bansheehash

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Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack(techcrunch.com)
9 points by bansheehash 5mo ago|0 comments
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by bansheehash 2y ago
Amen! The Android Developers blog ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com , available as RSS at https://android-developers.googleblog.com/atom.xml ) comes to mind - It includes updates on new compliance require
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by bansheehash 4y ago
The child labourers of DRC will thank you for supporting their livelihood when you buy that Kobo you don't really need. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/p...
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by bansheehash 6y ago
Try VSCodium, which is VSCode without MS telemetry: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
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A list of FOSS apps for Android(github.com)
33 points by bansheehash 6y ago|2 comments
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by bansheehash 7y ago
If anyone is looking to understand more about the Gandhi phenomenon, I recently read (and highly recommend) Arundhati Roy's meticulously referenced introduction to "Annihilation of Caste". She does a terrific job of identifyi
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Global Climate Strike (Friday, Sept 20)(fridaysforfuture.org)
4 points by bansheehash 7y ago|0 comments
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by bansheehash 8y ago
There's a lot that technology can do to fight climate change. I came across Treetracker ( https://www.greenstand.org/ ), an app that tracks tree planting and pays planters per tree after verification. Spinning up multipl
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Indo-European languages came from a common root about 15,000 years ago (2013)(dw.com)
2 points by bansheehash 8y ago|0 comments
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by bansheehash 8y ago
If you're on Android, try a firewall-based system-wide adblocker like Blokada ( https://blokada.org/index.html ). It's very effective at blocking ads, including on mobile Chrome, and it's grandma-friendly (does
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Google Tasks: Google's new to-do list app(androidauthority.com)
1 points by bansheehash 8y ago|0 comments
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Europe's beauty spots plot escape from the too-many-tourists trap(theguardian.com)
2 points by bansheehash 9y ago|0 comments
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by bansheehash 9y ago
How does it fare against "Blokada" (also FOSS + no root required) in terms of battery use and features?
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Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley(spectrum.ieee.org)
348 points by bansheehash 9y ago|143 comments
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by bansheehash 9y ago
> It's one thing to be dumb, quite another to be extraordinarily gifted and to use that gift to do something which has no upside at all and plenty of downside One could extend this argument to engineers who work for nefarious, priva
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by bansheehash 10y ago
URL: https://www.engagespark.com/wp-content/uploads/jd-fellows-te...
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by bansheehash 10y ago
"Life's too short to worry about privacy" is precisely the kind of attitude that normalizes increasingly invasive surveillance and inadvertently feeds into the desire of companies to glean as much information as they can from
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by bansheehash 10y ago
Going by the argument of opposing regulation/"interference" by unelected officials, conservatives could claim that the FDA (also an unelected body of government, part of the executive branch) frequently oversteps its bounds w
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by bansheehash 10y ago
You might want to mention on your site that calls to US phone numbers from anywhere in the world are free on Google Hangouts ( https://hangouts.google.com ).
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Ask HN: How can I generate call graphs in Node.js?
1 points by bansheehash 10y ago|0 comments
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Think the world’s in a mess? Here are four things you can do about it(theconversation.com)
10 points by bansheehash 10y ago|6 comments
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by bansheehash 10y ago
How does this compare with HospitalRun ( http://hospitalrun.io ), which also targets the developing world/resource-constrained market?
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by bansheehash 10y ago
What do you mean by "modern"?
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by bansheehash 10y ago
> (At least the fashion industry isn't killing us, though.) The Bangladeshi children working 16 hours a day sewing dresses for H&M might have a thing or two to say about that.
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by bansheehash 10y ago
Wait till someone points out that dev tools are not useful to the average user and should exist as a separate extension. Where's the line?
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by bansheehash 10y ago
Google Chrome developers just made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhPUaEuEaXk