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I created Proven, the Keybase powered alternative to Twitter Verified, now with HN support! https://github.com/dschep/proven

https://schep.me

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dschep; my proof: https://keybase.io/dschep/sigs/Cy4_J0PVLtiVW8LZq5mBa2UNgWB4h3I4Nt1PmudcoLw ]

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dschep··on Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
I've already pushed v2.1 which should address the issues you have in chrome, but google is slow to publish new versions to the store.

And yeah, I do want to get around to making it less cluttery in the interface, but that'll take more work.

Edit: v2.1 is live on the Chrome web store.

dschep··on Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
Technically, you can prove any service by posting a signed proof on it, but keybase won't be aware of it, so it's not very useful.
dschep··on Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
What pcmonk said. And:

* I'm a dschep, sorry I don't work at keybase

* it's open source

* extensions are easy to unpack & view the source if you don't trust I'm not tampering the extension before upload

* I do no obfuscation of the JS, it's only 201 LOC

dschep··on Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
yup. just realized this was because I had my dev version & the store version installed on my firefox.
dschep··on Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support
I just published v2.1 which fixes the issue! You'll be able to update once Google & Mozilla push/approve the new version.

edit: damnit. now it's duplicating badges. That's what i get for trying to rush a fix.

dschep··on Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies
It also has the option to upload a package.json which is far less exposure, and can easily be tweaked to omit anything sensitive.
dschep··on Show HN: Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility
I made myself a little utility that's kinda like that: https://gist.github.com/dschep/4358be665537463b9271f782e77ff...
dschep··on Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
Well they did leak their users' HIV status[0]. That's pretty unethical IMO.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17189078/grindr-hiv-status-data...

dschep··on Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?
Should've gone through with it but shared the result with the data-entry people instead of the boss!
dschep··on Show HN: A raytracer to shade and visualize topographic maps in R, part 3
I love this series! I might have to learn R just to use rayshader.
dschep··on Show HN: Discover the defaults key of any macOS preference
And here's how you can do the same for Gnome settings:

    $ dconf dump / | xclip
    $ gnome-control-center # change something!
    $ diff -u -F '^\[' <(xclip -o) <(dconf dump /)
dschep··on Show HN: E-Book Site for Classics
What does this add that Project Gutenberg doesn't provide? And how is an "Apple ePub" different from a standard ePub file?
dschep··on The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub
There exist multiple solutions that store issues in git:

* https://github.com/duplys/git-issues

* https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

dschep··on Show HN: Chatdog – A pseudonymous Telegram alternative
Hah. Funny coincidence.
dschep··on Show HN: Chatdog – A pseudonymous Telegram alternative
Is the name a nod to Cryptocat[0]?

[0] https://crypto.cat

dschep··on Show HN: BitHubLab, Search for projects on all the major Git platforms
Yeah, looks odd in FF with GTK too[0]. Not pixelated, but weirdly scaled none the less.

[0] https://screenshots.firefox.com/xZsGtZme1muvymp8/bithublab.o...

dschep··on Show HN: Pocket Puter
I can't get https://pocketputer.com to load, but https://pocketputer.blogspot.com works and is the same blog AFAICT
dschep··on NFL Releases Finite Element Helmet Models
But you actually can't even say the same about motorcycling. Football players get minor brain damage in practically every game they play, which accumulates over time. On a moto you only suffer injury when something goes wrong.
dschep··on Full Guide to Developing REST API’s with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda
Serverless Framework is also great for Python if you're not porting a WSGI application. Plug/Disclaimer: I'm the creator/maintainer of the defacto python dependency packaging plugin for serverless[0]

[0] https://github.com/UnitedIncome/serverless-python-requiremen...

dschep··on Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
"normal" software engineer - works at Palantir facilities

"forward-deployed" software engineer - works at Palantir's client's facilities

dschep··on GUI development is broken
Sounds like he wants something like Jasonette[0].

[0] https://jasonette.com/

dschep··on Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
Oh? Do you have a source that's unambiguous about this? Thanks.
dschep··on Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
I'm also a US citizen, but didn't specify since it didn't seem relevant.
dschep··on Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally
How does that work for folks like myself who have multiple nationalities? I live in the United States but am also a French citizen.
dschep··on Show HN: Turn indented text into mind maps
AFICT this replacement is hosted on Github pages, so there shouldn't really be any funding concerns.
dschep··on Blocklist Facebook domains
On android you can use dns66[0] to use these sort of blocklists.

[0] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

dschep··on Firefox 59 released
Speaking of linux features. Is it me or did it stop using native desktop notifications?
dschep··on Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
I'm not sure what the full authenticated API[0] can do, maybe the sort of integration Uber did is possible. But with the open data APIs make it easy to find all bikes currently available in the system. I've used them to add JUMP to my bike finder webapp[2] and build a little service to send myself notification of where the nearest JUMP bike is in the morning[3] because they don't yet have huge coverage in DC (working on porting this from single user + pushover to a PWA using web push).

[0] https://app.socialbicycles.com/developer/

[1] https://dc.jumpmobility.com/opendata & https://sf.jumpmobility.com/opendata

[2] https://github.com/dschep/dc-bike-finder

[3] https://github.com/dschep/JUMPStart

dschep··on Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
In DC we also have JUMP (tho this Uber integration seems to be SF only), in addition to ofo, spin, mobike & limebike. And in my experience JUMP doesn't suffer from the majority of the issues the other dockless providers do. Their bikes are much higher quality and lock to something. This quality comes at a price, so the provider is more invested in bikes remaining in operation, whereas the other providers' bikes are so cheap that the companies treat them as disposable leading to most of the problems.

Re: vans -- dockless providers do this too (at least in DC, where they're required to)

Edit: and since this is HN, I've gotta point out that JUMP is also the only dockless operator in DC with an easy to use & publicly accessible API.

dschep··on Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
> They lock themselves when you're done and just sit on the street.

JUMP bikes lock to something, it's the majority of other dockless providers(ofo, mobike, limebike, spin, etc) that lock their backwheel.

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