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qot··on Isseven
Very similar to https://isevenapi.xyz/

Even down to injecting an ad into the response as a joke.

qot··on Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required
Thank you for writing this. I use it routinely to back up my phone by mounting it and then simply running rsync.
qot··on Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner
Can someone please upload the .apk somewhere? It's not available in my country (Canada).
qot··on Tornado Cash devs charged with laundering more than $1B
No, put another way this is Nike getting punished for creating a shoe that was used to kick puppies.
qot··on Passwords Are Fine
In the EU I get an EU cell plan because it's orders of magnitude cheaper than roaming from North America when travelling for a month.

So to log into my bank I have to load the website on my device, enter my username / password, have it send the SMS 2FA, switch to my home SIM card, wait to receive the text message, switch back to my EU SIM card, ensure internet works, then submit the 2FA code to finally log in.

That assumes I haven't forgotten something to poke the SIM card out with. I couldn't find eSIM last time I went to Portugal.

qot··on People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
I don't recommend ClickUp because of the amount of marketing emails / spam they send you. Every minor version update gets an email in your inbox.

Their "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the emails also doesn't work which is unacceptable.

qot··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
Did you use a brainwallet (ie, the hash of the password as the private key)?

It looks like the funds were drained within an hour of you loading the bounty. People have made giant lookup tables of brainwallet passwords and monitor the corresponding addresses for transactions. Reddit user u/btcrobinhood is known for doing this and returning the funds.

qot··on Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email
Did your failed log-in attempt reactivate your account? Can your friends see your old facebook account now?

Please check for me, because I'm in a similar situation but have been hesitant to try logging back in.

qot··on Ask HN: Is it the “worst” time to buy a house?
Please review the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

qot··on A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
Yes you are. We are talking about a tool, so you are asking why someone would "find it be useful".
qot··on User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches
I agree with you, it doesn't make any sense. AGPLv3 says it plain as day:

"you [the licensee] may remove that term."

The licensee, meaning me, or the defendants in this case, can remove any terms which impose further restrictions. The licensor (Neo4j) has given written consent to do so.

qot··on $20 to Mint Your Prayers on “The Blockchain”
And you can't even pay with crypto??

https://i.imgur.com/PasTfw9.png

qot··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
"normal people's desktop use"
qot··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
I'm really just looking to display a screensaver which _is_ something people want and care about.

All screensaver software that I've seen supports displaying an image / slide show which I will simply set to a black image. Another common feature is just displaying black.

Note: in Windows both of these are quite easy.

qot··on Ask HN: I'm So Lonely
Go visit your city's Makerspace during an open house and hang out there some. You'll see a lot of nerds who love to build stuff.
qot··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
That will still black the display when I'm watching youtube.
qot··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Nope, this is quite the opposite of black: https://i.imgur.com/L0O0fNn.png

It also turns my display off, which is not what I want: https://i.imgur.com/z5BIqGj.png

Seems like it's not as simple as @nxbp claims.

qot··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Please enlighten me. I've sunk hours into this.
qot··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
I have no screensaver options under settings: https://i.imgur.com/WM3xIWL.png

Note, I'm using Debian Sid. Gnome 3.36.2 on Wayland.

qot··on My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Linux isn't even close for normal people's desktop use.

Just recently I tried and failed to simply set up a screensaver that turns my screen black (not off!) to save my display from burn-in. Eventually I just gave up. You can't do this with stock GNOME. I also tried xscreensaver (but the Debian-specific instructions in the man page are out of date) and xfce4-screensaver, both didn't work.

I've been using Debian GNU/Linux since Feb 2016 and consider myself adept but still couldn't figure this very simple task out.

qot··on Ask HN: What is the oldest, still supported OS?
I'm genuinely curious and haven't found an answer online so I'll ask you: why stop at 10K and not 100K? Also we represent 3-digit years like 770 without problems, so what does this solve?

Is the hypothetical problem so bad that solving it is worth the ambiguity between octal numbers and the extra effort for readers to parse 02022 as year?

qot··on How we use Notion as a startup
Obsidian's search is also bad: it doesn't prioritize file names or headings over content.

When you get past a certain number of notes, this becomes an issue. You might be trying to search for a concept you have a dedicated note of, but your search results are drowned out by normal usage of the word in other notes' contents.

qot··on Harmful Defaults in Django
I found it useful. I've been using Django casually in hobby projects for a few years now and your article just taught me about the N+1 query problem, so thanks!
qot··on The New Ten-Factor Authentication Processes
It's true, I tried it out: https://imgur.com/a/cJ51inY

The list of possible answers can be very long. When they don't recognize your device, you select the answer from a subset.

qot··on Apple explicitly asks employees to merge their personal and work accounts
You are missing the forest for the trees. This entire feature is a privacy violation.

> The alternative is upload everything unencrypted to providers who then scan there

No, the alternative is to not do any scanning.

qot··on Password Managers
I recommend adding a constant "PIN" you remember in your head to the end of each password in your password manager. It only takes a couple seconds to type it after the password manager auto-types the stronger, longer password.
qot··on Court rules encrypted email provider Tutanota must monitor messages
Could you just ban the two accounts? That way you don't have to monitor them. I'm sure you could come up with a plausible terms of service reason.
qot··on Robotic harvester plucks an Apple every 7 seconds
No, if a bit flip is detected the packet is simply resent:

> If there is a data error and the CRC check fails, however, the receiver will not reply with an ACK, and the transmitter is required to resend the data with the same toggle bit. The transmitter will continue to resend the same data with the same toggle bit until the receiver ACKs its reception.

qot··on The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (2015)
But you are wrong: it's exactly double the odds.

If you bought all the tickets, do you think you'd have over 100% chance of winning?

Edit: looks like leephillips beat me to it

qot··on Robotic harvester plucks an Apple every 7 seconds
> The problem with USB is that the protocol is designed with no data loss in mind

USB employs two error checking methods to ensure that data is sent correctly:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130615145009/http://www.totalp...

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