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senorqaon Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

Revolut does work for me. They added support for GrapheneOS long time ago

senorqaon A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet

ITA looks like the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to me. I like that. If all English text was written in this way it'd be really easy to learn (at least for me). It reads like a breeze.

senorqaon Try Switching to Kagi

99.99% of the time I use self-hosted instance of Searx-NG https://github.com/searxng/searxng You can easily co-host it with other apps on e.g. digitalocean for 4$ pcm. It's also highly customizable and your instance of Openweb UI can use it as search engine too.

senorqaon Obscure islands I find interesting

This book might appeal to people interested in remote islands :) Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will by Judith Schalansky https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Remote-Islands-Fifty-Never/dp/0...

senorqaon Banach–Tarski Paradox

What's the use of this paradox? Does it have any practical implementation?

senorqaon Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana

There's no such thing as Brazilian (language). They speak Portuguese, or Brazilian Portuguese to be exact. Word negro is used to describe black people, see https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/negro Preto is a synonym of negro also used for describing black people (it can bear a pejorative connotation or not. It depends on the context) but generally for things that are black. The pejorative connotation pertains to a black servant or a black slave: (racismo) serviçal residencial negro (racismo) escravo negro See the note on https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/preto "In meaning 1, when referring to a human being, it is sometimes considered pejorative, especially when said by a white person. However, there are groups of black people who claim the use of preto. For these people, preto is not only not offensive, but is the most appropriate term. The possibly offensive nature of this word must be analyzed by context."

senorqaon Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors

Cancel Culture at its best!

senorqaon Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland

I'm glad all of those works belong to to public domain.

senorqaon Farmed salmon leads to loss of nutrients, instead eat 'feed fishes' directly

Fishing in the wild without restocking the fish population is simply a form of poaching.

senorqaon Clock

This clock reminded me of a PSX game called: Forbidden Cube (or alternatively Intelligent Cube) https://youtu.be/BZM9kTGFeko

senorqaon I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

Navidrome: https://www.navidrome.org/ + Ultrasonic: https://gitlab.com/ultrasonic/ultrasonic + Sonixd https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd + DynDNS + Let's Encrypt Combo does work nicely for me Or MPD in satellite mode https://www.musicpd.org/ + MPDroid https://github.com/abarisain/dmix/wiki also does great job at streaming music

senorqaon Intercepting t.co links using DNS rewrites

Friiter https://github.com/jonjomckay/fritter frontend for twitter automatically unwraps all t.co URLs and displays the original ones

senorqaon The Mod Archive

My favourite mod is called Napalm Noise by Triton https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

senorqaon Plant Machete

Imagine a plant machete duel

senorqaon Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here

To have some fun simply make SSH tarpit to listen on port 22. It slowly sends an endless banner hahaha https://github.com/Snawoot/ssh-tarpit

senorqaon Famous HNers and their sites

RSS feeds for 5 out of the Top Hits list https://breckyunits.com/feed.xml https://www.gwern.net/feed.rss https://www.righto.com/rss.xml https://blog.jgc.org/rss.xml https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/rss/

senorqaon It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

Back in the day, together with my friend we played this trance tune on repeat for straight 5 days at the office :) both of us remember of this till this day and occasionally I play it for 10 or 15 times on repeat to honour that week :) James Holden & Julie Thompson (Nothing 93 returning mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD8cRAjFB1w

senorqaon A picture of me

I think we can "blame" romanticism for that imaginary vision of a soul mate. I really like Alain de Botton's take on Romanticism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOuIyEJnbE

senorqaon Search Engines Will Deindex All Domains That Have 100 Links to Pirated Content

So, are they going to ban youtube as well?

senorqaon Foobar2000

I frequently use foobar2000 on Linux just because of the Discogs Tagger plugin: https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_discogs The other great feature is a very nice spectrogram which helps me to easily spot tracks which were converted from a lossy format to a lossless one. I wish the source code was open sourced so that a Linux port could be made without the need to run it via Wine.