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I like open government, photography and the semantic web. meet.hn/city/se-Stockholm
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pkz··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
Sorry for wasting your API resources but there are many hilarious things people generated. https://anycrap.shop/product/danger-swede-suit-dog-generator
pkz··on FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
Does this mean that ffmpeg now can record a Jitsi video meeting audio stream?
pkz··on Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative
That sounds great. Outline only has SSO in the per-user paid version. If you decide on providing additional functionality in a non-free "enterprise" version, please don't use the per usermonth model for people running it on prem.
pkz··on Paint.net
It is a great piece of software but annoying that you can't edit text.
pkz··on Moore's Scofflaws
This was a great blog post highlighting some of the weird business models that plague cloud computing. I tried to find competitors to suppliers like Oxide in the EU where there should be a huge amount of business cases for "datacenter in a box". Surprisingly there are very few options available (yes, Azure Stack is available but there is still licensing per cpu for that).

Why aren't there more players in this area?

pkz··on OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools
I hear the company owner is a russian citizen. Maybe that is a problem.
pkz··on Codex Gigas: the largest manuscript of the middle ages
The National Library of Sweden has made the raw digitized files available under CCBY here for those of you who want to play around with their own visualization: https://data.kb.se/dark-17757824
pkz··on Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
Great work! I use it experimentally in a free service for people who want to subtitle videos. The small model runs o a USD8/mo VPS. Looking into running the medium model soon.
pkz··on German privacy watchdogs conclude that Microsoft 365 is incompatible with GDPR
It involves sub licensing the entire suite to a EU entity. It is happening in France with Bleu (MS365 run by Capgemini and Orange): https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/orange-and-capgem...
pkz··on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)
It would be interesting to know how many of government agencies use Google email services? Is the email interaction between citizen and state now predominantly in the hands of a foreign third party?
pkz··on Non-Code Contributions to Open Source (2021)
This! Many seem to think that only developers can contribute in a way that gains experience and CV-items. UX people, designers and wordsmiths can have a great impact on a project too. I wish more people found out and contributed.
pkz··on Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk
A very good question!
pkz··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Maybe a button cluster for cars could be standardized? Everything relating to AC, heat, etc could work with similar symbols and placement. Everything else had to go below or above this module?
pkz··on LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor
...and the Acer Swift. A great screen size for programmers.
pkz··on Bad UI is causing people to get scammed
A large email provider like Gmail could probably train a network to find emails that look similar to an official brand (start with payment providers). The client could warn the user that "Warning! This email looks a lot like it is trying to impersonate a different brand".
pkz··on Sorting algorithms visualized using the Blender Python API
This was a nice intro to the Blender Python API. Thank you!
pkz··on Storing State in the URL
Exactly. This post was like a blast from the past about things that have been working fine for ages. Curious if young developers read this and thought it was a modern invention.
pkz··on How to make $2K/ month selling an automation script
Somewhere a Ruby installer developer cries silently...
pkz··on Google Search Is Dying
I tries you search engine with a few queries and I was pleasantly surprised! Keep up the good work!
pkz··on Simple.css – A classless CSS framework
What would the web look like if this (or similar) was the default stylesheet in all browsers?
pkz··on Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence
One of the benefits of Counfluence is that it is one of the only Wikis where I've seen non-technical people being able to create content on a daily basis. Linking pages, inserting graphs and images just works. I have yet to see that in anything based on markdown.
pkz··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
In Sweden salary information like this is provided by the government for everyone. Just a phone call away.
pkz··on Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
This made me happy. The state of language models paired with the overoptimistic ideas about AI a lot of people have sets the scene for a number of train wrecks. I hope more people critically evaluate their models before releasing them in mass scale.
pkz··on European alternatives for digital products
It would be interesting to know how many of these SaaS services run on US cloud platforms. And what that means in relation to Schrems 2.
pkz··on From Node to Ruby on Rails
Agree on the hosting part. I would like an official docker compose for production that had everything tied together nicely.
pkz··on Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
Great to see this project moving forward with new features and support for other backends etc. Every now and then I try out other frameworks but come back to Django for many of my projects.
pkz··on Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
This is an important fact. A lot of people think crypto currency==bitcoin. It would be a lot easier to have meaningful discussions on the impact on society if more effort was spent on helping people understand the different types. Maybe Bitcoin will fade away eventually and some other type of currency will be the monetary lingua franca?
pkz··on Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system
See also ESSarch: https://github.com/ESSolutions/ESSArch (used by the national archives of Sweden and Norway and participating in the EU digital preservation building block).
pkz··on Algorithmic Photography
There would be no difference if you decide on the processing algorithm first and then generate images from an input. But in my mind image processing would also include post production of an image. Computer vision is a set of techniques that could be used in an algorithmic camera.
pkz··on Algorithmic Photography
Very cool! Sorry you lost your Flickr data.
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