so much more then the little dopamine hits of a 10 minute YouTube video.

I know the recommendation of “you just have to do it” isn’t that helpful, but it’s the only thing that has really worked for me. The best advice I can give you, is to find the right book for you. I find nonfiction boring, so I avoid it. Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson is a collection of short stories that might be a good intro if you like fiction.

gen3··on Northrop Grumman Announces Team for NASA’s Next-Generation Lunar Terrain Vehicle
I would imagine cooling would be an issue
gen3··on 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz
Lowercase just runs it through the assembler, upper case also runs the C preprocessor
gen3··on There is one country where Chrome is not the most popular
They have an IP space you could track visitors from. This blog post outlines it a bit: https://nknetobserver.github.io/
gen3··on U.S. debt default could wipe out 6M jobs and $15T in wealth
Remember that about 70% of these treasury bills are held by the public. This makes up social security, retirement accounts, they are held by mutual funds, pensions, and banks. A default would shudder the world economy, and destroy confidence in the USD.
gen3··on I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix
I went from a 1060 -> 3060ti and didn't have any problems. All I did was an apt update after booting. I'm on KDE+X.
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