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slmkbhon Running My Own XMPP Server

Google Talk and Facebook Messenger both used to be XMPP, and I used Pidgin for both, wonderful times...

slmkbhon MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

A lot of Shelly devices use ESP chips: https://www.shelly.com/ - And they are hackable!

slmkbhon OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework

Lack of self irony... I was also looking for this :)

Having just re watched the show, it is remarkable how little changed for the better...

slmkbhon ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway

Fairphone os _is_ android...

slmkbhon Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices

I did something similar with pulseaudio about 15 years ago, had an old thinkpad running Debian, and then multicast activated on my source. Worked surprisingly well!

slmkbhon The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet

fbpurity.com works quite well for me on desktop, on m.facebook.com, it does not.

It also makes it painfully clear how little user interaction there is publicly on the site...

slmkbhon The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)

My brain swapped the second zero to a two... But I did think the 1990 reference a little odd..

slmkbhon DongleHider+ Framework Laptop Expansion Card

I use the 2S and the 3 over Bluetooth (Windows 10 and Linux (Pipewire/pulseaudio)) and they generally work well. But on Linux I sometimes get lagging sound on my bt headphones, when I use the mouse heavily, and on Windows I get a rubber band effect on the mouse when I use a headset for calls, but not music. ymmv

slmkbhon Our Super-Secret Plan to Bring the Internet Back (Part 1)

Why not Matrix?

slmkbhon Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS

SteamOS literally has a desktop mode, standard KDE, and you can install any applications that are in Arch repos or served as flatpaks.

slmkbhon Firefox on the brink?

Could we get numbers from the rest of the world before we make a verdict? There is 10 times the people outside the US, as inside...

slmkbhon We have used too many levels of abstractions

I talked to a guy who "managed software development", and when I asked him about the resources om their developer machines (some kind of VM), he got angry at me when I laughed nervously when he didn't know what RAM was.

No wonder a lot of modern software is terrible.

slmkbhon Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations

Black Mirror was not a manual for the future.... Just watch S02E01 from 2013(!), I know the llms are not quite there yet, but still.

slmkbhon Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease

My only gripe is that they chose not to put the USB-C connector on a separate, easily exchangeable PCB. but other than that, best gadget in a looong time. And the advantages it gives to Linux gaming in general is very nice (I have gamed exclusively on Linux for 5 years, and it has never been better).

slmkbhon Anatomy of a Drum Machine (2012)

Deaht metal drum machine has a very power metal vibe to it, ironically enough :D

slmkbhon Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)

Written by Donald E. Knuth. Pretty interesting!

slmkbhon Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

I have a couple of AP AC Lites running openwrt and 802.11r, works fine except on Xiaomi phones apparently... I never tried the unifi though, flashed openwrt within 15 minutes of receiving the APs

slmkbhon I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System

not GP, but I use Xiaomi 2-gang switches, IKEA 5 button remotes, the old IKEA dimmers, and their on/off remote. At the moment I'm eyeing LIDLs remotes as well... In Denmark

Everything is controlled via Homeassistant+Deconz and a Phoscon Zigbee Dongle.

It's even possible to hack the IKEA switches into the danish wall switches.

slmkbhon Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?

In my company (DK Based), the youngest SW dev(not based in India) is 38, so the companies are out there. I'm one of the youngest HW engineers at 35. My guess is that we average close to 50 in R&D. Granted, we are in Medical Devices, so young gun speed is not our thing, but still.

slmkbhon Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

Their "radio" generation from a playlist of relatively few tracks was also out of this world, in contrast to spotifys ““daily"" which only gives me a new list every two years or so. Despite using the desktop application an hearting the living bejeezus out of it...

slmkbhon Non-official site with a tampered version of KeePass

What does this have to do with keepassxc? (the community version of keepassx)

slmkbhon Show HN: Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products

For me they all get more and more misaligned: https://imgur.com/gallery/QUDuE

FF 55.0.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.3 with uBlock and Privacy Badger

slmkbhon Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook

I'm using the webapps wrapper on android, with user agent set to desktop. This gives me a mobile version of Fb where the messenger part works, really nifty. And sandboxed too!

slmkbhon Universities admit students who are 'almost illiterate', lecturers warn

To be fair, this is also a concern here in Denmark. Quite a few University professors have complained that students do not have adequate skills in mathematics, as the bar has been lowered over a number of years in the high school system. My opinion is, the wish for a higher percentage of university graduates in a generation has lead to an inappropriate lowering of standards. (even if I am part of it....)