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leipert··on Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
Well. It’s synced paper. If I am on the go, i cannot check the paper on the fridge.
leipert··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
And I literally cannot log in to cancel my subscription. Caught in some redirect loop.
leipert··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
I don’t have enough spare time to waste 5% of “content time” for ads.
leipert··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
At the movies I can grab popcorn while the ads play. And usually the ads are for other movies, often enough topical. Watching an action movie, get ads for more action movies.

If ads are playing on the TV, they inject themselves into your home. Especially kids now wanting to buy or watch that you didn’t get to vet.

leipert··on Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27
Switching cards in Apple Pay on iOS is easier in apps. Just swiping in a carousel.
leipert··on Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
GitLab is MIT licensed, but also has also parts which are source available but not MIT licensed. Contributions to both are possible.
leipert··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
It was introduced in iOS 18, which is installable back to iPhone Xs (2018). So 8 years of devices have that setting.
leipert··on Sagrada Família Lego set
In Germany there is a Lego subscription service.

Put sets on a wishlist, they send you one of them. You build it, unbuild it and send it back. One set a month.

leipert··on Tell HN: 1B Jobs on GitHub Actions
Quickly checked GitLab, already 2.2B pipelines: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/pipelines/2266035299

And more than 12B jobs: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/jobs/12736468513

leipert··on Welcome to Gas Town
Depends. If you hold crypto for more than a year in Germany, gains are tax free.
leipert··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
Can I share data with my partner? I’ve been looking for a way to help my partner understand where we at money-wise.
leipert··on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
Guess I am one of the lucky 10000 today.
leipert··on Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation
I dunno. There is always this one, little overweight, sweaty guy without a shirt. Makes it a little bit sexual, doesn’t it?
leipert··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
Also the author misses how elements, species and astronomical objects are named. After random places, people, games, fictional characters, etc.

Names are just names. It’s nice if they are kind of unique and have no collisions.

leipert··on I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop
We are talking Germany here. People buy cars in cash. You don’t even have to necessarily wait a day.
leipert··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
Probably „only store that’s in my vicinity“ in rural areas vs. „if that bodega sucks, I go to another“. So one is a necessity which overcharges, the other a convenience which overcharges.
leipert··on CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects
Reminds me of a little tool I built to figure out if I can safely delete repos when upgrading/moving machines: https://gitlab.com/leipert-projects/git-recon
leipert··on Laptops with Stickers
My favourite sticker is a play on „Atomkraft? Nein danke!“ [0] (nuclear power? No thanks!) and says: „Atomzeit? Nein danke!“ (Atomic time? No thanks!)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Power%3F_No_Thanks

leipert··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
I recently wanted to introduce someone to our internal recruiters to a person with a long, uniqueish name. The recruiter was like: they did respond with „I’m not interested“. But the person was like: I’ve never got a mail.

Turned out the whatever tool our recruiter used spit out „first.lastname@gmail.com“ even though the person in question doesn’t own that email.

leipert··on Show HN: Learn German with Games
Also for „See“. Der See - the lake. Die See - the sea.
leipert··on Ask HN: What failed in the AWS outage that should have worked offline?
Beds: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-...
leipert··on 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds
Really depends where you are. Here in Germany you probably would have Nutella rather than peanut butter.
leipert··on Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum
Crazy how simple and efficient these heists are in their execution. All the heist movies are way too complex and clever. It‘s just smash and run.

Compare also this robbery from 2019 in Dresden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Green_Vault_burglary

leipert··on Disk Prices
US prices are without sales tax, depending on state/location this could add 10%. But given the value of the USD, still a crazy difference.
leipert··on Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial
Totally agree on the DAG point of view, but I would argue that for different people you need different analogies/models to make it click. I would argue that pointing towards graph theory might help people that have a formal CS or maths education, but not necessarily folks that went through bootcamps, switched from design roles, have a biology background (e.g. bioinformatics) or do statistics (e.g. in medicine or psychology)
leipert··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
Probably a typo „a“ is next to „s“
leipert··on Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS
Animations take too long with the swiping. Having apps on the same virtual desktop all the time.

On a larger screen: Opening a terminal alongside the editor or a browser. Or opening two browser windows when working on two documents.

leipert··on Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons
There is a thing called „routine cards“ for children which is how we handle morning/evening routines. They are colourful cards that you can velcro on in any order. Similar things are available for weekly routines
leipert··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Nope: The other way around. If you are of a certain size, you are required to ensure certain criteria. NIS-2 is the EU directive and it more or less maps to ISO27001 which includes risk management against physical catastrophes. https://www.openkritis.de/eu/eu-nis-2-germany.html

Of course you can do backups if you are smaller, or comply with such a standard if you so wish.

leipert··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
More like: your company (or government agency) is critical infrastructure or of a certain size, so there are obligations on how you maintain your records. It’s not like the US or other countries don’t have similar requirements.
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