pedrogpimenta

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pedrogpimentaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)

  Location: Barcelona, Spain
  Remote: remote-only
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  Résumé/CV: https://www.pimenta.pt
  Email: pedro --at-- pimenta --dot-- pt

pedrogpimentaon A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

> the city of Berlin was not able to

> the city of Berlin was not willing to

Fixed that for you.

pedrogpimentaon A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

ahahah that's beautiful. So it's all good because they built public toilets? Like when big companies have programs for the disabled, that makes it all good all of a sudden, we forget all about the other stuff? Damn...

pedrogpimentaon A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

As far as it makes sense and has a positive effect, don't be a pain.

pedrogpimentaon Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions

Your name is Alexa, isn't it?

pedrogpimentaon Dumb website only lets one user in at a time

You're dumb.

pedrogpimentaon Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

I like ball. Almost makes me regret moving to Linux a year ago

pedrogpimentaon Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader

that's the joke

pedrogpimentaon British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces

But you have no idea how it was before, do you?

pedrogpimentaon The Reddits

Lemmy is to reddit as blue sky is to Twitter and both run on Activity pub, IIRC.

pedrogpimentaon NetSurf Web Browser

Did you mean Kagi's Orion?

pedrogpimentaon Ask HN: What are ethical companies like Patagonia and some digital counterparts?

No.

pedrogpimentaon Brickception

Same here. On Linux with KDE, if it matters.

pedrogpimentaon Travle: A daily game – get between countries in as few guesses as possible

you don't. you get a new one every day

pedrogpimentaon Google Drive files suddenly disappeared

"If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."

pedrogpimentaon Omegle 2009-2023

We should forbidden streets. Full of pedophiles!

pedrogpimentaon X (erstwhile Twitter) introduces Studio

Can't see that without a logging in... Guess I won't know what it is.

pedrogpimentaon Tell HN: ai.com used to redirect to chat.openai.com, now it redirects to x.ai

I love how they mention X (Twitter):

> We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter),

pedrogpimentaon The Internet Free Zone (1997)

> A webring might be a good for the "old internet" vibe, but a search engine limited to sites that don't sell anything (including visitors) would be even better.

Like marginalia[0]?

0: https://search.marginalia.nu/

pedrogpimentaon Telly Is the First TV Paid for by Brands

> Nothing in life is free.

We're bathing in free services and most people don't ask about that.

pedrogpimentaon Telly Is the First TV Paid for by Brands

Uh! Good idea. Maybe it uses the camera to track your eyes. And it won't turn on if you tape the camera! That would sound on brand, right?

Edit: I mean, it may track you to say "you've not watched ads for the past 30 minutes"

pedrogpimentaon Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

Are you asking a question? And then following with another question?

pedrogpimentaon Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government

As someone said, Democracy is bad but not as bad as the other options.

pedrogpimentaon TOTP Authentication with Free Software

Of course they can, and are, specially if you have two separate apps under two different passwords, one for the passwords vault, other for the TOTP.

pedrogpimentaon uBlock Origin 1.49.2 Available as Thunderbird Add-On

It has been there but won't ever be again: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

pedrogpimentaon Why I develop on Windows

Yeah he says because you have to update bash he prefers using WSL2. As if you don't have to install that???

pedrogpimentaon Junk drawer phone as a music streaming server

There might be something wrong with your device if it kept closing Termux due to RAM.

Up until 1 month ago, I used my Galaxy S7 as my phone and I ran navidrome inside Linux (AnLinux) inside Termux and it didn't close automatically.

I now do the same with a Galaxy S10e as the already semi-broken S7 decided to call it quits.

pedrogpimentaon MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad

Watch the video?

pedrogpimentaon KeePassXC Audit Report

And the way you sync the databases as well, if you do that.

pedrogpimentaon Untitled macOS Folder Wallet

It's any material resembling leather that is made without any animal byproduct.