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#541

I bought some land over 10 years ago, it's about 2 hectares, water runs through it and I wanted to make a garden, so I started digging, would sleep on site for a couple of weeks then return to civilization... eventually I planted it with fruit trees and comfrey and stuff and just left it to it's own devices... there's an inverted swastika like you see on some churches in india, an @, and a bunch of other motifs.. at…

what is your goal for this land? You are looking for help but in what? Creating more art?

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#542

I posted this as a show HN a few weeks ago, I maintain a small, completely free html/js game. There's no chance of it ever making money in its current form, it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players[0]. [0] https://wallsmash.com

> it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players

Few hundred and one. Damn, I should be working instead.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#543

I'm building wooden benches for bus and light rail stops in my neighborhood. Lots of riders are elderly and find themselves sitting on the curb, feet in the gutter, as they wait for transit. Studies suggest that perceived wait time increases by 30%+ when riders are forced to stand while they wait. There's no cheaper way to shave several minutes off of perceived trip time, for every trip. Inspired by https://www.latim…

IMHO you succeeded the moment you installed the first bench.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#544
post #508

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chess endgames?!

https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20210328-rittweger.cover.reda... The resolution some months later: https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20211014-lsg-wicke-cover.pdf The court was unable to print pages due to a css media selector preventing this, so the - presumably bribed - judge had them printed at the nearby law offices of the influential husband. This showed up in log files with his IP address, and can likely be proven a…

The wiki appears to be down. Cloudflare returns an Error 521: Web server is down.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#545

There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud: * The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier * When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close. * If y…

The number of times that anti patterns have morphed into this (literal fraud) seems to be increasing lately. For example, after paying extra for a refundable ticket from JetBlue, it was impossible to cancel. Their "cancel ticket" button threw an error saying "This part of our website isn't working, please call this number" for which there was obviously a 6+ hour wait.

I'm really keen on finding a systematic way of preventing these types of scams.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#546
Made https://securemypw.appspot.com so I could securely share passwords with my wife (for bank, investment, biller accounts) in case something happened to me. URLs are saved in a Google doc we both have access to. Now I use it for most of my passwords.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#547

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not qualified to say this, so this isn't a diagnosis, but the post strikes me as similar in tone to the postings of a paranoid schizophrenic who regularly used to post on a forum I visited. Completely convinced they're on the verge of uncovering something that will "change history" yet very difficult to follow the detail of what they're saying.

I don't believe or have claimed this will "change history". Had in fact offered to let the whole matter slide if and only if two judges ruling on health insurance matters hand in their resignations, as I consider them a danger to the general public.

Is that really a decision for you to single handedly make? People make mistakes, but it doesn’t mean they are evil. Pushing them to admit their wrong doing, give up their livelihood/careers, etc. is just stupid. Especially if “doing it for fun”. That’s not admirable, it’s disturbing.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#548

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20210328-rittweger.cover.reda... The resolution some months later: https://de.wickepedia.org/File:20211014-lsg-wicke-cover.pdf The court was unable to print pages due to a css media selector preventing this, so the - presumably bribed - judge had them printed at the nearby law offices of the influential husband. This showed up in log files with his IP address, and can likely be proven a…

The wiki appears to be down. Cloudflare returns an Error 521: Web server is down.

Sorry, this is unexpectedly blowing up. Had wrongly assumed few people would care about the matter.

Should be back up soon with Cloudflare caching.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#549
post #170

https://bytebucket.co I'm the kind of person that always buys electronics used on eBay, where you can get really powerful but 2-3 years old devices for a few hundred $. And, I find shopping for used electronics elsewhere is still terrible (how good is a 1yo i5 vs a 3yo i7?). So, I made this site to help me in that -- I started scraping eBay listings for laptops, picked out the specs and cross-referenced them to bench…

Very similar, but for servers, https://labgopher.com/ . It originated from the Reddit r/homelab sub

great! unfortunately the pound/TB sorting doesn't work.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#550

I bought some land over 10 years ago, it's about 2 hectares, water runs through it and I wanted to make a garden, so I started digging, would sleep on site for a couple of weeks then return to civilization... eventually I planted it with fruit trees and comfrey and stuff and just left it to it's own devices... there's an inverted swastika like you see on some churches in india, an @, and a bunch of other motifs.. at…

what is your goal for this land? You are looking for help but in what? Creating more art?

Help in ...selling it as land art, the goal was to make a garden in the style of permaculture, pfaf.org , plants for a future is a good example of stuff I wanted to plant, it's transformed pasture land into an "ecotopia"... ultimately it was a productive use of my time as while digging it manually I processed a lot of reading material in my head and had a healthy lifestyle. I think creating such gardens could be a matrix for (young) people as you create ongoing wealth that can be increasingly harvested over the years (there are more than 10kinds of willow planted on it, raspberries, mint spreading more each year ...
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