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I spent a truly obnoxious amount of time importing my music library into beets. It took a couple of weeks to get to 95% imported, and got so bogged down in the last 5% that I never…

I'm sure it has increased over time as people imitate their heroes, but first-person journalism is certainly not at all unique to "this generation"; it was already a big element of…

I wrote something remarkably similar a few years ago, for similar reasons. I was pretty baffled that nothing similar already existed. Auto-wake with the RTC timer was what I really…

I've been tracking my costs for ~13 years. The cost here includes all equipment and ingredients over that time, including all of the unnecessary stuff that I bought for fun, like p…

Huh, that's interesting. The Android team was absolutely hounding me for an interview back in ~2009, to the degree of finding my parents' home phone number and asking them to convi…

Just to back that up, it had a clear meaning because -less is a valid suffix to append to English words. When grandma runs out of cookies she is cookieless (when a website doesn't …

I know an animation/media rendering company that buys every model of Mac Pro in bulk. They'll buy dozens of these things. I assume that many similar companies do the same. HN reall…

Might as well plug my similar project here: https://github.com/mrmekon/connectr A minimal Spotify controller for the menubar/systray. I mostly play on speakers, though sometimes li…

Huh, I thought the original was a sarcastic question. In that case, let me explain: I keep a browser window open at all times. It is never full screen, because if it were full scre…

Since maternity and paternity leave are frequently more than 6 months long, employees temporarily leaving for a big chunk of the year is just a fact of doing business here. Grantin…

It's all still up in the air, and the wording is vague. GDPR's wording is also vague, as EU laws are. When we read between the lines, GDPR's vagueness sounds promising (hard to ove…

In my network of friends, which is within the EU and comprised entirely of EU citizens and spans multiple EU tech companies from dinky startups to Giant Unicorn, GDPR has been almo…

> completely block all gTLDs. Screw 'em, they are 99.9999% spam That's for _my_ e-mail. Your experience may differ. Perhaps you communicate often with people on .loan domains. E-ma…

In my experience, spam blacklists have significantly decreased in efficiency over the last 10 years. I think the biggest e-mail providers stopped contributing to them, so the user-…

Well, TechCrunch says "made in each EU country where a service is provided"... but every single other report about this, including the Variety article that TechCrunch linked to and…

Apparently, according to this thread, WebDAV is alive and thriving. CalDAV and CardDAV are certainly alive, but I think they're in a pretty horrible place. I run a Radicale server,…

My comment doesn't make a statement about how things should be. It's a statement about the complexities of a technical implementation: _If_ it is true that the GDPR covers an EU pe…

I'm in the EU, and a couple of the corporate VPNs I have used here have had their exit IP in the U.S. or Canada. Which means that when I'm at work, I appear to be in Seattle, and t…

*according to a poll of 500-1000 people per country

Well, true, that's somewhat better. But it's the principle of a privately-owned monopoly or oligopoly skimming profits off of a nation's economy that bothers me, not the absolute a…

The second sentence corrects the sensational headline: "the small but growing number of Swedes anxious about their country’s rush to embrace a cash-free society." It must be very s…

Yes, it's an employer-paid pension that is very similar to the U.S. 401(K). Depending on how you slice it, Swedish pensions are divided into 3 or 4 layers: 1) Income pension - equi…

Hah, I just noticed that you consult to a tjänstepension company! My experience with MV on the phone is that they won't answer any specific questions about the rules. According to …