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ismiseted··on So long. Farewell. Thanks for all the memories
"Apple Trailers as we know it is no more. They've had banners up this past month saying Apple Trailers was moving to Apple TV, and that's now happened and with it they've rendered ALL previous links DEAD. Yep, they're all completely gone. Nothing works below. They've completely changed the format so it's all now hosted on their iTunes/Apple TV store.

End of an era. That's all folks ;)"

ismiseted··on Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (2007)
Thanks!
ismiseted··on Intercom IPs blacklisted by Spamhaus
Rightly so. Intercom are, in my experience, a facilitator of spam, dressing themselves up as some sort of communication revolution. I've had their IPs blacklisted on my own mx for two years or more.
ismiseted··on I tried to get broadband from eir, in Ireland
Oh, that's how the kids talk these days! And TBH, I was able to laugh my way through most of it. (I would have cracked up otherwise.) I had low expectations, and once we got into Kafka territory I just decided to try and enjoy the ride.
ismiseted··on Irish Data Protection Commissioner ruling would cost EU €143bn per year says BSA
I would like to think that the judge in this case, which is now a sprawling affair with EU and US groups queuing up to be joined to it, will have the nous to ignore the Business Software Alliance's rattling of an enormous moneysabre and confine himself to the privacy issues at stake. I wouldn't bet on it though; 1% of Europe's GDP is quite the figure to drown out wishy washy concerns like privacy.
ismiseted··on Poll: Apply HN Runoff – Which two startups should YCF fund?
Natural disasters are terrible. Voting for Pinboard is not terrible. I am certain that Pinboard sincerely wants to make full use of YC's resources, possibly in ways that will amaze and astound them. And I don't think that an unthinking cheerleader attitude to YC is a requisite here. If you like Cadwolf, vote for Cadwolf but - please - spare me the lecture on how I should vote.
ismiseted··on Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?
I use vimwiki to collect, store and organise snippets links and references, then sync it to all my machines with unison. Helps if you're a vim user!

https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

ismiseted··on 94% of Americans Cannot Name One Chinese Brand. Can you?
Apple?
ismiseted··on Poll: Best RSS reader
+1 for Newsbeuter, it rawks
ismiseted··on State of RSS Readers
No mention of Newsbeuter "The Mutt of RSS readers". Feeds and podcasts all managed in your terminal: http://www.newsbeuter.org
ismiseted··on NoJPEG - Why you don’t want to use JPEG for your logo.
Old news for HN heads, but might come in handy when dealing with civilians...
ismiseted··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
Amen to this. Terrific service and no BS.

I run this https://github.com/ttscoff/Pinboard-to-OpenMeta nightly to import new Pinboard bookmarks to my local machine as .webloc files so I also have a local, searchable, repository.

ismiseted··on 2013 Resolutions: a man page a day makes the newb go away
Good plan. I've started to print out man pages and using them for learning / reference. This post: http://macgeekery.com/tips/cli/pretty-print_manual_pages_as_... got me set up using groff to pretty-print the good stuff.