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lowwaveon First 2D, non-silicon computer developed

Well with all the sabre-rattling by Kratsios on space time control, Sophons is not that far fetched.

lowwaveon LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board

Really needed!

Just FYI: Hmm, send user a private message https://fedibb.ml/ucp.php?i=pm&mode=compose&u=356301 return a 404.

lowwaveon A 'screenless smartphone'

itt has 3g. I would say the old phone by NOT having internet is a feature.

lowwaveon Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

> Costs more but no one can kick you out unless you stop paying your mortgage.

that. depends. You can host it cheaply if shared with family members, may be cheaper than paying for email provider.

lowwaveon A 'screenless smartphone'

yeah we shuould get one that that is like the old nokia with more memory for messages. This is too expensive, and 4G and other internet stuff also doesn't help. Rather have a phone where I can call and message.

lowwaveon Will serving real HTML content make a website faster?

For sure, I agree that the ajax UI/UX offered by gmail is a game changer. And all those features that makes it convenient for users, can be accomplished without compromising security/privacy. What I don't like are companies proposing standard disguising as a some convenient feature, where in reality is just a racket to mine data from the users.

lowwaveon Will serving real HTML content make a website faster?

> IMHO the easiest way to "make websites faster" is to stop enabling "web developers" to do the things that make them slow.

yeah as one those developers who jumped on the processing everything on the client/browser side, and supported all the browser having fancy JS features when ajax first popularised by gmail, I have come to regretted my decision. Especially with all the standards proposed by an advertising companies, the user/consumers don't really benefit from the usage of the web.

lowwaveon Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

that really give one a sad state on the reality of business.

the fact that google is against AGPL, makes it even more important to use it! Whatever is good for google, it is not good for humanity, and whatever google doesn't like is beneficial for humanity. Support AGPL!

lowwaveon Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

I would be down for an open source AWS services. Shouldn't be to hard to make web front end to the fire cracker instance, but make everything in the backend open source, so any one can run the community edition.

Any thoughts on that?

lowwaveon Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?

> who refuse to use their cameras during Zoom interviews and who often can't answer specific questions about their backgrounds.

Glad someone said this. Also most programmers and developers knows how tech works, they just don't want to be profiled by some AI algorithm. And why use Zoom, or any of close source, when you have jitsi to use for a video/voice chat?

lowwaveon Spain will introduce free train travel

Should be ok if they are not harassing other passengers.

lowwaveon Scratch is a big deal

Have not used Scratch, but on first loook it seems very similar to scheme-bricks: https://github.com/nebogeo/scheme-bricks

lowwaveon Deno’s July 13th incident update

instead of the AWS ones?

lowwaveon Show HN: Copy React code from any site

great work, although I would expect some lash back from the React/SPA front end dev guys ;-)

lowwaveon Show HN: Find out where your supplements are made & sourced

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/pharmaceutical-quality-resources/f...

it is something ensure the quality of the supplements if it is certified by GMP or cGMP.

lowwaveon Show HN: Find out where your supplements are made & sourced

thank you for making this. Just wonder if you can find out where the material used to make the supplements are coming from. Sometime it is all about the quality of the materials to make these supplements.

lowwaveon Consciousness is not computation

I think the parent author may be talking about life in a phenomenological model as in how we experience something vs knowing about it epistemologically. Often that gets mixed up. Knowing doesn't equal experiencing. This is something often the technocrats misses.

lowwaveon Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules and filters

> sample "Hacker News" Goggle

wonder how they came up with that list? That list it self is a goldmine on it's own.

lowwaveon Convex vs. Firebase

>1) You are severely limited in how you can query. The list of limitations is too long to recount here, but querying is nearly worthless.

that is probably a business decision. Google has api limites, so figures.

lowwaveon The case for unique email addresses (2020)

or install https://wildduck.email or mail in the box type of server, just host it yourself. Wildduck web interface allows you to make unlimited alias already.

lowwaveon The case for unique email addresses (2020)

Hmm, just try to send an email to their support email. and found this:

>>SMTP Error (450): Failed to add recipient "support@33mail.com" (4.1.8 <xxx@xxx.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found).

Hmmm don't even know how to contact them.

lowwaveon Notes on WebAssembly

wasm is just fast at doing that that's all.

However, do make us to think we need another API for general JS without WebGL and GPU access.

lowwaveon Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right

Any pre icloud service Apple user knows you can just use your computer to backup all the apple devices instead of iCloud. Although apple is pushing their cloud services, you don't need to use it.

Out of the big tech corporations Apple over all is more trust worthy than google, facebook, amazon. Of course getting LineageOS/Debian on Librium type of phone would be preferable.

lowwaveon Consciousness is not computation

Or that we just don't remember the dream states. Have you ever woken up and the dream rapidly fades away?

lowwaveon The Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1960) [video]

Online ads really ruined many things for people. No body likes online ads, yet for some reason it is just keep on going.

lowwaveon Marginalia Goes Open Source

Thank god a search engine that try to sell you stuff. Glad it is open sourced. Are they from Scandinavia?

lowwaveon The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s (2018)

that is the main reason I don't use smart phone or internet WHENEVER I can. it improved my life a lot to live a humane being.

lowwaveon Physicists rewrite the fundamental law that leads to disorder

> sensitive dependence on initial conditions

isn't that the wolfram thing? Simple patterns create complex unpredictable patterns? And our universe are just made up a few very simple rules and in combination it created this complex universe. Yeah most ideas has being around for a long time, it is just now we have the technology to verify some of these claims.

lowwaveon The balance has shifted away from SPAs

yeah while c# is more pleasant than Java, but not compare to the ease of a functional language.

lowwaveon Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare

>Deanonymizing yourself just to appease cloudflare is not a valid solution. Any website should work in any browser out of the box. If they don't, the website is broken.

I totally agree with you. I think maybe an upper limit per ip (maybe a bit higher for tor ips) would be need to prevent DoS type attacks.