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yCloser··on A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local storage solutions
In the past I've been hacked for some owncloud lldap vulnerability.

Do not allow access to owncloud without a vpn!!

yCloser··on The laptop that won't die
I see absolutely nothing special in a pc that lives 10 years. Most pc last that long. And my centrino-1 vaio laptop from 2004 is still alive
yCloser··on A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions
I used to love

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobi...

but now it is a "14days free trial, then pay"

yCloser··on Could the dodo come back from extinction?
bringing back species because we'd like to taste them is somehow interesting
yCloser··on How Duolingo reignited user growth
I have a 2000 days streak... I finished the Japanese course twice, all gold. Now they changed and I am at unit ~45/90. It will take me ~45months to finish it again.

And I am still not able to understand even a basic Japanese dialogue

I wonder if Rosetta Stone is better

yCloser··on Unfolder for Mac – a 3D modelcreating papercraft
oh, it's for mac only
yCloser··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
I'm a huge fun of Beyond Burger. It's awesome!

...but it is so expensive. In my country (EU) it's easily 2x the price of real meat. And sells frozen in packs of 10. And there is ONE store that sells it.

At reduced price, packs of 2 would be a hit. Like this it's "yeah I tried it once, it was good... nope, not going to buy again"

yCloser··on An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived
His family should have monitored his online activity but failed horribly to do so.
yCloser··on Missing the Point of VR
#1 Problem is: sweat

Even in winter, after a couple of minutes the headset screen is completely foggy and my head is uncomfortable

I tried the oculus, htc, cardboards... all the same. At this point I think this technology will simply not work for me

yCloser··on How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
and now donate to Wikipedia, because you just caused them to pay for 95Gb of (useless) traffic
yCloser··on How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras
or simply set up another vlan for the cameras (and this does not require any configuration on the cameras, just on the switch)
yCloser··on It’s 1997 and you want to build a website
Step 1: go to a Warez site and look for dreamweaver
yCloser··on I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
brace brace, because in EU salary are more in the 50k range than in the 100k range.

Here "what would you do for +10k" -> "ANYTHING"

yCloser··on 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0
1. he tried to monetize a game that should have been free/ads

2. the time tracker could have worked! Not "I'm gonna be rich" worked but still could have been something.

3,4. he didn't do them

5. tried to compete against linkedin/facebook?!

IMHO we are always too oriented to "make money, NOW"... Doing free stuff is ok. It's not that "if it's free then scrape the whole project, what's the point anyway"!

The opensource/free stuff you make ends up in your CV, and could be a game changer

yCloser··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
from my country the page redirects to "buy pixel 4a, 389€"

google doesn't even want to to know that later model exist

yCloser··on The Kilobyte’s Gambit
I play at 1400 on lichess, got 3 draws

very very impressive

yCloser··on Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
from www.aranciadoc.com
yCloser··on Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
EU here, things seem pretty good here.

* I ordered 20kg of oranges from sicily, no shipping costs, arrived in 2days

* Coffee, same thing

* a bass guitar, same

* groceries are delivered in a day from local shops

* for electronics i bought from many shops, usually takes ~1week. still OK for a washing machine or those big items

...seems that "the infrastructure" that amazon required for ups/dhl/* are being used by any other (even tiny) buisiness.

My only complain is Ikea. Ikea doesn't cooperate.

yCloser··on Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market
Paywalled site, T$DR.
yCloser··on Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
have the mx3, so far all good. but.

I use linux... yes it works as a standard 5 mouse buttons, but there is no software for gestures or thumb scroll. Windows has those. Linux will probably never have anything like that

(thumb gesture-button seems to trigger KeyPress Meta+TAB, binding it seems not-so-easy)

yCloser··on Advent of Code 2019
problems are quite interesting (after initial days, those are usually trivial)

e.g. once in 2017 you had problem1: implement an interpreter for this asm-like language. ok, 5 instructions, super easy. ...problem2, run this asm-like program. You couldn't, it was 10^n iterations, would take days. You had to read, understand and optimize the asm-like code.

last year I was amazed writing a function to check if two rectangles intersect (you can do it in like 2 lines)

so, TLDR, you get a lot of "hey that's cool! I never thought about it"

yCloser··on Firefox Privacy How-To Guide

  privacy.resistFingerprinting = true
breaks whatsapp web login page, interesting
yCloser··on Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
world record one handed is 6":88 average of 5 is 9":48 https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/rankings/333oh/...

non-world-class: doing <30" one handed is very doable, anyone can do less than 1 min (yes, if you know how to solve and you trained one handed. ofc not if you never solved a cube in your life)

that said... I really don't understand how the hand keeps the cube "floating" around. In one handed the technique is pretty much to keep the cube fixed holding front/back centers with thumb and index. Something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUF3aPDTO-4

I understand the achievement, but wow, this solve is HORRIBLE. What did they train the network with to get this?!

yCloser··on Facebook Horizon
This thing will not be "playable" on Oculus Go? $$-wise?

...Who on earth thought it would be a good idea not to have legs?!

yCloser··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
pihole with my rpi1

retropie with my rpi3

yCloser··on How to Land on the Moon
you need to play Kerbal Space Program....
yCloser··on Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC (2018)
USB for a nas?! nope nope nope

~2012 mini-itx AMD C60 does 60Mb/sec, at the time was ~60€

yCloser··on Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
mmm, you think they don't already know that?
yCloser··on SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
I don't think we can answer that

I mean, before we knew that radio waves exists we could not forsee the use of radio for communicating

so, I'd say that better ways of communicating relay on something that physics hasn't found yet (like, you know "that weird supersimmetry decay thing that only su-top quarks do when reacting with Stuff")

yCloser··on Introducing the Dweb
pied piper ?
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