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thekingshorseson Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

This week, there was two different settlement close to $800K related to someone posting and getting arrested about what charlie kirk said.

This woman shouldn't settle for anything less.

thekingshorseson Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

I agree, specially for simple apps. it's much easier to upgrade if you are not relying on 3rd party or NPM's. Don't have to worry about code injections.

I have these two https://reddit.premii.com and https://hn.premii.com/ both works without any changes. Reddit will stop working once they kill the apis but until then it will work.

thekingshorseson USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994

Just so you know India buys USD equivalent middle eastern currency to pay for Russian oil.

thekingshorseson Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

Interesting. So if you want to delete FB account and all your data, all you have to do is VPN from Iran?

thekingshorseson Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase

Any examples?

thekingshorseson Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn

https://hn.premii.com/#/profile/ilaksh/comments

HN has API.

thekingshorseson CSS Text Box Trim

Safari is the only browser that doesn't support extending HTML element

https://caniuse.com/?search=Custom%20Elements

thekingshorseson Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

They are shit. ionos.com Bad reivews on reddit.

thekingshorseson A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years

It feels like science is progressing in all aspects except spinal disc replacement/regeneration.

thekingshorseson Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>

One of the benefits of using the browser is that the generated PDF will be using vectors/fonts etc whereas Canvas will be mostly an image in the PDF. Not a big deal for the most use cases.

thekingshorseson CSS for printing to paper

Well, you can use .pdfp to print it on Windows.

You will need adobe acrobat (free). This is a very old trick but still works on Windows 10. We use it with the latest edge.

I do wish that the browser had a special direct printing option.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.text.pdf/c/dHuBMsaovco?pli=...

thekingshorseson The business of check cashing

I have FD in an Indian bank, and I lost the receipt/certificate they gave me. It's going to be a month-long process to get my money back.

In America, it's not like Indian bureaucracy levels of insane slowness.

thekingshorseson What PWA Can Do Today

> 2D barcode

Which JS library do you use?

I couldn't find a single library that can reliably scan PDF417 barcodes.

thekingshorseson Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

.pdfp extension adobe acrobat configured to auto print pdfp extension

I don't think there is any free/open option to scan from scanner.

The other option is to use puppeteer to print directly.

Let me know, if you figure it out.

thekingshorseson Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

I m that cynical boomer.

I use mostly apps like Whatsapp, and garage door opener.

Can't use banks apps as you can only login to one account.

Everything I do is on the browser. https://hn.premii.com & https://reddit.premii.com - almost 10 years old, it still works. No need to update the framework or need someone's approval.

thekingshorseson Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

PiHole blocks the email verification link/domain.

thekingshorseson Show HN: An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor

Yesterday, someone posted a really nice editor too.

I wish one of this is available as a custom element with attributes and callbacks, and I can just use it.

thekingshorseson Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension

If you don't comment, https://hn.premii.com works pretty good without extension or anything.

thekingshorseson Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical

I use google authenticator. I backup the QR code in the TrueCrypt vault when I add a new account to the google auth. I am not sure how secure it is, but I am very scared of losing access to google authenticator.

thekingshorseson PWAs in App Stores

FYI: Google think that signup email from you is a spam.

thekingshorseson Alexa, what is my wifi password?

Any hotel that uses Alexa devices are vulnerable!

I hope google chromecast don't show the password.

thekingshorseson Alexa, what is my wifi password?

Ruckus offers one time PSK and PSK per vlan. Very easy. I started seperating my home devices on a different vlan.

Mikrotik, you can associte PSK with mac address. it's not easy to setup but basically, PSK & mac address need to match in order to access the network. I think it also puts user in the configured vlan.

thekingshorseson Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India

Bhai mere. stop following whatsapp propaganda. Hindernberg or no one else is banned from doing any reports in the USA.

thekingshorseson Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India

So money/equity/stocks are not guaranteed by anyone?

thekingshorseson California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms

> High Schoolers were having less sex than ever anyway.

I thought so too until I moved to a small town in Ohio, and learned about teen pregnancies.

May be less teen having sex but more teens having unprotected sex because they wanted to get their noodle wet.

thekingshorseson California bill would require high schools to hand out free condoms

An influential study finds that legalized abortion following Roe v. Wade accounts for a large portion of the decline in U.S. crime rates since the 1990s. But some economists are not convinced. [1]

Abortion and Crime, Revisited -podcast [2]

https://journalistsresource.org/economics/abortion-crime-res...

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite...

thekingshorseson New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint

I wish I can automate some of the banking tasks. I tried but couldn't automate Chase, Citi or CapitalOne.

If anyone has a working script to login and perform simple task on one of these sites, please share it.

thekingshorseson Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

And reinstall it like native apps on factory reset or transfer like native apps to a new device.

thekingshorseson Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment

Ohio is not a swing state.

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https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Ohio_state_governme...