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gebt··on Tell HN: DuckDuckGo shares users IP with Microsoft
You are right. But, it shares my gussed city name, which most of the time is very accurate.

Then it says we throw away the IP and gussed city name, which is correct. But they have shared the city name with Microsoft.

I will update the title to fit the described problem.

gebt··on Ask HN: Does DuckDuckGo share user IPs with Microsoft?
Sorry, I updated the title. By location I meant IP.

If we have location-based results it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft. Saying *we throw away both the guessed location and the IP address* is bullshit. They share it with Microsoft, and Microsoft keeps it.

gebt··on Tell HN: DuckDuckGo shares users IP with Microsoft
I tried that on Ecosia and it's the same. But Ecosia in its privacy policy says that it shares IPs with Microsoft.
gebt··on Sora: Creating video from text
Thanks but we saw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39380165

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn97733259&docI...

gebt··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
I love them!
gebt··on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive
I tried to defeat an angry bear by throwing up rabbits (idea by Julio Cortázar) but it didn't work
gebt··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Last week lcamtuf published a blog post on corporate life which exactly fits here. Whatever you do as a staff for your company, they still can fire you easily. Corporates want you to consider them as family, but they don't do it themselves.

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/on-corporate-life

gebt··on Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
git, curl & nginx.
gebt··on Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more
Audacity was friend of mine for many years.

It's a fucking huge loss.

To turn on the light, we can create a robot to remove data collectors from the main upstream to release free versions automatically.

gebt··on Ardour -Audacity Alternative to Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, OS X and Windows
It's not even open source.
gebt··on Ardour -Audacity Alternative to Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, OS X and Windows
Stay safe, stay free.
gebt··on RFC 8959: The “secret-token” URI Scheme
Yes, right ;)
gebt··on Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
It's not absurd. At least it improves you mental abilities; as when you try to write using your other hand.

p.s. Even occasionally I'm walking closed eyes.

gebt··on Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
About googling, I meant to be master of the subject; as when you want to write a for loop and you do not google for that.

So not googling is a time saver here.

gebt··on Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
This ability would be a big time saver during development.

I enjoy to develop without Googling; really enjoy!

I tried some other amazing things:

- developing without using touchpad or mouse.

- debugging without running code until the end.

- developing with turn offed WiFi.

In general, I'm always trying to reduce my needs.

I think this practices would help me to be more accurate, more independent, and become able to live in a post-apocalypse situation as a geek.

I said post-apocalypse, I remembered lcamtuf article "Disaster planning for less crazy folk": https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

gebt··on Show HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)
Having an API is good but not suitable for what I mean.

I'm not familiar with Dash, but IN WORST CASE I think you can add a route to the nginx (an additional app) to pass GET parameters to the app.

gebt··on Show HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)
What useful thing! It would be much better if it was possible to pass search query using GET requests.

e.g. https://gutensearch.com/?q=avicenna

gebt··on NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
Great idea, great design! As I think markdown is good only for write simple texts (AND NOT FOR ADVANCED BLOGGING), a novel writing software would to be a choice; because authors don't use richer text format than markdown, as Nick mentioned.
gebt··on Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
The Library of Babel

Voltaire's Candide

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Karamazovs

Orwell's 1984

Lem's Solaris

gebt··on Digg Reader when you search for “GitHub token”
"Bitbucket token": http://imgur.com/X3Sj6mZ
gebt··on Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
Hafez, Rumi, Adunis, Paz, Forough, Elliot, Qabbani, Passolini, Lorca, Ginsberg, Blake. :)