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Not quite the same but the most comparable product I'm aware of is the Panasonic "Let's Note" line, which intend to be durable business ultraportables with lots of ports and replaceable (if not hot-swappable) batteries

Though I haven't used one; they'd be difficult to acquire in the West

https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1j/

I always set Caps Lock to act the same as Control. One of the benefits is that I don't have to care about the Fn/Ctrl placement.

I'd love to try one of the new VAIOs to find out if the quality is the same.

https://us.vaio.com/collections/vaio-sx

Ahh makes sense. Thanks!

Wow! 2015 crypto is that outdated now? Thanks for the heads up! Now I'm feeling my own age lol.

Anything else you'd recommend that isn't mentioned here yet?

The book that "clicked" for me is: Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications, by Ferguson/Schneier/Kohno (2015) [1]

In plain language it walks through what I wanted to know, in a modern and paranoid perspective, as a readable narrative, from the point of view that we want to design each of the basic crypto primitives ourselves.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97811187223...

Yeah, my argument is simply: you can be a small modern laptop with a ton of ports. Sure there are tradeoffs (e.g. battery-life).

But here's a 14" with as many ports as the VAIO, a 3:2 display, a hot-swappable second battery, and more: https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1f/

Ports: https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/fv1f/spec.html#interfac...

(not generally for sale in the U.S. though; some truly innovative products are only in the East!)

A bit off topic but as much as we can praise the return of some ports on the new MBP, it's amazing to compare with products like https://us.vaio.com/collections/vaio-sx12

Some laptops have two batteries, one of which can be hot-swapped or removed and charged while the other keeps running in the meantime. Would love to see that on Macbooks and could be a fair compromise for the airplane problem, though obviously it will not happen. (The battery was user-removable on early Macbooks but that was long ago)

How do you like to express nested <b>marked-up <i>text</i> in JSON</b>?

Here's a simple silly way to make some of those electronics LEDs not so piercing at night: https://www.lightdims.com/index.php

Just sticky bits of cellophane that let you still see the lights when you need them but not so intense at night. You can get them on amazon or w/e

https://jmp.chat is basically open-source google-voice afaict

Another mentioned on HN recently is https://www.unlistedmobile.com/

Check out https://jmp.chat/

What is the mechanism by which the software determines that you are "located in Canada"?

> By contrast, apps like Headspace are selling themselves like "feeling anxious? Try our app!" and getting corporate sponsorships for employers to give subscriptions to their employees, like a commodity to pacify a stressed out workforce.

These don't sound like complaints about anything the app itself lacks, they sound like complaints that it is successful at marketing.

Check out sourcehut!

https://sourcehut.org/

Is it safe to trust binaries hosted from sourceforge? Didn't they used to host modified binaries / packages with malware?

There have been prior threads on HN about dumb tvs with several options. The LG "Commercial Lite" (for Business) series has some non-smart options, at least in Canada. It was just a few years ago I got my 55" 4k LG dumb tv for $1000 CAD and it's great. Though the market may have changed somewhat. Good luck

Thanks for clarifying -- makes sense. Good luck with the project.

Maybe I'm weird about it but reading the Bible for me is personal enough that I don't want to use an app that collects my identifier and tracks usage data. I'd rather pay for something I can use offline or anonymously. Non-profits seem preferable for this sort of thing as well imo.

What is the business model here? It's a registered LLC that collects tracking data etc... so like, what are your plans for this app?

> Remember, when software UI was customizable?

I liked the old philosophy that a desktop should have "consistent look & feel". If all your apps use the same UI toolkit, that toolkit can be made to work well and with things like accessibility in mind, and can be themed/customized to the user's preference.

My old-hat way of thinking goes so far to say that "tabs" should be done by the window-manager, not the browser.

> The popular Total Cookie Protection moves from the optional strict setting to always-on in private browsing. This feature maintains a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit while browsing privately. Any time a site deposits a cookie, Firefox locks it up in its own cookie jar so that it can’t be shared with any other website.

Why isn't that on all the time, even in normal browsing mode? Like, what breaks because of that? I thought cookies were locked per-domain since the invention of cookies.

Ah thank you SO much, this is extremely helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain that!!

Thanks, let me clarify my question with a proper example. Let's say I install A-1.0 and A-1.1. Both versions will depend on say a resource file they expect is at /usr/share/A.res

I was thinking that nix would symlink /bin/A -> /nix/store/abcdef-A-1.0/bin/A, and also /usr/share/A.res -> /nix/store/abcdef-A-1.0/usr/share/A.res

So when I'm upgrading to A-1.1, maybe the /bin/A symlink would update a moment before the /usr/share/A.res symlink, which means invoking A at around the same time as the upgrade could pick up the wrong resource.

Do we just try to make sure that binaries know to look for resources relative to their binary-path? Or do we use chroot/containers? Sorry if this is a dumb question :)

Off-topic question about Nix. I understand it works by redirecting symlinks from, say, one version of a package's files to another.

Isn't there a race-condition here -- like if I invoke a program at the wrong time while it's in the process of changing symlinks, could it pick up the wrong libraries or something? Does Linux OS allow a "changeset" of files to be locked and altered together in a batch, or anything like that?

Why would you think that's just a "far right" thing?

Actually I don't get what you're insinuating at all. Is anyone opposed to safety protocols?

I agree and have experienced what you wrote, except I have no idea what your last paragraph means. What are you referring to / talking about? It feels like maybe an example of the phenomenon we're talking about lol

Also, I recommend adding a "Report" button to the page, so that would-be buyers can report if they arrived at a checkout page through fraud/misrepresentation.

Cool, thanks for the clarification!

My only suggestion would be to maybe put the name of the seller in the URL, that way you can see something about who you'd be paying before clicking the link. I'm not sure that helps any particular threat model but it would make me feel better about even navigating to the stripe link somehow.

Awesome feature.

The first thing that comes to mind for me is fraud. Most obviously, what guarantees are in place that when I go to one of these links, that the seller company is who they say they are? I assume Stripe audits their customers and, for example, reviews the seller logo that's displayed to make sure it isn't misleading. But also, does Stripe give the seller any analytics about who (or how often) people are going to their sales link, even if they don't make a purchase? thanks :)