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nichos··on Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog
Aren't they 2 very different things? Matrix is live chat, similar to IRC, whereas Mastadon is a microblogging platform similar to X.
nichos··on USASpending.gov
Somehow still much cheaper than NASA: https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/national-aeronautics-and-...
nichos··on Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad
Readers might be interested in notepad-next, which is under active development and cross platform: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext
nichos··on Show HN: wonderful.dev – social platform for programmers
The long term play might be to sell it to GitHub. I'm surprised github doesn't already offer something like this.
nichos··on World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
I don't know of any Americans that advocate for shooting of school children.
nichos··on New questions on Stack Overflow are down 77% compared to 2022
At the risk of being called a "boomer" I think lots of newer devs got in to the field for the money, and the remote possibilities. In my experience it seems like the genuine curiosity of computers is isn't what it was.
nichos··on Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
Export your BE vault and import it into key pass. Then store that file somewhere safe.
nichos··on Chip Defense
A tower defense game for Android based on a microprocessor theme
nichos··on ATT outage investigated by the FBI as a cyberattack
Common spelling for the company as it's also their stock symbol.
nichos··on GitUI
Gitex is fantastic. I'm still using the 2x mono version on Linux.
nichos··on The World Before Git
Easy to use until you used "streams." Pulling a file down to a stream of a stream was painful.
nichos··on GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe
GM is one of the few manufacturers that still has physical buttons for almost everything (climate, volume,etc)
nichos··on Jimmy Buffett has died
I actually looked this up, 76 is the average life expectancy for a male in the US.
nichos··on Longtime 'Price Is Right' Host Bob Barker Dies at 99
S.E. USA here, people still trick or treat, i get large amounts of kids each year.
nichos··on Bram Moolenaar has died
Hopefully something is in place with this official repo and we don't get a bunch of forks all over github. RIP Bram
nichos··on Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
What could possibility go wrong?
nichos··on Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas
I don't think I've seen a car wash thay didn't have a roof over the pumps.
nichos··on Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)
The new canyon/Colorado's can tow over 7000lbs.
nichos··on Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
Hopefully somewhere federated.
nichos··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
This is soley how i access reddit now. I closed my account a few years ago (time sink and don't agree with their censorship), but it's nice to hop on occasionally as a lurker. Oh well, like you said, probably better.
nichos··on The QR-code menu is being shown the door
Chilis does this too.
nichos··on Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs
The time to negotiate your salary is during the hiring process. Employees are not owed anything above the agreed upon amount, no matter how successful the company is.
nichos··on Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office
Slack was distinguished? When?

You might be looking at your circle, but it's alive and well.

nichos··on GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
That's a very 80s view of GM.
nichos··on Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
Yes, with Firefox sync to my home, office and mobile. Very handy.
nichos··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars
You might want to look at tasker to have it enable Bluetooth when you're not at home or something similar. Also, on most cars you can change the priority of phones, moving yours down would help.
nichos··on The decline of net neutrality activism
Unfortunately, the solution that comes up to fix bad government policies is more government policies. The intentions is usually good, but the consequences are always bad.
nichos··on Why would China use a spy balloon when it has satellites?
They detected it when it first entered Alaska.
nichos··on Wine 8.0
Notepad next seems to have taken it's place. It has active development. https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext
nichos··on T-Mobile says investigating data breach involving 37M accounts
Can we stop using social security numbers as national IDs? Even the social security office says not to use it for that.
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