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squeezingswirlson Radio was the original overhyped technology

> Haven't found a low-tech way to make a piezo earphone just yet

The closer way I've found is this guy making it with a recycled transformer, a hard drive magnet, a jar lid, some wood, and some cables.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEMXlLqwwTA (First part. 7:07 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXpprO5h79I (Second part. 9:32 min.)

Those videos are in Spanish but subtitles are available.

squeezingswirlson I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

You can use something like https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix

squeezingswirlson I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

I use DDG daily but there's one thing that grinds my gears, and undermines their privacy by default statement.

They leak the searches in the URL like this https://duckduckgo.com/?q=this+is+not+private+at+all&ia=web

squeezingswirlson So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers

I'm having fun reading and playing with 'Codebreaking, a practical guide' by Elonka Dunin & Klaus Schmeh.

https://www.codebreaking-guide.com/

squeezingswirlson Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe

Nice, added to the queue of documentaries to watch. Thanks.

squeezingswirlson Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe

Saharan dust likes to travel, that's for sure.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...

squeezingswirlson Who wants to live for ever? Ageing can be cured–and, in part, it soon will be

Related: Bruce Sterling's novel 'Holy Fire'.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4803

squeezingswirlson Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

That's a good point. I didn't know about that, and I'll have to think about it.

Anyway paying FB's mafia style extortion probably isn't the solution.

squeezingswirlson Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

I do believe small brands can get more ROI using social media than wasting their money on digital ads.

squeezingswirlson Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

'When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...

squeezingswirlson Pine64 November Update: KDE PinePhone CE and a Peek into the Future

I don't know about other OSes but it's available on UBPorts, and it works fine.

https://open-store.io/app/teleports.ubports

squeezingswirlson PinePhone – KDE Community edition

I haven't used plasma-mobile yet but in UBPorts you can sync your photos with your Nextcloud instance. Another option is Syncthing.

squeezingswirlson “Homeworld” will be the default theme for Debian 11

Juliette Taka's proposal for Debian 11 is very interesting but I even like more her previous proposals, especially her "Moonlight" theme for Debian 10.

http://www.juliettetaka.com/fr/debian

squeezingswirlson Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself

She looks like John Belushi doing a Saturday Night Live sketch

squeezingswirlson The persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity

Exactly, and we should keep in mind they're exporting their totalitarian surveillance model to a lot of countries https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-survei...

squeezingswirlson Escaping the Dark Forest

Addendum https://zengo.com/generalized-front-running-ethereum-arbitra...

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

Have you tried https://doc.e.foundation/devices/tissot/?

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

I mean /e/ compared to Android. LOS is a good option too.

squeezingswirlson Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories

Exactly, for this they'd need to run an ad blocker and a script blocker, such as uBlock Origin and NoScript.

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

Are you running Android in your device? Maybe you could give https://doc.e.foundation/devices/jfltexx/ a try if you want a more private experience.

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

> there was no way to do offline maps for example

That's not true, you can use https://open-store.io/app/pure-maps.jonnius

Offline mapping is possible by installing OSM Scout Server https://open-store.io/app/osmscout-server.jonnius

About the apps, you can help developing native apps using https://clickable-ut.dev/en/latest/

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

Yes, it's the same hardware with a different distro pre-installed, and a different back cover.

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

To develop native apps for UBports (Ubuntu Touch) you can use https://clickable-ut.dev/en/latest/

About Android apps, there's the Anbox project but it needs a lot of work yet.

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

You're mostly right but there's the Anbox project to somewhat fill that gap.

squeezingswirlson PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition

Meanwhile you can install Mobian in any Pinephone, and support the Mobian Project here https://liberapay.com/mobian/donate

squeezingswirlson Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings

I don't like surveillance capitalism at all, and I hope we can stop it once and for all.

I'm also terrified about other kind of developments like https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-a...

So yeah maybe a not so lame cyberpunk future.

squeezingswirlson Fairphone Livestream: A new milestone for fairer electronics

Fairphone has introduced the new Fairphone 3+, now with 48/16MP cameras and 40% recycled plastics.

To watch just the ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnao1Dm5vKg

squeezingswirlson Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?

IMO one of the reasons that make that movie such a masterpiece is that it can totally 'change' depending on the viewer's perspective.