emilburzo

> I would use a decent single ear, earset style mic.

Any specific ones you'd recommend?

Zoom has this feature built-in, it's called virtual background.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-...

What weight loss approach did you use/are planning to use?

Maybe helpful: scrot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrot

Awesome, thanks!

Maybe it helps: there's also http://waqi.info/ which has a decent API, but more importantly a lot more coverage (at least in Europe).

There's no sensor within 200km of me on purpleair.com, but it still shows a value (a scary one).

Looking at the purpleair map, it seems to be choosing the closest one? Which for me is really far / in another country.

I see. I was hoping there was still some way to quickly backup from google photos directly to linux.

> I use the Google Drive interface to backup all my photos to my local linux storage

I thought this was killed recently[1]

(this = google photos appearing in google drive)

Does it still work for you?

If yes, how? :)

[1] https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...

elodie looks amazing! I definitely need to try it out

it was just the thing I was thinking of building recently as it was getting really tiring to manually organize photos

one extra idea that I had: there's a cool project that would enable offline geocoding[1], which would help get rid of API limits while making the reverse geocode queries almost instant

(the included dataset is pretty limited, but it's not hard to extend from an openstreetmap planet dump)

[1] https://pypi.org/project/reverse_geocoder/

Sure, but you can still ask the user to download the CSV manually and send it, right?

Really cool find.

Too bad / strange that it doesn't seem to work on the other tlds (eg .co.uk)

You scared me for a second until I checked my gmvault logs.

FYI, it still works.

It's true that I had to create my own google console project[1] to have my own tokens some months ago, but I think that's a very good move in any case.

[1] https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335#issuecomment-4...

How do you get such a glare-free image behind a window?

arpwatch worked pretty flawlessly when I needed something like that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpwatch

I've been thinking about building one for my app for quite some time, mostly because I never liked that goo.gl used characters that could be confusing in certain fonts (e.g. Il), which is really frustrating when you have to type them.

Still, goo.gl was really convenient so I just put it off, but then I got the shutdown notice and that was the best motivator :)

It doesn't have such a short domain, but on the plus side it's now branded and still fits in an SMS, so it's all good.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://www.online.net/ yet.

I use them for my important side projects and haven't had any issues. (although not to avoid virtualization, but just because it's more important for personal stuff to have fixed costs per month / not paying for bandwidth)

I haven't used it, but https://openwhisk.apache.org seemed the most promising when I was looking for a self-hosted lambda equivalent.

Not due to any limitations of lambda, but just for personal projects where I already have a server at home anyway and it doesn't make sense to pay extra.

(In the end I just went with Docker and Jenkins because I didn't have anything complex enough to justify something heavier)

I have been working remotely for the past 8 years, here's what worked for me:

- separate space that is work only (ideally even a co-working space, but there's no decent one available where I live)

- establishing with SO that when I'm in that space, I'm "not home"

- have fixed working hours as consistently as possible (besides making your availability more predictable to others, this also helps on other fronts, like:)

- work slack and gmail notifications set to on only during work hours, _automatically_ off after

- set working hours in google calendar (others get a warning if they schedule outside those hours)

- mark lunch in google calendar

- when "at work", focus only on work, but when work is done, close everything asap -- even if in the middle of something (it might feel like a waste if you're in the zone, but you pay it the next day if you stay late) -- this was hard to get into, especially the guilt part, but going outside immediately e.g. for a walk/cycling, or something that needs some focus from your part, helped with that

- although my workstation runs 24/7, I open/close all work related programs (IDE, slack, etc) when "arriving" and "leaving" work, it seems to help the mind cope better with the lack of a physical commute

And as a side-note, choosing a company that is 100% remote makes all that at least an order of magnitude easier because people can relate to what you're going through (bonus points if they also have a life outside work)

It isn't

I never liked the realtime location sharing apps/feature built into other apps, they all had one or more of these issues:

- requires accounts / linking to accounts

- has time limit

- can't adjust location provider / update frequency

- no public urls / requires app also for the viewer

- public urls that could be guessed

- built only with driving in mind

So, (shameless plug) I made my own privacy conscious real-time location sharing Android app:

- https://graticule.link/ (tracking page demo)

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emilburzo....

Nice, this one looks promising.

I am a bit worried that it looks really similar to the Logitech M500 -- which I've had and only lasted a few months.

But if you say you're already past the year mark, that sounds good.

> https://handshoemouse.com/

> Reason: Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons.

Funny...

I've actually had this one, but didn't even last a year.

Has yours been better?

That actually looks really good, but I can't seem to find it in stock anywhere.

Do you know if there's a succesor or am I just not looking in the right place?

Do you have any chunky mouse suggestions? (wireless or not).

I'm struggling to find a larger size mouse that:

- doesn't have a million buttons (e.g. gaming)

- lasts more than a year

I don't follow / maybe what I meant got lost in language.

To rephrase:

- there were some things in the report that I already knew, it was nice to see confirmation -> points++

- there were some things in the report that I suspected, but wasn't sure about, also nice to see it written black-on-white -> points++

- there were some things in the report which I had no clue about, but were easy to test if they are true or not (they were) -> points++++++++++++++

And to keep it fair: there were also things which didn't really apply at all.

But my point was, because I knew what to observe better, it was easy to keep the relevant stuff and ignore the rest.

Good idea, I hadn't thought of that.

Looks like they even have a nice page about it: https://www.23andme.com/gdpr/

Here's a list of sites I've tried: https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/9l50k5/a_list_of_t...

They're all pretty interesting, but the most impactul (read: actionable reports), for me, was: https://www.xcode.life/

[No affiliation, I didn't even get a discount :(]

Allow me to offer a different perspective: I've used 23andme and it was one of the best decisions ever.

Not so much for the Ancestry part, which was also interesting and explained my above-average cold tolerance, but for the health stuff.

Granted, being from Europe they don't directly offer health services, but you can get the raw data and upload it to various sites for interpretation -- ranging from really accessible to follow-the-rabbit-hole style.

I've accepted from the start that everything is uncertain, or just a possibility, but it was still very useful, because I knew what to look for and thus able to validate easily if true or not.

Some things that were in the reports I already knew, some I suspected, some I had no idea and would have never guessed -- this last group had the most impact.

Some examples: allergies, motion sickness, needing above average amounts of vitamin C.

All very easy to test, but with an amazing quality of life improvement gained as a result of just changing some simple things.

So yes, a US company has my personal DNA data, maybe they will take care of my privacy, maybe not, but the quality of life gains were worth it, for me.

What other alternative would people like me have, from countries where there is no access to good doctors, of finding stuff like that, had there not been 23andme? Especially since I didn't even know what I was looking for.