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millette··on Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
Same here.

5-6 years ago, I started a website/service (also closed, now) at the intersection of LinkedIn and GitHub. Then Microsoft bought the former. A few years passed, and they also bought the latter. It kind of justified my idea (not that those two services are being merged), but nonetheless I had to close my little initiative.

millette··on Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
Since you were looking for the UK version, did you try (no quotes) "Hisense uk" ?
millette··on Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
I would be happy to know they tried, or at least considered it. Maybe they have and I'm just not aware of it. It's just something that always bugged me a little.
millette··on Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
Editors are usually pretty quick at removing spam links. But yeah.
millette··on Ask HN: Is anyone else losing friends in droves?
Not an FB user but yes, in the last couple of months. Or was it more discovering what "friend" really means. Either way, I'm actually happier now.
millette··on Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019
On the other hand, wikipedia's use of nofollow makes it pretty clear they don't want a level playing field. What makes wikipedia great is all the references it builds on, yet those same references never get any "link juice".
millette··on MiniCouchDB in Rust
https://pouchdb.com/ is a JavaScript port of CouchDB, running in the browser and capable of replicating with normal CouchDB.
millette··on USB-C is still a mess
Thanks for the info.
millette··on USB-C is still a mess
Can the latest usb be "defanged" to only provide power and no data, as a security measure? Or are they too smart for that, now?
millette··on Show HN: Straight2Spam – Send your email right to someone's spam folder
Small print inspiration. I miss you Nathan!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3844780/

millette··on Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/issues/2
millette··on Repository for Open Source Mouse Firmware and Hardware
I noticed the same https://github.com/biomurph/Mouse/issues/6
millette··on Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond
Only 2 months after Perens left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958105
millette··on Show HN: Space Invaders but the invaders evolve with genetic algorithm
I remember playing Tron (light-cycles!) against GA bots. There was thesis on it in 2001: http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/papers/funes_phd.pdf

I felt there was one large flaw (which I explained at the time) since the experiment ran for a few years, computers kept improving. Problem was, the speed at which the game played accelerated along with cpu speeds. You needed quicker reflexes if your computer was faster. If there's anything to retain from this is, make sure the gameplay speed remains the same, whatever the hardware.

millette··on BASIC Computer Games
I learned programming on a Timex Sinclair (2 KiB) with the book Brain games for kids & adults using the Timex/Sinclair 1000, 1500 & 2000 series. There were other editions for other platforms (Apple, Commodore, etc.)

It consisted of 26 games/puzzles, one for each letter of the alphabet. Went looking and found this little treasure trove:

http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=3&id=9556&d=42&h=...

millette··on Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images
Also: https://github.com/knsv/mermaid
millette··on Can you use the terminal for everything? [video]
/me procedes to launch "youtube-dl -f22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2Ja7T9YF8"
millette··on Redis will remain BSD licensed
Utterly confused. Does this have anything to do with Creative Commons licences? That's what the articles calls it in its first and last sentences.
millette··on Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH
Archived: http://archive.is/9lu2S
millette··on GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
From Canada, http://www.thesuburban.com/ too is unavailable in Europe due to GDPR.
millette··on Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher
On the cli side, you can also browse/explore dat content with https://github.com/millette/dat-shell
millette··on The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
Built on the dat project https://datproject.org/ - my little finger tells me dat will take bittorrent's P2P place in the not too distant future.
millette··on Show HN: Listen Notes Podcast Search API
Time? Speed-listen, as was discussed a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15741428
millette··on RSS: there's nothing better
2nd RSS post today, and no mention of PubSubHubbub, aka WebSub? Or maybe it's just a low-level feature, not important enough? Strange days indeed.
millette··on Parity Wallet security alert
Github issue: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/issues/6995
millette··on Maker of In-Wheel Electric Car Motors Goes to China
23 years ago in Québec, this happened: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moteur-roue_d%27Hydro-Qu%C3%A9... (in French only). It never went anywhere unfortunately.
millette··on Show HN: The most-relevant GitHub repos per region
Contrary to a torrent, a dat can be updated. I just pulled your latest changes and the dat's content updated simultaneously.
millette··on Show HN: The most-relevant GitHub repos per region
Nice! I made it available over dat too https://top-regional-repositories-millette.hashbase.io/

See https://hashbase.io/millette/top-regional-repositories for details.

millette··on How to live free, do everything you want and insure you’ll never, ever be happy.
I saw 3000 visits on my post this morning, I thought, wow, lots of spambots last night. But then I notice it was posted here. Fixed the spelling mistake, I usually check for that but sometimes one slips. English is not my primary language. Thanks for your comments.