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notemakeron Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

Slightly OT, but I yesterday launched my script [1] to go through 2 decades of family photos (200GB) that are structured in no sensible way (i.e tree depth of over 6 and over 500 folder with no descriptive names) and organize them.

The script will copy the files, ignoring duplicates, and format them as follows. Files are renamed to their date of creation (when the photo/video was taken/shot), e.g. 2019.01.07_08.28.34.jpg, and then stored in folders sorted by year.

ETA is 40 hours for the remaining 150GB. I suspect that the bottleneck is my network (running the script on my PC, but the photos are available through NFS). I assume it would go much faster if photos are stored on the same computer as the script is being run on.

Anyway, I thought this might be relevant for anyone who wants to get a grip of their photos :)

PS: would greatly appreciate style/performance/correctness tips on the code AND recommendations of any other naming strategy you deem better than my approach!

[1]: https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_renamer

notemakeron Ask HN: Is there a decentralised alternative to Slack?

Cabal [1] might be of interest.

[1]: https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal

notemakeron The life and death of a laptop battery (2015)

In my experience, the damage of not stopping at 80% is minimal. Perhaps it is more related to the quality of the battery / hardware surrounding it?

I have not been particularly kind to my battery, but all the same my Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus from 2012/2013 still has 83% capacity and can live for about 4-5 hours browsing/reading/programming.

notemakeron The European Union versus the Internet

The reality however, after GDPR was implemented, is 95% of the time GTFO or click accept.

notemakeron Ask HN: Solutions for collaborative code review, pair programming?

Yes, see Dylan Van Bommel's comment on Fun Fun Function's collaborative stream: https://youtu.be/_OTUGVAEWCA

notemakeron Ask HN: Android launcher or that supports a dumb phone profile?

Evie launcher works beautifully for me. Might not be restricting enough for your taste though.

notemakeron A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid

True. But I'd still deem that to be a very scary world.

notemakeron A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid

I wholeheartedly recommend this somewhat OT video about the future of drones and their potential harm: Slaughterbots

https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA

notemakeron Ask HN: Would you donate directly to poor Kenyans?

While a donation through GD comes with no strings attached for the receiver, would you say that your method does? Is there a chance that they feel an obligation towards you that affects them negatively?

Great initiative though, I admire your spirit. If you're not already introduced, givewell.org and 80000 hours would be interesting for you to look up, I think.

notemakeron Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

How would the attacker be able to deny access to data?

notemakeron Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

> What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that users should own and control all of their data.

I find this to be fundamentally wrong. After you post something on Scuttlebutt, you have no control of that data. Sure, it's stored on your computer, but it's also shared with your whole network who now have as much control of it as you have.

I'd instead put it like this:

> What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that no one entity should control all of the users' data.

notemakeron Ask HN: Is 2018 the end of Facebook?

It would be great if SSB [1] or something like it took off as the next-gen platform, but I just have a hard time seeing people actively change their online habits.

[1]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

notemakeron The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

Dasung and Boox are working on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj2Lvuc28k0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pw-oCItgx8