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bartkappenburg··on Little Snitch Mini
Love this tool! I upgraded to premium so that I could see which apps are the most chattiest... it turns out to be Tailscale. It connects to a lot of random places across the whole(!) world. See: https://imgur.com/a/Gc5pnih

Any reason for this behaviour?

bartkappenburg··on Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
Nice! Automatisch is dutch (and german) for automatic, what a cool name!
bartkappenburg··on reMarkable 2
A friend of mine used the rm2 for a year and created a nice review on YT [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZyWD7-39XM

bartkappenburg··on Inky Impression 5.7“ – Colour e-ink display for Raspberry Pi
https://alexanderklopping.medium.com/an-updated-daily-front-...
bartkappenburg··on Slow Travel
This made me realize that 'saving the planet' is actually 'we need to save ourselves and in order to do that we need to save the planet'. The earth and mother nature will certainly adapt (which they already do!) with or without people.

Fun insight, thanks for that!

bartkappenburg··on $8600 MRR business on Airtable
And don’t forget: building your own business adds value to an asset that YOU own. A regular dev job adds value to something someone else owns.
bartkappenburg··on Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping
You can buy simboxes at alibaba[0] which are routers with 12 to 64 simcards. Each simcard has it’s own port which you can use in the config of for instance playwright or scrapy. We use one in production for frontend testing and some scraping.

It works perfect but it’s not cheap and keeping track of simcards which are prepaid or subscriptions in combination with data usage is a bit of work.

Resetting a sim usually gives a new IP and our experience is that blocking an IP by a scraped party is rarely the case because of the shared nature of IPs in the mobile world.

[0]https://a.aliexpress.com/_m0XnDLm

bartkappenburg··on Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1
On a side note: Bernoulli was born in my home town Groningen (NL). Brilliant mathematician.
bartkappenburg··on Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs
So basically a web frontend for Faker?
bartkappenburg··on Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? (2020)
/offtopic What happened to the ranking of this post? It was top 3 (yeah!) and now it’s suddenly 40+ … How can this happen? Dang?
bartkappenburg··on Show HN: Akedo – Retro gaming and coding platform
Would you like to work completely offline? Download the microStudio standalone app for Windows, Mac, Linux and Raspberry Pi:

https://microstudio.itch.io/microstudio

bartkappenburg··on pass – the standard Unix password manager
Heard good stories about https://github.com/ossobv/pstore. Also for the CLI.
bartkappenburg··on Ghost recon breakpoint game save disappeared
Spending 700+ hours on a game makes me even more sadder, but that could be just me.
bartkappenburg··on Ghost recon breakpoint game save disappeared
This discussion so high up at HN while the issue is non-significant compared to the events in the real world right now (mass shooting in the US, war in europe) makes me sad and happy at the same time. Sad because people seem to lose touch with reality, happy because apparently a lot of people get mad about this which means the don’t have generally speaking not a lot of other issues in their life ;-).
bartkappenburg··on Investigating Influencer VPN Ads on YouTube [pdf]
Hmmm… three accounts that are newer than 6 months all recommend mullvad…
bartkappenburg··on State of the Web: Deno
Offtopic but this webpage disables my bottom navigation bar on mobile safari, their own navigation on top re-enables this. Has anyone else experienced this?
bartkappenburg··on All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
For all dutch people in this thread: "the guy who knows all PIN-codes" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54CXA2eilk

bartkappenburg··on Bouncing a LoRa message off the moon
Cool! Dwingeloo is like 40km (25 miles) from here. They're doing interesting stuff over there (eg. being a test site for LOFAR [0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory

bartkappenburg··on Faking Twitter unfurling to phish you
Why not do it the other way around? Serve a page without a redirect to the twitter-bot and detect if the header does NOT contain twitter to serve a redirect?
bartkappenburg··on DNS Record Types
Offtopic, but the number of visitors on this site are publicly available: https://plausible.io/nslookup.io?period=day
bartkappenburg··on Ask HN: What is the highest consulting rate that you have come across, in tech?
Think of high rates (if you have doubts asking for it or doubts paying it) as:

————————————————

$1 to turn the screw

$9,999 for knowing which screw to turn ——————————————-

$10,000

bartkappenburg··on Gail.com
It has a business reason: we let customers email each other on an anonymized email address ($hash@kamer.nl) to keep their info private. I know the structure of the hash (length etc) but no clue how to filter on the mail-server side using this characteristic, that’s why a catch-all. We’re thinking of sunsetting the feature and that would mean that a catch-all won’t be necessary anymore :-)
bartkappenburg··on Gail.com
Our company is the owner of kamer.nl (kamer=room/chamber) and our government in the Netherlands has a first and second chamber (eerstekamer and tweedekamer) as a parallel to Congress/House of Commons.

We're getting a lot of emails (due to a catch-all) because politicians type foo@tweede.kamer.nl, foo@eerste.kamer.nl or just plain foo@kamer.nl instead the correct foo@tweedekamer.nl or foo@eerstekamer.nl.

It does sometimes contain some privacy-sensitive information and we always reply and point them to the mistake. We do this because hopefully they learn (most do...) and they can get the information to the right person.

bartkappenburg··on Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series
On a side note: I love the example with the airtravel time series (# of passengers). It fits almost perfectly but I love to see how it holds up with data from around March 2020 until now ;-).

Disclaimer: studied econometrics so I will try do this on my own :D

bartkappenburg··on Where did the other dollar go, Jeff?
Hence the existence of a clearing house in the stockmarket: cross off debt and credit in the whole market. Every one in your story has 100 credit and 100 debt which makes them worth 0. Aligning that in the right way makes a lot of sense :-)
bartkappenburg··on The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free
This, times 100. Other commenters in this thread recommend apps like simply piano. That is bad advice. I have a tutor 30 mins per week and made my progress exponential. All the popular apps are just video games with high scores etc. No feedback on posture, fingering, tempo and lots of other stuff.

Please, please, find a tutor and be amazed about what he or she can make you accomplish.

bartkappenburg··on [dead]
Translated version: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
bartkappenburg··on Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy
Duplicate from my submission 2 days ago [0], strange why this pops up with the same url...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24802633

bartkappenburg··on Car seats as contraception
Here’s an interesting twelve year old TED talk on car seat economics from Steven Levitt (freakonomics): https://youtu.be/um5gMZcZWm0
bartkappenburg··on Launch HN: Depict.ai (YC S20) – Product recommendations for any e-commerce store
We [0] use a combination of Elastic’s “More Like This” query (which uses the said vector spaces et al) and view, clicks and sales data and ML (behaviour on—site). This prevents the Cold Start Problem and improves with more data.

How does your scraping hold up against the already pretty effective More Like This query in ES? That one is backed by years of research and gives very good results.

[0] https://www.conversify.com

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