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

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dschep··on Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser
It's working for me now! Multiple QR codes at once is kinda wild.
dschep··on Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser
This looks like a nice polished implementation of the idea, but when I try and use it, I get to "file complete" but then.. nothing? And I see no way to report a problem or bug.
dschep··on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
This is just parity with google wallet, right? AFAICT my library card in google wallet is just a generic card/pass type.
dschep··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
> "theres a big chance for someone like Nokia to come in and develop their own approved distro"

SUSE is a German company, so probably nothing to even develop.

dschep··on Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)
Seeing as several are in entirely the wrong city, one is in the Tidal Basin in DC, another on the National Mall.. they clearly don't.
dschep··on Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)
The geocoding needs some work. There are 4 companies indicated as being located in Richmond, Virginia. At least two of them are clearly in Richmond, California. I suspect all of them are in CA.
dschep··on Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app
Why did you build this with a server? Since you suggest folks introspect the script anyway, you could simply generate it in the browser and have the user download it. Then you could run this at zero-cost.
dschep··on Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
without a means to update the map, this isn't a breakthrough. I'd rather use protomaps[0](which has regular builds, from a better-known source) with caddy.

[0] https://protomaps.com/

dschep··on Show HN: My website, with a MacOS-like interface
Brings back memories. I made Mac OS X knockoff UI(back when it was 'stripey' for a website when I was about 16 as well. Nicely done OP.
dschep··on NN-SVG
Yeah, the github repo is a much better link for this, as it explains what it is. https://github.com/alexlenail/NN-SVG
dschep··on Show HN: Detoxer – Neutralize Addictive Content Without Blocking
You can actually setup ublock0 to do this for you too. At one point I'd used it to blur distracting sites, but like you, I found fully blocking the content(which the blurring effectively did) led to me disabling the block. I'll try this technique out, it's a good idea.

Here's how you can do it with ublock:

  www.reddit.com##img:style(filter: blur(10px);)
  www.reddit.com##body:style(filter: grayscale(1);)
dschep··on How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet
You can kinda get that from microblog.pub. It federates via ActivityPub and is a single-user customizable micro&macro blog. https://docs.microblog.pub/user_guide.html#customization
dschep··on German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals
But the ad networks also serve fraudulent ads and even worse, malware. How is that an improvement?
dschep··on Show HN: Carousel Hero
My first thought upon seeing this: https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
dschep··on Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
I had exactly the same idea regarding ```python fences. I filed an issue if you wanna give it a thumbs up: https://github.com/joerdav/xc/issues/42
dschep··on CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions
You should add a child and adult for scale. So many cars are just dangerously large these days.
dschep··on I help seniors with technology issues
easy: the market is far from infallible.
dschep··on Show HN: npm install actual-malware
I suspect OP conflated "I am reporting malware in a package on npmjs.com" with "I have discovered a bug or vulnerability in a package on npmjs.com." The later shows what they report[0] whereas the former does allow for a report to be made.

[0] https://imgur.com/VSZbZ0Q

dschep··on I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
> won't find your AirTag if they have Android which kind of defeats the purpose

While they're alone in a car, sure. But as soon as they're around folks with iPhones, they're tracked just fine and will never get the notifications the husband in the article got.

dschep··on IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)
it does https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-meth...
dschep··on IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)
Doubtful given that GraphQL doesn't prescribe a transport layer. [0]

[0] https://graphql.org/faq/#does-graphql-use-http

dschep··on Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
Doesn't twitter already have themes [0]? Or is it more than just the accent color?

[0] https://twitter.com/i/display

dschep··on Show HN: HN-blacklist – hide submissions from certain sources
You should consider making this into a browser extension. For this kind of script it's rather easy and is way easier for users to install. For an example with a very similar configuration (array of strings) that is a configurable extension instead, checkout my WaPo Metal Taglines greasemonkey script[0] and extension[1]

[0] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/27767-wapo-metal-taglines/... [1] https://github.com/dschep/metal-wapo

dschep··on Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
There's also https://snapdrop.net which seems extremely similar to sharedrop.io but has an additional useful feature of letting you send messages which I sometimes use to send links to devices that aren't logged into any service.
dschep··on Ask HN: Mobile phone addiction help?
And if you have a Chromebook, that might be able to run the Android app.
dschep··on Show HN: A New Flutter App for Mountain Biking
Cool, I'll try this out tomorrow with an old phone and some voile straps.
dschep··on Show HN: A New Flutter App for Mountain Biking
Do I need to mount my phone on my bars to use this?
dschep··on Show HN: GS2JSON: Turn any Google Sheet to a JSON – No login – open-source
Those formatting options really drive home the point that JSON is a terrible serialization format for tabular data.
dschep··on Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
That was my first thought when I just saw "sidewalks" & "crosswalks" too. But AFAIK OSM doesn't have anything remotely like that level of sidewalk shape data. And while stairs on paths are mapped, I don't think outdoor building stairs are mapped.
dschep··on Show HN: Thruhikes – A list of long distance hikes around the world
I've also found small local resources to be the best ones, in my case that's https://www.hikingupward.com/
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