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Also, when the likes of Spotify change their APIs, the integration will likely stop working too.

AFAIK, citronics uses Fairphone 2 hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230764

> After all, it really seems what many developers would like Java to be. As a backend Kotlin developer, I wonder if a lot of the advantages that Kotlin used to have over Java are r…

The centralization of train infrastructure in France is especially annoying for someone arriving from the North or East trying to travel towards the South. That Paris does not have…

There are next to no security checks on stations that I regularly use throughout Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. I believe that French stations have a turnstile at the platf…

This is exactly what they always looked when I played (here in Europe). Is it maybe a regional thing?

I for one am consuming HN through RSS. I find it is incredible.

The main point of the article is that by "covering your ass" you are actually becoming a better developer, because the prose you write is plans and documentation and gives your tho…

I wonder the same. This proposal sounds like it is leeching nutrients from the ground and storing it for a long time (on a scale of centuries in the proposal). How do these nutrien…

Odoo (formerly OpenERP) is a successful open source ERP.

To me, google shows a conversion tool: "120 metres = 4724,409 inches". Note that it confused the unit cm vs m.

Caniuse is a database listing browser support for all kind of web development features, i.e. what version of what browser supports what features of HTML, CSS, Javascript. It helps …

Okay, that is fair: I am also not happy about us being late with security patches for several weeks. I am not directly involved in that anymore, but I believe, we currently have a …

You can quite easily install the Google-freie /e/OS: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP5 Murena also sells it preinstalled: https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fa…

What do you mean with "abhorrent record on dealing with security issues"? And you would even prefer Lineage OS? Isn't that still more or less mandating userdebug builds and entirel…

Maybe I misunderstand your point of spherical vs parabolic, but doesn't this paragraph explain it? > The concept turns part of the inside surface of an inflated sphere into a parab…

The headphones also work over a USB-C cable.

I work at Fairphone but am not at all involved with the headphones. Still, I know that this is an issue that we thought about and address. Headphones should keep working even if th…

Are you sure this is the case? All the carrier app loading implementations that I am aware of (this is a small number) explicitly whitelist some carriers or even some apps by certa…

I got you covered: I try out changes to CI tasks in a clone of the repository. Nobody needs to be bothered by my commits in the actual repository.

I'll just leave this here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/02/01/curl-with-rust/

> it'll end up being used as a worldwide centralized monorepo run by Microsoft, and no one will ever use any of that distributed stuff. And I thought I use git in a decentralized f…

Good point about the use of exclamation mark at the end of imperative sentences in German. The article leads with Adorno's quote: > sociologist Theodor Adorno felt the ! signified …

The PDF format is diverse enough for such a new project to still have plenty of incompatibilities. If you wanted to find many of them quickly, you might want to have a look at the …