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leovander··on TV series about startup failures
There's at least a few computer scenes in the last season.
leovander··on Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative
I don't think even hard science can save the masterpiece of a movie, The Happening[0].

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/

leovander··on I built an iMessage bot using Beeper
Are they still doing iMessages via an always on Apple computer or shipping out jailbroken iPhones?
leovander··on Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years
If only the Playdate could charge using the crank.
leovander··on Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
Bryan Cranston on Malcolm in the Middle[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/yuGjVKOQc98?t=22

leovander··on Transmission v4.0
If you want quicker speeds, look into usenet. Have to pay for a decent news hosting and indexer, but after some tweaking you can download new releases so much quicker without worrying about vpns and ratios.

At this point I have Plex and Overseer hooked up to Prowlarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Radarr, with Prowlarr connected to my nzb client and server (it was easy to cut over from transmission, using the secure ports to talk the news hosting and client accounts). Everything is spun up in docker using the linuxserverio images.

I might be mixing up some terms there, but that setup has made downloading content so much easier and quicker.

My current setup:

Plex (Media Content Manager, desktop, mobile, tv apps. Local and external) - https://www.plex.tv/

Overserr (Allows users to request content) - https://overseerr.dev

Prowlarr (Configure your torrent/usenet indexers, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr point to Prowlarr) - https://prowlarr.com/

Radarr (Movies) - https://radarr.video/

Sonarr (TV) - https://sonarr.tv/

Lidarr (Music) - https://lidarr.audio/

NZBGet (nzb download client, configure nzb newhosting site, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr point NZBGet to download content. I pay for one newshosting site and two separate indexers) - https://nzbget.net/

leovander··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
I have it synced in a git repo, and I use their apps on windows and macos. I lazily use the git plugin to commit and push changes, but you can do at all in the command line if you wanted. Reminder, it's a bunch of plain text markdown files so commit away.
leovander··on Auth0 Verifiable Credentials
Looking at the credentialSubject and the rest of the format all I see is our friend SAML coming back to the limelight. Assertions, issuer, type, along with let's overload all those optional fields inside of credentialSubject instead of making separate entities or objects.
leovander··on Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?
Please don't follow what Polar did to their project. I hadn't used it for a year or so, went back to use it, they had upgraded to a SaaS model (online account required) so I couldn't access my highlighted notes. I swear they were open source from the get-go, but the community has seemed to die down now.
leovander··on Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
I was just in the middle of Kansas listening to the radio, and I hear two folks on the talkie. When can I pay for a Steam version of this?! Great job!

Feature Request: Can we see what our destination is?

Bug: After turning off the radio I was still getting static noise.

leovander··on Patients can now access all their health records digitally
Good luck with that. If the medical group you are a part of is in their regional, statewide or a country wide HIE, you'd have to check with every connected partner to see what other systems may have queried for your data and potentially have copies as well.

You typically won't have your data in too many other systems unless you are hopping between different medical groups/hospitals. There's just a possibility that the above could happen because, seeing and making the sausage, I wouldn't trust anyone to be able to tell me who has seen my health records.

leovander··on What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
Copy pasting code shared on slack, why do the apostrophe characters get converted into a different character that looks like an apostrophe?
leovander··on Only Persistent LogIn
Originally it wouldn't sync across your signed in Firefox Accounts, the plugin would come across but not your saved containers/open with options. I feel like they might have added having your container settings being synced more recently though.
leovander··on Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?
I'm going to guess that most folks now-a-days go with a single soundbar that acts as the whole sound system, maybe there is still a center channel in the bar? Whether that be for; price, small living space or a partner doesn't want speakers around the world, its a convenient space saver that sits under the TV, sight mostly unseen.
leovander··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
But did you go down the rabbit hole of r/mk and solder that bad boy yourself?
leovander··on GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
We similarly did this at a hackathon.

> Droplock is a tool to help you when your laptop is stolen... The thief is prompted with an option to donate to charity (through JustGiving, another BattleHack sponsor) or pay the laptop owner directly via Braintree. If they fail to take one of these options, the laptop gets locked down until payment is made.

https://dropbox.tech/developers/droplock-a-dropbox-hack-wins...

leovander··on I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
They mention that in the post at the end.
leovander··on Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments
If you haven't tried it, obsidian.md[0] has been killing it. You get to write your files in markdown and you can sync with git if you would like or toss it into your favorite share drive. I believe there is a built in daily tasks/note that you can trigger and there is a plugin that shows the daily notes you took on a calendar, to quickly check if you made one a certain day.

The only caveat I will give is, is that you can do so much with it with the stock options and its graph and throw in the plugins you can get within the app, you can easily spend so much time trying to perfect everything. I got burnt out with notion really fast since most of the community at least on reddit gravitates to showing off what your landing page looks like.

[0] https://obsidian.md/

leovander··on Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics
First sentence sounds like a compliment, so I can imply that he likes the guy. And the second one is specific enough about him tweeting about taxing the rich. You might need to block *ycombinator.com in your hosts file for the day.
leovander··on What’s the Difference Between American English and British English?
I am surprised they started with the t’s. It’s the r’s or lack of the r’s that stand out the most to me in conversations.

Source: English spouse and Australian best friend

leovander··on OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249766
leovander··on Fitness trackers 20 years from now
Healthcare companies following a schema? Ha. Maybe the closest thing to there being any consistency is companies making sure they can be listed in Apple's Health app.
leovander··on Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk
leovander··on The Frame.work Marketplace Opened
I'm swooning over that back to top button that spins as your scroll and it attempts to match your scroll speed.
leovander··on What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
Not sure why he got rid of the picture of it, but he actually put a computer inside his HHKB. I was waiting for him to do a write up.

https://palmerluckey.com/oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-ocu...

You can see that on wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190325121641/http://palmerluck...

leovander··on Google is dismantling its health division
Money and all of the above.
leovander··on Dumb Phone
That was the more important headline.
leovander··on Ask HN: What things that tech recruiters do, annoy you the most as an engineer?
New wave of Amazon recruiters stumble upon my previous application. Each one uses the same cookie cutter email, telling me that they have since updated their hiring process like that of Google, e.g. interview for the company then you'll pick a team. Followed by asking me to tell them when was the last time I interviewed and/or took the programming assessment.

You are reaching out to me because I was in your system, to then ask me when was the last time I interviewed?! Once that batch of recruiters is gone, rinse and repeat for the next wave of recruiters[0].

[0] https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a511708c-e058-4488-958b-56f7ed5...

leovander··on Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the best piece
For those wanting to clear tetris's. Trick is leaving that square empty if you try to keep clearing the lines. And if you clear the screen, you can see I saved myself twice using the same starting move with that Z others were complaining about.

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leovander··on Plain of Jars, one of the most mysterious archaeological sites, reveals its age
Title can be interpreted like the recent post, "Inheritance was invented as a performance hack"[0] where a user assumed it was going to be about money. And here, the joke about maven.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26989380

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