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zikduruqeon CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

Even neater, I use CoMaps on my linux laptop, with a USB GPS receiver.

It beats using IP based Geocoding.

zikduruqeon Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

> it's a pain in the ass to configure it

Public/private key pairs are hard? It's no more terrible than other projects that require configs.

zikduruqeon iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

Outstanding. That's a super idea.

Migadu has been on my radar also, and at $19/yr it is worth giving it a try.

zikduruqeon iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

Thanks. I really don't use email that often; I might get 20 emails a month, and those are just notifications versus actual actionable communications that require a response.

I have been looking at Fastmail, along with Purelymail ($10/year), which seems to have similar features.

zikduruqeon iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

This past weekend, I finally have purchased my own domain and was contemplating using it for email.

I had thought about a catch all, but was worried about bots. What is the best option?

Do you create addresses such as:

    eyeball@customdomain.com (for the eye doctor)
    tooth@customdomain.com (for the dentist)
    bank@customdomain.com 
    realfirstname@
    reddit@
    ...
    ...

I would like the ability that if I am in a situation that someone says "give me your email for..." and I would like the ability to just hand them something that is disposable. Would I just stand up say 10 addresses like:

random1, random2, random3... then delete them at some point in the future?

I really like Cloud's Hide My Email, but have been looking for alternatives since I am not sure where Apple is heading post Tim Cook.

zikduruqeon Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

> Nor any visible control to quickly take you to "Today".

Nor any way to view the week, starting with Today.

zikduruqeon Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents

On the webpage - "Learn more in your parent account: About."

So I click About and it asks me to login or create an account.

Instant nope from me.

zikduruqeon Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

Maybe HN will like this, 100 Rabbits.

https://100r.co/site/home.html

It is a mix of sailing, low tech, art.

zikduruqeon Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

This is a really good video explaining it. There is a good opportunity for someone more enterprising than I to stand up some infrastructure to support it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32j6ZA3byI

zikduruqeon Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

For a company who hangs their hat on privacy, it is a dang shame that their native mail client can't support PGP/GnuPG. I mean it'll do S/MIME, but who uses that regularly.

zikduruqeon Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)

I shot a 2.4 GHz path over 24 miles at 100 Mbps using Ubiquity bullets and their grid pack dishes. It's not that hard.

zikduruqeon Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

Yep, same here. fail2ban and some http 444 helps out.

zikduruqeon Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

Because Steam... /s

zikduruqeon Cosmic DE's First Seven Months

Cosmic is really good. But whenever they integrate Nightshift (or the like), then it will be great.

zikduruqeon The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally

> Learning Morse code is like learning a new language.

It is not. Cat is still spelled cat.

I passed my 20 wpm morse code license 30+ years ago, and when I hear code to this day, it sounds just as natural as someone spelling cat as "See Aye Tee".

zikduruqeon Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

> They could gain a shedload of market share by...

... having end user replaceable DDR5 RAM and end user replaceable storage. Even if it is a low end underpowered laptop.

Not everyone needs to render 8K videos in 5 minutes.

zikduruqeon Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb

Back when I designed phones, there was a minimum order of 50K units before an OEM would talk to you, and even then, they usually had a like-unit already in the production pipeline so they wouldn't have to retool everything.

zikduruqeon The Future of Email

I use GnuPG daily and mandate that everyone in our organization do the same. As part of the onboarding process, I have a doc explaining how to install GnuPG, generate keys and how to share their public key in a specific place in our network.

Once you force people to do it, it is not terrible once they get the hang of it.

zikduruqeon The Future of Email

> Easy

vbezhenar, this is your grandmother. I just got an email from you with a bunch of gobbledygook and I can't read it. /s

If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it.

zikduruqeon I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

I'm just a little bit older, and have to work a little longer due to some personal things.

But, as it stands today, I rarely touch any tech outside of work. Heck, I seldom ever bring my cell phone outside the home.

I long for the day, I can close my laptop lid and not open it again.

zikduruqeon Ten Basic Clouds

I have visited this here and there for the past 20+ years.

https://www.cloudman.com

zikduruqeon Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

The real joke is the "Obama Phone" meme from back in the day, is from the Lifeline project that was started by Reagan.

It's funny to see how all the history has been scrubbed from the Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_(FCC_pro...

zikduruqeon Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

> To put that in perspective

Star Wars debuted 37 years after World War II

Star Wars debuted 49 years from now

(Now I feel really old)

zikduruqeon After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban

Probably. https://deflock.org/foia

zikduruqeon SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

https://keys.lol is just as fun.

zikduruqeon I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

Can I finally find a cosmoline packed Jeep in the original crate for $50? /s

I wish I had jumped on those offers back when they were in the back of Boys Life, Popular Mechanics, and SOF magazines back in the day.

zikduruqeon Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew

No doubt. I found a Fellow Ode cheap, and upgraded to the Gen 2 burrs. My coffee went from a little better than 2 am truck stop coffee, to something better than you can get at a cafe.

I am using a Breville precision brewer, but would love to upgrade to a Moccamaster one day.

zikduruqeon How does GPS work?

The last time I built my own GPS network, I used a sextant, a watch set to UTC and nautical tables to determine where the orbiting bodies were.

zikduruqeon Not buying another Kindle

https://kindlemodding.org

Depending on your model or version, it's not hard.

I'm rocking a newer Paperwhite Special Edition, with KOreader installed.

zikduruqeon Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths

And it is faster than the internet. That's why high speed traders are starting to use HF.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wall-street-tries-shortwave-radio-...