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maxique··on I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
As I understand it, the appeal of Monzo's way is it's live updating rather than having to log in to some horribly outdated online banking portal and manually export
maxique··on GenChess
It suggested "France" was "Britain"'s natural opponent but refused to generate France.
maxique··on ClassicPress – The CMS for Creators
https://archive.is/fiCum
maxique··on Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
I look forward to seeing the EU take this on:

> The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Ulrich Kelber, is also alarmed: On the social media network Mastodon, he described the data collection as "alarming" and announced his intention to pursue the issue at European level through the data protection authorities as early as next Tuesday.

https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665

maxique··on $HOME, not so sweet $HOME
Archive link: https://archive.ph/pKW90
maxique··on Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it
Because then it loses the shareability - you can't compete with your friends when you're all getting different songs to guess
maxique··on Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order
You can turn off Apple Music in Settings, which essentially makes it just the old-style Music app.
maxique··on DNS over Wikipedia
Which defeats the object when the URLs change so often, and we're back to the original problem.
maxique··on [dead]
n=20 in the smallest section and n=58 in the biggest section. Developers have a marginally better experience with some of these cherry-picked queries?
maxique··on Show HN: Tracking my local bus with a RaspberryPi
Yeah, registration is free for up to 500 req/min if I remember right! Really nice from TfL.
maxique··on Linux developer Vtuber on her experience writing a driver in rust
It's a good thing no one was suggesting you should then!
maxique··on The OK? Programming Language
> You may disagree with this idiom, and that's okay, because it's enforced by the compiler. You're welcome.

Brilliant

maxique··on Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
I think 1Password's SSH agent does this now, too
maxique··on Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
> Keep in mind that this file is somewhat protected by macOS so after each OS update you will need to add the line to the file. Other than that, it works perfectly!

TIL, I wondered why every time I did this it would reset after a while. Thanks!

maxique··on Hacker News Official API
I'd still like to see yours if you're up to sharing! :)
maxique··on Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements
Now I need someone to FOI TfL for the Tube announcer voices!
maxique··on Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150
Porkbun is great - their live chat support in particular was really great to me recently when I was trying to recover a domain. They could've tried to upsell or pressure me in to paying the (extortionate) recovery fee but they didn't and instead advised me on the process/when I'd be able to register at normal price
maxique··on Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues
If the link had https:// before it, Discord and Telegram would do the same link preview that iMessage does
maxique··on Tell HN: Changes to messaging when taking a GitHub repo private
Thanks httpie! (https://httpie.io/blog/stardust, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758)
maxique··on Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
DM Mono! https://fonts.google.com/specimen/DM+Mono
maxique··on JetBrains/Intelij is increasing their prices
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31918433
maxique··on I built a simple webhosting platform
Any interest in adding Ghost to your list of CMSs?
maxique··on Dangit, Git?
Both are valid. https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/the-difference-b...
maxique··on Webcams aren't good enough
> I would've loved to see Lumina in his comparison. We launched a few months ago

The article is from Feb 2021.

maxique··on Ask HN: What Happened to Mighty App?
Interesting security page (https://www.mightyapp.com/security) that promises everything whilst proving nothing... you'd have thought they could've at least had a pentest by now?

> How do I have guarantees that Mighty isn’t going to do anything it shouldn’t?

> We believe that the people who use our service expect us to protect their information and their right to privacy as our top priority. We commit to keeping your browser history private, your logged in identity secure, and your information under your control. Let us be clear: your data will never be sold. We recognize that we earn our trust with you every day and that won’t be easy.

maxique··on Ask HN: Examples of good technical writing?
Julia Evans' comics, zines and blog posts are absolutely brilliant. Accessible, educational and full of personality. https://jvns.ca/
maxique··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
Those tools and more are on Playlist Machinery (http://www.playlistmachinery.com/)
maxique··on Britain should scrap its online safety bill
"Let's treat the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda as an intellectual exercise in the free marketplace of ideas instead of a humanitarian crisis"
maxique··on Jonathan Blow on how Microsoft responded to Windows Terminal suggestions
Further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284419
maxique··on Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state
For someone who's familiar with the process, sure.
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