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by fdw 3mo ago
> Where are the dozens of European tech winners? Seriously. They have the best education system in the world, strong social safety nets, cheap healthcare, and great lifestyles. Why have they not created innovative technologies that turn
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by fdw 8mo ago
The episode was based on the book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (Amazon: China's Quest to Engineer the Future) Very interesting read, with a lot more depth and details to this short (but accurate) sum
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Ask HN: What's the best book you read in the last year?
3 points by fdw 9mo ago|2 comments
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by fdw 1y ago
IANAL, but GPL3 is compatible with selling the software (see Linux distros). However, it forces you to open up the complete source code and it allows the users to fork and recompile it as they see fit (but they must also open up their chang
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by fdw 1y ago
I'm a bit confused about the license: On the purchase page ( https://get.trayce.dev/ ) you state that "a license must be purchased for continued use". But if I look into the GitHub repos ( https://git
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by fdw 1y ago
No, defense in depth is a best practice because you assume that each layer can fall. It is more practical to have many layers that are very secure than to have one layer that has to be perfectly secure.
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by fdw 1y ago
They say this about sports, which is (usually) a zero-sum game: If I'm attacking, no matter how badly, my opponent cannot attack at all. Therefore, it is preferable to be attacking. In cyber security, there is no reason the opponent ca
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by fdw 1y ago
Thanks, that's also a very impressive visualization. Slightly too much and confusing, but amazing nonetheless. Thanks for sharing! I'll also have a look around your repo. And maybe I know feel inspired to put some more work into m
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by fdw 1y ago
Very nice, thanks for sharing! Is the source available somewhere? Do you want contributions? I've once built something similar for myself (still at https://github.com/fdw/timelines/ ), but not half as polished
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by fdw 2y ago
> or how neurodivergent is really is from much more common extroverted people. Do you mean to say that neurodivergence is more common among extroverted people? If so, do you have sources for that? I have not yet heard of any relation bet
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by fdw 2y ago
I'm understanding your statement to mean that caring about something because of itself, without external motivation (like validation or money), is neurodivergent. So neurotypical would be to only care about something if you profit from
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by fdw 2y ago
I've tried out some of the libraries, and it looks like they do calculate the difference between the installed version and the last (stable) release. If a dependency hasn't seen a release in ten years, those ten years don't c
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Ask HN: What have you built with ESPHome, ESP8266 or similar hardware
192 points by fdw 2y ago|151 comments
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by fdw 3y ago
Yes, but it is quite uncomfortable to use, requiring you to get a session key and storing it somewhere. Instead, I've had good experiences with [rbw]. Maybe that would also be interesting for GP. I've used to rbw for a rofi (and r
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by fdw 3y ago
But isn't that the very problem? The market for these loss-leading services is skewed because Google subsidizes their free offerings so that they improve their ads branch. Because it is hard to compete with a free (actually money-losin
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by fdw 3y ago
I've written my own tiny Python script for this, that launches the right executable based on the URL. It works really well for my situation with two different Firefox profiles. Maybe it works for others, too. Link: https://g
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by fdw 3y ago
I do backups to a local, external HD (that I need to manually plug and unplug, unfortunately), and to Backblaze. Depending on the importance of the data, it's being pushed daily to B2 and weekly to HD, or more seldom, or only to HD. Te
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by fdw 4y ago
In the end, paperless also stores the original pdfs in a directory. You get some more goodies from it, like automatic OCR and a web interface, but your baselines is also included.
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Ask HN: What is the best conference talk you've seen in 2022?
9 points by fdw 4y ago|2 comments
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by fdw 4y ago
Would care to explain why "Altriusm is a sickness"? Caring about other people seems to be a good thing to me, so I'd like to hear your take.
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by fdw 4y ago
Isn't this what journalism should be about, though, to journal the news neutrally? I'd be more worried about a bias if someone only writes for one side of an issue, but now it's also bad if both sides can be happy with an aut
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by fdw 4y ago
I've had a good experience with [crestic]( https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic ), even though it seems a lot smaller and simpler than autorestic. But I really like how the same backup can be configured for differ
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by fdw 4y ago
That looks really interesting, thank you very much!
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Ask HN: Biographies of Companies or Things?
4 points by fdw 4y ago|6 comments
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by fdw 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean to achieve by this comment. Do you want to imply that working remotely is the same as "remote vacations", and so people are hypocrits for only wanting one of these but not the other? But if you are
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by fdw 4y ago
That's an interesting idea. This would probably curb bad behavior, when you get reprimanded from several folks who have an actual stake in it. But - and sorry if I'm overly negative here - I see other issues: First, you wouldn&#x2
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by fdw 4y ago
Disclaimer: I couldn't visit the site, so all I have to go on is your quote. It's definitely interesting, but my gut reaction is that it is a bad idea. If you invited somebody, that means (a) you know them somehow and (b) you want
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by fdw 4y ago
Thanks! I already have it running, I just had no idea it could do that. Guess I know what I'll do on the weekend :)
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by fdw 4y ago
Could you please go into more detail regarding "a full little identity provider and authenticating proxy"? Does nginx-proxy-manager do something like SSO?
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by fdw 5y ago
Thank you (and also the responders, u/Afton and u/jnosCo) for your help! While I have certainly a lot to learn on that topic, I feel like I haven't failed completely - of course all kinds of exercises come around again, and I

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