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nicexe··on EU Open Sources Ten-Year Network Development Planning Tools
Git repos are distributed by design. I bet all the contributors have at least 1 branch (probably closer to an average of 3) of this project on at least 1 computer that they own.
nicexe··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
Once I read the title, I thought this was about Enlightenment but for mobile phones. I can't be the only one that thought of this.
nicexe··on The longest Greek word
Well. It contains every letter.
nicexe··on A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
Decentraleyes extension on Firefox results in garbled text. Not sure why this happens. It is supposed to serve some common assets locally instead of requesting them over the network.
nicexe··on Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?
I have a FreeBSD VM on my iPhone but I'm not using it for any phone-related tasks.
nicexe··on I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one
My wife and I are using https://shared-lists.com mainly for shopping. Free, no-login, no-AI checklist app.
nicexe··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
I always thought this was a stupid restriction. You can't view the post while authenticated but you can view the post while unauthenticated.
nicexe··on How to Become a Registrar (2012)
Although old, this is the currently valid version.
nicexe··on A market mystery: Why do capers come in such tiny jars?
In Greece and Cyprus, capers come in medium, big and gargantuan jars. Really, you can find jars with 3.9Kg of capers!

Greeks/Cypriots usually have them either as a side or in their salad.

nicexe··on Bento3D
Very impressive.

The only thing that looks a bit bad is that the models produced need to be fixed before being able to be sliced.

nicexe··on Nobody Cares About Your Git History
I only skimmed the article. But my stance is, anyone that ever used cherry-pick or reverted multiple commits is impacted by clean git history. Unclean git history could make a simple 2 minute cherry-pick or revert task to a 30 mins+ job.
nicexe··on IP over Spaghetti (2019)
Looks like a deconstructed optocoupler while also using an optocoupler.

This is one of these rare instances where you can have hardware recursion.

nicexe··on AI rejection letter for being born on the wrong date
Right now its the date of birth. Later, it will be the applicant ID.
nicexe··on I Hacked the Magic Mouse
I have one of those wireless magic mouse that takes 2x AA batteries. The optical sensor started behaving in a weird way back in 2018 I think, so I stopped using it. I wouldn't mind risking breaking it by trying to fix the sensor (cleaning the lens from the inside is probably enough), adding a rechargeable battery (and whatever circuitry that entails) and maybe even enhancing the ergonomics if it still works after that.
nicexe··on The FCC voted to reimplement net neutrality. Now comes the hard part
Is the title the actual article? The only extra info in the page is a semi-unrelated pic.
nicexe··on Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job
I mostly agree with the points but I hard disagree with point number 3.

Clean code makes the project more easily maintainable. We generally try to keep a standard in code quality (and I would say 98% of the codebase we touch is well written). We also try to schedule refactoring rounds (but that doesn't always happen because of time constraints).

nicexe··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
I would imagine it would enable you to run MacOS specific pipelines like building a project and have it work semi-portably across different machines/users.
nicexe··on The Fantilator Page
I was delivered exactly what I was promised. 0% click-bait, 100% expectation management.
nicexe··on Be careful of the examples you use. They stick
They don't have to be static but making them dynamic might not worth the cost.

From a simple static page, now you need an API service, most probably connected to a DB or somehow integrated to the rest of your backend. So markdown suddenly isn't enough and you need some server-side logic.

For random strings, you can do this with client-side logic, which in some cases might be easier than server-side logic. But you are still moving from no-logic (static) to somewhere-logic.

nicexe··on Be careful of the examples you use. They stick
I'm thinking if invalid characters in the examples given would be an acceptable solution. For DNS records this could be XML-like tags like <someprefix>.<yourdomain>.<tld>

On one hand, it prevents blind copy-pasting but on the other hand, your example is invalid.

nicexe··on Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
This is the closest. https://altstore.io/
nicexe··on Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration
I use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

You can use -F to get the available formats and find out an audio-only stream then -f FORMAT to download the specified stream.

nicexe··on Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration
I tried lengthening Another Day by Dream Theater from 4:26 to 8:00.

I set it to avoid the segment that the key changes and to favor the 2 solo segments.

It doesn't seem like its doing a good job. Only the first 5 seconds of the intro made it and then is just repeating over and over the big solo. In the end, a very small part of the short solo makes it in as an outro.

Maybe it works better at shortening songs or maybe changing duration closer to the original duration.

nicexe··on I won't pay on your website
Having to give your personal details just to see that the shipping to your country isn't worth (or not available at all) and then sending me an email to say that I potentially forgot to checkout some stuff in my shopping card is the reason I don't even try to fill my details and try and find an alternative shop.

Selecting a country and entering the post code to find out the shipping cost is slightly old-fashioned but works very well.

nicexe··on random(random(random(random())))
From what I understand (and creatively assume) the concentration in the middle (on the top left panel) is because of mapping random (uniform distribution) in Cartesian space to polar space.

Not sure I can explain the effect on the other panels since the first iteration is already based on assumptions.

nicexe··on Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password
I completed up to level 6 so far. I'll play a bit more once I get home and maybe I can complete level 7 as well.
nicexe··on Ball Aerospace Deep Impact's impactor simulation software (2006)
Not that AV solutions are perfect (they are not) but analyzing a 397KB PE32 executable from 2006 doesn't show any red flags at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ab4a6418f783c37135fc3ec4...
nicexe··on Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
Cyprus regulations for importing cars state: - Must be 5 years old or newer for Passenger car. - 4 years old or newer for Commercial cars up to 3 tons

I find it funny (yet I see this all the time) that 2 countries have polar opposite regulations for the same topic.

nicexe··on Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
I'm getting "Main.Sudo.Error error 1." when I try to install Filmbox Lite on Windows. I didn't try using it on my Mac yet.
nicexe··on WireGuard for the ESP32
The point of WireGuard is to set up a VPN across the services you need. You could use it for point-to-point connections but it does much more than that.
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