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ajonit··on Ask HN: Mobile phone addiction help?
These points should help - 1) Do you have someone near whom you can trust with social passwords? If yes, great. Ask them to change all your passwords and then you get 1 cheat day where the person will enter the password again and delete app(s) at the end of the day.

2) Change color to monochrome in iPhone settings.

3) These things should pretty much sort out. If you are still using browser etc and can’t get rid of the iphone, go buy a basic phone which can run your bare minimum banking apps.

4)For 2FA, use Authy. It does have a desktop app.

ajonit··on Upcoming changes to FeedBurner in July 2021
Relieved that at least it has not gone the Google Reader way. FeedBurner hadn’t seen updates for last several years and there was an apprehension it may end up like another “Killed by Google” product.
ajonit··on A decade long Google account disabled with no warning or reason
Use your own custom email address. This thing keeps coming in every few weeks/months.One of the best thing that anyone can do to his online life is to make use of own email addresses. Say you use GSuite to host your custom email address and one fine day google decides to ban you for whatsoever reason, you will be able to switch to any competing service in a flick of few MX records in not more than 5 mins. Ofcourse you have to ensure that you take regular backup of your email accounts.
ajonit··on TransferWise changes name to Wise
For the kind of service they provide, transfer.com would have been better. (Of course if it all it was possible)

Nonetheless, not a bad idea, as companies grow they all want the shortest possible brandable .com domain. I remember seomoz.com rebranded to moz.com for few million $$.

ajonit··on Notion is experiencing a DNS issue
>>But you can’t use two completely different DNS providers for your status page and your primary page unless you are using a distinct domain.

You can.

ajonit··on Tell HN: Google drops blogspot.in, breaking hundreds of thousands of permalinks
I have been using Windows Live Writer since around 2008 on a WP blog and just recently switched to Open Live Writer. I can't think about blogging without this tool. The fact that it allows me write offline and push my article to my blog with proper formatting is a big plus for me.
ajonit··on Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
Now that the OP has given a go ahead to go public, We will eagerly wait for your update jgc
ajonit··on Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
Apple won't be happy for sure. Among other things, If USB C becomes an standard , Apple would lose the revenues from MFi certification program. (Though I am not sure how much they make using this program alone.)
ajonit··on Ask HN: Anyone else in constant anxiety and how do you cope?
I have read through several comments in the thread. #1 and easiest thing you can do which will show you quick results is to join the gym and make sure you hit it at least 5 times a week for minimum 45 minutes each time.
ajonit··on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max
This strategy has served me well. My cycle is 4 years though. 2010 most powerful blackberry -> 2014 iPhone 5s -> 2018 iPhone X
ajonit··on India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
Invade? Please for god sake read about India and Kashmir first before you reveal your ignorance here. Kashmir has a complex history. It was ALWAYS part of India but governed under a certain constitutional provision. The Indian Govt just revoked that provision.
ajonit··on India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
Reading a lot of nytimes or bbc editorial these days? Do you have any idea about the history of Kashmir and how it is infested with Pakistan trained terrorists.?
ajonit··on The internet is an SEO landfill
That is an incorrect observation. There are people making a living out of selling exact similar scripts as the OP. (Sendy comes at the top of my mind)
ajonit··on Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?
Once (and if) you exhaust all options mentioned by HNers, trying emailing Jeff Bezos and write a proper explanation with kind of tldr; in the first para.

I know it sounds stupid but it worked for me. I had a $$$ of affiliate payment pending with them and the CS staff dilly-dallied the payment - to my Indian account - for more than 10 months. I emailed, Jeff intervened, deputed his secretary on my case. He, in turn, got me in touch with India manager. The Indian manager bent over backwards and was extremely apologetic for the trouble I had to face and sent the amount quickly. He ended the last call saying for any kind of trouble with Amazon I can contact him.

ajonit··on I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report
I was the first one in family to move to iPhone when 5s came out. Since then EVERYONE in my family and extended family has moved from BlackBerry/Android to iPhone and every single person had that "wow" moment and were like why didn't we start using it earlier. I can 100% relate to your story.

Now if only there was a way to painlessly move from one iPhone to the next, we would be exchanging them far more often. Just last week I moved from my faithful 5s to X, used "iMazing 2" app which I got on offer for around $14. (In case someone is wondering why did I purchase an app just for moving stuff. iMazing 2, offers a painless way to do iPhone wifi enabled backups as well.) The move was flawless. Almost all settings got cloned, even the wallpaper.

Disclaimer: Not related to iMazing 2 in any way. Just a user.

ajonit··on Ask HN: Do you meditate and which system do you follow?
In India everything has been commercialized perhaps except Vipassana at Dhamma. They now have centers all across the world. Being born and brought up in India, the land of yoga, meditation etc. , I have seen so much commercialization around that I never rely on the "gurus". Vipassana was a breath of fresh air. I went for a 10 days course. They are not about cult formation, conversion etc. This was perhaps the purest form of meditation teaching I saw. All the fooding and lodging was taken care by the Dhamma team and never for once did they even hinted us to offer money.

If you ever want to learn meditation, apply for a Vipassna retreat, take 10 days out of your schedule and see the difference. You can upvote me later.

ajonit··on Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
AHK has been working great for me over the years. My addresses, snippets of emails, expansions are all stored in an ahk file. I use various email addresses for different sites; so a@a would become aj(at)ajonit(dot)com or a@l would become admin(at)learnqtp(dot)com. The possibilities are endless. Few year's back I created a video for my blog readers and published an AHK template. You may download it here http://www.learnqtp.com/get-productive-with-automation-autoh...
ajonit··on US student dies a week after North Korea release
I have been following Otto's news since the time he was detained in North Korea. This was the first news I saw this morning in India, really pained and sad to see his fate.
ajonit··on Gmvault: Backup and restore your Gmail account
I have been using Spanning backup for several years now. It backs up our Gmail, documents , calendars, contacts, sites It is one of those set-it-and-forget-it type services. The company is acquired by EMC now. The service costs us around $35/year/email account; for us it is small price for peace of mind. I wrote a review of them few years back - http://reviewofweb.com/gmail/backupify-vs-spanning/
ajonit··on Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
I really wish Satoshi comes out from hiding before he (or the group) is dead (assuming he is not already); otherwise it will forever take #1 position on those listicles sites ("The top 10 mysteries of all time; You really want to know #1")
ajonit··on Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
Forget any of the crypto stuff, just ask Mr Wright to open another thread here (http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/SatoshiNakamoto) or any of the other forums he used to interact or edit one of his own forum posts! This should be trivially easy for the real Satoshi.
ajonit··on Google rolls out “If This Then That” support for its $200 OnHub router
Create an account just for this router and fwd incoming mails to your main email.
ajonit··on Show HN: EverActiv, an ML personal trainer for iPhone
All weights are in lbs. Please provide an option for kg as well.
ajonit··on Saving Private Flipkart
As a long time customer and admirer of Flipkart, I have no hesitation in saying that there is something massively wrong at Flipkart. Earlier FK used to be my goto destination for buying anything online, since last 1.5 years things have changed drastically. Every single product, that i need to buy is either cheaper on Amazon India or is not available at all on FK- every single product. Customer service that used to be friendly is not welcoming either. On the other hand, Amazon India seems to be obsessed about customer service, they will readily offer you GV for a slightest of mistake on their part. Their product inventory is massive. Essentially Amazon india has become what FK used to be 3 years back and FK seems uninterested in doing business anymore.
ajonit··on Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers by cheap switches, no firewall
"Most of the payments were blocked but $81 million was routed to accounts in the Philippines " Given that in most of the countries "Know Your Customer" (or its variations) is strictly followed, I wonder what makes it so difficult for multi nation police( involving interpol) to reverse track the hacker - from money receiving accounts -> account holders -> beating the st out of them to reveal senders name.
ajonit··on Ask HN: SEO impact of HN's URL “itemid” vs. an actual title?
HN doesnt really care. Even if slugs didn't provide any SEO benefit, I would implement them purely for usability reasons. xyz.com/learn-seo looks much better to a user compared to xyz.com/46765475
ajonit··on Why Tesla Motors Finally Acquired Tesla.com
Ctr shft entr - .org Shft entr - .net
ajonit··on Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
I faced an issue on my new Asus laptop Atheros wifi adapter. Changing the channel from 11 to Auto on my roouter did the trick and things are fine since then.
ajonit··on “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline”
There was a time when Google use to pay site owners for firefox downloads. The day they launched Chrome, the sam day promotion stopped. Since then the usage for FF is going downhill.
ajonit··on Mandrill’s Betrayal
There is a fine line. As long as it's a notification email, I don't think anybody can have issues. I guess what they resent is BULK emails send through mandrill.
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