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DerWOKon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

To respect my folder structure and still have nice covers and playlists... - and playing all the usual formats… I use JRiver Media Center (99$) and FlacBox (iOS and MacOS).

DerWOKon Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

iOS App 10€/month Hmm - no.

DerWOKon Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured

Time to buy a MeshTastic node?

DerWOKon Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year

And then there is Sheep It Render Farm. You donate render power when you don’t need your PC. Earn points for that. Then consume those point when you utilize 20++ parallel render pipelines from other peoples PCs when you want to render your stuff.

https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/home

DerWOKon Show HN: Sheet Music Management App

Interesting. But do I get it right: if on band rehersal or public gig, if offline, then no sheet music? Or is there local bufferung / offline mode?

DerWOKon Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

Its local markdown flat files.

DerWOKon Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

IMHO a very capable FOSS competitor for Obsidian is LogSeq (https://logseq.com/). I use Logseq since 6 month and love it. There also exists a Kanban Plugin for LogSeq, which I have not yet tried... https://github.com/hkgnp/logseq-kanban-plugin

DerWOKon Ask HN: Easiest and cheapest full-stack frameworks that you love?

Ah! Cool! Thanks for sharing. Didn't know this exists meantime...

DerWOKon Ask HN: Easiest and cheapest full-stack frameworks that you love?

https://www.meteor.com/ If you’re fine with MongoDB in the backend. Then you get a lot of speed in development and same language in backend and frontend. Plus view live updates on all connected clients as data changes in backend. And hot Code push to clients if new build on server available. I loved it when doing https://www.4minitz.com/ (retired FOSS)

DerWOKon Run CLIP on iPhone to search photos

For Geo-Location, maybe consider this workflow: User searches City in the iPhone Maps App (by Apple), then clicks "Share" button, then "Copy to Clipboard" - thenpaste this location into your app, you grab Longitude & Latitude from that and let users specify a radius. Bam! Complicated.... But no network needed.

DerWOKon Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

Thanks, this is awesome. Colorized a few last images of my WWII grandfather who died in this war. One observation: on download the MIME type seems to by PNG format, but the binary file arriving is actually a (lossy compressed) JPEG. But anyhow! Great work!!

DerWOKon Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love

Yea agree! Would you mind sharing the bookmark?

DerWOKon Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love

This really deserves the "made with love" attribute. That guy is insane!!!

DerWOKon Matrix web-based green code rain, made with love

Quote from the Github repo:

_"The following criteria guided the development process:

Get the right glyphs. Like the actual ones. By now everyone's heard how the Matrix glyphs are some treatment of Katakana, but they also include a few characters from Susan Kare's Chicago typeface. The Matrix glyphs in this project come from the source: cleaned up vectors from an old SWF for an official Matrix product, archived back in 2007. That's how deep this rabbit hole goes, friends. (Please support the Internet Archive!)"_

DerWOKon Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

Zettlr[1] (FOSS) has mermaid support[2] included. Zettlr is a markdown editor for personal knowledge management and/or distraction free (scientific) writing w/ PDF publishing.

[1] https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr

[2] https://docs.zettlr.com/en/reference/markdown-basics/#zettlr...

DerWOKon Magic Mouse 2 – A Terrible Design (2017)

Reasonable explanation for charging port at the bottom in this 2:30 video: "Why Apple's Mouse Charges From The Bottom"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMSJuatmOdk

DerWOKon FreeFileSync: Open-Source File Synchronization and Backup

Unfortunately no brew install skipt for this gem? Anybody knows why?

DerWOKon Let's Encrypt Service Disruption

THANKS!!! My 4-month-pending update now works. :-) Amazing how you guys keep the web up and running, while the planet is "sleeping"... Reminds me of the Nightwatch guys.

DerWOKon Let's Encrypt Service Disruption

Believe it or not. I procastinated my update of certbot (ACME2) like about 4 month now. This evening I pulled all my enthusiasm to finally update... did a dry-run. No success. WTF??! Looking up and down... searched problem on my end... just to find out: ha! it's not me. OK. I'll wait. And check https://letsencrypt.status.io/

You rock!

DerWOKon Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free

Not true. It works. After some brain adaption. Then it’s fun. And what is jamming about? Fun! Not recording the next chart breaker.

DerWOKon Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free

Other FOSS product that tries to solve the same problem and which worked a little better for us. (We tried both)

https://www.sonobus.net/

DerWOKon Bigger screen and better lighting make for a nearly perfect Kindle Paperwhite

Bamm! Ordered!

DerWOKon Sir Clive Sinclair has died

Anybody noticed, the inventor of the ZX81 of course died at the age of 81. So, he predicted this decades ago?

DerWOKon What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?

840539006 is the ID by SNOMED https://www.snomed.org/news-and-events/articles/march-2020-i...

DerWOKon Early detection of skin cancer at home at the price of a smart watch

My bad. I asked two questions. Thanks for answering the second one. Raises already some confidence. But could you answer the first (and more important one)? The website is silent on this topic. Would be cool. Wish you all the best for your product launch.

DerWOKon Early detection of skin cancer at home at the price of a smart watch

Definitely Interesting! Especially as the cited scientific papers tell us the principle is possible. But I wonder: has the manufacturer classified this as a medical device in the FDA sense?

Was it developed and tested like so? Question to the OP.

DerWOKon Hacking Apple AirTags

How could we miss this?

DerWOKon Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee

https://affinity.serif.com/

Serves the 80% use case. Is in some areas (Live Filter, real time zoom, startup time, one fileformat for Photo, Vector and DTP) even better.

And best of all: no subscription!

DerWOKon Show HN: Lensflare – The Next Unsplash

Can you tell the impatient reader what you did better than unsplash?

DerWOKon Ask HN: How do I learn drawing?

Check out https://realisticpaint.com

It’s sooo realistic sooo much fun. And just $25 on Win, Mac or IPad