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skipnup··on Asus Bike Booster
But a 9 year old is dependant on their parents ...?
skipnup··on Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
Anyone here who uses kagi in a language other than English? Specifically German? Is it any good?
skipnup··on Gemini 3
The Swiss and German railway clocks actually work the same way and stop for (half a?) second while the minute handle progresses.

https://youtu.be/wejbVtj4YR0

skipnup··on Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python
Doesn't look like it:

> PlutoBook depends on the following external libraries:

> Required: cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, fontconfig, expat, icu

> Optional: curl, turbojpeg, webp (enable additional features)

skipnup··on Space Selfie
He doesn't either, does he? But he's great in outlining how to get to the point of having enough idea to go through with his project.
skipnup··on BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
Correcting the number/date formatting will probably be the more challenging, yet still boring, Job, I guess.
skipnup··on Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
Don't know much about corporate traffic usage, but at some cheap VPS place like Hetzner you get 20TB traffic per month included für less than 4€.

Seems like a lot of traffic to me, probably is next to nothing or would cost more.

skipnup··on Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud
I switched to doing most of the automation in power automate

This of course only works with exchange afaik, but why else would I use outlook.

skipnup··on Wp2hugo: Best WordPress to Hugo migrator (written in Go)
The author of the software called it like that. Maybe quotes would still make sense.
skipnup··on Notepad Tab
It’s actually compressed. It uses https://github.com/nodeca/pako and then applies base64. Try entering hundreds of "a" and you’ll see that the base64 doesn’t really get much longer.
skipnup··on Small Things
And if you live with a toddler, even those have to exist and are necessary for becoming a healthy being. At least if they are met with understanding by the parents.
skipnup··on Windsor Typeface (2018)
https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ ?
skipnup··on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
It always was, you just didn't realize that as a student. At least here in Germany.
skipnup··on The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (2011)
Sounds about right...? End of November 2023 the average German worker hat 20 sick days already. Add 2 for December and 2 for good measure and you're at 2/month.
skipnup··on In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users
Same thing on Android, e.g., WhatsApp uses Google storage automatically for backups.
skipnup··on The Curse of Docker
But that could be said about each an any dependency.

And some (very rare) companies do enforce that, everyone else has to build up a bit of trust.

skipnup··on EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators
As the guy is German and most certainly uses ä/ö/ü/ß, he probably has an idea.
skipnup··on Laws of UX
From the site itself:

> 1. All processes have a core of complexity that cannot be designed away and therefore must be assumed by either the system or the user.

> 2. Ensure as much as possible of the burden is lifted from users by dealing with inherent complexity during design and development.

> 3. Take care not to simplify interfaces to the point of abstraction.

skipnup··on Displayport: A Better Video Interface
One extremely convenient situation for me is getting sorround sound from the TV to the AV receiver in a single cable.
skipnup··on TikTok is a threat. So is the rest of Big Tech
You wouldn't believe how much tiktok helps at parenting, giving tiny bits of information every day to help with the problems you have with a newborn. To have you constantly updated on first-aid for newborns...

Same thing also goes for a ton of other topics, eg. woodworking.

Of course, you have to get into the right circles first, bit there is so much knowledge, easy to grasp, not much time or effort needed. But it takes a couple of days to get there.

skipnup··on Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos
All the time actually. I have monthly folders, automatically backed up by my phone to the NAS. Each month my wife and I sift through the photos and delete all duplicates and boring stuff and then we have around 150 photos per month that we sometime just have on as a slideshow.

Yearly, we create printed photo albums that we look at regularly and show to our kids.

But all this only works after lots and lots of hours of manual work filtering the photos.

Still, over the last 15 years or so for two people we have way more than 100k photos stored on the NAS.

skipnup··on Show HN: I built an autopilot for the lunar lander game
Click on the red glowing "autopilot" link to turn on on (glowing green)
skipnup··on PhpBB 3.3.10
WoltLab Burning Board was the one big German counterpart to PhpBB, quite popular in Germany at the time.
skipnup··on The Pretty Good House
Not really a problem one would be aware of. Double glazing is the default since 50 years at least in Germany, so the manufacturing processes are quite good.

Still, leakages happen, you recognize that usually by water/steam between the two glass panes. If the windows aren't to old you can just switch out the glass leaving the plastic frames. If they're older (30 yrs) it's more economical to switch out glass and frames.

skipnup··on Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
In this case (it's was couple of years ago) it was a beta release by the manufacturer.

Thing is, to me as an end user it doesn't matter who's at fault, if it doesn't work it doesn't work and I'm only so motivated to investigate something (functionality wise) basic not working while on Windows all the basics run fine but the advanced stuff creates problems. With Linux on desktop I never arrived at the advanced stuff giving up at (some of) the basic stuff not working out of the box.

But I fully understand, from a technical standpoint drivers and daisy chained display probably aren't basic and Windows has hidden als the complexity from me for the last 20 years.

skipnup··on Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
My computer ran well with Linux with one display after instaing Linux. Then I tried to use a second, daisy chained, Displayport display. And the mess began. Confusing tips on forums, confusing and experimental drivers to install... And so on. Didn't manage to get it running.
skipnup··on Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware
Maybe for all devices published since 2016?
skipnup··on Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX
But you can just use the same syntax as LaTeX. Or a simplified version. Or use the GUI. It really isn't as bad as it seems at first glance.
skipnup··on A Web UI for Stable Diffusion
Is it any different than Photoshop content aware fill? Or using a camera?

Nobody would ever think about Adobe or Nikon having copyright claims over your pictures. For me it's just a tool, the artistic part is providing a good description/base image, refining and choosing the best output.

Anyway, I'm not a lawyer and we probably live in different countries, so it'll be interesting to wait for the first lawsuit.

skipnup··on Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items
You can just buy pallets of returned stuff, you'll find a bunch of websites selling those via google, e.g. https://www.restposten.de/palettenware/retourware/ for a German marketplace. Most of the times you won't know exactly whats inside.

If you're interested in unpacking, without buying pallets of stuff, theres a small trend by YouTube influencers buying a pallet or two and looking whats inside.

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