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camoneon Philips sets €575M aside for respirator lawsuits

Agreed, the specialist I saw recommended Airsense (I have the 10) with the water tank (and I also got the heated tube, highly recommended) above most everything else for the machine, but the mask is actually a Philips respironics which are the most comfortable. They are all intercompatible.

Been using for about 5 months now and it's been great

camoneon Bookshop.org survives and thrives in Amazon’s world

https://www.wob.com

World of Books is a second-hand book retailer with free shipping in the UK. They don't have every possible book in stock, but you can usually find what you need there.

I buy pretty much every book from them now.

camoneon A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View

dbt doesn't do much automation/ETL outside of the database you're working in, as other tools might be able to.

That being said, it's very powerful, I love it

camoneon Luna – Cloud gaming service

no, you're SOL on that one, but fortunately strategy games don't (usually) have very high spec requirements. I have geforce now and used Stadia before, and use them to play the high-end games I have on steam that I wanted to play but would never bother getting an actual machine for. A decent gaming rig is worth more than I'm willing to pay for, so this is a good compromise.

camoneon Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

As referenced above [1] multi-user is a non-feature so I wouldn't expect development on that any time soon.

Not sure how good Obsidian [2] is, multi-user support seems to be in dev as well but it might work on a shared drive folder. Also doens't seem to be free/libre.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347168 [2] https://obsidian.md/

camoneon Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

We use Zoom and it's great for ad-hoc video calls or screen sharing and commenting.

But last week we were wondering what would be a good remote alternative to sitting around at our desks and asking a quick question to the room. You know what works really well? Teamspeak. I hadn't used teamspeak in ages, but the simple fact that you can set a global push-to-talk button makes it perfect. Ask a quick question to someone in the room, they answer, if it becomes an actual convo you switch to a zoom call to not bother anyone else.

camoneon Airbnb Isn’t Uber, Says European Court of Justice

This model wouldn't work well for Uber (or any other ride-sharing company).

Searching for an accomodation usually takes time; you compare location, facilities, size, and price, which is usually non-negligible and so makes you compare choices for longer (maybe hours or even days) to make sure you're getting more bang for your buck. This means that Airbnb's focus is on the aggregation, rather than the actual stay/experience.

Uber does the aggregation for you; it lets you choose the type of experience from a preset, but that's about it. Most riders don't plan their trips hours or days in advance, but immediately (imagine taking longer to go through the choices of all possible drivers than the actual trip you're going to take).

camoneon An oral history of the 2010s

Good, but doesn't show images. To actually get it to work on FF you need to disable Enhanced Tracking Protection.

Wonderful job by the NYT

camoneon Android 10

Also as a recent iOS user, I don't understand why. Other than live captions, sound amp and family link, most new features have been on iOS for a while, and will actually improve on iOS 13 (e.g. apps have to ask for location access each time, besides the current 3 options). Seems like they're trying to catch up to iOS.

camoneon Contributing to the Mozilla code base

Can you elaborate on what you found most unconfortable or difficult to adapt to?

I switched to Firefox ~1.5 years ago and it does everything I need, actually never picked chrome up again. The android version is very good as well, but I just switched to iOS and it's not a very smooth experience there.

camoneon Google launches AMP for email

This is not necessarily Firefox, but because reCAPTCHA is designed to be more frictionless if Google can identify the user.

If you have their tracking cookies, if you don't use a VPN, and if you block ads (which would have more tracking cookies), Google's certainty of who you are is higher, increasing the chance that you are a human.

Firefox's default settings, especially with the new Content Blocking features, are enough for reCAPTCHA to be less sure you're a human, and try to make you prove it more often.

So Google manages to sell a product (reCAPTCHA), show good intentions (bot-prevention), increase usage of Chrome (because it's a smoother experience through reCAPTCHA), and get more information on everyone.

Win x4

camoneon Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund

There's a contact link at the very end of their webpage: https://www.aifund.ai/

camoneon iPhone X

I don't understand why having the fingerprint sensor in the back of the phone (Nexus, Pixel and some other android devices) never took off that much. Ever since I got it on my Nexus 5x I absolutely loved it (Pixel now, same thing). It's incredibly intuitive, works both right and left handed, doesn't take up screen space, and they've just added a "scrolling" feature to open your notifications by swiping it. Seems like a no-brainer, I can't see any fault in it, and yet very few phones have it.

camoneon First Timers Only

It was pointed out in the article and he did consider it.

" Now, could I have finished it quicker and moved on my way if I’d just done it myself? Of course. But that’s not what it’s all about as an open source contributor. It’s fun delivering good software that helps other people, but also realize that there are tons of people out there who just don’t know where to get started.

Some of you may be asking yourself, “what if I (and other lib users) don’t want to wait days for the feature?” From my experience, people are eager to try it out. At least one PR (sometimes several) is submitted, iterated on, and merged within a matter of a few hours. "