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riston··on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
That is one interesting experiment, also hoping for cheaper and larger panels.

Here is my ~75euros ESP32 eink panel experiment: https://github.com/riston/eink-assist-screen/tree/main

riston··on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
I think with more outdoor activities, it's important to know what is waiting you in a few hour. For cycling example wind and rain information is rather good to know.
riston··on Timeline of the xz open source attack
xz most likely wasn't the only library that was targeted, there could be other similar projects as well which we haven't discovered yet. From the timeline you can see the social engineering part was quite big part.

Just thinking out loud, would it possible to go over with LLM and analyse existing OSS mailing lists and issues to classify such sentiment from the users?

riston··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)
I am using a similar structure a single text file usually split by each day, which also gives a good start to writing my standup notes.

I tried to avoid bringing in some strange formatting rules etc, quite free form. With a single file, it's effortless to go back and find out maybe why something was done in that way or why it wasn't done at all.

Looks kind of like a work diary to me, I have seen people trying to do a similar thing by bringing too much structure/org modes etc and making it so complicated that they forgot at first why they are doing it.

KISS

riston··on Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
Interesting news, I hope to see the WASM based postgres for dev machine integration tests definitely would make things easier then the current setup through Docker based containers.
riston··on Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown
The problem with Bun currently is the missing killer feature, there is no absolute reason to switch over or I might be wrong?
riston··on Google Search Is Dying
For me it seems that Google search basically has leverage to either make more money or show more useful results to their customers and they have chosen the first option to make more money.
riston··on Google Search Is Dying
I agree with the article points definitely, also quite surprised that this issue hasn't raised by google itself or the money outweighs the product usefulness in this area? Non english searches are even worse, usually some huge companies create their landing pages which get higher SEO/paid keyword scores then the actual useful pages.

Doing the reddit trick also for the reviews, but at some point it would also get broken as some marketing people will ruin it by buying reviews etc. Authentic reviews on products/services looks like unsolved problem :) (startup idea).

riston··on Using 4G LTE wireless modems on a Raspberry Pi
Looking for a similar solution, I had one Huawei USB 3G stick lying around and used that with RPI 3. Everything worked just fine but after a couple of days it would randomly disconnect and wouldn't restore the connection so currently, I am looking for some 3G/4G router to do the same job.
riston··on Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
I really like HS especially filling the macOS missing features place like for windows management + either opening/focusing specific applications with shortcuts.
riston··on Keep a Log
I am using also similar append only log like for every day, I usually try to write down the flows/random ideas/doing/done items there. I haven't brought in a structure overhead so everything is in a single file(couple thousand lines long) plain text file. My main idea is to keep everything sectioned by dates # dd-mm-YYYY # which is really great. I use sublime search and grep which works really great to lookup some older context and commands. Also going back to couple years old notes is really easy and valuable why some of the decisions were made.

- KISS

riston··on Where did my 256 GB go? Mobile storage Analysis [pdf]
What tools/apps are you using to figure out the size of applications and directories that are using the most?
riston··on Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
I agree with B. Gates and hopefully the crypto bubble will burst again with massive bank ran to sell their assets (it will happen but no-one knows when). Good luck
riston··on Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech
I hope to see some more alternatives to Google as the search results provided by Google last six months contain in most of the case some phishing/scam sites.

Not sure why these pages aren't removed from the result lists?

riston··on Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)
About the smart home space, there is also Home Assistant which basically provides all the tools to keep everything isolated from internet.
riston··on A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
Did they figure out who were behind these attacks? These seems to be quite sophisticated and quite long taking attacks to dig so deeply into SO system.
riston··on Welcome to the Old Internet Again
I liked the pre-popup era, then the popups appeared, then browsers/extensions tried to kill these. Now EU created Cookie law which brought again back these awesome popups which you need to confirm on every page in a different way. Seems like popups is the solution to everything to get your attention. :)
riston··on Apple Watch momentum is building
For me Apple Watch is missing the key features

- Always on display

- I would like to charge the watch only once a month

Nice to have list:

- GPS tracking possibility

- Mobile notifications

Currently Amazfit Bip fills the checkboxes for all the requirements so I continue using that :)

riston··on Social Cooling (2017)
It seems the repeating topic which get's heated up again this time release of a documentary.
riston··on Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml
Would be good if someone adds an explanation why this new approach is better, is it that the OCaml is faster, more efficient algorithms were used, etc?
riston··on My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
I have been using a single text (markdown) file for at least five years instead of the todo list I usually write what is done during the day and sometimes add important tasks that need to be done. I try to keep everything fairly plain and avoid overcomplicating the structure. For me this provides an easy way to go over the history, usually try to document more complex devops operations, decisions etc.

I use Sublime to keep the document open there, works really well with larger files.

Each day begins with separating section: # 08.02.2020 # ... # 09.02.2020 #

riston··on Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server
I have been using ZeroTier(https://www.zerotier.com/) much simpler solution to setup.
riston··on Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
You can create env variables, local variables, use response results in next request etc.
riston··on Show HN: I created Postwoman, an online, open-source API request builder
Working on integrating other companies APIs and find declarative approach easier like VSCode has this extension where you could write all API calls in code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
riston··on When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
There's a lot of discussions that Slack should go for a full native application. Yes memory/CPU usage would be much smaller but then again this cross-platform maintenance hell begins. You can look at Skype's example it didn't end well, Linux version was lagging totally behind, also Mac client wasn't up to date and now Skype also released web client :D.
riston··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
I have several Raspberry Pi's in use: - One Zero with AudioQuest Dragonfly for PiMusicBox - RPI v1 with a camera for motion detection - RPI v3 for HomeAssistant Hub
riston··on Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio [video]
Everything is awesome until you have to go through the installation for Tensorflow and OpenCV which is a real PITA. Are there any alternatives for this also would Tensorflow Lite work better for RPi?
riston··on Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
Instead of blaming the original authors of the package start contributing to OSS.
riston··on Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
I love Sublime with markdown notes.
riston··on 2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
I stopped using FB because the feed was full of promoted posts, which made me really mad. And when your interested in finance/fintech/investment you get some really suspicious(most likely some scam) ads for promoting some X crypto-coins.
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