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Hmm can you elaborate on that? > Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation Are you saying that it technically lives …

Is that not what Thunderbird is (amongst other things)?

On the back of today's earlier discussion on the possibility of a Usenet revival/replacing Reddit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36153565), I went and created an account on …

Seems this is just for voice channels — SSTV channels have a bandwidth of 6MHz for example.

I'm not a ham, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue? I was under the impression that channel widths in the amateur bands were pretty narrow (<10kHz). Though I don't know if that appl…

I've been thinking about doing something in this space. What are the regulatory requirements (if any) for something like this (i.e. offering investing advice, but without direct ma…

Continuing here, since my OP was too long: From my reading, it seems like Taler and the Lightning Network are the two most promising solutions. Taler seems to be very well-suited t…

I've been going down a rabbit-hole these past few days investigating why there still does not exist a ubiquitous solution for micropayments on the web. What requirements must a mic…

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, that's the kind of thing, but understandably it also looks limited to Cisco employees.

Without meaning to hijack this thread: does anyone know of any volunteering opportunities deploying / maintaining communication networks for disaster relief? Ericsson Response ( ht…

Yep I'm in contact with someone at the company – hopefully they might be able to help.

I did try, but have yet to hear anything from them.

Morning all, I decided to cash-out $3k-worth of Rocketrip points (a workplace scheme which rewards reduced-cost business travel) on Amazon gift-cards to purchase some things to fur…

If you enjoyed reading this account, Bikepacking.com has a wonderful collection of trip summaries (as well as a nice bi-annual print edition). I have the utmost respect for people …

An interesting example of this is an episode of DigitalRev's Cheap Camera Challenge, whereby the filmmaker Phillip Bloom was tasked with producing a short film using a Barbie with …

Surely the 'allows remote' column is redundant?

I started producing a list a while ago, although it never really got off the ground. Feel free to submit a PR if you like: https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x .

You don't need a x3 there since most cameras use a single monochrome sensor with a colour filter array on top – the debayering process can happen offline.

Fortunately most access points will be fine, but those performing client functions (eg repeaters) will need updating.

Does anyone know if Apple release security fixes for Airport? I know it isn’t actively developed, but you’d hope they’d release critical security fixes as they still sell them.

Netflix HTML5 player refuses to run on older CPUs in Safari. I have a 2009 Mac Pro with a copy of Firefox installed just so I can watch Netflix.

A post I read a while back about an effort to equip an island with a working GSM network using open-source software (https://babyis60.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/the-island-phone-syst…

Thanks for pointing this out - I couldn't figure out how to navigate Twitter to sort by date. If I was being paranoid I would have said that they picked up on an ad campaign we put…

We are based in UK and US - CA (not a registered company in either). Competitor looks to be based in CA also. A friend and I have been building an app as a little side project for …