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thomble··on Hue Light Hack
Here you go: https://gist.github.com/tvldz/1210619db98302be3e9c972737e979...
thomble··on Hue Light Hack
I've used the API to modify my lights based on the album covers of the currently playing track on my Spotify: https://gist.github.com/tvldz/1210619db98302be3e9c972737e979.
thomble··on Ask HN: Has your view of Silicon Valley changed in the last 72 hours?
I think that a lot of societal ills can be chalked up to "low interest rate phenomena." Silicon Valley has had a decade to play with free money. What do they have to show for it? Smartphone CRUD apps, subsidized gig workers, influencers and child consumers. Let's keep raising interest rates.
thomble··on The Birth of Rusty N Edie's BBS
I spent part of my childhood in Boardman. Rusty N Edie's BBS was a local number. I didn't know how good I had it until we moved to another state. I recall that "Fred Martin's BBS" was another fantastic local BBS in the Youngstown area.
thomble··on I’ve had the same supper for 10 years
I like this dude.
thomble··on The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
"Murders Your Wife"
thomble··on The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things
Did Elizabeth Holmes write this article?
thomble··on BZFlag
I always keep a legitimate binary of BZFlag around and make sure my hacked version hashes that one instead of itself.
thomble··on The Fry’s Era
Fairfax County, VA.
thomble··on The Fry’s Era
As a counter to this, my local Micro Center is absolutely booming. I built a fast gaming machine earlier this year, and found all of my desired components in-stock there, with no compromises. Their prices were identical to the lowest prices online, and they offer price match anyway. All of my Ubiquiti stuff I got there as well. They have an expanding hobbyist electronics section that consumed the old physical software/gaming space. They have other great hobbyist stuff like retro gaming and drones. I've just taken it for granted, not realizing that many people consider Micro Center a PC builder "Mecca".[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/search?q=micro+center&...

thomble··on Rap Music Ditches Dollars for the Cash App Mobile Payment System
We used to call these kinds of artists "sell-outs."
thomble··on YTMND is down for temporary maintenance
It's not Lowtax, but some of the most prevalent "weird twitter" accounts, like @fart and @dril established their brand of humor at SA: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nzg4yw/fuck-you-and-die-a...
thomble··on Gene mutation leads to decreased fear and anxiety and increased social behavior
give me the pill
thomble··on Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook
I had a copy of this as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I can't ever forget the picture of the "cholera bed."
thomble··on Six-Year homelab history in pictures
I have a virtual FreeBSD box running dnscrypt-proxy. It's configured with CloudFlare for DNS over HTTPS.
thomble··on One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
The prospect of curing diseases is wonderful. But for now, we're just using these algorithms to figure out how to maximize the amount of time people spend staring at their phones.
thomble··on The troubled 29-year-old helped to die by Dutch doctors
Was she killed because she was incompatible with society?
thomble··on Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal
Can I somehow integrate this with my 1982 DeLorean?
thomble··on Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
"Connecting the world" to our lucrative public manipulation platform. I'm sick of the phrase.
thomble··on Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines
No fees on ATMs, including international ATMs. Also, their 24/7 Chat Support is stellar.
thomble··on UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar
Roads are public, and everything around roads and transportation is highly regulated and engineered with actual PUBLIC HEALTH and SAFETY at its core.
thomble··on UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar
"Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe it facilitates genocide."
thomble··on TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age
Wow, that is awful.
thomble··on Internal Facebook posts of employees discussing leaked memo
Frankly, it sounds like a cult.
thomble··on Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizations
> Zuck has pledged away 99% of his wealth?

They will actively ignore problems that deal with public health and security, but promise to "cure all disease" through philanthropy. Please.

thomble··on Facebook pauses app reviews, disables new user authorizations
Is it possible to create an app that can easily remove personal info, and delete all posted content that is, say older than n days old? If so, is there a new demand for this kind of app?
thomble··on Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba
I too have experienced buzzing and grating sounds and vibrations during sleep paralysis, or during a false awakening. It happened frequently in college when my sleep schedule was broken.

I'm skeptical. Part of me thinks that this is mass hysteria.

thomble··on My wonderful world of macOS
Note that Textual is free. Codeux sells signed binaries.

https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual

thomble··on Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
There's so much strange hand-wringing in a loud subset of the security community. The DoJ has a 93% conviction rate because they pursue strong cases that usually end in a plea-bargain. The FBI aren't spooks. The evidence will become public. If this guy profited off of banking trojans then I, for one, hope he ends up in the clink.
thomble··on ‘The Wire’ – Game Day
Right! They show him in a later season, working at a Foot Locker, right?
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