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cjm42on Show HN: Interactive Rubik's Cube with sub-puzzles for solution steps

I find the controls very confusing. It's hard to guess whether I'm going to make a move or reorient the cube. Usually, it makes a move when I'm trying to reorient the cube.

cjm42on When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store

There was an episode of American Restoration that featured a machine like this. They restored it (minus the X-ray part) with a stock X-ray picture so it would look like it still worked.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2348752/

cjm42on I used Minecraft to teach my kids reading and writing

Did you listen to English audio with subtitles in your native language, or dubbed audio with English subtitles?

cjm42on BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?

Which is basically the opposite of a bounty system. Liberapay is no substitute for BountySource; instead, it's competing with services like Patreon.

cjm42on Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

No, he's saying that he cannot deny that your certificate was the billionth.

cjm42on The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

The good driver consists of P1+C1+X. That's what gets sent to the signing authority. They verify it doesn't do anything bad and return a signature listing SHA1(P1+C1+X). But that signature is also valid for the malicious driver P2+C2+X.

cjm42on Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order

Those are contractions, not possessives. "He is" and "she is", just like "it's" is always a contraction, never a possessive.

cjm42on The FreedomBox enables you to control your view of the internet

I use Pobox Basic ($20/year) + AllMail ($10/domain to forward all addresses at that domain) [1].

Mail for anybody@example.com goes to Pobox, which forwards to me@home.example.com (my home server). My server is configured to send all outgoing mail through Pobox's servers, which avoids the problem of people blocking residential SMTP.

[1] https://www.pobox.com/pricing

cjm42on WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET has strong free-speech policies. But they do expect you to be technically competent. If you're not comfortable with the command line and wp-cli (if you're using WordPress), you probably won't be happy with them.

If you checked them out years ago, they've since added support for custom HTTP servers. It's not as flexible as a VPS, but they're no longer limited to static files, PHP, or CGI. You can now run Django, Ruby-on-Rails, etc.

cjm42on Nikoli Puzzles

The iOS app is my favorite timekiller. It doesn't hide the clock, it starts up really fast (no splash screen), it has no ads, it uses only 3.7MB storage, and it's free.