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poopsmithe··on Show HN: JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views
I have a UX complaint about the carousel images on https://json4u.com/

While I was looking at the image and trying to understand, the carousel moved to the next image. It's too fast, and I can't get back to the first image without it immediately switching me to the second image. I can't get it to sit still either and NOT switch to the next image. Some carousels pause themselves when the cursor is hovering over it, but this one did not pause when I did that. The only way I had enough time to digest the information was by right clicking on the image and opening it in a new tab.

poopsmithe··on Is There Any Safe Place to Complain About Work Online?
I didn't read the article (can't afford to pay WSJ) but I'm curious. Isn't any place safe so long as you've anonymized yourself?
poopsmithe··on Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
Nostr is not trying to be Twitter; Nostr the protocol is more generalized than that. It just so happens that a lot of people want a Twitter alternative right now, so that's a popular Nostr webapp to make.

There is also Nostr chess, Nostr podcasting, Nostr marketplaces, Nostr data vending machines, Nostr blogs, and more. See https://nostrapps.com/ for a sample of what people are making.

poopsmithe··on Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA
The page reliably crashes my Firefox
poopsmithe··on How economical is your local Taco Bell?
Love this! So interesting to see the variety of prices. Any chance we could get Puerto Rico and other US territories graphed? Thank you!
poopsmithe··on Every webpage deserves to be a place
Needs a dark mode, or at least Dark Reader browser extension compatibility. As it stands, the bright BG hurts my eyes.
poopsmithe··on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
The most bonkers thing to me is how Starliner was allowed to fly with crew on board when it was on the pad leaking helium. This leaking was known and ongoing for hours and they let it fly anyway.
poopsmithe··on A worker from Berkeley's Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating wingnuts
I get that they don't want people to touch the displays, but please tell me there's a hands-on section.
poopsmithe··on Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
Please footnote the mentioned reddit post
poopsmithe··on Belenios: Verifiable online voting system
Does this solve Sybil attacks?
poopsmithe··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
How many airports still have flip-tab signs? Do they need to stay? Aren't they adding to an already noisy area? What's their maintenance cost vs. a LCD? What's their energy consumption vs. a LCD?
poopsmithe··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
you can be a consultant!
poopsmithe··on Former Bungie, Pokémon lawyer explains how they caught leakers
People can comment however they want
poopsmithe··on CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
OS is irrelevant in this case, and CrowdStrike deserves all the blame. They literally brought down Linux systems earlier this year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41005936
poopsmithe··on Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
Every other anime convention I go to has a fan panel featuring an interactive Jeopardy-style game. It's usually built using powerpoint or a half baked webapp that crashes the moment the audience connects. Would love to see more of them use buzzinga instead!
poopsmithe··on Ask HN: How to grow a concert visuals business?
If you're having trouble making it as the concert visuals guy, perhaps you could try being the Bitcoin concert visuals guy. Others have made a point that using Bitcoin in their marketing can drive 10% more sales.
poopsmithe··on $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange
Wow, congrats Sony!

I watch videos of a 50 year old Japanese man who thinks his life is meaningless because his financial situation dictates he will have to work around 30 more years to pay off his debts.

Government debt steals from future generations. Inflation, Quantitative Easing etc. steals the value of money from everyone. Bitcoin is the one money Government can't touch, and I think this is a great sign of hope for Japan.

poopsmithe··on Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG
I see a lot of promise with this. My biggest complaint is how often my clicks go without effect. I'd say 60% of every click goes unnoticed by the game and I have to click several more times before I see a UI dropdown or a red or yellow X.

A little bit about my computing environment. Terribly bad Wi-Fi on terribly bad DSL in rural America. Modern CPU, but no GPU. Some visual stutters here and there. I would not be surprised if it's my network which is causing the errors, but at the same time I think the engine should assume the network is unreliable and compensate.

Anyway, thanks for the fun distraction!

poopsmithe··on Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
What do you mean it's not the best approach? That's a little light on the details.
poopsmithe··on YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
For every engineer creating new and novel ways to serve ads, there are 100 engineers who hate ads and will use their power to block them.
poopsmithe··on Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass
This isn't news to me. We've known for awhile that light circles around black holes.
poopsmithe··on Show HN: 2d web paddle game
"best" is subjective.
poopsmithe··on Minimalistic Beat Maker
I love this! One thing I wish was there was the ability to click and drag a note I just put down. I want this because it's sometimes hard to get the note where I want it, and I want to reposition it.

https://martinwecke.de/108/#A0C2D4E013G2I0K2L0M1N3O02

poopsmithe··on Tornado Cash verdict has chilling implications for industry
I think you're invoking a liberarian argument where nobody is entitled to the fruits of your labor except for you. That means it's none of government's business to know how much money you have or who you transact with. Tornado Cash made this sort of ideal possible on Bitcoin.
poopsmithe··on We've All Felt It
This article title is terrible. "We've All Felt It" tells me nothing about the product.
poopsmithe··on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
Can this treatment be used to treat other diseases? Say for example, people without a functional immune system?
poopsmithe··on First 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024
Yeah I need that. I floss 1-3 times a day, use a water pick and brush 2-3 times a day but it doesn't really matter. My body attacks itself and I've ended up with bone loss in my teeth. I'm in my 30s and I have to do periodontal care every 3 months. I foresee losing my teeth before I'm 50 unless I can get my hands on something like this.
poopsmithe··on A Single Div
What is the significance of a single div? What is the meaning, what is the method? Without an about page, I'm left to speculation.
poopsmithe··on New startup sells coffee through SSH
So cool! Congrats on selling out!

I was curious to see if I could connect using mosh. I could, but I wasn't able to use the hotkeys to browse the different screens like I was when I connected via ssh.

poopsmithe··on T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile
Congratulations Ryan Reynolds!
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