Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — squeezingswirls

squeezingswirls

HN member
Joined
Sun, Feb 06, 2011, 1:23 AM UTC
HN karma
163
Public activity
110 items

About squeezingswirls

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #28074626

    > Haven't found a low-tech way to make a piezo earphone just yet The closer way I've found is this guy making it with a recycled transformer, a hard drive magnet, a jar lid, some w…

  2. story
  3. comment
    Comment #26205438

    You can use something like https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix

  4. comment
    Comment #26205372

    I use DDG daily but there's one thing that grinds my gears, and undermines their privacy by default statement. They leak the searches in the URL like this https://duckduckgo.com/?q…

  5. story
  6. comment
    Comment #26122670

    I'm having fun reading and playing with 'Codebreaking, a practical guide' by Elonka Dunin & Klaus Schmeh. https://www.codebreaking-guide.com/

  7. story
  8. comment
    Comment #26051515

    Nice, added to the queue of documentaries to watch. Thanks.

  9. comment
    Comment #26049337

    Saharan dust likes to travel, that's for sure. https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...

  10. comment
    Comment #26047987

    Related: Bruce Sterling's novel 'Holy Fire'. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4803

  11. comment
    Comment #25998958

    That's a good point. I didn't know about that, and I'll have to think about it. Anyway paying FB's mafia style extortion probably isn't the solution.

  12. comment
    Comment #25995943

    I do believe small brands can get more ROI using social media than wasting their money on digital ads.

  13. comment
    Comment #25992424

    'When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?' https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...

  14. comment
    Comment #25134598

    I don't know about other OSes but it's available on UBPorts, and it works fine. https://open-store.io/app/teleports.ubports

  15. story
  16. comment
    Comment #25102169

    I haven't used plasma-mobile yet but in UBPorts you can sync your photos with your Nextcloud instance. Another option is Syncthing.

  17. comment
    Comment #25071281

    Juliette Taka's proposal for Debian 11 is very interesting but I even like more her previous proposals, especially her "Moonlight" theme for Debian 10. http://www.juliettetaka.com/…

  18. comment
    Comment #24922693

    She looks like John Belushi doing a Saturday Night Live sketch

  19. comment
    Comment #24787121

    Exactly, and we should keep in mind they're exporting their totalitarian surveillance model to a lot of countries https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-survei...

  20. comment
    Comment #24582294

    Addendum https://zengo.com/generalized-front-running-ethereum-arbitra...

  21. story
  22. comment
    Comment #24365781

    Have you tried https://doc.e.foundation/devices/tissot/ ?

  23. comment
    Comment #24332145

    I mean /e/ compared to Android. LOS is a good option too.

  24. comment
    Comment #24331941

    Exactly, for this they'd need to run an ad blocker and a script blocker, such as uBlock Origin and NoScript.

  25. comment
    Comment #24331853

    Are you running Android in your device? Maybe you could give https://doc.e.foundation/devices/jfltexx/ a try if you want a more private experience.