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Jim Gregory, founder/co-owner, Bikes At Work (www.bikesatwork.com)
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watchdogtimer··on Lofi.co – Relax and Focus
Another good one is https://ambientsleepingpill.com/
watchdogtimer··on Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research (2019)
Should be marked 2019.
watchdogtimer··on China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs
Wonder what OS they'll be using.
watchdogtimer··on Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
> Hair cells die off when exposed to loud noises or drugs including certain chemotherapies and antibiotics.

Does this mean this treatment works only for these conditions, and not common aging-related loss?

watchdogtimer··on Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
In Librecad, you can enter line lengths while drawing using their '@' syntax, which indicates relative to the current point.
watchdogtimer··on Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu
Unfortunately, I don't think this is an option on aarch64 Linux.
watchdogtimer··on Industrial History: Railroad Scale Test Cars (2016)
Why are these cars always the second to last on the train?
watchdogtimer··on Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
That's what I thought. Thanks.
watchdogtimer··on Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
Is it possible to run a mail server behind a Cloudflare tunnel? Our ISP uses CGNAT, making it impossible to port forward.
watchdogtimer··on Spam blacklisting is out of control
I've been using the free tier at MailJet to relay mail for my server for several years and have had few problems. Several others offer free tiers too (SendinBlue, etc.)
watchdogtimer··on Ask HN: Can payment processors like Stripe and their fees be avoided?
We had such an account before Stripe and Braintree were in existence. The rates weren't significantly better than what Stripe or Braintree offered, which is why we switched. I assume that's still the case...?
watchdogtimer··on Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
Is there an equivalent for Android?
watchdogtimer··on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
This is one of the biggest benefits of using a virtual credit card from services like privacy.com or Capital One's Eno. Just create a card online specific to the service to pay for it, then cancel the card when you want to unsubscribe.

Capital One lets you create an unlimited number of cards at no charge.

watchdogtimer··on US Series I Savings Bonds Now Yielding 7.12%
FWIW, you can get purchase[0] up to an additional $5000 a year in paper format if you overpay your Federal income taxes and request the refund be paid as a paper I-bond.

[0] - https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/faq/faq_irstax...

watchdogtimer··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
I found a similar vulnerability in one of our vendors' online order system. I noticed after placing an order an integer in the order confirmation page URL. I reduced it by one and refreshed the page. Sure enough, I got all the order details of the previous customer's sale. Reducing _that_ URL by one got the next previous sale details etc. I notified the company about it. They fixed it, and in gratitude sent me a small package containing a pen and other office kitsch branded with their logo. Not much of a bug bounty, but the pen has proven useful.
watchdogtimer··on Programming PIC32 Microcontroller with Rust
The MX32 series PICs, as well as most "modern" 16F and 18F PICs can be programmed with a low-voltage programming (LVP) mode using the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi or 32-bit ARM single-board computer (e.g. Orange Pi Zero) and the free open-source in-circuit serial program Pickle[0].

I mostly use Great Cow BASIC[1] with 16F and 18F series PICs on my projects. My workflow[2] is to connect the PIC to a breadboard as in the article, then connect the Pi to the pins on the breadboard using dupont cables. I then ssh into the Pi, write my program in vim on the Pi, compile the program using the command-line version of GCB, and flash it to the PIC using Pickle. (Not sure if this workflow would work in this case, however--will the pic32-rs compiler work on ARM?)

As a bonus, most PICs can be configured so the program pins also are serial UART pins, making it possible to use the same connection for serial I/O between the PIC and the Pi.

[0]-https://wiki.kewl.org/dokuwiki/projects:pickle

[1]-http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/

[2]-https://www.pedalpc.com/blog/program-pic-raspberry-pi/

watchdogtimer··on Zerotier – multiple vulnerabilities lead to private network access
Tailscale perhaps?
watchdogtimer··on Google introduces $50 4G smartphone
Not sure what the big deal is about this. I'm posting this on a similar-spec'd Moto E6 I bought new last month for $59 that included enough minutes and data to last me a year (as I mostly use it on wifi). Service is thru Tracfone (a Verizon MVNO). Phone is responsive with no bloatware or forced ads. Phone and plan are available here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/283841361848 .
watchdogtimer··on Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
Here's a research paper on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626700/
watchdogtimer··on Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
Same with rural communities here in the Midwest. We would love to have FAANG refugees move here.
watchdogtimer··on Hacking a $200 Under Desk Exercise Bike
I think how well you can get "into the zone" while being physically active depends partly on how physically active you are to be begin with. If your body is not used to cycling or walking on a treadmill, then you're going to find it difficult to multitask when doing that activity.

I have used a bike desk for more than a decade. I have no difficulty getting into the zone; in fact, I find the rhythmic motion actually helps.

You can get far more exercise while you work than you can in your free time, simply because time spent working > available free time for most people. It all depends on how long and how much you exert yourself. Based on my desk's power meter, I burn about 1200 calories/day while I work.

watchdogtimer··on Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API
You could do this using a robots.txt file (assuming the scraper obeys it, of course).
watchdogtimer··on Show HN: NiMH Battery Tester
Nice work. How does this method of evaluating batteries compare to measuring a battery's resistance as found on some chargers?
watchdogtimer··on List of Leaf Vegetables
I'm looking for a leafy vegetable that I can use raw in salads and grows well in the summer in our climate (midwest US). Lettuces and spinach bolt in the heat, the chards I've tried are too acidic tasting (due to their oxalic acid content), and kale always gets plastered with aphids. Any suggestions?
watchdogtimer··on Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
I really like that font.
watchdogtimer··on An OpenBSD Email Server Using OpenSMTPD, Dovecot, Rspamd, and RainLoop
What are the pros vs cons of running a stack like this compared to something more common on Linux like Postfix-Dovecot-Spam Assassin?
watchdogtimer··on Hacker Public Radio
One of the best (and most prolific) HPR hosts is Klaatu. He has his own podcast at http://gnuworldorder.info/ .
watchdogtimer··on Gary, Indiana to be first U.S. city to manufacture smart phones, tablets
One of the features of the phone is its supposed ability to mine cryptocurrency :(.
watchdogtimer··on Espruino: JavaScript for Microcontrollers
FWIW, Great Cow Basic (http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/) is available for both PIC and AVR microcontrollers and still actively maintained. I've used it a lot on several PIC projects.
watchdogtimer··on A clear, strong, and thermally insulated wood for energy efficient windows
Not sure you'd want a window that easily dissolves in water...
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