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369548684892826··on Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator
Unless OP branches out into developing tasty spreads I don’t think there can be a trademark dispute
369548684892826··on My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures
There’s something disturbing about the idea of silent data loss, it totally undermines the peace of mind of having backups. ZFS is good, but you can also just run rsync periodically with checksum and dryrun args and check the output for diffs.
369548684892826··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
But why not just pay by card, that must be even easier?
369548684892826··on Swift is a more convenient Rust
Swift is in its .NET Framework stage. I’m looking forward to Swift Core!
369548684892826··on My GitHub account was suspended without any reason
Maybe too late for this now if they've taken your repos offline and not just your login, but a tool like myrepos[0] can be set up with a cronjob to make sure you keep a local backup of your repositories up to date.

0: https://github.com/RichiH/myrepos

369548684892826··on Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
There are lua hooks for play/pause/stop which is great for dimming room lights when the video starts.
369548684892826··on Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
Right, it does the best it can given the limitations of iOS, but "not instantaneous" can mean hours before synchronisation happens. When the phone's charging, or when the app is open, then it does tend to work almost as well as on Android.
369548684892826··on Zed on Linux Is Here
Just if you close the entire editor. Editors with this feature, if you close the file it will ask if you want to save changes, click no and the changes are lost.
369548684892826··on Zed on Linux Is Here
finally a use for xeyes?
369548684892826··on Gecko Tapes
> It is only recently that scientists have unlocked the secret behind the lizards’ perplexing mobility and begun engineering synthetic materials mimicking their abilities.

I wish there was a law saying pages that use relative dates must be timestamped. Anyway, Wayback Machine says it's been around since at least 2014.

369548684892826··on When (if ever) did the Sun set on the British Empire?
A sunset is when the sun goes below the horizon, so I'm not sure about the idea of an eclipse causing "the sun to set" on the empire.
369548684892826··on I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
> the fact that there is a standardized test in my mind does the opposite and makes the process much fairer

The problem isn't standardized tests, it's that leetcode questions are about having the time to have learnt the answer beforehand, rather than raw ability for problem solving.

369548684892826··on Big Fridge
I think the B2/C thing is referring to UK Social Grade

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

369548684892826··on Raspberry Pi Connect
Coca-cola is a type of soda so... I think you're agreeing with me? Kind of hard to tell.
369548684892826··on Raspberry Pi Connect
> You don’t own the rights to the beer, you don’t have the ingredient list

But beer's recipe is open source, anyone can brew their own. It's a really bad analogy, it should be free Coca-Cola or something.

369548684892826··on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
Well there is _one_ way but you're probably not going to like it
369548684892826··on How did my iPhone 7 plus get remotely hacked?
Did you sell, or lose, an old phone that you might still have been signed in to?
369548684892826··on From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38
If this was the reason then UK developers working for US companies would be paid better
369548684892826··on Why is Windows 11 so annoying?
I've always hit F2 to rename stuff so hadn't noticed it wasn't in the menu any more, but I hate how the menu loads in now so you can't reliably click on anything until it's done its little dance and stopped shuffling things around.
369548684892826··on How do TV detector vans work?
> admit to having a TV and then sign a 'confession' form

"Having a TV" is fine without a license. It's watching live broadcast television, or using iPlayer, that isn't allowed.

369548684892826··on World Backup Day
I do have this automated, but the checksum output is posted to a kind of watchdog service. Every day I get an email that says everything is as expected, or not.
369548684892826··on World Backup Day
Yeah, I use rsync with `-cavin`, if the output includes `>` or `<` then there are differences in checksums.

  #!/bin/bash
  hostname=$(hostname)
  checksumFile=/tmp/checksum-file.txt
  
  rsync -cavin --info=name2 --no-perms --no-owner --no-group /srv/data/photos/ user@remote:/media/data/rsnapshot/daily.0/srv/data/photos/ > $checksumFile
  
  minimumSize=5000
  actualSize=$(wc -l <"$checksumFile")
  
  if [ $actualSize -ge $minimumSize ]; then
      fileDiffs=$(cat $checksumFile | grep -e '<' -e '>' || echo 'all checksums match')
  else
      fileDiffs=$(echo $checksumFile is too small)
  fi
  
  echo $fileDiffs
369548684892826··on World Backup Day
For static files like photos I hash check drives against each other to check for bit rot. But yeah, for tape based cloud storage I can't think what else to do except restore one file to check I still have access. It's too expensive to restore the whole archive.
369548684892826··on You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?
Yes, I've seen this bot JS problem, it does happen.
369548684892826··on Any alternative site to txt2re.com (C#)?
https://regex101.com/ is good
369548684892826··on Ask HN: Recommendations for RSS Reader
I don't use it for that, but a quick test showed that with podcasts it will continue to play them if you switch to another app, and the media playback control does appear in the iOS notification centre. But it doesn't do anything clever like persist your playback position, or let you navigate around the app while continuing to listen to a podcast. So not that great really :(
369548684892826··on Ask HN: Recommendations for RSS Reader
I self host the open source FreshRSS[0] and on iPhone connect to it using Reeder[1]. Reeder does support subscribing directly to RSS feeds from the phone, you don't have to run something like FreshRSS to use it.

0: https://www.freshrss.org/

1: https://www.reederapp.com/

369548684892826··on Show HN: I made an app that shows UK post code prices
It doesn't say this anywhere, but I guess the prices referred to are house prices?
369548684892826··on A bird's eye view of Polars
With that attitude I'd never learn anything new
369548684892826··on A bird's eye view of Polars
> So, what is Polars? A short description would be “a query engine with a DataFrame frontend”.

Guess that would help if I already knew what a dataframe is!

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