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seddinon After a decade as Apple’s assistant, Siri still hasn’t figured out the job

I find it pretty useful to set up reminders when working without having to unlock the phone or even pick it up.

seddinon Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

I have also gotten this emails this last couple of weeks.

seddinon Ask HN: How to Retire in an Year?

Sell something for 100$ to 1000 clients, that's 100k per year.

seddinon Radio was the original overhyped technology

Why reading this post felt so weird? Like it was written by some AI.

seddinon Student gets Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone

I must admit, it doesn't look that bad!

seddinon I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there

Yes it does happen to me too

seddinon Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

Glad that I have been using Firefox as my main web browser for the last 6 years.

seddinon A battery invented 120 years before its time

The Baghdad Battery dated around 200 BC which are speculated to have been used for electroplatting gold and silver jewellery.

More information about these devices: http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/baghdadbatteries.htm

seddinon Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available

It might be the best time to download a copy of your Google Drive data, plus your emails, just in case...

seddinon Robinhood, Trading 212 and others go down amid AMC and GameStop stock frenzy

DEGIRO for example does not work AT ALL. It is still showing prices from last day. What an unreliable service.

seddinon Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)

Its like a self extracting zip file

seddinon Show HN: I did a little thing in V

This is the first time I hear about the V language and I wanted to share this little tool that only weights >400kb and is a client for Slack, Skype and Telegram.

https://volt-app.com/

seddinon Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections

Is there something like this but for Windows?

seddinon Governments spurred the rise of solar power

Here in Spain you can get fined if you own too many solar panels or do not have a contract with an electricity company.

seddinon Ask HN: Why didn’t Cyberpunk do a beta program and avoid all the bugs?

it could be a marketing tactic, look at how everyone is talking about it

seddinon Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development

Electron apps or worse.

seddinon Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots

It is still more expensive than exploiting illegal immigrants in southern Spain.

seddinon A Modern JavaScript Tutorial

The addon Privacy Badger blocks it by default.

seddinon Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

This is why I've bought a TV with no internet access, when I want to watch something I just plug a Chromebook or whatever laptop I have via HDMI and watch whatever I want without no ads (thank you so much uBlock Origin devs).

seddinon DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations (2020): $750k to Organizations Worldwide

How are they making so much money?

seddinon Ask HN: Why Reddit's New Website Is So Slow?

I'm glad we still have access to https://old.reddit.com/

seddinon Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built

The media always blames Mark for every bad action that his company does, but what about all the other employees, aren't they just as guilty as him?

seddinon Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire

David Malan is such a nice person, I remember when I was taking CS50 and found a syntax error and emailed him about it and he was so kind and fixed it.

seddinon The global fertility rate is falling

How young were you when you got married and when you started having kids?

seddinon Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator

Free, but why do I need to login with GitHub to even try it?

seddinon Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

Maybe XAMPP bundles that Microsoft build of PHP.

seddinon Windows98 Running in the Browser

Probably it is being developed on really fast computers and not being optimized or tested on not that fast computers or laptops.

seddinon You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain

Now we need a trick for the mobile app too

seddinon Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

I discovered wiby.me the other day and found this site called neocities and there I was able to find a large amount of blogs/personal sites with cool designs that reminded me of the old days on the internet.