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fraXis

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fraXis··on Apple announces the iPhone 16 with a faster processor and camera control button
I still miss the shake-to-open camera feature from my MotoX.
fraXis··on Show HN: Tabme – Organizing Bookmarks and Tabs, done right
Your website does not display correctly on iOS mobile web apps (Safari, etc.) The left side text of your home page is cutoff.
fraXis··on Show HN: Qdorks.com – Advanced Google search query composer
Great job! Please add/create a colorful favicon to the site so I can save it in my Google "bookmarks bar" without the name. Right now, it looks like this with a dark theme:

https://imgur.com/a/SNmzISI

fraXis··on Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout
I never knew about this. Thanks.

Here is the Chrome extension link:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-archives/hklig...

And the link for Microsoft Edge:

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/web-archiv...

fraXis··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Live now as of 8:49 AM (PDT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ACcQxJIsg
fraXis··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
https://archive.is/uh0yv
fraXis··on How do you browse Hacker News?
I use a combination of the following:

Browser:

1) news.ycombinator.com 2) daemonology.net/hn-daily 3) hckrnews.com 4) hn.premii.com 5) hn.algolia.com

iOS:

HACK for Hacker News Reader

RSS:

hnrss.github.io

fraXis··on Ask HN: What's a good home router?
Aruba Instant On access points work great with the Firewalla.

https://www.arubainstanton.com/products/access-points/

fraXis··on Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented?
I love Toby. Makes it easy to organize my bookmarks, and also view them at any time because I have them all under different categories (for example: Daily, Programming, Games, Banking, etc.)

https://www.gettoby.com/

fraXis··on One Thing – Put a single task or goal in your menu bar
Easier ways to accomplish this:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220906-00/?p=10....

fraXis··on Directory Opus – King of the Dual Panes
I used to use Directory Opus when I had an Amiga. :-)

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

fraXis··on Directory Opus – King of the Dual Panes
I love XYplorer!

And to this day it's still written in VB6. :-)

https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=VB6

fraXis··on Ask HN: What do I do about LastPass and how do I switch?
Yes, you can export them from LastPass as a csv file and import them into bitwarden.

But the steps to this correctly are this:

  1. Logout of LastPass
  2. Close your browser
  3. Open your browser
  4. Log into LastPass
  5. Perform the export from inside LastPass (before doing any other actions inside of LastPass)
If you don’t do the exact steps above, then when you do an export from LastPass, it most likely will export some of your passwords twice (so you will have duplicates). This is a known bug in LastPass that they have never fixed.

You also need to do this (from the bitwarden site):

“Some users have reported a bug which changes special characters in your passwords (&, <, >, and so on) to their HTML-encoded values (for example, &amp;) in the printed export. If you observe this bug in your exported data, use a text editor to find and replace all altered values before importing into bitwarden.”

The import into bitwarden procedure is located here:

https://bitwarden.com/help/import-from-lastpass/

fraXis··on Ask HN: Where can I discuss random ideas?
The link to his site is notepd.com :-)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-created-notepd-keep-track-m...

fraXis··on Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
Why does Apple enable a big new feature like end to end encryption in the RC build only?

We are only going to be able to test this feature one week before it’s released?

I would hope a large feature like this would have had a lot more public user testing/refinement behind it than just one RC build release!

fraXis··on Rackspace Exchange hosting down ~18 hours; “solution” is to start over on O365
What’s a good alternative to switch to if someone wants to move off of Rackspace?
fraXis··on Ask HN: Is Apple Find My a Joke?
I have the same issues with Find My.

I will have my AirPods Pro 2 in my pocket and just left work, and Find My is notifying me that I left them behind. This happens every day.

Then one time I purposely left them behind at work while I went home, and Find My DID NOT notify me that I had left them behind.

So there is some bug or glitch in the way that tracking system works.

Edit: I am in the USA

fraXis··on Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website
Can you talk a bit more about the tech stack you are using for this and how long it took you from the time you started working on it until you had it up and running?
fraXis··on Show HN: Postcard – Easy way to make a personal website
Nice work! Account signup was fast, and the interface was very easy intuitive and easy to use.

A nice feature would be for the ability to process/save the collection of email addresses to my ConvertKit account (and have the email signup confirmation sent to the user sent from ConvertKit itself).

What service do you use now to handle the email signups (and send confirmations) on our Postcard page?

Edit: Sorry I just realized, that the email signup is for sending out updates when I update my Postcard page.

fraXis··on Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021
ZOHO Assist works well too. It might be worth considering if you are looking to switch from TeamViewer or another competitor.
fraXis··on Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
I heard an interview with Steven Spielberg years ago. I wish I could find it for reference. He said in the interview that anytime he drives in his car, he would not talk on his phone or listen to the radio. It was complete silence for the duration of the drive. And most of his best work and ideas came from these "silent drives" because he was forced to be creative and use his imagination to keep himself entertained.
fraXis··on My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA
Can you please take about the tech stack behind the newsletter (software you use to write the actual newsletter, the service you use to send it and what you like and don't like about it, and your website tech stack)? :-)
fraXis··on 37signals: Hello Again
I wouldn't say I liked it when they changed their name to Basecamp. Glad they are going back to 37signals as I always associated them with that name anyways since I have always used one of their products from time to time.

I'm not too fond of their new website design at all.

fraXis··on Show HN: I made a slower, delayed Hacker News
Nice work! The about section says that it updates once per day.

What time of day does it update?

fraXis··on Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
When is the character limit on HN going to be increased so we can create longer subjects/headlines?
fraXis··on Ask HN: Why can I down-vote some comments but not others?
I can’t downvote a comment if it is older than a day?
fraXis··on Ask HN: Why can I down-vote some comments but not others?
I don’t think that’s it. This was on a new HN post on the front page.
fraXis··on Simple Tips for Overcoming Procrastination
I was going to leave a comment on this, but I will do it later. :-)
fraXis··on Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?
Sync.com also has zero knowledge end to end encryption:

https://www.sync.com/pdf/sync-privacy-whitepaper.pdf

fraXis··on Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods
Are you going to apply to YC?
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