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noxonon Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in sharing crackdown

How does this work, given the pharmacy is open to non-members?

Additionally, anyone with a gift card is entitled to shop there without a membership.

I don’t see how the burden on cashiers is changed.

noxonon Tesla Co-Founder JB Straubel Built an EV Battery Colossus to Rival China

https://archive.ph/GfQrf

noxonon T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs

That’s horrifying!

noxonon Show HN: Apple II clock using interrupts from physical pendulum clock

Serial interfaces could use interrupts, and it was necessary at higher baud rates.

noxonon MyQ's horrible take on open access to their devices

I built an opener with an ESP8266. Cost five bucks, took a couple hours, no cloud, no drama. Thanks to Home Assistant and Homekit integration, anyone in the household can use it effortlessly.

noxonon Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police

They won’t do it if you ship to a different name at the same address.

noxonon Chinese Cars Are Good Now and We All Need to Get Used to It

I’m more concerned about the Chinese software. I rather like the Volvo EVs.

noxonon Apple releases emergency update to fix zero-day exploited in attacks

My iPhone 14 pro max required a restart.

noxonon Tesla is looking to acquire wireless charging startup

As someone who has been using FSD Beta for a few years: LOL

noxonon Tesla is looking to acquire wireless charging startup

A solution in search of a problem.

noxonon OpenEnergyMonitor – open-source monitoring for energy

I’ve had an IoTaWatt running for years without any issues. I’ve used it to pinpoint the exact time two refrigerator compressors failed. It’s been handy for all kinds of other stuff.

noxonon Show HN: I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows

How is this legal?

noxonon Ask HN: Do you remember Computer Chronicles?

We can’t talk about Computer Chronicles without mentioning the modern spoof http://computer.show/

noxonon Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync

That's what it does.

noxonon Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync

(Original blog post author here)

I had similar experiences with the earlier alpha/beta releases using a ton of CPU/RAM and having a ton of other issues, but lately it's been working quite well. I sync a lot of files, over 30GB, and Dropbox and Google Drive did a spectacularly poor job with that kind of load as well.

The iOS app for BTSync absolutely lets you browse your shares and download individual files. Otherwise I would not be able to use it.

My cloud server is a g1.small on GCE, and I run Sync inside Docker on that instance. The same server also runs a bunch of other crap, and it's far from resource constrained.

About once a year I went through the exercise of "let's try replacing Dropbox with something" and this time, with BTSync, I have been able to finally get rid of it, with the exception of a few mobile apps that rely on it.

I agree it could be more open, and I'm always on the lookout for a better solution, particularly one with similar encryption capabilities. If you haven't tried BTSync in a while, perhaps it's worth another look.

Sync still has room for improvement, but it does seem to be constantly improving.