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mkdirp··on A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash
I did not know this. I had a look, and I'm surprised that the Dutch version is still running where the British version was only just revived, and the rest aren't running at all.
mkdirp··on A Wordle clone in 50 lines of Bash
Slightly off-topic - I've seen wordle become very popular out of nowhere, and haven't been following it. I'm trying to understand how it would be played. Is this basically Lingo (a gameshow on Dutch TV) but for individuals and as an app?
mkdirp··on Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
I want to switch to osmand and I've installed it and Google Maps, but I've yet to be able to use osmand full time. mostly because it never seems to find a full and navigate to it properly.

The best way I've been able to use it is typing the address's postcode and then finally look for the number or building like a barbarian, but even that doesn't always bring up the result.

mkdirp··on Xorg update adds touchpad gestures and variable refresh support (2021)
These feature changes are not mouse gestures, this is about touchpad gestures. Mouse gestures are nice, but they're not great to perform using a touchpad.
mkdirp··on Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?
This is mad. So much overhead for little to nothing.

Even if you don't use feature flags, you should always be merging complete code. Master should be your release, and you should be deploying often. The small your release, the quicker you catch issues, and the easier it is to understand where those issues lie.

mkdirp··on Ask HN: Why is there no Kickstarter for startups yet?
> There are public platforms for crowd investing of startups, but they require users to be accredited investors due to regulations.

Perhaps in the US? In the UK we have Crowdcube which anyone can sign up to and invest in new (and older) startups.

mkdirp··on RegExr: Learn, Build and Test Regex
Regexr was great. It's a shame development has stalled. I've started using regex101 instead, mostly because of support for more than javascript and php. There is plenty of opportunity to add some additional languages through webassembly but sadly I don't think this is gonna happen.
mkdirp··on Gov.uk Platform as a Service
> A bit off-topic, but gov.uk is quickly improving into an actual usable site.

In my experience gov.uk has been vastly superior compared to other websites for a long time. Gov.uk seems to be more consistent with everything than most company websites are.

mkdirp··on Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?
Similar reason why Jenkins CI by default uses blue to indicate success.
mkdirp··on Keyboards and Open-Source
> 70% is not a thing AFAIK

Maybe this is what has thrown my research in shambles. I thought 70% was basically a laptop like layout (basically normal keyboard + arrow keys cramped under the right shift key and maybe a few extra keys). Maybe I'm mistaken.

In terms of I've been thinking up to £150 or the equivalent. Split keyboard optional, though, I've never really used one, so maybe it's worth it if it falls within the budget for ergonomics.

mkdirp··on Ask HN: Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?
> I can also practice my religion with freedom, unlike most of Europe (UK is one exception with caveats of course)

This has to be satire. In fact, this whole comment has to be satire.

mkdirp··on Keyboards and Open-Source
> It's a rabbit hole

This is my issue. I really want a mechanical keyboard, but the amount of choice is insane, and the price difference between different ones are insane.

Sadly these days it's hard to separate fact from fiction when it comes to products.

All of this, and I have very basic requirements too (at least I think so). 70% keyboard layout, needs to be somewhat quiet, and I don't really want to pay an arm and a leg. Is there not a website where I can filter from many different keyboards so I can short-list what suits me best? I've not found any. The only places where I've been able to find quality information are Reddit and other similar communities, but they contain a barage of information and it's hard to find anything useful.

edit: I'd really like to not have to build it myself.

mkdirp··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
There's probably an internal memo saying they'll embrace open source iff it benefits them. So forget about OSS drivers.
mkdirp··on XSuspender Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications
According to Wikipedia[0]:

> In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ("sun"), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (anti-clockwise) (卍) is called sauwastika, symbolising night or tantric aspects of Kali.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

mkdirp··on Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
I wish there was something that have stdout in an env variable that is readily usable next time the prompt is available.
mkdirp··on Ask HN: Recommendations for an SMTP Sending Service?
I know you're probably not looking for a SaaS based on your message, however, I recently migrated from ProtonMail to mailbox.org because of reasons, and I really think it is worth using over self-hosted solutions.

A big reason for not going with self-hosted setup is because of the exact reason you mentioned. I just wasn't in the mood to manage everything myself and keeping my IPs in good standing. On top of that, the only place I could host it is on some cloud (I live in a small apartment in London, so self-hosting isn't very feasible), or worse, some smaller provider that potentially has low to no accountability. I felt like I'm just moving the trust from an email provider (who can arguably do a better job than I can) to a cloud hosting provider.

For me, mailbox.org has been great, better than PM. I got the standard package, which is €3 per month. It allows me to use both of my email domains (using a catch-all), and allows me to send emails from any sender (combined with Thunderbird's customisable send field, it's great!). It has full integration with any email client, as opposed to PM which requires either their app, or ProtonMail Bridge.

The initial set up was a bit weird, and definitely not as refined as ProtonMail's but in the end it worked. I'm able to use one of my domains as a 1 email per website, and the other for professional communications. They've also got an option to encrypt all your email using a PGP key, which you can combine with Thunderbird's PGP integration, or MailVelope.

mkdirp··on Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator
This is probably not exactly the same, because I'm assuming the ps3 is maybe emulated very different, but rpcs3 is able to boot up into the XMB.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/emulation/ps3-emulator-rpcs3-xmb

mkdirp··on The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options
The issue is probably related to quotations among other shell related things. Observe:

    NAME=taterman
    EMAIL=sweettaterhater@taterman.com
    curl --jp "user=$NAME" --jp "email=$EMAIL" http://getdemtaters.com
vs

    curl -d "{\"user:\"$NAME\",\"email\":\"$EMAIL\"}" http://getdemtaters.com
Even adding jq to requirements doesn't make it that much better:

    jq -n --arg name "$NAME" --arg email "$EMAIL" '{ "user": $name, "email": $email }' | curl -d @-
mkdirp··on Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
It says "Optional" next to the username/password.
mkdirp··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
TIL! Though, it only helps when you generate the password inside the extension. When it's some other way, and you paste it, it's less helpful.
mkdirp··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
Oh my, thanks for that link, I hadn't noticed. It's disappointed that addressing this[0] took 5 years and a whole lot of denying it's their fault, and that it is Mozilla's fault[1]! All it took was Chrome introducing a deadline...

[0] https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/pull/2121/commits/9d81b...

[1] https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/136#issuecomment...

mkdirp··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
This isn't the problem. Re-read what I wrote.
mkdirp··on Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames
> Opensubtitles became really frustrating to use once they began asking for a login and a password to download subtitles in VLC or Xbmc/kodi (basically every time you need to use the API).

This was actually optional, and always was. I think the issue was that they had made some changes in the backend, but the addons didn't update the code to accommodate. At least this was the case for Kodi. The opensubtitles addon has essentially become abandonware anyway. There are now third-party addons that provide the same functionality but without a login, and across different subtitle websites.

mkdirp··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
Google does, as part of Chrome. Iirc there is even a ui on your account. There is unfortunately no password sharing or anything like it.
mkdirp··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
Bitwarden has quite a few of these sad quirks.

It doesn't work very well in Firefox's private browsing. Only thing you can do is autofill by right clicking a text field and autofill from there, or the keyboard shortcut. But you cannot unlock it in private browsing.

Stateless UI is annoying at best. There's a few times where this has slipped my mind, so I paste a generated password in a new item, and then go to copy the email, and the new item is gone. If I didn't use a clipboard manager, this would have meant losing the generated password.

The browser addon is completely separate from the desktop app. It's annoying as it means you have unlock them separately when you need them. I used to be a 1Password customer, and I absolutely adored the seamless experience of the browser extension utilising the desktop app when it's installed.

mkdirp··on Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager
If you do self-host, please consider still buying premium from Bitwarden. It's only $10 per year. It's well worth the money and since you're still using the clients, which are still developed Bitwarden, it'll help towards keeping the product alive.
mkdirp··on Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
Fair. I guess the reason I asked is because YAML is a little easier to play with for humans, especially since some sections need things like new lines among other things. Doing a YAML text block is easier to read and write than JSON's quoted string with new lines replaced with `\n`.
mkdirp··on Containerize Go and SQLite with Docker
I totally understand removing annotations in the DWARF tables since they're not really needed in a production environment, but why would you want to remove stack traces? They provide invaluable information in a production system, and removing them increases the start up time with negligible difference.

In reality you'll tell whatever deployment system to deploy your binary/container, and you'll just wait until it's done. In such cases, 150ms won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things due to other systems such as your CI and other things in your pipeline.

mkdirp··on Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
Why JSON? Why not YAML or something more easily editable by a human?
mkdirp··on BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
> As for the BBC it's firmly establishment leaning rather than left leaning in my view, and they also carry a lot of the blame for promoting Farage's poltics e.g. more appearances on question time than anyone else

As much as I hate everything that is Farage & co, I think that is rather a symptom of the BBC being less biased than other outlets. If you want to claim to be unbiased, you have to give both sides of any argument a voice in a place like the UK, regardless of how terrible or great one side is.

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