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LocalSend has been working great for me across different types of devices.

One of the biggest concerns I have with phone scams is that the people most vulnerable are the elderly, and they don’t have the knowledge on how to block these calls (if a technica…

In these (and I think many cases), the one star is being used to get the developer’s attention more than anything else. I, and I think most people, think of most apps as being publ…

Netflix had “everything” because it was the first (commercially successful) mover on streaming, and as a result it was pretty much the only game in town for a long time. Every othe…

Maps apps see the streets that don’t have cars on them (the same ones closed for a festival) as good routes to send vehicles because there’s currently no vehicles using them. It ke…

They say this is also sent with Windows Update checks, which happen frequently per day, and I think also when you initially connect to a network, so that’s a clear way they could t…

Which is fine. Burn your tokens (with all the carbon emissions they generate in data centers) doing more involved tasks like that. Don’t waste it on silly, easy things like simple …

If the original source is 44.1KHz, and this codec prefers 48KHz, is there an issue up-sampling to 48KHz before doing the AAC encode? I think that's really the question with this wo…

Smart TVs are always monitoring what you’re watching by taking screenshots and processing them. This is a known thing for at least several years now. The only safe way to use a sma…

My setup is: dark mode, color filters tint red, brightness 0, and reduce white point. It’s almost completely unusable in regular lit rooms, but nice in complete darkness (mostly ap…

I think a lot of developers (e.g. the HN crowd) aren’t aware that pretty much all non-IT businesses people, from receptionists to the C-suite, really do think that what IT people d…

Maybe it’s better to start in a smaller, more focused and less controversial topic to set some precedents before trying to boil the ocean.

This is about how 401ks and pensions are going to be forced to buy into (or very close to) the IPO. That affects “most Americans” whether they want to participate or not.

It depends on the firmware running on the SSD, so theoretically it’s possible but practically it’s not. Instead, SSDs use a special command to zero all cells on the chip at once, s…

Yes. All of the assumptions made with shred and sdelete apply only for spinning HDDs. SSDs require different methods of wiping.

That assumption has come up in almost every conversation I’ve ever had with semi-technical people regarding git, so the confusion is just a fact. It happens so often, I think Linus…

What if you have a few local machines you’re using for development, and want to keep them in sync? This method allows that single central repo without having to bounce all the code…

It may have been (probably was) a conscious choice illustrating how new things were (i.e. those people didn’t grow up typing to a level where it was muscle memory). Also, keyboard …

As the models keep improving, wouldn’t you be able to task a newer AI to “clean up this mess”?

They’re not describing any kind of burnout ; just fatigue from working or being overstimulated. Taking a break a the exact remedy for this condition, but many people take breaks in…

OpenWRT updates are very much discouraged on an ongoing basis primarily because most devices running it use very cheap flash chips which are small and fail quickly after too many w…

False Dilemma fallacy

Pricing for any item is set by one thing: what people are willing to pay for it. If a business raised prices because of tariffs, and consumers paid the higher price, that was a suc…

Figuring out how to document stuff for others forces you to think things through at a deeper level yourself, and that’s the main point of the idea being presented here. Forcing you…

The juice is still much less healthy. It’s the act of having your guts extract the nutrients that makes fruit healthy, because it reduces how quickly your body absorbs it. Once you…