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nicolas_··on Ask HN: Best Gmail Alternative?
Infomaniak has a free email service and they are based in Switzerland https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/service-mail/

- 1 free email address - 20 GB of storage space for emails - 15 GB of kDrive storage

nicolas_··on Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
Just change the battery?
nicolas_··on Tell HN: "Upload your resume and then type it out” is hurting your company
My biggest pet peeve with easy apply is that you can only apply with your default profile. I created my profile in French right after I graduated. When I moved to North America, I created a secondary one in English. Can you easy apply with that one? Nope. My only options are 1) not using easy apply 2) Remove everything on my default (French) profile and copy everything from the EN one to the FR one.
nicolas_··on This Resume Got Me an Interview
In this case, it looks like the ATS looked only at the company listed in the resume and nothing else. Pair that to the fact that most HR people who are doing the first screening step have absolutely no clue about technology and you end up with situations like this one. The lack of accountability in HR departments is baffling and they are the ones pushing all this tech like ATS, video screening to the senior management to make their job easier while still doing a terrible job at it.
nicolas_··on People are spending $3 for an app to get rid of Google AMP
It's still available on GitHub though as someone forked it before Christian removed everything.
nicolas_··on My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero
I'm facing the exact same issue on a 11 years old Google Account with Adsense, Gmail, and a lot of Google services tied to it. Since I know the password, have access to the recovery email, know the recovery questions and answers but Google doesn't even let me enter the recovery process and block me from doing so because of my "unknown device". I'm stuck and I have all the info needed...

Happy Edit: Following your post and just for the fun I tried to log back in and instead of the usual error message Google asked me to enter my full recovery email address. Then, I had to enter a valid phone number and to create a new password. I HAVE ACCESS TO MY ACCOUNT AGAIN!!!!! I don't know how the fuck it worked but if you're in the same position try to log again in a few weeks. What I did the past few months: fill out the Gmail recovery form. (no impact). Bought Google One and asked for support at least 3 times (no impact). Tried to log back in multiple times over the course of a month or two (no impact). Thought the account was toast, I was looking to alternative solutions but I tried again and it fucking worked!

nicolas_··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k for the first time ever
The short version [0] and the long one [1]

[0] https://kenkarlo.com/articles/the-scamming-of-tether-on-bitf...

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

nicolas_··on Bitcoin breaks above $20k for the first time ever
Exactly! It's not sustainable at all and the downfall of Bitfinex/Tether will be a very big one for the cryptocurrency space.
nicolas_··on Winamp Skins Collection
Here's a more visual website with built-in search: https://skins.webamp.org/
nicolas_··on Show HN: NotePlan 3 – Native (Mac/iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files
It looks incredible! I wish I could use something similar on Windows. Congrats on the launch Eduard!
nicolas_··on Gmail account disabled and locked out
I'm actually facing the same situation because of a 'use-case limbo' and I'm devastated.

Google is locking me out of my 11 years old Google account (Gmail, Adsense, YouTube, Analytics, ...) I use for a side project (electronic music blog) because I'm trying to log in from a new device/country/IP.

Alright then, I'll try to recover the account with the security question or the recovery email.

Nope, Google doesn't even let me enter the recovery process because of the same error. I can't do anything because of a stupid flag on the account.

The best part? Everytime I'm trying to log into my account, I get a security alert email sent to my recovery email. I can say to Google that I don't recognize the connexion (AccountDisavow) but I have NO OPTION to allow it. What's the point of having a recovery email?

Can't Google see that it's the same IP trying to log in and trying to access the "Review activity" from the security alert email?

If any Google employee is reading this, I'd love some help!

nicolas_··on Early access to Proton Drive is here
Same here. I think it's a good idea to create an ecosystem around the Proton brand but not at the expense of its major products. Mail and VPN are pretty good on desktop for my usage but Contacts, Calendar, and now Drive are in alpha mode missing the things that would get a lot of user to do a proper switch from its competitors. I wished they'd focus more on a few produtcs at the time and not launch dozens of them with the bare minimum of features and no mobile apps.

To their defense they did release a lot of things to help create that ecosystem (SSO, bridge, mail v4 beta) but I think the drive launch should have happened after having Mail and Calendar out of beta with proper apps.

nicolas_··on Netflix Android and iOS Studio Apps now powered by Kotlin Multiplatform
Netflix is mentioned everywhere on the website though https://help.prodicle.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001787672-Wel...
nicolas_··on New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1
You can but using an ad content blocker such as uBlock origin would be far easier.

https://ublockorigin.com/

nicolas_··on Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election
It's Facebook you're talking about. I'm not sure why you'd think they would make the right choice instead of chasing $.
nicolas_··on Ghislaine Maxwell arrested by the FBI
Not quite, she was rumored to be in Paris two weeks ago https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11913207/jeffrey-epstein-ghisl...
nicolas_··on How to watch job listings from indeed.com using Scraper.AI
While it's an interesting method I'm doing the same thing but by using RSS feeds and it's way more simple than using a scraping service.

Go to Indeed, do a search with your preferred parameters (job title, city, pay, etc) and add the URL to a RSS Reader like Feedly or Inoreader. Done.

nicolas_··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
You can add AdAway to your blocklist in NextDNS super easily https://imgur.com/a/VVKM8TF
nicolas_··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
Definitely try again! I'm also in Toronto and I haven't had latency problems.
nicolas_··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
I've been using NextDNS for the past few months and it's a fantastic product!

I don't need Blockada on my phone anymore and I can block whatever I want at the router level instead of doing it on each devices.

Keep up the good work!

nicolas_··on Ask HN: What's the biggest time waste on your workday?
We also have Chrome (with add-on blocked) if you need to browse any modern website on the internet but don't expect any entreprise tools/intranet website to properly work.
nicolas_··on Ask HN: What's the biggest time waste on your workday?
You should use the RSS feed of HN, it'll be easier than just checking the site each X hours/minutes.
nicolas_··on Ask HN: What's the biggest time waste on your workday?
I have the same todo.txt ordered by priority with the history of everything I've done the previous weeks at the end.

Something like this:

Urgent Task to do

X Task done

==May 11-May16==

X Task done

X Task done

nicolas_··on Ask HN: What's the biggest time waste on your workday?
I'm working for a big aerospace company and a lot of it (tech-wise) feels like/is a huge time waste, even more so the last four months where I've been working remotely.

1) Turn-on the computer, log in Windows, enter the overcomplicated encryption software password, launch IE6 to go to a webpage which will launch the VPN native app. (at least 5 minutes)

2) Opening Microsoft Project takes ages since the Project Server is in Europe. Then there's some kind of macro that has to run which in the end fails because I'm not on-site. You pick a plan to open it, it takes another 30 seconds, another macro/prompt/check fails. The whole process takes a good 3-5 minutes until you can actually work on it and I have 18+ plans to manage.

3) You can run reports of said Project plans and export them in Excel format but the formatting is all junky. You have unused columns, titles, hidden columns. I had to create a macro to import the exported file, import all the data, and creating a pivot table automatically instead of doing it manually X times a day.

4) We're still using Office 2010 while working a lot with Excel. The limitations of the 10 years old software is a real pain. Do you want to manage two Excel files in two separate instances of Excel? You'll have to open a separate instance first then open a file. You also can't use all the new formulas or enjoy the improvement made on the ones that already exist. I get that Office licences are not cheap and the "Fix What’s Broken, Don’t Break What’s Working " motto but the time wasted on all this by everyone working for the group worldwide must be way higher.

5) Enterprise network is slow on-site, it's even worse on a VPN. Opening up a simple Excel/PPT file takes a good five minutes.

6) We're still using Lync, it's easier to send a screenshot/file via email than using this nightmare of a software.

7) IE6 is the "default" browser for everything

8) With the COVID-19 situation, we're not allowed anymore to use conference tools while being connected on the VPN. You have to save all the files you need for the call locally, log off the VPN, join the call, and then re-upload everything on the network.

nicolas_··on Ask HN: Any sites like oursignal.com?
I knew I saw something similar a few months ago on HN so I looked it up and I found it: https://newsmap-js.herokuapp.com/

It was the first comment of the following thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20719651

nicolas_··on Show HN: Store your luggage in local shops
I don't remember how I discovered it but I used Bounce last June in NYC. Very easy to use and cheap. It was very convenient on my last day in the city.
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