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sciencerobot··on USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
I’m not sure if it’s a USB-PD hub but Jeff Geerling posted a video about a USB-C charger that doesn’t suffer from the renegotiation issue https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dG2v4FHwJjE
sciencerobot··on Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos
I don’t use meta products. Photos of me are on the camera rolls of people who do.
sciencerobot··on Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market
I started going to these last year and they’re great. People selling rackmount servers off the beds of pickups, bins full of spinning rust HDDs, everything you need to make a garbage homelab.

The first one of 2025 is on March 9th.

sciencerobot··on Pi-hole v6
meta and X are both heavily censored so I guess it's censors all the way down?
sciencerobot··on Better Dotfiles
I switched to this method after using symlinks for years. This guide was helpful: https://queensidecastle.com/guides/tracking-your-home-direct...
sciencerobot··on It's true. Your devices are listening to you
~Where is their CCPA request form?~ Nowhere in California is listed under "Markets"
sciencerobot··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
Just make sure to never send a PATCH request
sciencerobot··on Show HN: imessage-exporter, a CLI app and library
Your entire digital life stored by clouds you have no control over is the norm. Being able to keep a local copy should be a fundamental right.
sciencerobot··on WebContainer API
Enterprise firewall
sciencerobot··on Polyglot Makefiles
I didn't generate any files in the examples for simplicity. But you could imagine a workflow where Python generates some data and then you use R to plot it + run some statistical tool.
sciencerobot··on Polyglot Makefiles
I didn't know about private. Thanks for the tip.
sciencerobot··on Polyglot Makefiles
The shell is specific to each target. So doing `make ruby bash python docker` works. It even works in parallel if you do `make -j`.

Edit: I'm the author.

sciencerobot··on BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar
I love this tool. Here is the script I wrote to show how many ec2 instances I have running (so I remember to turn them off):

https://github.com/audy/bitbars/blob/master/ec2

sciencerobot··on macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl
One of the things that drew me to Macs as I started to learn programming in '05 was that I could simply open any macbook and type python/ruby/perl and write some code.
sciencerobot··on Google Earth for live radios
This is one of my favorite internet radio ~stations~ websites. My only beef is that I wish there was a more permanent way to bookmark stations. The current implementation uses cookies or something that doesn't allow me to sync between browsers.
sciencerobot··on Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer
Pivot Bio (http://pivotbio.com/) is testing nitrogen-fixing microbes on corn this year.

And we are hiring: http://pivotbio.com/careers

sciencerobot··on Ask HN: Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager?
I use https://www.passwordstore.org/.
sciencerobot··on Ask HN: What is your favourite way of unsubscribe from emails and why?
How is it extra work if you have to do it anyway? If anything, it's slightly less work to go through it all at once.
sciencerobot··on Ask HN: What is your favourite way of unsubscribe from emails and why?
I have a gmail filter that sends all emails with the word 'unsubscribe' to a special folder. I check the unsubscribe folder about once a week to make sure I didn't miss anything important. It doesn't completely solve the problem of spammy emails but it causes them to not be a distraction when I'm trying to process emails written by actual humans.
sciencerobot··on A basic Lisp interpreter in R
One of the point's is that you can use R's functions in a LISP-like language.
sciencerobot··on Ask HN: Any tools to easily cluster ideas/notes by similarity?
There is an option/plugin for Jekyll for finding similar blog posts. https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/
sciencerobot··on How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development
I like homebrew-bundle [1]. It lets me list all of the apps I use in a text file and install them with a single command.

You can also run `brew bundle --cleanup` to purge your system of apps that you no longer need (as long as you installed them with homebrew/homebrew-bundle in the first place).

- [1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

sciencerobot··on Proof that Apple is deleting MP3 files
One could settle this by reproducibly demonstrating the bug with a pirated mp3.
sciencerobot··on Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow
You're right. I forgot to mention that this only happens if you haven't initiated a new git repository in the directory you're working in.
sciencerobot··on Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow
I tried this but git uses ~/.git for any subdirectory of $HOME. For example, if you type `git add .` while in ~/code/some-project, you will add it to your dotfiles repository. It's easy to undo but still kind of annoying.
sciencerobot··on Mammalian diving reflex
Or perform the vagal maneuver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagal_maneuver.
sciencerobot··on Show HN: English syntax highlighter using part-of-speech tagging
You should post some examples of highlighted literature to see if different writing styles look different because of the syntax highlighting.
sciencerobot··on Show HN: Live streaming SVG plot microservice that just works
This is one of those rare things that seems so obvious and simple yet awesome that I immediately slap myself in the face for not thinking of it already. Great idea :)
sciencerobot··on Show HN: Import Docker in Python and Run Anything
I've been looking for something like this. My use case is that I have a bunch of really old bioinformatics programs that are a pain to install and I want to run them from a web app. Instead of bundling all of the weird dependencies with the web app, I want to run them in containers using background workers (rails/sidekiq in this case).
sciencerobot··on Show HN: Gmelius 6 – Gmail just got better
I'm not sure if the privacy protection claims made by Gmelius are true.

The plugin claims that I am being tracked via tracking pixel (or other image) embedded in emails and that the trackers know when I read my email and where I read it from (from my IP address). Is this true? Google server attachments through a proxy. This would prevent trackers from seeing my IP address. If assets are cached or pre-downloaded by Google, then trackers wouldn't know when I read their emails either.

Gmelius might even decrease privacy. The plugin includes a JavaScript file hotlinked to inboxsdk.com. It's possible that inboxsdk.com is tracking users this way.

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