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by waffl 3y ago
Is it not still blocked, or at least under heavy scrutiny? I would also dread Figma being folded into Adobe's bloated ecosystem. Thank god for penpot as mentioned in another comment as I would need an alternative if Figma does indeed g
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by waffl 3y ago
The real magic is found in Apple charging 690 EUR for an upgrade to 2TB from 512GB on a MacBook Pro (0.43/gb), or 2760 EUR for 8TB (0.37/gb). Considering the 2TB 980 pro for $160 USD, (0.08/gb), it always truly pains me to pa
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by waffl 4y ago
Also inertia.js just reached 1.0 and has been really fantastic to work with.
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by waffl 4y ago
What really struck me was the statement: "In total, $580,000 was raised in 2022 The Foundation pays 6 developers to work on PHP" which made me realise how easy it is to take for granted the development and maintenance of these ope
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by waffl 4y ago
An example could be plucking data from related posts of different types that are related via Advanced Custom Fields.
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by waffl 4y ago
For me the main barrier has been convincing my family to actually take password management seriously. My entire family has had their emails hacked at least twice due to poor/reused passwords that have been in leaks, constantly forget I
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by waffl 4y ago
Ah yes, exactly and thanks for the search tips, I felt like I was misremembering something being unable to find what I was looking for!
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by waffl 4y ago
Thank you so much, that is precisely what I was looking for (my memory failed me regarding the background colour though, though there are purple elements). Thanks again, much appreciated.
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Ask HN: Recently posted directory of personal sites/blogs?
2 points by waffl 4y ago|6 comments
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by waffl 4y ago
The German word for 'time' is 'Zeit', so that would be 'Zeitgeist' :)
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by waffl 5y ago
One of the more interesting things I've felt about web3 is the idea of portable identities not being locked to centralized account management systems/walled gardens. This applies to tokens as well - eg, an asset that is no longer
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by waffl 5y ago
I wanted a simple to use, easy to deploy tool to send sensitive data to clients. I was often using onetimesecret which is great, but still felt wary of trusting a hosted service for these things. While they have indeed open sourced their co
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Secret: A simple self-hosted e2e encrypted alternative to onetimesecret(github.com)
4 points by waffl 5y ago|1 comments
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by waffl 6y ago
Thank goodness for the transition away from the terrible 16:9 screens that have plagued almost every single PC laptop for years. These are all 16:10 with a few screen options (at least for the X1C9): - 14" UHD+ (3840 x 2400) IPS, low-p
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by waffl 6y ago
In Regensburg, Germany, there is a restaurant that has essentially been operating for 850 years since the construction of the Steinernen (Stone) bridge was constructed in 1146 AD, and in its precise/current form as a sausage restaurant
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by waffl 6y ago
I learned about this from the book "Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors" by Matt Parker. It was interesting in the context of describing this concept of 'Swiss Cheese Model' where if just the right holes line up, somethi
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by waffl 6y ago
I had to tackle this problem as well for a small project and found that I could just send a GET request to https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace and parse the response with a simple regex: /loc=(\w*)$/gm T
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Forensic Architecture(forensic-architecture.org)
2 points by waffl 7y ago|0 comments
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by waffl 7y ago
Although not exactly relevant I remember reading that some devs at google were looking to mainline Magic Trackpad Support because I was so disappointed in the trackpad functionality on a brand new laptop with Linux installed, I was planning
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by waffl 8y ago
This reminds me of an old story of how the Japanese idol band AKB48 added a new member who turned out to be a computer composite in 2011, to think what they could do with technology today and in the future: https://www.youtube.co
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by waffl 9y ago
Actually I feel almost any component in general sadly. I had to replace the front camera assembly as well and after trying almost four different parts from multiple vendors and none match the quality of the original. Another thing I learned
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by waffl 9y ago
I replaced an aging battery on my 6S Plus a few months ago myself and installed iOS 11 at the same time (figured it was a good opportunity to do both together). Immediately I noticed my phone was basically unusable, incredibly slow, everyth
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Ask HN: How does Facebook identify me?
2 points by waffl 9y ago|0 comments
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by waffl 9y ago
This is an incredibly frustrating thing with the way OS X handles encrypted disk images as well. Needing to share confidential documents with coworkers, we were hoping to store them in an encrypted disk image. (GPG proved way too complex fo
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by waffl 10y ago
Likewise, I've owned a huge number of mac laptops since the titanium PowerBook and I don't think I ever managed to get more than 4-5hr of real work use (adobe suite etc) I've always been confused by these 10hr claims and have
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by waffl 10y ago
For ages I've had ~ remapped to escape (if no modifiers pressed so tilde still works as expected, and caps to ctrl) so the missing ESC isn't a big deal, although I did have it remapped for ` Anyone looking for extremely fine grai
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by waffl 10y ago
Yes, this issue alone was a complete blocker in my opinion, thank goodness it's been resolved. 100+ page documents could be destroyed in one simple action of pasting a styled text into a box with a pre-existing style assigned. (It was
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by waffl 10y ago
I've read through almost this entire thread and was wondering if anyone has advice for someone whose is trying to support a loved one through a fairly significant depressive episode? While I imagine that the major benefit comes from pe
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by waffl 10y ago
I also was a bit surprised to realize all the comments here were completely missing the point of the actual article and only a response to the headline. Coincidentally this very active discussion on another article is taking place and likel
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by waffl 11y ago
Apart from the discussion surrounding the crypto side of all this, one thing that ProtonMail has really succeeded in doing is making encrypted mail finally an accessible thing to a non-technically inclined user. I've spent well over a

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