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flatfilefan··on AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad
I wonder if the old man can get his expenses reimbursed by neighbor donations.
flatfilefan··on The Irony in the GameStop Story
I’m sorry if I’ve just missed that in your linked text but doesn’t sec text concern only short selling and not actual buying?
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs in the code, take one down patch it around, 152 little bugs in the code.
flatfilefan··on Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
Check Alien Blue on the iOS
flatfilefan··on Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
I wonder, why it is still not possible to spell the words you want to say if they are not recognized by the voice assistant?
flatfilefan··on Nostr – The final solution to Twitter censorship as an open protocol, not P2P
Just a suggestion on popularizing: There are a few popular people who crosspost to various sites beyond Twitter. Maybe you could find out what solution they use to cross post and write a nostr plug-in. This way nostr could quickly gain the following it deserves.
flatfilefan··on Nostr – The final solution to Twitter censorship as an open protocol, not P2P
I can’t judge on the protocol specifics but if installing and getting a userid can be as easy as literally pushing one button this can pick up. Currently it looks very slick and thus promising!

I like the name. It reminds me of GNU, which is Not UNIX. So nostr is no str, or something ;-) But is compact and not a monstr either.

flatfilefan··on Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do with Theology
That’s exactly what is maximizing the informational value :-)
flatfilefan··on 'A Million Random Digits,' a number-cruncher’s Bible, is flawed
I give this article a 55555 stars.
flatfilefan··on Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
On the contrary I kinda see the point in the pocket and send to bridge the gap between desktop and mobile for the users that own both.

But the small brainless degradations of the UI in Firefox make me worry about its future. For example it’s not possible to permanently add exclusions to the privacy shield. Because of it the sites are often broken. And this is a feature that is directly user facing on the main screen!

flatfilefan··on Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543932
flatfilefan··on Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
I wonder how much merit this objections have in a larger scheme of things. The original complaint from Mr Schrems is dating from 2013. Last few years he was chasing the DPC to merely start acting on the first court decision against FB. So it’s not like the case is new to FB. They actually mention all that in their submission.
flatfilefan··on The Weakness of Anthropic Arguments
Were you guys ever curious as to what the word “anthrop” means exactly?

Here’s an interesting explanation from Socrates:” Socrates I will tell you. The name “man” (ἄνθρωπος) indicates that the other animals do not examine, or consider, or look up at (ἀναθρεῖ) any of the things that they see, but man has no sooner seen—that is, ὄπωπε—than he looks up at and considers that which he has seen. Therefore of all the animals man alone is rightly called man (ἄνθρωπος), because he looks up at (ἀναθρεῖ) what he has seen (ὄπωπε).”

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname...

And yet the English “man”, Spanish “hombre”, Russian Мужик mean the same yet different thing, namely a (working) hand. As in “how many hands do you have in your factory?”

flatfilefan··on Japanese Spacecraft Will Shoot Martian Moons in 8K Decision
In other news Nihongo pacifier won Karáte match by a unanimous resolution.
flatfilefan··on Identifying someone from their heart beat
It would be cool to identify the owner of a mobile phone by the heartbeat sound. You can then keep the phone unlocked as long as the owner has it in their vicinity.
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: We have the expertise but no clients. How to reach them?
Well, what about the decision makers in those hospitals? Do they have accounts on LinkedIn? If they don’t, where could you meet them, maybe some industry fairs or conferences?
flatfilefan··on Data analysis made easy: Text2Code for Jupyter notebook
It would be great for at least most basic and mundane SQL. Especially because there is a lot boilerplate for simple things, that would be easy to leverage.
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: We have the expertise but no clients. How to reach them?
Did you try to connect with your prospective customers via LinkedIn? What do they say to you?
flatfilefan··on How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors
There isn’t a tb3 kvm switch available on the market, that would do what I need. So I’m just re-plugging the tb-3/usb-c docking station downlink cable between two laptops. All the peripherals are connected to the docking station so I don’t need to switch them.

Probably could build a mechanical contraption to do that on a lever push. So that’s what I’m curious about too: why yet no mechanical switch if I’m literally doing it manually already?

flatfilefan··on Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
It really makes sense for Germany in this edition: The optimists in West Germany learn Russian the pessimists - Chinese.
flatfilefan··on How to Handle EU Data Without the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework
If the blog author reads this: Schrems is Austrian, not Australian. ;-)
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: Has anyone made a product with virtual euro/pound account with a iban?
Did you check TransferWise?
flatfilefan··on The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
How do we know the paywalled content is the truth? Didn’t paper (commercial) newspapers brought us to the current situation?
flatfilefan··on Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?
Samurai and Samariter, Magadan and Maria Magdalena, are they related as well?
flatfilefan··on Brusselization
I noticed that phenomena but found Brussels actually nice because of that.
flatfilefan··on Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?
Take a look at Qlik (view/sense)
flatfilefan··on Bible API
How cannot he when the “logos kyrie o teos” is mentioned e.g. in Iesekiel as the self -description of the divine, meaning roughly “the master of putting thoughts into words”. Doesn’t this sound like a very description of a programmer to you?
flatfilefan··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
Maybe we could start the revolution by doing away with the caps lock?
flatfilefan··on How to Prepare a Flat for Sale to Earn More?
If I ever saw a text-rickroll, this is the one. The “how” is nowhere to be seen after 10 page scrolls or more.
flatfilefan··on Any one is interested in local private backup solution alternative to iCloud
If your software cold be installed on Ubuntu with apt it would be helpful as well. The main advantage is the ability to make backups to Linux. Raspberry or not - that’s secondary in this context imho.
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