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lyk··on Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine
keybase's kbfs is my dropbox-style replacement. It works really well in my experience
lyk··on Mmm, Pi-hole
You can use uBlock Origin in Firefox on Android, and I've found DNS66 to be a good non-rooted adblocker on Android.
lyk··on Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
Check out newpipe, it's in f-droid. It supports audio-only with the screen off, and downloading audio from videos.
lyk··on Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
Check out keybase, I've been using it as a Dropbox replacement, and it works pretty well. Its file access on mobile is still in development, as is everything else.
lyk··on Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
"Runners who improved their performance in Vaporflys and then switched to other shoes got slower.

There were very few runners in our data who met this criterion: We counted just 24 such races. But these runners finished about 7 percent slower on average than they did while wearing the Vaporflys. (Of the 24 races, 17 races were slower, and 7 were faster.)"

lyk··on Keybase Exploding Messages
But it's not the same device, in removing your old operating system you've removed the device keys keybase uses for encryption.
lyk··on How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream
50 minivans!
lyk··on In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
That happens to a lot of college graduates I know. They stopped for me around a year or so after graduating.
lyk··on Show HN: Lisp Shell
$OLDPWD also holds the previous directory.
lyk··on Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?
Machinery's Handbook and some GD&T reference books.
lyk··on Why Do Cracking Knuckles Make That Noise? You Might Need a Calculator
I'm using firefox and the website functions normally.
lyk··on Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability
No, since there are fewer articles being submitted to the journals, they need to accept and publish more of them to meet their quotas.
lyk··on Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky has joined Y Combinator as a partner
You can use gadgetbridge, it's available on fdroid! I use it all the time, no pebble app for me.
lyk··on Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX
It's nowhere near as nice in my, and lots of other people's, opinion. Just because people don't like it doesn't mean they haven't used it. Also, word's actual typesetting can't touch latex. I wouldn't want to use word for anything, let alone something that requires a large equation.
lyk··on Let’s talk about usernames
To solve this problem in part, keybase exists. At its core it's a proof-of-identity service, with some fanciness on the side. Sure it doesn't fix the root of the username issue, but it helps a little bit, while having cool things like kbfs and kbp.
lyk··on Revisiting the Risks of Bitcoin Currency Exchange Closure [pdf]
I don't get the point of this comment. Are you criticizing the current state of cryptocurrencies, or are you implying that investing your life savings in an exchange is somehow safer than keeping it on a USB key?
lyk··on Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost
There is US-gram. See slug, pound-mass.
lyk··on DNS over HTTPS
Not sure if you're trolling, but the network is being accessed by bypassing the captive portal. The network is being accessed in a way that isn't permitted.
lyk··on Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use?
Keybase. It's a pretty great overall service, with its encrypted virtual file system being just one of them.
lyk··on Tesla posts big loss, cuts production of Models X and S to catch up on Model 3
That's a LaTeX habit for a lot of people, chill out.
lyk··on AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops
Is 100% faster equal to 1.00x?
lyk··on A Visit to a Synthetic Cadaver Factory
Compared to real cadaver labs? No, not at all.
lyk··on PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker
Or, you know, Google told the authorities. All I see is that PureVPN keeps the user's email on file.
lyk··on PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker
Can user account information really be called "logs?" This article mislead me into thinking PureVPN kept activity logs, but the end of the article makes it sound like they just store an email address. Did I misread?
lyk··on Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
ddg's server and js are closed/proprietary, if I remember right.
lyk··on DuckDuckGo vs Google
I used to use ddg, then startpage, but I've been using a self-hosted searx for a while now. It's a meta-search engine that scrapes other sites. Results are always great, and it's nice being able to enable specific engines for different sites. Check it out: https://searx.me