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helb··on DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer
Before i start digging into it, does anybody know how they do "No mature videos on YouTube" (in the "kids" filter) with just DNS?
helb··on DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer
NextDNS founders launched this…
helb··on OpenTTD 13.0 Released
you can make a depot "extension" with station tiles, just for the looks

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-umeHUv1RoeQ/VKkmTK8Cx-I/AAAAAAAAGK...

helb··on International domain names: where does https://meßagefactory.ca lead you?
Yeah, it's a known issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack (see the Defending against the attack section for client- and registry-side measures)
helb··on Sound
Looks like vanilla js/canvas/webgl without any framework: https://ciechanow.ski/js/sound.js
helb··on A Cheap 2.5GbE PoE Unmanaged Switch
From the second page of the article:

> We tested the switch without any devices attached. It settled in at around 6.5W.

> Adding each successive 2.5GbE link also included an additional 1.5-1.7W or so of incremental power consumption.

helb··on Stellarium 1.0
You can switch to current time (clock icon, then clock with arrow icon) and turn off the atmosphere (cloud icon) to see what's above you during daytime.

The android app does the same for me, it shows a message with something like "it's daytime in X, fast forward time" and moves to the evening.

helb··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
looks a bit like old Prague Metro logo, cool

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Praha,_Masarykovo_n%...

helb··on Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline
Looks like you were right: https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2022-Mar...
helb··on Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date
Haven't tried it yet, but potential feature idea – an option to try to find these dead bookmarks in archive.org & update the links instead of moving them to trash.
helb··on Xsnow
It ignored XWayland windows, too. Even the "welcome at xsnow" one. I don't have any other WM than Sway and i don't really want to install one just to try if xsnow works :D

Edit: looks like it doesn't ignore them after all! But the accumulated snow is hidden "behind" the top edge of the window, so it becomes visible only for a brief moment when i move the window downwards.

helb··on Xsnow
FWIW, xsnow runs with wayland, but ignores the windows (even when i make then floating in Sway):

  $ xsnow
  Xsnow running in GTK version: 3.24.29
  Detected Wayland desktop
  xsnow 3.3.0
Probably works better with a non-tiling WM: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/563400-XsnoW-anyo...

xsnow -h says:

> BUGS

> - Xsnow needs a complete rewrite: the code is a mess.

> …

> - Xsnow does run in Wayland, but will not snow on all windows.

helb··on Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
it's base64-encoded "hunter2"
helb··on When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites went up
If anyone else is wondering what that "dark social" in the chart is:

> […] social shares that do not contain any digital referral information about the source.

> In contrary to the sharing on social networking service like Facebook, which is done publicly, Dark social is done privately through IRC channels, emails, SMS or simply copy-and-paste and other ways of private sharing.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_social_media)

helb··on I Invented Baileys (2017)
Yeah, it's likely made from soybean oil:

> Ingredients: Fresh Dairy Cream, Sugar, Alcohol, Maltodextrin, Milk Products, Cocoa extracts and flavours, Irish Whiskey, Colouring: 150b, Emulsifier: E471, Acidity regulator: E331

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono-_and_diglycerides_of_fatt...

helb··on I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
Previous thread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969041
helb··on Gitlab 14
Ha, thanks! I closed the page at "Join us for GitLab Commit Virtual" and "This month's Most Valuable Person" thinking i reached end of the page with some footer advertisement.
helb··on Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser
My head automatically added "what could possibly go wrong" to the submission title, but this actually looks pretty neat. Gonna give it a try.
helb··on Leaving Freenode for a new network
Looks like inactive accounts are removed, NickServ doesn't know me anymore.
helb··on Show HN: Emojicons
it's for using emojis as favicons – these little icons in browser tab headings (where HN has "Y" in an orange square)
helb··on Show HN: Emojicons
the 2nd one is just an emoji character in <title> of course
helb··on Firefox 88.0
Mozilla's PDF viewer is written in JS – it's literally called PDF.js: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/.

This new feature means you can run JS embedded in PDF… in PDF.js.

helb··on Django 3.2
I'm more of a Django man, worked with Flask only when i had to. There's no "wrong" or "right" in this…
helb··on Have I Been Facebooked?
Troy just added phone number search to Have I Been Pwned as well: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26709848)
helb··on Show HN: Nano Editor – Prototype, build, and publish simple web apps
Not a great name for googleability probably… https://www.nano-editor.org/
helb··on Show HN: Free Demo of Facebook Scraper (public pages only)
Doesn't seem to work – getposts.php returns an empty response, the URL in "Data Scraped from Facebook Page …" heading changes, but the posts displayed are still from that demo dog page.

EDIT: Upon further inspection, it does work for some pages, but not for all of them (even if they are public). Maybe some limitation by FB's page type/category?

helb··on Krita 4.4.0
Release notes, under Download > Windows: https://i.vgy.me/aI1J9m.png
helb··on A new Firefox for Android experience
> Still no text-reflow.

It has a "reader view" with adjustable font size, like the desktop version. Not exactly a text reflow, but helps with some websites a lot.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-articles-reader-vi...

(in the new version, it appears to have an icon in URL bar instead of menu entry, the article probably needs to be updated)

https://i.vgy.me/WEcQKd.jpg

helb··on Show HN: Codemap – Codebase Visualizer for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python
I'm unable to get anything other than a message saying "Empty graph" for Python. Does it need to know about venv somehow?

JS works fine.

helb··on Show HN: Umami – a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics
Thanks. The demo was up, but did (and still does) show only zeroes in the tables. Probably just some display issue in FF, because it gets the actual numbers from the API: https://i.vgy.me/hCOhYS.png
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