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Abimelex

244 karma · joined June 6, 2017

fullstack developer reactjs, vue, wordpress. Looking for side projects.
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Abimelex··on Show HN: Aldi Price Map
I would be also interested in the data source. I work in european food retail business and I am not aware of any data sources like this.
Abimelex··on Ionos has an outage regarding Frankfurt data center
Since yesterday afternoon IONOS seems to have a major outage in Frankfurt data center. According to heise news there were two outages, the later one caused by power supply problems.
Abimelex··on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
It's interesting, that even in a community like HN, almost nobody seems to ask for the scientific reference here. Might have something to do with confirmation bias? Or is there such a thing like sounds-interesting-AF-bias?
Abimelex··on Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects
just came here to give it my upvote. That's so insane cool!
Abimelex··on I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)
> The truth is that visitors who are so easily annoyed that a simple pop-up will cause them to leave the site weren’t very interested to begin with.

I don't agree here, maybe your service or newsletter is absolutely great for me as potential customer, but I close pages with newsletter popups instantly. Not because I'm annoyed, but to make a point. I guess a lot of services might have me lost because of this. You block yourself of getting even data from a user who's just a little privacy concerned.

Abimelex··on Load Balancing
indeed, a really great post! In case you decide to change the colors or need another reason I also want to add, that in general red/green is difficult for color-blind people. About 8% of male population is affected by red/green color blindness.
Abimelex··on The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike (2015) [video]
related content: Would it even be possible to turn left if steering right would be blocked? "Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac
Abimelex··on Deutschlandticket for regional bus and rail services to be offered for €49/month
> The start date for the offer has yet to be finally fixed; currently it is set for 1 April 2023.

That appears to be outdated or wrong information. The first date was supposed to be the 1st of January, but it has been pushed to the 1st of May since not all questions regarding the financials had been cleared.

Abimelex··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
"Article 17 of Indian Constitution says: Untouchability” is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of “Untouchability” shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law." - https://cjp.org.in/caste-discrimination-and-related-laws-in-...

There is more to the story and that's a good read, but in practice you can see cast discrimination still a lot in India, as I figured out recently when I have been a few weeks in the country.

Abimelex··on CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database
--> One of the devices contained biometric data on more than 2600 people, some of which had entries such as "Volunteer Background Checks," "Host Nation Police," or "Host Nation Military."

https://twitter.com/BR_AILab/status/1607707952147992579

Abimelex··on Japan to begin extracting rare earth metals from seabed in 2024
Environmental impact could be the worst, I hope they are not gonna proceed with these planes.
Abimelex··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
wow, now you can not pay your favourite terrorist anymore in one big cash payment, but you need to do it in smaller tranches, because they make it illegal!

This law will have no impact on any terrorism financing, but it will for sure help the government to better track you and once you have all your money in digital cash it will also be very easy to apply a lot of other measurements, like negative interest charges or wealth taxes. This is just another step forward to gain control ...

Abimelex··on Ask HN: If I get locked out of everything, please try to help me
There are redundancy systems to avoid getting locked out of 2FA.

- 1st Backup Codes: Store a bunch of 2FA backup codes on a safe location, best not in YOUR home, in case it burns down.

- 2nd SMS verification: some services offer you a fallback to SMS in case you don't have your 2FA device with you. But keep in mind, that SMS is also one of the least secure 2FA methods.

- 3rd instead of having your auth codes only on one device, use a service for it like Authy, so you can install it on as much devices as you like, if one dies, it's easy to configure a new one.

Abimelex··on The Twitter Files
Any TLDR; here? What's the big fuzz about it? Was just skim reading it and the point seems to be that content moderation at twitter used to be done by individuals which might be influenced by a political opinion. Is there anything more to it?
Abimelex··on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
For only username based have a look at Fedifinder: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
Abimelex··on Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
Working in Germany in food sector and seeing beside only NA beer also functional beer (e.g. joybräu) and also NA spirits (NA Gin etc.) on the rise. I think thats an awesome time for everybody who enjoys the taste of drinking alcohol but it will not help anyone who is already addicted to alcohol. Best thing for me was probably working a while in intensive care when I was younger and seeing what alcohol can do.
Abimelex··on Someone is pretending to be me
Just imagine that all this could have been avoided if we would start using email signing ;)
Abimelex··on Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent
There is a startup from my region doing it, but I never tested it, so I can't say anything about the quality: https://www.speechmind.com/
Abimelex··on What’s going on with security at PayPal?
2FA enabled in Germany I get the SMS prompt always. Still I would wish to have support for a proper Authenticator App here.
Abimelex··on Let websites framebust out of native apps
I also have always the problem, that "in app browsers" don't recognize the native Apps I have installed and so links to youtube or Instagram e.g. do not open the native app but the browser version instead. Copy pasting links is my everyday browsing experience on twitter and linkedIn e.g.
Abimelex··on GraphQL kinda sucks
One of the most advantages of GQL is in my opinion that you have all you need in only one query. Every tried to query 3 levels or more via REST in frontend? A "user" with a "company" and the companies "employees" which might have some "attachments" or "cv's" linked ... all only ONE query in GQL, while with REST you would need to wait for the result of each query or to know the IDs in advance.

For all the security layers there are usually great frameworks doing the job.

Abimelex··on ISO name change for Türkiye
when the standard doesn't respect itself:

> List source: Türk Standardlari Enstitüsü (TSE), 1995-08-01; Administrative Map of __Turkey__ 2000;

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again ... any recommendations for nodejs/postgres hosting?
Abimelex··on Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
I indeed played with the thought to "browserize" OPENTDD. Similar logic, but real time, everything slower, so you can built and earn money only very limited. So that a Game could last like a year or so and playing a few minutes per day would be enough.
Abimelex··on Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
take a look at https://3dit.de/
Abimelex··on Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
That would explain why fast.com is slow and speedtest.net was fast. Wow, I thought just the servers of fast.com where just a bit overloaded, when I checked recently after the tariff-upgrade.
Abimelex··on It's now your fault they don't know about it
I'm pretty confident, what it's described here, is a symptom of the so called "Halo Effect". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Abimelex··on The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
how hard can you obfuscate nodejs? I'm pretty sure if you drop the code in some infosec channels they will happily take the challenge and tell you what it does ;)
Abimelex··on The Zen of Drinking Alone
I need to drink only to feel comfortable with people so I see no need to poison my body, when I'm alone :D Still so I enjoy occasionally the taste of a good single malt.
Abimelex··on Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension
You do awesome and I love you devUtils App. Just installed it. But my personal guessing is, that your 25k Followers on Twitter make things a lot easier. :)
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