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roneooon Ask HN: Who needs beta testers?

https://audio.phoni.es/

an experiment bringing together Hugo and Internet Archive to provide a rock solid, lightweight and ethical solution to serve audio files.

The main objective is to share loads of audio files (hundreds of gigabytes are fine) without the hassle of Youtube / Dropbox / Soundcloud etc

Contact: https://audio.phoni.es/contact/

roneooon Ask HN: An Open Source Alternative to Google Calendar

Nextcloud, synced with Etar on my android phone

roneooon Ask HN: Why do we allow Equifax, Transunion, and Experian to exist?

To get an overview of these (toxic IMHO) companies, I strongly recommend this episode of Last Week Tonight:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA

roneooon Ask HN: Ways to make Git and Git(hub/lab) easier for non-tech folk?

Gitlab provides several web interfaces:

- a basic WYSIWYG when you click on "Edit"

- Gitpod and Gitlab IDE, based on Vs code in the browser, allowing custom settings and extension

roneooon Ask HN: What relatively new project/movement are you excited about?

The jamstack for sure

roneooon Ask HN: Do You Like Your Smartphone?

A Samsung S4 Neo, paid 35€, set up with /e/ (an adaptation of LineageOS).

It does what I tell him to do, and I've seen no ads or unwanted notifications since I use it (4 years now)

roneooon Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts

I prefer localGfonts, "Online tool to provide fonts and css snippets for self-hosting using google fonts"

See https://labs.binaryunit.com/localgfonts/

roneooon French Nuclear Power Crisis Frustrates Europe’s Push to Quit Russian Energy

The French nuclear industry was mostly privatized and is ran now by Areva (rebranded Orano after several scandals)

roneooon Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites

I disagree, the live server is super practical. Are you sure it takes a lot if energy to the dev BTW?

I especially like Hugo plugged with Netlify CMS. Free, powerful, and robust.

The learning curve is steep but it worth it.

Only caveat though: the "Bus factor" is very low and it's sometime intimidating to contribute on the Github tracker

roneooon Ask HN: Have a Freemium plan? Share your product here

Totally free Jamstack themes repository: https://jamstack.club

It's a WIP, feedback welcome!

roneooon Where can I find a free online spell checker?

Grammarly is nice (as a non native English speaker)

roneooon Show HN: Open-Source Calendly Alternative

See also cal.com

roneooon Ask HN: Secure Messenger that doesn't Leak Metadata?

Briar maybe?

roneooon Ask HN: Custom domain email for professionals?

OVH provides email service for 4$/month: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/emails/

The first mail client setup is not obvious though

roneooon Ask HN: Working Offline for 8 Hours?

Doc can be downloaded with Zeal

roneooon Ask HN: Best approaches to archiving interactive web journalism/writing

This firefox extension does a good job most of the time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/single-file/

This is for personal/offline backup in the first place. Do you need the possibility to share the archive?

roneooon Ask HN: Any code editors that can work across platforms?

(Note that gitlab.com has the same feature)

roneooon Ask HN: Any code editors that can work across platforms?

Browser editors like github.dev maybe?

roneooon Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?

Alright, thanks for the update!

roneooon Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?

Promnesia is meant for that (I didn't test it though): https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html

roneooon LibreTube main devs account has been suspended by GitHub without any reasons

Use Newpipe

roneooon Ask HN: How to get clients for a new, small software agency?

The book "Design is a job" by Mike Montero provides precious advice, useful for designer and other members of a web agency

roneooon Ask HN: What are the emerging technologies still in their infancy/hobby stage?

Headless CMSs somehow

roneooon Ask HN: Alternatives to Vercel?

Netlify provides a good DX

roneooon Nano Text Editor

I would recommend 'micro' instead, with human-friendly keyboard shorcuts

roneooon Russia Funded Climate Activists

French fracking opponent here. Fracking is a technique we have to fight against, with or without the foreign money.

This guy doesn't deserve an in depth analyse:

"Anti-fracking "climate activists" are, in reality, pro-scarcity Malthusians who hate modern life & Western civilization"

roneooon How to tell if site is DDoS attacked vs. it's geoblocking

Some online services allows you to check the status of a website from other countries, see for example https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

roneooon Ask HN: What are the Android apps you can't live without?

> Do you manage your own server for DavX?

No, I use a Nextcloud provided by a non-profit I know.

Some Nextcloud instances are provided for free by other french non-profit organizations, you can find a list here: [chatons.org](https://www.chatons.org/search/by-service?service_type_targe...). Please checkout their website for details -- provided services and conditions may vary

roneooon Kyiv: Des visiophones qui renseignent les Russes? – Reflets.info

French speaker here: your translation is correct

roneooon Ask HN: What are the Android apps you can't live without?

Signal

From Fdroid:

- K9mail

- Mullvad

- Etar + DavX

- Markor

- Newpipe

- Red moon

- Nextcloud (requires hosted service)

- Wallabag (requires hosted service)

Non FOSS:

- Aurora store

- Waze

- Google maps