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Egoist··on Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
Some devices can also be more efficient when using 230V. Eg: PSUs

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/469913/compu...

Egoist··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
Aaaand the issues turned into a shitpost
Egoist··on New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
My Client didn't receive the update even after refreshing the repository.

I was able to get the new version by searching for F-Droid and going to the "versions" section and click update on the latest version

Egoist··on C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel
Not sure if it's based on this, but Ken also talked about a similar, but multiplayer game, to play with random people at Bell Labs which sounded fun.

https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=1171

I wonder if the source code for that exists too.

Egoist··on Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release
I absolutely love Berkeley Mono and the author’s efforts into perfecting the font. It has been my favorite font since it was first released. Some fonts don’t go beyond the initial release for fixing minor issues, so I appreciate these updates. While I understand that Ligatures are controversial, it’s still good to add the option for people who likes it.

In another note, I really enjoy the simplicity in the website design.

Egoist··on The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022)
The two most accurate keyboards i used were the old Fleksy before it was bought and the BlackBerry Virtual Keyboard on Android. The Blackberry had the most interesting autocomplete / suggestion feature by putting the words on top of each letter. Typing “Example” can be as simple as typing “e” “x” then swiping up on the “a” if it had the word example on it. This allows more room for suggestions. Wish there were apps like that on IOS
Egoist··on Ventura Issues
There is also the problem with display settings. HiDPI option on higher resolutions is no longer available after upgrade.
Egoist··on I worked at LastPass as an engineer
In my opinion, 1password is definitely more secure. 1password generates a key when registering which you cannot restore. So not only an attacker need to know your password, they also have to know the generated sequence. This is helpful for people who tend to use easy to break passwords.

1pasaword is not perfect, but it’s far better than lastpass

Egoist··on Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe
Context: https://orenom.fi
Egoist··on Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?
https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/
Egoist··on Linux developer Vtuber on her experience writing a driver in rust
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Egoist··on Oh Shit, Git
Swear free version at: https://dangitgit.com
Egoist··on Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)
To add to that, it annoys me that it's still not possible (I know an extension exists) to change the default terminal on the right click menu "Open in Terminal"
Egoist··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
“The changes will mirror the same requirements Microsoft originally added to Windows 11 Home last year, meaning you won’t be able to avoid Microsoft Accounts by creating a local user account during setup.”

If I remember correctly, when you install Win11 Home, it forces you to login with a Microsoft account. But the easy workaround is to unplug the ethernet cable, windows will realize it can’t connect and the local account option should appear.

Nevertheless, It’s stupid that MS wants this behavior by default

Egoist··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
One less popular extension to add to others list: ublacklist

Helps you exclude any site from your search engine easily.

Egoist··on Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
Interestingly, the first two registry steps are actually the same as the previous windows. Having it behind a hash seems way too user hostile though.
Egoist··on Power users mourn features lost in Windows 11 'simplification'
The only thing i really hated is how they pushed their new right click menu.

they still don’t want to pick between their UI. Using the new unfinished UI content to navigate to the old one is just stupid.

Egoist··on Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'
To be fair, python way of handling versions is the worst and that even goes to the package maintainers. Especially what happened to python 2 -> python3. I don’t like the logic of no version specified = python 2. I have made the mistake of thinking i have the right python binary only to realize it gives syntax error for being python 2
Egoist··on Git undo: We can do better
Wow, probably one of the best guides i have seen for git. Wish i knew this existed when i was a beginner
Egoist··on Ask HN: Show me some most beautiful fonts
Dank Mono: https://gumroad.com/l/dank-mono
Egoist··on Thunderbird stored OpenPGP secret keys without master password protection
I don’t know what counts as high severity if that’s considered low.
Egoist··on Ask HN: Who is your VPN provider, and why?
I use IVPN. While it’s pricey, the company cares about security and privacy. They publish a third party security audits frequently. I haven’t had any issue using their service. They also support wireguard, which is a plus.
Egoist··on Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
People really make it as if it’s a better solution. there are multiple reasons why apple still doesn’t like allowing third party to take control. One reason means that trusting the third party applications means trusting privacy on the sub applications and apple have been trying to be more transparent on every app in their store. Another is how the payment system works. Yes, apple takes a big chunk of money and it may be absurd, but I wouldn’t want applications to end up being like google play apps, where i have to trust the company for not stealing my payments info or using their own payment method to track costumers without apple knowledge. not to mention if the company got cyber attacked and they store my payment information. Opening things up for third party may make things better if you read privacy policies and trust companies that you know are trustworthy, but it takes the privacy and security out of apple hands. Add to that how certain companies will definitely exploit that system, Facebook would probably hide their app inside an appstore to avoid privacy policy being transparent. Apple acting as a middleman for every app in the store isn’t that bad if you consider all that, and i am sure we would see many articles blaming apple if things go bad in a third party app.
Egoist··on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
To me, i think C is a powerful language that is weakened by 2 things:

1- Trying to find the proper style and methods to write few lines of code. The reason for this is because C is an old language that kept changing. Thus, you can read a book, yet find someone to tell you “you shouldn’t do it that way”.

2- compilers made C into different flavors. Microsoft C compiler provides scanf_s with the old scanf being deprecated. In the other hand, gcc has different approaches without the scanf_s that Microsoft has. This can be so annoying to use.

Egoist··on Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?
The full readme is worth the read about chromium/chrome. But this highlights edge differences. No browser is perfect, but you can always be able to restrict things or use GPo baselines to limit browser use.

https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/Chromium-hardening#chrome-vs-ms...

Egoist··on Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
Out of all Google projects that they put to the grave, they commit to this stupid service.