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throwjs51009on Tesla Influencers Try to Present FSD as Safe While Almost Hitting a Cyclist

Have you test-driven a Hyundai IONIQ 5 or Volkswagen ID.3/ID.4 or Ford Mustang Mach-E ?

throwjs51009on Ask HN: Is the state of mail user agents that sad?

Try notmuch

https://notmuchmail.org/

throwjs51009on Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink

Not OP but check out IQrouter

https://evenroute.com/iqrv3

throwjs51009on The power of touch, especially for men (2017)

uBlock Origin works for nytimes paywall. It's more trustworthy.

throwjs51009on Resources to encourage children to learn to code

Wow, didn't know about this. Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCompris

throwjs51009on Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

News from last week:

Facebook suffers biggest one-day fall in history as shares plunge over 26%

More than $230bn wiped off the value of Meta making stock market history.

Most concerning was a never-before-seen drop in Facebook’s daily user numbers.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2022/02/03/almost-200...

Anyway, I think facebook is too big to fail.

throwjs51009on Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

Maybe what people like to know is how Matrix's backup encryption is different from WhatsApp encrypted backups:

https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp_Security_Encrypte...

throwjs51009on Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

That's not true. Nobody needs to crack any encryption. Check my other comment with 3 links.

throwjs51009on Resources to encourage children to learn to code

Check out Snap, MakeCode Arcade and Adafruit Circuit Playground Express:

[1] https://snap.berkeley.edu/

[2] https://arcade.makecode.com/

[3] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333

[4] https://makecode.adafruit.com/

Also check out this tiny old book suitable for a total noob to computers:

The Pattern on the Stone - The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work by W. Daniel Hillis

https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Stone-Computers-Science-Maste...

throwjs51009on Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

'Recently' is 2016.

throwjs51009on Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

No paywall when uBlock Origin is used. It's not the solution but still...

throwjs51009on Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

// On the other hand. If I did any social organizing today, I would definitely use Telegram //

Don't, unless it's for a BBQ or friendly partying.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/brazil-hacker-bolsonaro-car-wash...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-cyber-telegram-exclu...

[3] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-exclu...

C'mon, it's not even E2E. It's as good as Facebook Messenger when it comes to security.

throwjs51009on Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

Wow, justification for rape right here. He was 43 when it happened.

https://idlewords.com/2010/05/an_annotated_letter_from_roman...

A link in there has expired. Archived here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100130223615/http://www.thesmo...

throwjs51009on HN ran on a single box in 2018 has anything changed?

Check this one out to stop youtube embeds from loading until clicked:

||youtube.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html

||youtube-nocookie.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html

Got this from gorhill, Ublock Origin's developer. He sometimes puts out tips and tricks on his twitter

https://twitter.com/gorhill

https://nitter.net/gorhill

throwjs51009on HN ran on a single box in 2018 has anything changed?

Add one of the following to 'Ublock Origin' 'My Filters'

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

throwjs51009on HN ran on a single box in 2018 has anything changed?

Use Firefox with 'Ublock Origin' and add one of the following to it's 'My Filters' section:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

throwjs51009on Tesla cut a steering component from some cars, didn’t tell customers

What's so unbelievable about it? It's on brand

https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/ede3d957-2a1f-4ec4-...

throwjs51009on Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan

Because everyone already knows about them.

throwjs51009on Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan

// without all the terrible data collection //

That's not true. Check this out:

https://nitter.net/steipete/status/1025024813889478656

throwjs51009on Reasons to Abandon Spotify That Have Nothing to Do with Joe Rogan

Spotify alternatives:

Tidal https://tidal.com/

Deezer https://www.deezer.com/

Bandcamp https://bandcamp.com/

Jango https://www.jango.com/

Radio Paradise https://radioparadise.com/

Qobuz https://www.qobuz.com/

Pandora https://www.pandora.com/

throwjs51009on Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?

That's a really beautiful site!

throwjs51009on Vue 3 as the New Default

I found this HNer's comments regarding React interesting. Similar sentiments as yours.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...