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Post by hw »

sneak wrote: post #849
AussieWog93 wrote: post #653

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Possibly dumb question, but have you considered looking for a successor to take over the project? Homebrew has basically reached the point where it's "critical infrastructure" for macOS devs, and it would really be a damn shame to see it slowly fade away just because the creator has moved onto other things.

It's not critical infrastructure. There are better alternatives, even, that are a quick and painless install process away. For example, nixpkgs is competitive with it, and does not include the Google phone-home supercookie tracking spyware that is on by default without consent in every Homebrew installation, and works great on macOS. Homebrew could disappear tomorrow and nothing extremely bad would happen. That can't…

I bumped into a lion in the forest the other day that was aghast and somehow offended and told me the same thing when I mentioned that power grids and water systems were critical infrastructure.

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Post by mahogany »

screenbreakout wrote: post #894
vdddv wrote: post #618

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https://goo.gl/maps/hpuj9X7srT46NN3o8

Wow that was fast, did you find it using "la blaisance" and the D949 as references? I should have scrubbed those :-) or did you use other more esoterical methods... could I ask you to kindly take down your link and let hackers be hackers? Cheers

FYI - the lat/lon coords are in your screenshots

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Post by contingencies »

mikemcquaid wrote: post #925
contingencies wrote: post #874

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If there's anyone at Apple reading, pay this guy.

They provide help and CI hardware. I have no desire to be either employed by Apple or work on Homebrew for a living (currently, at least).

Glad you are being supported in the manner to which you have become accustomed! When you retire maybe ask for a donation. I doubt they'd say no.

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Post by kingofkyiv »

irl_chad wrote: post #23
kingofkyiv wrote: post #19

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I’m an immigrant in Ukraine. I love this country very much. Speak the language, understand the culture, etc. After checking out your page, I’m absolutely appalled. I’ve forwarded this to a personal friend who works in the immigration department here. Ukraine isn’t your playground to pimp women to men who aren’t successful with them in their own countries. Btw you’ve probably seen me around Kyiv in bars/clubs/whatever…

If you had actually read the website my mission is charity work in helping guys life love, become digital nomads, not be scammed, and generally positive things. The last thing I do is "pimp" out women here. Seems you view Ukraine as your playground and don't want anyone else coming here with your comments.

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Post by kingofkyiv »

darebak wrote: post #21
kingofkyiv wrote: post #19

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I'm sorry to be blunt, but this seems like it gears towards sexpats?

I only assist guys seeking real long term connections, not anything else. I don't think that counts as a sexpat.

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Post by kingofkyiv »

adrianmsmith wrote: post #30
kingofkyiv wrote: post #19

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Do you think it's a bit arrogant to announce yourself as the "king" of Kiev?

It's a brand. Actually the name the project goes by is Kings of Kyiv, which we all can be here. Most people find it fun and funny.

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

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Post by kingofkyiv »

irl_chad wrote: post #23
kingofkyiv wrote: post #19

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I’m an immigrant in Ukraine. I love this country very much. Speak the language, understand the culture, etc. After checking out your page, I’m absolutely appalled. I’ve forwarded this to a personal friend who works in the immigration department here. Ukraine isn’t your playground to pimp women to men who aren’t successful with them in their own countries. Btw you’ve probably seen me around Kyiv in bars/clubs/whatever…

You should also then check out my article on Conor Clyne aka The Tsar Experience who IS actually doing exactly this. https://kingofkyiv.com/tsarexperience

I detest this behavior as much as you do.

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Post by miketery »

seirim wrote: post #251
miketery wrote: post #100

I’m making a self sobering identity vault / wallet where I can setup a threshold cryptography scheme to share keys with friends and family for recovery.

That sounds super interesting and useful, can describe how you're making it work more and how far along you are? I have plans to build something I think is similar.

Misspelt self sovereign identity* oops.

I'm making a frontend client, that lets you setup a vault / wallet. You can then store secrets. I'm working on adding "contacts" (via public key), and then implementing the key split among chosen contacts, and vice versa the recovery scheme.

For backend, I'm making a simple API to act as proxy / intermediary for managing contact requests, sending messages (e.g. sending key shares). No info is revealed to server other than public key info, and encrypted messages.

I was able to make a web only prototype (pure python django) to iron out logic and models. Now I'm about half way through the rewrite in react native since all content needs to be local to the device.

Happy to chat more, would be curious to hear what you're thinking of making. My email is my username @ gmail.

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

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Post by dineshkumar_cs »

Have done few OSS, Go wrapper on top of gcloud client to do the tedious job of searching across whole infra for set of Vms (DBs, Kafka clusters, or any components etc) and login with tmux. Useful for my workflow.

Have done other dev projects for improving my productivity (eg. Infra setup, Automation etc) which all aligns with fact that i'm the first user and not worried about its success.

Even-though not focusing on marketing for the same, i wish more people use it and can extend it for value add then complex featurewise.

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Post by Fuzzwah »

rlayton2 wrote: post #145

I have a small game that I made to experiment with some tech. https://donotplaythisgame.click/ In short, you accrue points while you aren't playing it, but you have to log into actually get the points (similar to "the game", which you just lost). You get your global ranking only after logging in though.

Random idea, affiliate style code that you share to friends to invite them to this game that you don't play. Then you receive points when someone in your tree "loses" the game by checking their score.
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