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vdddv··on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
A lot of data and none on his carbon footprint
vdddv··on Hacker News for Gamedev
https://lobste.rs/ is invite only and HN level quality IMO
vdddv··on Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud
@MemoryDealers but not active here apart from a 2012 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=MemoryDealers
vdddv··on 20 years ago Far Cry was released
I loved the way this game allowed for very different tactics (go all guns blazing or go stealth).
vdddv··on Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
Is there any way to know who's behind a DDoS attack?
vdddv··on Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users
Interesting that using the recovery key stopped the issue for you, but does not seem to do its job now. From the article "Ken said he enabled a recovery key for his account as instructed, but that it hasn’t stopped the unbidden system alerts from appearing on all of his devices every few days.

KrebsOnSecurity tested Ken’s experience, and can confirm that enabling a recovery key does nothing to stop a password reset prompt from being sent to associated Apple devices. "

vdddv··on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
"A simple, self-hosted RSVP system for parties" https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ is the fediverse version of this
vdddv··on OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public
Médecins Sans Frontières
vdddv··on With Silicon Valley, profits are prioritised over true technological progress
Full title (too long for HN) "With Silicon Valley 'visionaries', profits are prioritised over true technological progress"
vdddv··on IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired
it's exaclty that, and it's based on them doing it to several high profile apps (ex: evernote)
vdddv··on Book of Kells (2018)
No queues anymore, You need to choose a time when you book your ticket and there is a set number of tickets for each time slot.
vdddv··on A basic guide to using Asian names
Should we not simply be following the rules of the language spoken at the time? When speaking English, use the English convention. When speaking Japanese, use the Japanese convention etc.
vdddv··on Full of contempt, she refused to talk to the engineers
Is Open Verse real? Or is thar a fictional tale to make a point?
vdddv··on POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
as opposed to PESOS: Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site
vdddv··on Google is no longer sponsoring Fastlane
How can Google own the IP if this is open source
vdddv··on Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people
So many commenters talk about the fact that they never visit Yahoo.com, without realizing that the link shared by OP is from techcrunch.com, a Yahoo.com property. Yahoo is a lot more than services hosted on yahoo.com
vdddv··on Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts
Thanks for the suggestion. I did not add it because of HN guidelines: "please use the original title" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
vdddv··on US Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade [pdf]
Nominations of the justice is done by people who have been elected though. According to you, does that make them less legitimate that if they were directly elected?
vdddv··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
crushing might be a bit too far, but they are certainly ahead of Coinbase in volume with lower opex https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/
vdddv··on Ordering Pizza in the Future (2006, ACLU)
ahead of its time
vdddv··on Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs
I don't see how I can register as a creator or claim any revenue. Is that missing from their page or hidden anywhere?
vdddv··on Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote
"the tally is 232 to 94, or 71.17% in support of the proposal" So this decision is the result of a mere 326 Wikipedia users (contributors?)taking a vote.
vdddv··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
https://goo.gl/maps/hpuj9X7srT46NN3o8
vdddv··on FOSS donations which reach the roots
The examples shouldn't use real email addresses. john@gmail.com and steve@gmail.com are surely in use. "example.com", "example.net", and "example.org" are reserved domain names for a reason.
vdddv··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
"Some web, image, video, or news results are powered by Microsoft" So the same as Ecosia, Duckduckgo and any alternative search engines?
vdddv··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
"summarizes the web"?
vdddv··on This word does not exist
second word that appeared was 'règle' which is a very common French word
vdddv··on Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'
"20% of all Worldcoin tokens will be set aside for the development team. In crypto, this used to be known as a “premine” and ranks among the biggest red flags that a project is intended to enrich insiders." https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/25/why-everyone-is-mad...
vdddv··on Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable
and you can't use your voice on phone if whatsapp is down?
vdddv··on Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable
I don't understand how "No Whatsapp = no way to communicate to relatives". Are SMS not available in some countries?
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