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runxel··on I Built My Own Audio Player
Huh, iTunes is not a thing anymore... so how would that work exactly? Genuine question, what do I miss here?
runxel··on WordPress Is in Trouble
If you haven't yet: Now's the best time to migrate away. You should try out Kirby[0]. No affiliation, but this thing sparked my interest in web development again when I first heard about it.

[0]https://getkirby.com/

runxel··on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
It's the story of good hardware but bad software all over again. I always wondered why except for Apple nobody gets this right. I know, it's somewhat totally different, but man, it surely can't be that hard (especially not effing 30 million bucks hard).

Luckily I only use my Sonos IKEA lamp only with Air Play, but the few times I have to use their app? Bonkers. Absolutely trash.

runxel··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
Because it is stupid, that's why.

If only I had a dollar for every time I was blocked somewhere just because somebody else had used the IP just before me to do bad stuff. Worst offenders out there never clear the list, even. In a world of a shortage of IPv4 that approach is just madness.

It's also the opposite of effective. More like bogus effectiveness. Only hurts innocent bystanders.

runxel··on Cats are (almost) liquid
Oh but that is old news!

"On the Rheology of Cats":

https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-...

runxel··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
Still doing IP bans in the year 2024? Lmao.
runxel··on Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
Oh yeah, true. Thanks for pointing out.

It's just that in Europe the data is much more sparse to begin with. In many places Google didn't go multiple times, so there just can't be older data. On some streets however I see that if the data was really old (before ~2010/2012) Google probably decided that the quality was so bad – well, it really is – that they do not make it available. So even if there were multiple passes it is not a must that this feature comes available.

runxel··on Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
As a hobby historian (not really haha) I'm interested in old streets and names particularly.

Especially here in Europe / Germany, where entire quarters where bombed to rubbles newer streets do not match neither namely nor spatially.

I loved how you could "move back in time" in street view. I think that has been killed too? There is a lovely Twitter/X account for Detroit tho: https://x.com/DetroitStreetVu

runxel··on Google Cache is fully dead
Very sad to see it gone. It was always some kind of last resort. Internet Archive is lovely, don't get me wrong, but it relies mostly on people actively queueing up sites to save.

So most of the time for more obscure sites where the bitrot was already in place and they aren't loading anymore you could use the Google cache to get something out of it – where IA had nothing.

runxel··on Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II
On a related note: Those ships are highly sought after. At some point there will probably a startup using this data to salvage all these ships.

Why? Because it was before the nuclear bomb and all the other desasters that followed which actually permanently raised our background radiation levels. And because these ships were and still are underwater, they have been largely unaffected by this.

It might not seem much but apparently the radiation difference is enough, so for things that go into your body (like after an operation) only this old steel is used.

Or so I was told by a friend working in medical.

runxel··on I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services
I agree. Horrible writing. For a while I thought it's just some LLM output.

Not worth reading anyway, so you've lost nothing, OP.

runxel··on Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)
The US has done much much more nefarious things. I think it is totally possible – and convincing for that matter.

But another commenter already pointed out that she was pressed to write the book like that.

runxel··on Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)
Good to know. Thanks for pointing it out.
runxel··on Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)
There is a very good book by the french journalist Florence de Changy about MH370, which "solves" all the issues with most of the theories out there and proposes what really happened.

So far I've not come across a more sophisticated theory that still passes Occam's Razor.

runxel··on Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?
Can't say that I've had a bad experience. Love eSIMs!

In my iPhone I have one physical SIM for my private number and an eSIM for my business number. Works great. When traveling I disable the business number and instead use Airalo.

So far it's much more pleasant than a "real" SIM, especially when traveling. No hassle of getting a card etc.

runxel··on Ask HN: Why is there no email client based on Markdown?
It is bug ridden, with a long standing crufty code base nobody really knows how to interact with. It is getting some love nowadays, yes, but I think it will take some ages for it to be modern enough to have more devs willing to work on it.

Also TB does not support conversations (think of GMail), so you don't a full thread view. Pointless for operation.

I still use it, but just because Outlook is far worse.

runxel··on Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022)
I second those killer features.

Which software/apps are your favorites? I love Goodnotes, but not having infinitve canvas is a problem for me indeed. A bit weird to have physical constraints employed on a device living in the digital world where it should not apply.

runxel··on ChatGPT Has Captchas Now
Well, because I'm paying. I get that free tiers need some kind of "rate limiting" (because essentially this is that, as well). So even if I am a bot: I payed for the service.

Apart from that: The experience is shitty. Do not shove Captchas in my face.

runxel··on Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?
Definitely McMaster-Carr! Such a high information density, but perfectly legible.
runxel··on The Mongolian Meta
I was low key hoping for something Age of Empires II related... but GeoGuesser is fine, too.
runxel··on A formula for responsive font-size
There are some worst offenders who chose the fontsize based on the size of the viewports... and it get's ludicrous big at my work, where I have an ultra wide curved monitor.

Everybody please clamp!

runxel··on Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
Took a .dxf file and fed it to Magika. It says with confidence of 97% that that must be a PowerShell file. A classic .dwg could be "mscompress" (whatever that is), 81%, or a GIF. Both couldn't be further from the truth.

Common files are categorized successfully – but well, yeah that's not really an achievement. Pretty much nothing more than a toy right now.

runxel··on Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit
The Apple Gaming thing is the only thing that keeps me tempting to switch to Sonoma, even tho the rest of it is so bad and worth it.
runxel··on Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code
Now do it with hand-written formulas!
runxel··on I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
Amazing how the hostility is perpetuating all through HN here as well.

I have seen (and sadly self experienced!) this kind of story way too often. And let me tell you this: This guy is now burned by this bad interaction and is successfully shooed away.

And some folks wonder why "nerds" and "geeks" are seen as socially inapt...

I don't even think that Mr. Ellerman had any malicious intents. But it just shows again, that the so called people skills are nothing to be neglected when choosing leading figures.

To paraphrase George Carlin: "It's a big club. And you're not in it!"

runxel··on UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
That's of no surprise, because OpenGL does not work. Pretty useless, considering how many apps use that nowadays.
runxel··on Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
Just hire an architect?!

You'll need him anyway because of the building permit.

runxel··on Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
Yeah I was wondering the same. Why tf does this need to be on the latest MacOS?
runxel··on The culture map: How to navigate foreign cultures in business
Apparently this is also how the Brexit happened ;)

Legend has it that David Cameron asked Merkel. She said "No". He thought it means he can get what he wants – only to find out later, that indeed a German "no" is a clear and tight "no". But by then he already fell over his rhetoric...

runxel··on The Door Close Button
Oh, no worries. I did! :) Stylus makes the internet so much better.
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