alanpearce

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by alanpearce 7mo ago
We have free instant payments in the Eurozone, UK has had them for about a decade and I'd say PayPal is doing fine (unfortunately). So what's the concern?
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by alanpearce 7mo ago
I used to work on for a company on a product that did exactly this, but the company stopped working on that product since it didn't go anywhere (API docs seem to still be online though :D https://docs.satoshipay.io/api&
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by alanpearce 1y ago
This can be enabled or disabled under the System Settings > Battery > Options > Wake for network access (Always / Power adapter / Never). Or possibly the phone registers it as connected for a while after it sends its last
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by alanpearce 1y ago
Hurricane Electric support a hidden primary as part of their free DNS nameserver service (do you actually want to expose your primary when someone else can handle the traffic?) https://dns.he.net
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by alanpearce 1y ago
I for one found the technical difference interesting
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by alanpearce 1y ago
Funny, this sounds like a good idea, but I'm quite happy with the exact opposite: I use rcmd[1]. I hold down the right command key and press the first letter of the window name to switch to it. I can override this dynamic mapping by pr
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by alanpearce 1y ago
40 hours/month. Not week.
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by alanpearce 2y ago
It might be somewhat different in that it's only for programming, but Zed is a "multiplayer code editor" with channels, notes, video chat, screen sharing etc. https://zed.dev/
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by alanpearce 2y ago
This sounds fascinating. Do you have some articles describing your setup?
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by alanpearce 2y ago
Not any more? https://unternehmen.bvg.de/pressemitteilung/grossprojekt-erf... Summary: since 2024-05-06, users of all networks also get LTE in the U-Bahn thanks to a project between BVG and Teléfonica (not surprising t
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by alanpearce 3y ago
> It’s ok for jargon and acronyms to be confusing to people who are not at all in the field. On the site itself, sure. Here, where not everyone "uses USD as part of their work", spelling it out in the title would have avoided t
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by alanpearce 3y ago
Seems like my blog was not even included in the console output, but it has been part of the thread for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596022 I know I don’t have enough karma, but it seems like the log outpu
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by alanpearce 3y ago
There are quite common and they're usually called planet <topic>, which might help to find useful resources or software
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by alanpearce 3y ago
https://alanpearce.eu I really want to write more often, I'm not sure if it's that I don't know what to write about or that the idea of blogging doesn't come to mind easily when I'm doing things that I c
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by alanpearce 3y ago
I used to have a Garmin running the Simply Late[0] watch face to achieve a similar goal. I wish there was something better on a more everyday-looking watch. [0]: https://sl8.ch/
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by alanpearce 3y ago
If you set alias firefox="open -a Firefox" This will work
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by alanpearce 3y ago
> ChatGPT will replace the concept of googling things FastGPT[0] is some way towards that: it uses the web to provide answers [0]: https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt
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by alanpearce 5y ago
Works fine for me so far. From memory (like 7 years ago) gmail’s filtering rules are more powerful, but iCloud has the basics at least
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by alanpearce 5y ago
A very similar project for Emacs users: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
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by alanpearce 5y ago
This is about extensions, not plugins. The latter would include Widevine, H264 and previously Flash.
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by alanpearce 5y ago
Yes, there's a different kind of debit card. I usually use a different term that's country-specific (like the cards themselves). For Germany, a German debit card (the "other sort", as you put it) isn’t the same as any ot
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by alanpearce 5y ago
Something somewhat similar already happened: Stellar gave away XLM to Keybase after Keybase added an integrated Stellar wallet. Many people didn’t like it[0], even I was not too impressed despite working in the Stellar ecosystem. Some peop
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by alanpearce 5y ago
hyperscript (`h()`) had its first commit 9 years ago and the syntax is common in other rendering libraries (e.g. mithril, ivi). _hyperscript (this one) seems to have released 0.0.1 only last year. Definitely very confusing on the naming fro
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by alanpearce 6y ago
remoteStorage[1] is already a thing. I don't think anyone's made a full Word-style document editor for it yet, though. [1]: https://remotestorage.io
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by alanpearce 6y ago
GMT stays the same throughout the year. The UK switches to BST for the summer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
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by alanpearce 6y ago
As a previous Android user, this feels right. I think the tipping point was the replacement of the e-mail app with Gmail. After that, I got frustrated with the stock app situation and switched to LineageOS to avoid it. As a current Apple us
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by alanpearce 6y ago
For anyone confused about the debit card comment: A German debit card isn’t the same as any other. It doesn’t have Visa or MasterCard co-branding like other countries’ debit card, nor a 16 digit number, so it can’t be used online. I would
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by alanpearce 8y ago
With macOS and iOS, Airdrop, as others have stated. For other platform combinations, there is NitroShare[1] which works in almost the same way. [1]: https://nitroshare.net