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romsebon Et Tu, Signal?

If you are looking for e2e encryption, it all depends on which features you need (like voice messages) and how good usability and UX needs to be for your family and friends to adopt the new tool.

Some candidates are

* GNU Jami: https://jami.net/

* Matrix with Element: https://element.io/

romsebon It Doesn't Work

Disabling issues is possible.[1] Telegram's official Android client repository disabled issues a few years ago.[2]

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-gith...

[2] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

romsebon Ask HN: Are there good materials for stateless microservice patterns?

Did you find good material somewhere?

romsebon Nextcloud Hub 21

Although I use docker for most projects, for Nextcloud I decided to go with the snap version, which was very easy to use.[1]

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap

romsebon I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years

What kind of shoes are you allowed to wear in a gym in Canada?

romsebon Rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest

As a solution to this problem, Rupert Sheldrake proposes his hypothesis of "Morphic Resonance" [1]. While it's a far-out idea and rejected by the scientific community, I found it an interesting read nonetheless.

[1] https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introdu...

romsebon Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

I would just like to say thank you for creating mosh, I don't know if I could live without it anymore.

romsebon You're enlightened – now what?

That is beautiful, thank you for sharing.

romsebon Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds

Another way to clean masks is to put them in a bowl of hot water (at least 70°C) and add detergent. Let it sit for a few minutes and you‘re good to go.

romsebon Plastic pollution: 'Hidden' chemicals build up in seabirds

The plastics are polyethylene. You can find the study here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)31670...

"The five chemical additives were chosen from those detected in a screening analysis of plastics found in the stomach of seabirds (n = 194) [13]: a flame retardant, deca-BDE, which is composed of several PBDE congeners, dominated by 2,20,3,30,4,40,5,50,6,60-decabromodiphenylether (BDE209); three benzotriazole ultraviolet (UV) stabilizers, specifically 2-(2-hydroxy-3-tert-butyl-5-methylphenyl)-5-chlorobenzotriazole (UV-326), 2-(3,5-di-tert-amyl-2-hydroxyphenyl) benzotriazole (UV-328), and 2-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxyphenyl)-5-chlorobenzotriazole (UV-327); and one benzophenone UV stabilizer, 2-hydroxy-4-octyloxybenzophenone (BP-12). Industrially, deca-BDE is mixed with polyolefins at a concentration of 5% to 8% by weight [14], and benzotriazole and benzophenone UV stabilizers are mixed at 0.05% to 2% by weight [15]."

romsebon Lockheed Martin to develop ground-launched hypersonic missile

In your opinion, do you think Commander David Fravor is lying about his story or do you think he is "naive" and being purposely misled?

romsebon Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners

All gone unfortunately, but thanks for sharing.

romsebon Show HN: LessPhone – A minimal Android launcher to reduce phone use

Try Light Android Launcher, it's open source and offers theme support. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.postapczuk.lalaun...

romsebon Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

You can choose between US, UK and AUS.

romsebon Lesser-Known Search Engines That Are Worth Checking Out

> Learn about a handful of helpful search engines that are not Google, Bing, or any of the other really obvious ones

The engines behind all of the general-purpose search products mentioned in the article are still Google or Bing.

I would love to see a competitor.

romsebon I’ve used Dvorak for 10 years, and it’s not all that

I now use Dvorak German Type II for more than 12 years.

romsebon Chromecast Support for Firefox

chrome://cast works fine for me on MacOS/Chrome 71 without being signed in to a Google account.

romsebon Screen time: how much is too much?

Books, board games, cooking together

romsebon Why Telegram is insecure (2015)

The App Store MacOS version of Telegram offers end-to-end encrypted chats.

romsebon LastPass Service Disruption: What Happened and What’s Next

> a server failed in a way that overwhelmed the internal network, slowing down other servers and network devices, as well as the connectivity between our data centers.

How does this work? Can someone speculate on how this might be possible?

romsebon Why I’m Worried About Google

For me it's a long list of missing features (using Mac OS).

* No Chromecast support

* Missing pinch to zoom support (smooth as butter in Chrome). Possible via Add-on "Multi-touch zoom" [1] in Fx but it's very sluggish.

* Youtube is much slower, also some features don't work there, like being able to scroll down when having a fullscreen video open. Can be fixed by installing "Classic Youtube" [2]

* Fullscreen is broken for me, I was not able to hide the address bar and tab bar. I had to install "Fullscreen Plus"

* Some extensions don't work as good, like Dark Reader [3]

* No good alternatives for some Chrome extensions, like "The Great Suspender" [4] or "Vanilla Cookie Manager" (Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox)

* Pdfium performs much better than Firefox' solution. Unfortunately Mozilla abandoned Project Mortar [5].

I could go on with the list. Don't get me wrong, I will still stick to Firefox even though Google Chrome is the superior product performance- and feature-wise.

[1] https://github.com/haxiomic

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

[5] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project

romsebon Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

It does look like a very polished Markdown editor and is available for Mac, Win and Linux. Unfortunately it is neither open source, nor will it be free after the Beta.

romsebon Show HN: kubectl-tmux-ssh – A kubectl plugin to ssh into kubernetes nodes

What are typical situations where I would use this tool?

romsebon The Shallowness of Google Translate

Put a period at the end of the sentence and it changes from

> Segelschiffe in rauer See verlangen Ärger.

> Segelschiffe in rauher See sind ein Problem.

romsebon How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video]

Here is the complete "Breaking Bitcoin" event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCE2OzKIab8&feature=youtu.be...

romsebon LessPass: sync-less open source password manager

I am surprised Stanford PwdHash [0] has not been mentioned yet as an alternative, which has extensions for Chrome, Fx, Safari, Android, iOS, Terminal and other software.

[0] https://pwdhash.com/

romsebon No, Spooning Isn’t Sexist. The Internet Is Just Broken

Isn't this just pushing the problem away from us? The problem being: Why do I still click on an article even if I know it will not be worth my time, attention and energy in any way.

"Effectively this means that you're not paying with your attention". I don't see how this is true. The owner of the website might just think I don't pay with my attention. But I did.

romsebon Mail-in-a-Box Security Guide

With applications like Textsecure a lot of sensitive metadata accrues, still. One way around this can be https://bitmessage.org

romsebon A dark knight is better than no knight: Why we need Bitcoin despite its flaws

I met a lot of people who say it is a "Ponzi scheme" and bad for the environment because of the required energy.

romsebon Butterfly Player – Open-source music player for Windows

I think it is worth mentioning that DeaDBeeF is also one of the few players which has support for OPUS.