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If you have a newer Kindle and some hacking skills, consider looking for new Kindle jailbreak methods. The existing jailbreak methods don't work on newer firmwares. ( See https://k…

The Pine Phone is cool, but the slide out keyboard on the N900/N810 was a big selling point for me.

I would love a modern version of the N900/N810. If I could get one with a recent ARM processor, good slide out keyboard, and running a more desktop-oriented Linux install (meaning …

I have to think that the litigation and maybe the legislation will end up deciding that the person in the vehicle is still responsible for any actions of the vehicle.

I'm back in the office (3 days a week) and there's some weird cultural thing on my team that I don't quite understand. Coworkers I sit next to will message me on Teams instead of j…

Good point, buy an old CRT in addition to the DVD player!

There's an option which doesn't involve drinking any yucky fluids, just water. SuTab. You have two rounds of twelve pills that you drink with three cups of water at various interva…

I doubt the target market for the 17e would notice... or care.

Original title was "Promoting The National Defense By Ensuring An Adequate Supply Of Elemental Phosphorus And Glyphosate-based Herbicides" but that was too long for HN.

Is there some way to create this kind of experience without having to change RSS readers? Is there a service that allows you to easily create RSS feeds for websites without them? I…

I started out with NNW and am back on it now. After Google killed Reader I went to Feedly, then tried a few self-hosted solutions and, in the end, NNW is just the easiest solution …

Maybe instead of housing life, civilizations develop Dyson's spheres to house data centers. Solar panels on the interior, thermal radiators on the exterior and the data centers mak…

To ride NYC's free busses, you must have a two minute conversation with a chat bot. (/s)

Lower than expected sales https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-sales-elon-mus...

If you want to experience this, Firefox and Chrome support throttling network connections, check the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools.

I use sops and age, originally loosely based on this article: https://devops.datenkollektiv.de/using-sops-with-age-and-git... I originally set up the git filters, but later disable…

I see no real reason to upgrade, there's no new features that interest me. Combined with the UI issues, why would I upgrade?

Is there a good alternative? I used runkit as my scratchpad. The lightweight nature of it, not trying to be a full notebook/REPL, was nice.

> After the user downloads 2MB of JavaScript, waits for it to parse, waits for it to execute, waits for it to hydrate, waits for it to fetch data, waits for it to render... yes, th…

Could use projectors to display the feed directly onto the ground or a building wall, in some ways that may be more impactful. You'd have to stay with the projector and power sourc…

My N900 was one of my favorite computing devices that I've owned. The keyboard was good enough for my needs, I could open a terminal quickly, battery life was fine. If someone came…

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980608