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App to access files over the network. I think Infuse is pretty good. It supports NAS and if your files are well named then pulls in meta/artwork. Can also be a front-end for Ember/Jellyfin/Plex, but for my LAN media I’m currently going with DLNA.

See Scientific American blog post [1] which has a drawing from the paper author.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/goanna...

Reuters reporting same https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/john-mcafee-found-dead-...

How does cell broadcast work with either wifi or wifi calling? And is a cell broadcast a single point in time, i.e. what happens if I'm out of range at the time the broadcast sent?

Is this (mostly) available in something like a Stream Deck - https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck

Is there a way to persist the name, color across sessions. I'd love to be able to open all the bookmarks in a folder and then have them assigned to the same group/color. Then that way I can recreate one of a handful of different multi-tab environments at the start of each session.

RSS couldn’t do it’s on its own as it’s just a mechanism to distribute content. Less technical content creators would still want somewhere to publish the content to and on the consuming side there would need to be a discovery mechanism.

Yep, many years ago had several thousand pieces of testing mail delivered. Names and address text had been scrubbed, but house number and post code was enough to get them delivered. All of the letters were watermarked Test, but somebody just put them through the envelope stuffer and out they went. Next test all the house numbers and post codes were changed to the bosses address!

Average number of properties per post code is 15 (max about 100), so a lot smaller than a route. And in rural area the routes are often kept to the same small group of staff for years.

Depending on your website market you also shouldn't set language based on browser preferences, but should be user selectable.

I've spent years working with desktops builds from US-based IT teams that have then been deployed globally (so language is US and paper size is letter). And then access control is added over the top to prevent end-users changing those settings because when they get it wrong it causes excessive support calls.

Paperclip hack is the resistor hack that others in the reply have linked to. My paperclip has been in situ for a few years so don't have the original source, but one of the resistor hack how to postings suggested that there was enough resistance in a paperclip and had a spare display adapter kicking around so tried it and it worked for me. Laggy performance on headless Mini ended.

I'm not using VNC to Mac Mini enough for me to give meaningful feedback on typing lag. I'm currently mostly running it headless media server and local web server, so occasional remote. However with children requiring access to more devices for longer I'm looking at ways to solve shorter term need without having to go out and buy new hardware.

It's solving a problem I currently have but am using VNC to solve. Are there differentiations vs screen sharing in that way. Appreciate that it could be usability and market positioning to mean that I'm not the target audience, but is there some other functionality I've not seen in the demo video? And yes my Mac Mini is currently headless with no display (using the paperclip hack to improve performance) or keyboard.

Yep also had a local bakery selling flour and oats that they had bagged from the larger delivery they received.

Think aircraft engine is closer to the farmer/JD relationship.

Airlines don't buy engines but rent thrust/hours. A little more explanation https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/8270/what-is-th...

And the product guy did it because a sales team came in and said without load of color and animation then we won't be able to sell the product.

And the sales guy did it because a prospect said we really like all the features and the price but your product doesn't have as much color and animation as Acme Inc's product.

And the prospect did it because they actually prefer Acme Inc's product but they don't like Acme Inc's price so if they are going to have to go with the second choice product then let's get something done about the colors/animation before we close the sale.

And then we have the product guy coming back and working out what is the least or least worst thing we can do to remove the sales resistance, close out the sale and have everybody paid.

Headline whilst HN correct is misleading.

TLDR - fraudster orders good, returns empty box with tracking, tracking label is photoshopped to different property in post code. Fraudster knows that tracking only records post code not property within post code. eBay issue refund.

Problem is granularity of tracking nothing to do with post code loophole.

Not op, but we've frozen pretty much all bread for years. You don't get the freshly baked feeling, but unless you live on top of a bakery you aren't going to get that anyway. Defrost either leave it out or microwave. Alternatively if making sandwiches for work, make them frozen and let it defrost during the morning.

Like many skills, learn to do it for yourself and then you'll be able to make much more informed decisions about when to use the computer to automate things for you.

When you find out the big project your leading is competing for resource with a project that is decommissioning the same system.

Is it SEO or search result presentation optimization? I've noticed a load of book/film titles on Amazon search results and had assumed that it was less about SEO than a bit more of a descriptive title so that I was more likely to click through and find out more about the book/film.

Seems to me that the article starts with an argument that Puerto Rico’s addresses are confusing to US addressing because they follow Spanish heritage. And then argues that replacing with Geocoding would lose the heritage connection. Presumably making addresses US standard would lose the same heritage connections.

Also seems to fail to recognise that the zip code or postal code part of the address is a specialised, possibly irregular shape, geocode that identifies an area of the world within its local context.

Take a look at the probability forecast that the Norwegian met office make available as an api - https://api.met.no

Title on the article is "Dog owners are much happier than cat owners, survey finds".

And the article goes into correlation vs causation, highlighting that there are likely other causes influencing the survey results including "...survey data show that dog owners, for instance, are more likely to be married and own their own homes than cat owners, both factors known to affect happiness and life satisfaction"

Got to go and walk the dog and be happy.

Not sure that a PWA would have the scope of insight to know when you are skipping off the important task, e.g. playing solitaire vs coding, reading HN vs testing your app?

The document [1] that it all hinges off doesn't say that it will all be turned off on exit day but says that post-exit if you have an .eu domain and you no longer meet the eligibility criteria then you won't be able to renew it (section 1 of document 1).

For individual registrants, it hinges off residency, not nationality. So if you are British but resident in the EU you are fine as long as you are using your non-UK address to register. If you are a citizen of an EU country but registered with your UK address then you'll also be caught up.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/notice_to_stakeho...

Some do, some don't. But if you want to use Alexa or Google Home or Siri to control you do need an internet connection to do the voice translate to command bit.

Personally I've gone with SmartThings (Samsung) to control the home tech and use Amazon as the voice interface. This allows me to be reasonably agnostic of vendor and interfacing standards (ZWave/Zigbee/Wifi), allows me to use a scripting language to control some aspects of automation (using Webcore app) and still use Amazon to issue voice commands to the same devices.

Kids love it, I like it, but not got full wife acceptance yet, she gets frustrated turns stuff off at the wall and then all the automation needs debugging!

For the time limits you could take a look at Circle, which allows you reasonable control (at an individual level) of when and how long your children are using Netflix etc. And offers some control of what (by classified type) or domain whitelist/blacklist. Don’t think I can block specific urls so can’t achieve whitelist only YouTube.

Devon, county in England, has a similar problem. They look to be embracing getting local community to do the work, providing materials and who after training are then covered on liability.

https://new.devon.gov.uk/communities/casestudy/100000-fundin...

Be interesting on this one. GDPR has explicitly called out legal obligations for the data controller and the data processor. Controller is the one you consent to data collection, processor is 3rd party carrying out processing on behalf of controller. If data sold then it is passed to another data controller.

In this case user has apparently given, some level of, consent to Cambridge Analytica. I don't know whether that would then make them a data controller in their own right or whether they still be treated as a data processor. If former then user would have to engage directly with CA for right to erasure or FB need to invoke T&C's. If later then it's down to FB T&Cs and then FB would have to inform CA of user invoking right to erasure.

GDPR will a minefield for consumers and organisations for at least another 2 years until we have some case law that backs it all up