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ivankon The fish shell is amazing

I found that all I really wanted to show was the current branch, which I do with https://gist.github.com/ivan/79de5e87210e8cf21e305bb4c30c436...

ivankon How to Learn Nix

The NixOS way of doing things (a layer on top of plain config files) is inevitable once configuration management is taken seriously: one needs to be able to merge configuration values from multiple source files; for example, a generic role plus some more machine-specific role, working together to produce one systemd unit or file in /etc. The modules in nixpkgs effectively make it possible to combine configuration values to produce most of the config files that Linux applications want.

If one weren't using NixOS to do it, it would be done with your own templates and configuration management, and probably without the huge advantage of being able to rebuild a whole immutable system without leftovers from prior configurations.

ivankon Ask HN: How do you back up your Android phone?

I agree. At least we have the third-party Veeam Agent to do it right.

ivankon Google's new related search box optimizes for the wrong metric

The longer uBlock Origin rule in https://gist.github.com/mmazzarolo/34e5418aade64abe7618885e0... takes care of it, currently

  ! Hide the 'People also search for' slide-in box when going back on Google Search.
  ! We require the other attributes here to reduce the risk of false positives.
  www.google.com#$#div[id^=eob_][jscontroller][jsdata][jsaction][data-ved] { display: none !important; }

ivankon Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54785515

ivankon Launch HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for people with ADHD

Canceling a credit card does not cancel your obligation to pay a vendor unless you also terminate your plan with them. Some of them will try to collect, especially if you had a contract.

ivankon Spaces launch in Element

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ is a client with tabs for Slack and Discord. Unfortunately it does not provide all the functionality of the web interfaces, though.

ivankon MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows

Try

    defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

on macOS. That will stop it from making every font more bold than it should be. Mentioned in https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

ivankon Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?

Online, you might have better luck meeting people on Discord servers relevant to your interests, or on tagmap. Also HelloTalk if you are learning a language or teaching one. Twitter can sometimes be fruitful too (but slow going at first) if you find the right follows and don't treat it as a combat zone. Good search queries can be helpful to bootstrap. Unfollow, mute, and block liberally.

ivankon It’s not just you – the Apple podcast app is a disaster

I recommend trying Overcast if you haven't already excluded it for some reason. I spend a lot of time in it, with relatively few issues. The only one I encounter is that it sometimes starts using 100% CPU when still downloading an episode and turning on Airplane Mode.

ivankon Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

Some people need to beware of the 1000 Hz PWM on the Hue bulbs

ivankon Preparing to Issue 200M Certificates in 24 Hours

How do you fit 168 hard drives into a single computer?

ivankon This is How Google will Collapse (2017)

submitting a github.com/google link does not make someone a Google employee. I believe submitter misuses "Show HN". https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

ivankon Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?

Just add diopters to the SPH (sphere) portion of your prescription, there is a formula 1/diopters to get your desired focal plane: +1 for 1 meter away, +1.25 for 0.8 meters, etc

ivankon Chrome Is Bad

Edge is missing E2E encryption in the sync feature.

ivankon No More Google

Thanks. I agree with you, except a 6 digit code is worse than a good random password, or magic link with e.g. 64 bits of entropy.

ivankon No More Google

I signed up for OpenPhone just now, but then noticed that the only thing you need to log in to someone's account is their email and a 6 digit code emailed to their account. There are no password or 2FA options. I haven't tested how rate-limited the login attempts are, but it seems like too much to ask for customers to trust that they exist and work, especially when the apparent attack success probability is already > 1/1M.

ivankon No More Google

Just don't make my mistake of using YouTube Music from your brand account on YouTube, or you'll always see this when trying to upload music:

  Switch accounts to upload
  You're signed in to an account that doesn't support uploading. To upload music, switch to your personal Google account. Learn more

There's no way to share or migrate liked songs, apparently. And YouTube Music never warns you about the upload limitation before you start using it from "the wrong account".

ivankon Ask HN: How do you follow news about browsers?

https://chromestatus.com

https://webkit.org/blog/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

ivankon Winamp for Windows 10

  choco install -y foobar2000

ivankon Why Dark Mode Matters

The web works in dark mode if you have Dark Reader.

ivankon Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8

If you have an HP EliteBook G4 or similar: I noticed HP SoftPaq now has an updated Conexant driver that claims to work on Windows 10 2004 and 20H2 in its release notes. I installed that and forced an update using Windows 10 Update Assistant to 2004 and then 20H2. I haven't seen any bluescreens.

ivankon Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

Google changed the interpretation of those a year ago. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-...

ivankon Information on the revocation of WinRAR 5.91 digital certificate

> Why not at least link to the virustotal listing for said file?

I don't think virustotal accepts files larger than 500 MB.

ivankon Firefox 79

If you're on Windows, you can do something like this with AutoHotkey:

    ; Make alt-q in Firefox type ctrl-l followed by "% "
    #IfWinActive ,ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
    !q::Send, ^l`%{Space}
    #IfWinActive

ivankon One hour of slow breathing changed my life

70-80% of adults have a alternating congested nostril

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

https://www.rhinologyonline.org/Rhinology_online_issues/2018...

ivankon Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly

FWIW, this can also be done with Settings -> General -> Shut Down.

ivankon Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year

Do you have any postings describing the roles you're hiring for? My email is in my profile if you don't want to share here.

ivankon Ask HN: Do you ever wish there were two copy-paste key pairs?

I think clipboard managers can do what you want, they have a clipboard history.

ivankon Google Credential Provider for Windows

Super admin is isolated, not my everyday account.

I don't know how any of my accounts could have been sending spam. I don't send unsolicited email, and I forward messages from those other four accounts to my primary email account, so I hope I would have noticed a spam problem. But because I cannot log in to anything, and didn't get any information or notification from Google, I can't be sure, of course.

I am subscribed to a lot of mailing lists and I wonder if, given my low human outbound volume, whether gmail-generated "bad attachment" bounces could have resulted in this. But that seems unlikely. More likely is someone ran a query and decided I had too many emails or was using too much G Suite storage. I look forward to hearing any information at all from Google!