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joshryandavis··on Show HN: Captcha to detect bots with a simple question
Source: https://github.com/joshryandavis/dumb-captcha
joshryandavis··on ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI
> I understand there are use cases for low bandwidth, high range.

Use cases like IoT? The very thing this is for?

joshryandavis··on Tailscale's new macOS home
You're the one losing the plot. It's optional, still closes to the system tray without you explicitly docking it. It doesn't emerge at random like McAfee.

> Eventually it got so bad Microsoft just baked it into the OS. Tailscale is on even worse footing here because Apple is even quicker to act when you destroy user experience.

So Apple are going to bake Tailscale into the OS? Also, read the blog. It's a response to Apple's bad user experience.

joshryandavis··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Exactly, yeah. Small VPS providers are possible to get blocked but blocking AWS regions would be devastating. So it is the perfect place to put something like this.
joshryandavis··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Oh really? That's surprising.
joshryandavis··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
I lived in China for a while and there were several waves of VPN blocks. Also very few VPN services even try to actively support VPN-blocking nations anymore. Any commercial offering will be blocked eventually.

What I settled on for decent reliability and speeds was a free-tier EC2 hosted in an international region. I then setup a SOCKS5 server and connected my devices to it. You mentioned Cloudflare so whatever their VM service is might also work.

It's very low profile as it's just your traffic and the state can't easily differentiate your host from the millions of others in that cloud region.

LPT for surviving the unfree internet: GitHub won't be blocked and you'll find all the resources and downloads you need for this method and others posted by Chinese engineers.

Edit: If you're worried about being too identifiable because of your static IP, well it's just a computer, you can use a VPN on there too if you want to!

joshryandavis··on Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in revenue
They have to turn things around. I don't think I could go back to life without Spotify.
joshryandavis··on WebGL Car Viewer
Beautiful demos like this make me even sadder that Microsoft don't plan on supporting WebGL in IE.
joshryandavis··on Google says no plans for iOS 6 mapping app "yet"
Why hasn't someone just used the Google Maps API to mock up a quick app and submit it? Would Apple simply reject it?
joshryandavis··on Myspace previews complete redesign
Their audience is people who still use Myspace.
joshryandavis··on The iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken
They don't trust Cydia, which is understandable.
joshryandavis··on Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
Twitter is being a bit of a dick.
joshryandavis··on The total price of the Digg acquisition was around $16 million
It's still a bit pathetic in comparison to the 200 million Google offered them back in 2008…
joshryandavis··on My weekend project: anonymous, realtime message board with socket.io
It is a fun little site, I really enjoyed playing with it. You really need to add some spam prevention, title & comment length limits, fix exploits, etc.

I wanted to play around with it some more, but it's just pure spam now.

joshryandavis··on ASK HN: Could you give me some feedback on my startup's logo?
It's pronounced Chi-dy.
joshryandavis··on Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
There is a debate? I thought it was generally accepted that styluses are icky.
joshryandavis··on Poll: What is your primary operating system
I gave Chrome OS a vote, just because I felt bad for it.