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gpas··on An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)
It's a small hamlet founded by iron miners, they were familiar with darkness. Foundries and blacksmiths also worked well in the shadow i think.

Here is a quick history of the village https://www.comune.borgomezzavalle.vb.it/en-us/vivere-il-com...

gpas··on Tesla Cybertruck's Race Against a Porsche 911 Was Apparently an 1/8-Mile Run
Want to make a statement? Beat the 911 on the Nordschleife.
gpas··on A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
More like the poor masking algorithm interpreted the legs as background and blurred them.
gpas··on Exploding head syndrome
Is this phenomenon similar to brain zaps? I've experienced something similar but without the pain described on the wiki page about antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. Also I've never taken antidepressants, but those zaps occured always after taking too much chemicals at parties.
gpas··on Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari
In my day to day life Google as a search engine has completely failed. What once was a place to find informations is now a jungle full of traps. DDG is my default, but GPT on Bing is the future. The alternatives are there, even doing better for some tasks.
gpas··on YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls
Fair point.
gpas··on YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls
A whole article about adblocking and no mention of gorhill's uBO? DNS level filtering? Come on Wired...
gpas··on Ask HN: Where and how can I get a citizenship if I'm stateless?
Without any further details it's difficult to offer advice. For example...from which country to which country? EU is vast and quite heterogeneous. What brought you from being an adopted child to being an adult without proper IDs? Please share more details if you can.
gpas··on New Requirements to Travel to Europe
Stasi was active until 1990.
gpas··on New Requirements to Travel to Europe
Germany recent past taught its citizens to value their privacy.
gpas··on Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos
Invidious for the browser, newpipe, grayjay on mobile.
gpas··on As I get older, I just don't care about new technology
I had the same feeling reading the title, I guess you are right about projecting. Just this morning I realized my old thinkpad is about to throw the towel, thinking about going to find a decent replacement in the current market depresses me.
gpas··on Google Maps has become an eyesore
> Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?

That's exactly how it works.

Click the man, roads with street view data are highlighted, click a road.

gpas··on People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours, cry
People on Twitch are paying young women to sit in hot tubs for hours, write usernames on their exposed skin.
gpas··on Intravenous Caffeine
Caffeine, nicotine, thc and alcohol.
gpas··on The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer
Reason?
gpas··on How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows
Exactly what I was thinking. Copy = context to clipboard, paste = clipboard to context.

Undo copy should only remove the copied thing from the clipboard.

gpas··on Tell HN: Repurposing old iPads as home security cameras
I've used Alfred some time ago on an old android phone to catch who was throwing cigarette butts in my backyard. The app worked flawlessly, the relations with my neighbors not so much.
gpas··on Ask HN: Are you boycotting Qatar World Cup?
Sure, my team even failed to qualify to make things easier.

More seriously, I think I'll watch it nonetheless. FIFA and its subsidiaries are corrupted to the bone, but what can I do? I love football, and they'll run the game for a long time.

gpas··on Ask HN: Companies giving access to personal data on public URLs
Thank you for the thorough explanation. Makes sense.
gpas··on Ask HN: Companies giving access to personal data on public URLs
> although you should NOT! use a UUID, only the format or better something else

Why? Even the document you linked recommends using them...

gpas··on Apps have become too good at their jobs
> Unfortunately, the Twitter web app shuts me down when I scroll too far into a page.

The twitter mobile experience is awful, but I found that if you tap signin in the infamous undismissable modal and then you go back with the browser it will not nag you for a while.

Then there's Nitter if you are after an alternative frontend.

gpas··on Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)
I understand what you mean.

Something's changed, but the syntax and the svelte way of doing reactive components is the same (but I only used version 3, don't know how they did in the previous versions).

SvelteKit on the other hand is still very much a work in progress. I'm using it for personal projects and it's great, but I'm surely waiting until v1.0 to do anything serious with it.

gpas··on Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)
Svelte is used in production by several high profile companies. NYT in primis, since its creator Rich Harris worked there, but also Spotify, Ikea, Reuters, Brave...we can debate if it's not as mature as other frameworks, but definitely is not experimental.
gpas··on Ask HN: Who uses ad blocking browser extensions? What do you recommend?
Nextdns on every device + ublock origin with chromium on linux and vivaldi on android. All working fine.
gpas··on Show HN: I built a url builder library for JavaScript
I've been using the standard interface[0] to handle URLs, is this better?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL

gpas··on Toyota’s Hydrogen-Powered Big Rig
JCB is another big player in the hydrogen space. For what I understand they are adapting their old diesel ICEs to work on hydrogen, whilst Toyota are using newly developed electric engines powered by hydrogen cells. Two very different solutions to the same problem.
gpas··on Ask HN: Does your personal page get any interaction?
Vivaldi on android is based on chromium and cant load it

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

gpas··on Tell HN: I have received SPAM on my HN email
But the email we use to login is not public, only admins can see it. How does it work with github?
gpas··on Ask HN: What car do you drive?
A Lancia Delta and a Fiat Panda both born in the late nineties. Around 100k kilometers each.
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