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hobo_mark··on Tell HN: I can't login to Gmail due to phone cannot be used for verification
So now your second factor is... the Authy master password?
hobo_mark··on Memento mori
Just FYI

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_Berg

hobo_mark··on Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house
Not to sound like the infamous Dropbox comment, but would the patent prevent you from doing? Changing light temperature and colour over the course of the day? I've been doing that for years with a cronjob. Doing so without a microcontroller? Those cost pennies nowadays.
hobo_mark··on Searchable List of Mastodon Servers
Since it's supposedly 'decentralized', and this is HN, what are the downsides to just hosting a private ActivityPub instance and following people from there? Plus my account would not be tied to someone else's instance (since I can take my domain and vps with me).
hobo_mark··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
Runs one week on a charge, I wrote a custom time-tracking app for it that I have been using for years, syncs with google calendar, shows TOTP auth codes, weather and notifications, controls music playback in the house, all without having to take my phone out...
hobo_mark··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
Wait, which versions have a compass? My P2HR does not mention that anywhere.
hobo_mark··on I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
I also still have an OG one for similar purposes (shifts room lights to orange in the evening, brightens them up blue in the morning, plays music and radio on a schedule). Stays up uninterrupted for months at a time, sd card got corrupted maybe once or twice in over a decade.
hobo_mark··on Tomorrow the Unix timestamp will get to 1,666,666,666
...as in Europe (but I am certain there are exceptions and am looking forward to the replies pointing out where that is not the case)
hobo_mark··on A 'screenless smartphone'
The Papa Sangre [1] video games had basically no UI and relied only on spatial audio, sadly I never got to try them (Apple pulled them from the appstore when they broke backwards compatibility).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Sangre

hobo_mark··on Ask HN: Stripe holding funds for 120 days for no reason
Looks like it's U.S. only?
hobo_mark··on GitLab 15.5
> Email notification when two-factor OTP attempt is wrong

Sounds like they read HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911299

hobo_mark··on Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform
https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
hobo_mark··on The FreeBSD/Firecracker Platform
I guess that makes some sense if you were already running both operating systems in production. Maintaining an alternative stack would be almost twice the work otherwise.
hobo_mark··on Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C
You might not have the luxury of a GUI in many (most?) production (or staging, for that matter) environments.
hobo_mark··on Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C
Does there exist a terminal-based editor with VS Code shortcuts? 90% of the time all I want is the multi-cursor mode (Ctrl-D etc).

Vim colleagues insist I could just write macros, yeah no.

hobo_mark··on Why do SaaS companies need sales?
I wonder if you can shortcircuit that when the first customer ready to pay is yourself.

If I go through the trouble of building something it is because I really need it for me in the first place (and it does not already exist).

hobo_mark··on GitHub Actions Pitfalls
Then maybe this?

https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local

(I only tried it shortly many months ago before running into some issues, it probably works better now)

hobo_mark··on Dear Chess World
> Even worse than that, the cheating may not have gone on during the match. It could have been as simple as old-fashioned spying: studying what preparations Carlsen had made, and learning their weaknesses before the match even starts.

How is that even "cheating"?

hobo_mark··on Gadgetbridge is an Android application for your smart watch and other devices
Weather notification updates fine for me after disabling Android's power saving mode on the applet (aka "duraspeed" / "background killer" / "battery optimization" depending on the device).
hobo_mark··on Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023
Mine still runs a week on one charge, could not find a substitute yet.
hobo_mark··on Gadgetbridge is an Android application for your smart watch and other devices
That is also what keeps my Pebble2 still running perfectly as my daily driver.
hobo_mark··on Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative
No joke! Typing this from my phone as it somehow froze the browser on my workstation.
hobo_mark··on LiteFS
That's Litestream, not LiteFS.
hobo_mark··on LiteFS
Well that was fast... [1]

Are the readable replicas supposed to be long-lived (as in, I don't know, hours)? Or does consul happily converge even with ephemeral instances coming and going every few minutes (thinking of something like Cloud Run and the like, not sure if Fly works the same way)? And do they need to make a copy of the entire DB when they "boot" or do they stream pages in on demand?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32240230

hobo_mark··on My productivity system
Then, we have had decades to observe whether this approach (that I assume to be familiar to at least many in his field by now) actually made sociologists more productive (at whatever it is that sociologists do), or not.
hobo_mark··on My productivity system
I tried, I just wasted a few minutes clicking "Random Page" and ALL results are about the supermemo software itself, most are support emails republished as wiki pages.
hobo_mark··on My productivity system
I would be willing to take productivity porn seriously, if the people obsessing over it were provably exceptionally productive (like, I don't know, "here's how I learned multiple languages and musical instruments while finishing a physics PhD as a single parent" or whatever).

For example, even the creator of SuperMemo seems a fairly average person and not the polymath/hyperpolyglot one might have expected him to be (or at least I could not find any indication of that).

Likewise, what has David Allen actually done beyond writing the same book half a dozen times?

As far as I can see this stuff mostly exists to fill a need for structure, but it does NOT make one exceptionally productive (also accounting for the time that needs to be invested in the tools and techniques themselves).

hobo_mark··on Ask HN: Can I avoid being nuked by Stripe?
How much? Can't find anything on the topic other than some people saying they could set it up without any MRR.
hobo_mark··on Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for listening to your articles
I see articles in german and dutch in the queue, since English TTS cannot really read other languages, do you detect the language somehow?
hobo_mark··on The death of the PCIe expansion card
The only caveat I know of is that on a dual socket system you won't get twice as many lanes. 48 (or 64, depends on the configuration) of each are used for the interconnect to the other socket. Then of course the performance of any slot-to-slot traffic may depend on the different paths taken inside the interconnect, but that only matters for very high-bandwidth of low-latency applications.
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