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martinml··on Ploopy open source thumb trackball
Actually, it seems identical to the Microsoft Trackball Optical Mouse (D67-0001): https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-90432262887525/microsoft-trackb...

I loved that trackball!

martinml··on One Commander – a new Windows 10 file browser
There's a "Force enable zoom" in Settings > Accessibility too for Chrome (in Android at least).
martinml··on Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
Just guessing here but probably Backblaze b2? It has a similar pricing.
martinml··on I Bought Used Voting Machines on EBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming
They usually are behind a closed booth, at least in Spain.
martinml··on 500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken
Clients usually have some public, harcoded nodes to bootstrap the search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301
martinml··on Stripe Billing
Paddle.com is one gateway that offers this.
martinml··on How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
I know it's my fault and probably obvious but that site doesn't load on Chrome if you have disabled third-party cookies. You might want to show an informative message instead of an infinite spinner :(

https://www.chromium.org/for-testers/bug-reporting-guideline...

martinml··on Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi
What a coincidence. Just this week I got a used FX160 for 15 € and right now it's working as a home file server, router, wireless AP and general P2P downloader.

It seems to be running fine even inside of a closed cupboard, the CPU is at 31ºC and using about 16-17 watts on average. It's warm to the touch but it might be the apparently good thermal design of the case which allows for fully passive cooling.

What I don't like is that (at least judging by the heat it generates) most of the power consumption seems to be originated in the video chip, which in a headless server is useless. I tried to disable but didn't have any luck (it's a SiS 771/671 chip).

martinml··on Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined
You would have to go through a EU bank who would act as a middleman. There are many of them that have zero fees so it would be practically like if you were investing directly with Vanguard.
martinml··on Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
This seems to be in all editions of Windows 10, even the Enterprise ones.
martinml··on I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam
You seem to have some loop there with the real Uber support? https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/bmazjsnh/

And in one case the spammer was aware of your site! https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/gywanvsb/

Maybe you can hide from Google with the appropiate robots.txt so the last one doesn't happen.

martinml··on Building a more power-efficient browser
Apparently Windows 10 likes to use idle time to test the memory:

http://superuser.com/questions/635837/high-cpu-load-from-sys...

In my desktop it was causing it to rev up the fan when it was idle for a few minutes.

martinml··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
I miss the search feature in Windows XP too. But Agent Ransack is a very good replacement and it even integrates with the file explorer. Try it!
martinml··on Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?
We could discuss the technical side, sure. Maybe they can cache the list or create better code to do it more optimally. There might be battery and data usage considerations too, that's true.

But this article revolves around the trope of "if it's free you're the product", and altough it might be true, I don't think the 23k thing is a proof of it. That's what I meant with my comment.

martinml··on Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?
This seems a bit clickbaity to me. WhatsApp works directly on your contacts, there isn't a remote roster like Facebook Messenger or Telegram.

So if any app were to access my contacts 23k times, I'd say WhatsApp is the one app which could justify that.

martinml··on How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq
I think it might be considered linkbait, and that's discouraged in the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

martinml··on Flash 0day from Hacking Team
The documentation says it works in OSX too.
martinml··on Google Maps Pacman
I guess it's because in Australia it has been April 1st for 3 hours already.
martinml··on Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the Internet [pdf]
Similar, but with memcached (2010): http://www.sensepost.com/blog/4873.html
martinml··on Google Domains Launches to All in U.S
You might want to try NameSilo. Cheap, free privacy, 2FA, acceptable interface.
martinml··on JavaScript Equality Table
It is!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/transform#r...

http://caniuse.com/#feat=transforms2d

martinml··on Announcing Reddit notes
From the comments on the announcement thread:

If you're wondering why this is all so vague and weird...here it is for you:

- Reddit got funding and as part of that wanted to share some ownership with the community. Basically, they would like Reddit users to own part of Reddit.

- The thing that made most sense was to create a little database that distributes these "shares" based on activity.

- They can't call them shares, or even indicate that they represent partial ownership of the company because the FCC [sic] considers that the creation of public stock, which should be on a regulated stock market.

- There are currently a number of bills at various places in congress that would de-regulate this a bit, but none that I know of that would make what Reddit wants to do (and should be able to do) legal.

- So...boom...their response is to be suuuuper vague. Which I'm fine with, since they're dealing with a very large and terrifying bureaucratic institution.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2pt25f/announcing_redd...

martinml··on List of URLs checked by Twitter for its app targeting
This may be useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8665581

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-11/27/twitter-ads

https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172069

martinml··on Drupal Core – Highly Critical Public Service announcement
I've been using Stacey for that purpose. It doesn't exactly export HTML but the surface area of attack is very reduced as it doesn't interact too much with the outside world: http://www.staceyapp.com/
martinml··on Show HN: Keyboards Club
Well that's new, it didn't before! I'm going to check it right now, thank you.
martinml··on Show HN: Keyboards Club
If you like another keyboard but need the functionality that Hacker's Keyboard provides, you can try JuiceSSH, which augments any keyboard with control characteres, function keys, etc.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonelli.ju...

martinml··on Show HN: Keyboards Club
For Android, I really like SwiftKey, and have been using it for years. Its predictions are very accurate and it (un)learns very quickly.

But since the last updates (maybe when they added emojis? I'm not sure) it has become laggy and unresponsive, sometimes I end typing a phrase and have to wait several seconds while I see the text painfully appearing one letter at a time in the screen. Also there is a period of 1-2 seconds after I send a message when I can't press any key, as it will be ignored. I don't use Flow.

However, it has something that I can't find in any other keyboard: two simultaneous languages. Every keyboard allows to select several languages and change between them, but in SwiftKey they work at the same time and you can use both seamlessly, and for me that's irreplaceable.

martinml··on ShellShock exploited in the wild: kernel exploit with CnC component
"Command and control", I guess? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet#Organization
martinml··on Pricenoia shuts down
I use Pricenoia to check prices in the different european Amazons, because pretty much all items can be shipped to other countries within Europe. As far as I know camelcamelcamel doesn't do that :(
martinml··on Building My Own Home Router
Hm, are you sure? It has a jumper to change it to "PCI" instead of "LAN", which I guess would expose directly a PPP interface, but I can't seem to find any documentation on that feature.

Edit: well, you were right. It seems to be a full blown Linux-based router, just with a weird form factor: http://tjworld.net/wiki/Linux/Embedded/Infineon/Danube/ADSL2...

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