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josmaron Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny

Not in the developed world (Japan and Switzerland)

josmaron Font where each token is equal-width

https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

problem solved

josmaron ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

If it's any consolation, all other non-California regions in the world lack the privacy protections enjoyed in Switzerland and the EU, but they still don't produce many unicorn startups nor have fantastic salaries for coders.

josmaron AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

My next phone won't be an android, but a Linux phone, and I'll keep this old phone as a secondary device for banking apps.

josmaron Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

Same goes for Dropbox - you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CSV on the mounted filesystem.

josmaron EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

Only Switzerland has a true democracy

josmaron Never Give Them Your Face

I hear you — and the problem is real

josmaron Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

Without it, I was a stack overflow lurker, and before that a forum reader

josmaron Time to talk about my writerdeck

I use a Bigme Hibreak Pro eink phone, nix-on-droid/ssh to home server over tailscale, and a foldable keyboard, to have my coding setup with me and not be tied to where I can carry a laptop.

For foldable keyboards, if they are flimsy or stable matters.

josmaron Hold on to Your Hardware

Since using NixOS for my home server, I've found it to Just Work™ flawlessly every time.

If anyone reading this has struggled with servers accumulating cruft, and requiring maintainance, I recommend NixOS.

josmaron Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

My best cardio is doubtless stair machine while doing Anki with headphones and a small Bluetooth game pad in hand

josmaron Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong

Ultimately I can memorise 12 words representing my private key. And when the dictatorship finally ends, or I manage to flee, no government can ever freeze my money.

No tax man, no dictator, and no other thief can distinguish someone who memorised 12 words from someone who didn't.

josmaron Lisp implemented in Rust macros

If it's Turing Complete, there will be a LISP for it

josmaron Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

Feature request:

delta.chat contact field, the best of the decentralised free software messengers

Easy to have multiple identities for public and private use

josmaron Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

> There is even a dual 13.3” tablet that has two 13.3” e-ink displays and folds in half.

Do you have a link?

josmaron Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

You may want to check this out. It's a monitor using reflective LCD (RLCD)

https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/rE-Monitor

Have not tried myself and have no affiliation. If anyone here used it, lmk how it works

josmaron The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van

Hi! I wonder about anyones experience doing full- or part-time van-life, with an electric van (idea sparked by seeing the Tesla car on YouTube) in Europe?

josmaron Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages

After being a user of languages for a long time, writing my own LISP was the experience of leaving Platons cave and seeing what the thing I use daily really is made of. What is "if"? What is a boolean, a variable, a function?

It's a beautiful thing. I wish I would never have to climb down into the cave (languages with more advanced parsers) again.

josmaron Cutting off white supremacists: Apple Pay, Cloudflare and PayPal join the trend

First, they came[0] for the nazis - but they didn't use bitcoin...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

josmaron Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage from Data Breach

The evil weakling Swedish prime minister!

josmaron Swedish Government Scrambles to Contain Damage from Data Breach

Watching "Kingsmen" last night feels very timely.

josmaron Social Media Is the New Smoking

I also found this: https://www.facebook.com/Funkloch-684514891598702/ which is why I was wondering which of the locations it is.

josmaron Social Media Is the New Smoking

Where in town is that? I'm getting a few different results when searching. Would love to go and check it out!

josmaron Ask HN: What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?

They are a great ladder for when one wishes to climb up the shoulders of giants. Much can be learned in blogs, but long-form text is not that easily replaced.

That said, my books-to-read list is ever growing as well...

josmaron Norway, where no salaries are secret

Would it not be more likely that we Scandinavians would have to use the mainstream system? I'm not Norwegian, but my nation Sweden does this similarly.

If we accept giving our internal revenue services to the EU, I very much doubt that we will be able to keep this sort of thing, such as the principle of things being public (sv: offentlighetsprincipen).

For reasons like this (giving up what is unique about our culture for the mainstream continental one) I can't help but be sceptic of further involvement with European political unity, and am anticipating that Brits of 10 years from now will be satisfied with their decision to leave.

josmaron China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones

What is the simple way for the Chinese government to find the root cause of muslim terrorism and fix it? The only simple fix (as in simple vs easy) would be genocide or giving them their own independent state. The first option is horrible, and the second is not in the interest of the Chinese gov.

josmaron Ask HN: What pressing world problems should a graphic designer work on?

City Planning software is something I've been humming over a lot and for a long time. It's a perfect problem for computation with statistics - figure out practical actionable things for cities to do when optimising for things like walkability, public transit available, available storefront-rentals, et cetera. The world is catching up on the western nations, and the millions of cities joining the global middle class can be billions of dollars more efficient. A true way to better the world. The computational parts are doable (I'll be tech cofounder if required - not a visual artist though) but how is it best used?