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I love playing solitaire card games. But got sick of all privacy intrusive, subscription, ad-riddled crap out there. So I combined learning macOS/iOS development with doing my own …

Should it not be ”Live free and die” then?

Funny. Kagi was the payment solution I used to sell shareware in the late 90'ies. I believe the company later disappeared due a fraud case that made it bankrupt. Seems like both do…

It is a numbers game. And by increasing the number of chances to "play", you increase the probability of scoring (i.e. "increase your luck surface area"). > How do you know if by i…

Why, oh why, is in-car infotainment so bad? And I don't mean bad as in subjective opinions about user interface. I mean the fact that my 2 year old high-end Audi A6 still show Yelp…

It is the consequences of a power outage in Flexential PDX02 data center.

Indeed so. Once in my youth I brought my Amiga 500 to a friend's place, and he had a cat that peed on the edge of it. The computer was ok, but it was basically a flood of cat pee s…

I really like reading books, non-fiction, fiction, business, everything. But I always tended to have good reading momentum and then life/work happened that derailed the reading hab…

Except you had to register in an app every place you went to, during covid. Nice social profiling that data could provide… say, if another type of party ended up as the ruling one.…

I wonder how many thousands (millions?) of man-hours of lost productivity over the world the Github SSH debacle resulted in. Not only for teams to fix the issue in a build pipeline…

We used Gremlins instead. https://lspo.feri.um.si/teachware/internal/programming/palmo...

The problem is not crypto. The problem is (the lack of) diversification of his investments. Putting your life-savings in a single stock is equally bad. Putting your life-savings in…

Pick any of the big four; PwC, EY, Deloitte, KPMG. Typically they'll do a valuation and put a bonus threshold. x% under, x+n% if over.

> Is your leader the ultimate authority of your group? Yes. Selected by, and sole connection to the mythical group "board". > Does your leader have impressive, made-up names or tit…

Around February there's a whole week where schools are closed with the incentive to do sports - especially winter sports (given the time of the year). A lot of people go to ski res…

Same with Swedish city Västerås with original name West Aros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4ster%C3%A5s

Here’s the non-Medium-paywall’ed “friends link” of the article: https://medium.com/@stpe/how-to-use-an-api-without-programmi...

I was very much like that. Then by coincidence, I got into RC-car racing. Not only is it fun, a community, and a way to see yourself improve - it is my first non-programming-hobby-…

When reaching my destination, the Uber-driver said: "Give me 5 stars and I'll give you 5 stars". I questioned that practice and said I will give my rating in due time. The driver g…

RC racing. Early this year I joined the local RC racing club and bought I used 1/10th scale 2WD buggy kit. I found it amazingly entertaining, almost zen-like, to do racing. It is l…