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sabas_geon Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

Our ERP is dBase+SQL server with Harbour executables, until I don't move all the database to SQL server it will be like that

sabas_geon Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext for a reimplementation

sabas_geon KDE launches its own distribution

If only a standard existed to do this... Hint: it exists since ages in Italy and it has been extended to Europe recently (See Registered Electronic Mail - RFC 6109 and ETSI EN 319 532 – 4)

sabas_geon France Endorses UN Open Source Principles

UN has Open Source principles but it took a budget decrease to consider it for itself and it's still not approved...

sabas_geon Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says

>his house is still there

It's not really his house, but a reconstruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus_House

sabas_geon OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20

That contribution was initially done by me :-)

sabas_geon Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

I built and maintain internal and external web services at the shipping agent I work for (agent for one of the top container carriers) and I released my edifact Library on GitHub if you need you can find my email there, although it's all php so it may not be glamorous enough for HN crowd. Also advice on standards as I seat in some industry working groups

sabas_geon Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port

The global platform which should solve the issue is opt in for container manufacturers, not mandatory https://www.bic-boxtech.org/

sabas_geon I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

Isn't the PinePhone 6"? https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

sabas_geon Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

It's the GPS position transmitted via AIS, it's like your phone while you are in a static position but on a bigger scale...

sabas_geon Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

Add to the fact that we had equipment shortage for a while these months (hi from a shipping agency)...

sabas_geon Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

Thanks to the mandatory AIS system onboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_syste...

sabas_geon Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B

What about Teams running against a Lync server where you can only establish chats with internal users, and chat with external users is available only through a fake meeting set up in outlook? And where the 1to1 video calls start in skype 4 business instead of teams.

Plus when running multiple instances the call goes to the first instance

sabas_geon Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B

New Discord: now with Exchange interoperability!

sabas_geon Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers

Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_reaction ? I am also interested in knowing more, I know that Sabatier reaction is planned to be used in SpaceX Starship project..

sabas_geon Happy New Year HN

Felice anno nuovo a tutti! Happy new year everyone!

sabas_geon Ditching Excel for Python in a legacy industry

We are using notebooks in visual studio code to process csv downloaded from a corporate BI and replace Excel analysis. As a programmer I dreaded questions like "do you know how to program macros in Excel?"

sabas_geon Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road

Not trap streets but details (like small ponds in private areas) and misspellings were reportedly taken ispiration from over the years... :-)

sabas_geon Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder

It's part of the notorious copypasta https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Interjection

sabas_geon Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

Oh, thank you for flightphp, I recognized you from the url used in the demo :D

sabas_geon What’s New in Thunderbird 78

Seems like we won't need MRC Compose anymore?

sabas_geon Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes

A lot in advance :) I booked more than a month before because there are 10/20 places available per day.. I visited by myself the Globe (where Tim Berners Lee machine is located) and the microcosm exhibitions by myself, and the guided tour covered and introduction, the LHC control room and the first accelerator (synchrocyclotron)

sabas_geon Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization

I'll try it in dash, my other project is still a jquery thing for the foreseeable future :D

sabas_geon Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization

Hi, just wanted to thank you for pivottable.js which I'm using since 6 years ago. I discovered today you're at plotly, I started using dash this year :)

sabas_geon Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

I use it as Terminal on files stored in windows under /mnt/c (php dev environment in xampp), plus ssh and python for notebooks running in vscode

sabas_geon Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

Well, native access to my Ubuntu partition from Windows would be welcome.

sabas_geon Bootstrap v5: drop Internet Explorer support

Weird and stuck to weird standards where there are any :D

sabas_geon Ask HN: COVID-19 response with 3D printing?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22588367

sabas_geon What's so hard about PDF text extraction?

Electronic invoicing in Italy is a thing since a couple of years, mandatory since Jan 1st 2019...