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brian_herman__··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
I don't know looking at the other parts the app looks legit, however TikTok asking for facebook login? That is where I would stop and think for a little bit.
brian_herman__··on Annoying website features I face as a blind person
Auto playing audio and video is annoying period.
brian_herman__··on Gamifying Franz Kafka
I think I understand Kafka just from this comment. Thank You.
brian_herman__··on Read Fewer Books
It would be ironic if the next post was Read Fewer Blogs.
brian_herman__··on Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
syfy really good science information for being a entertainment channel I wish more places would do this like the history channel.
brian_herman__··on Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
Can you make this a competitor to Thunderbird rather than being locked into GMail? I would love to have an app like this that used IMAP and was multiplatform!
brian_herman__··on In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? (2018)
tac is cat spelled backwards it prints the contents in reverse order.
brian_herman__··on Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”
On your point where you said "Supposedly Amazon has operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods of time" I agree AWS hasn't been losing money for a long time.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-earnings-aws-amazon-w...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2020/01/06/how-much-...

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brian_herman__··on Adam Curry launches a new, open podcast directory
Here is a link to the actual site: https://podcastindex.org/
brian_herman__··on Apple publishes human rights policy, commits to freedom of information
Here is the link to the document refered to in the article. I wish this wasn't a link to the newspaper rather what apple posted :\ https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_downloads/gov_docs/...
brian_herman__··on GPT-3 pricing for API usage announced to beta users to go in effect from October
I thought this was openai not AIASS (AI as a service)
brian_herman__··on Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators
I use these shell scripts for generating passwords. This uses bash.

  gen-pass(){
    gpg2 --armor --gen-random 1 15
  }
  gen-pass2(){
    openssl rand -base64 15
  }
  gen-pass3(){
    strings -n 1 < /dev/urandom | tr -d '[:space:]' | head -c15
    echo ""
  }
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brian_herman__··on Applebot
At the cocoa heads user group I heard that ruby is very popular for their services more recently.
brian_herman__··on GH Archive
nice feature!
brian_herman__··on Prime Minister Abe Shinzo Intends to Step Down
isn’t his name Shinzo Abe?
brian_herman__··on Ask HN: Is any ultrasonic aortic valve decalcification available to the public?
i think u should consult a doctor not news.ycombinator
brian_herman__··on Amazon's latest grocery store concept opens, with high-tech carts
Yeah, I want to see the cart now also! It is like clickbait without the reward at the end :(
brian_herman__··on Knuth versus Email (1999)
Human curated email that sounds like the perfect startup.
brian_herman__··on Show HN: Get CRON translation in your terminal – Written in Rust
i was hoping this was a utility that i could use in my console not a webservice. though it seems very useful in its purpose!
brian_herman__··on HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k
Yeah, these computers can be spec with 32gb of HBM also.
brian_herman__··on Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com
Yes I love this video!
brian_herman__··on AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
This reminds me of this classic comic. https://www.catmuseumsf.org/images/print/comix/bill.jpg
brian_herman__··on Show HN: Newsboard – A Hacker News Clone
i think someone figured out how to include their own javascript inside the website i got two alert boxes when i opened the page.
brian_herman__··on Sumo Logic S-1
Oh thx!
brian_herman__··on Docker to rate limit image pulls
Yeah, someone should come up with an alternative that mirrors it or something.
brian_herman__··on Sumo Logic S-1
I think we should change the link to this: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1643269/000119312520...
brian_herman__··on FBI release a report on Russian Linux Malware called Drovorub [pdf]
They maintain their own tree and backport the necessary features.
brian_herman__··on Microsoft removes the ability to disable Defender via the registery
This sounds like a feature that should have never been introduced?
brian_herman__··on PHP 8.0.0 beta 2
Hopefully this will change Apple's mind. https://twitter.com/GrahamJCampbell/status/12951119829248614...
brian_herman__··on Wirecard hired actors to fool auditors
50 million woolongs?
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