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I'm a big fan of the historical information that Yark shows.

Arrimus 3D recently replacing a large chunk of their 3D modeling tutorials with religious content was a pretty big lightbulb moment for me that so much of the content I rely on - not just for the initial learning of a new skill, but as a continual reference when I forget something - is so fragile.

I immediately bought a NAS and began backing up everything that I gleam even the tiniest bit of learning from using a similar project, TubeArchivist[0]. Projects like this are really important for maintaining all of the great knowledge on the web.

[0] https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

I have always understood the rule of thumb to be $1 for “poured” drinks (beer, wine, etc) and $2 for cocktails.

I have a pretty simple system in place. One family member knows the password to my computer, one trusted friend knows the password to my password manager.

Neither of them know what their passwords go to, but they know about each other, so I figure with some coordination they’ll figure out how to unlock both.

My password manager has, obviously, all of my passwords but also has some letters to family and friends and some instructions on what I want done with my body.

Disney "influencers" are such a scourge on theme parks. Normal visitors take loads of photos and videos, often at inconvenient times, but when it comes to being in/on the attractions, they usually put their phones away and shut up.

Most rides at Disney parks have pre-shows about 3/4 of the way through the line that set up the story for the ride. Sometimes these are audiovisual, sometimes animatronic, but always with audio and almost always dark.

Likewise, most Disney rides are "dark rides" where the ride is primarily in the dark with animatronics and the scenery lit by carefully designed show lighting.

Influencers have seen these pre-shows and rides a thousand times and don't care about them. They keep there full-brightness phone up and filming for them and talk over them to their audience. It's incredibly distracting and immersion breaking.

I imagine Disney sees them as a net-positive though, as I'm sure they drive tons of ticket sales. Most influencers are travel agents who get paid by Disney, or are affiliated with a travel agency.

Buying a Tesla has caused us to bump up our timeline for purchasing a house. We are very lucky to have two charging stations at our apartment complex, but a few things make it a less than perfect scenario.

1) They charge a 40% markup on electricity. This is fair, given the upfront costs of installation and ongoing maintenance costs, but still a downside.

2) Since installing it, the number of EVs living here have tripled or quadrupled. A great thing, but also ties up the charger more frequently.

3) Their breaker apparently can't support 2 Teslas charging at once. This doesn't seem to be a problem with two non-Telsa EVs, or one Tesla and one non-Tesla, but if two Teslas plug in at the same time the breaker blows and both chargers are out of commission for 24-72 hours until maintenance gets around to fixing it.

All of that is still better than no charger of course, but we have other complaints with this complex and want to move when our lease is up. Looking for apartment complexes with chargers severely limits options and makes buying a house make a lot more sense.

This really feels like a non-story to me. It seems obvious that Tesla would have to create special builds or settings for crash testing.

Their crash avoidance features (automatic braking, steering correction, etc) can't be disabled by the user and it's rather hard to perform, say, a frontal crash test if the car refuses to crash.

I love to see the Lua love on HN, especially given my other languages of choice are generally disliked around here.

Funny enough, I was just mentioning to a friend this weekend that I would love to write Lua as a full time job (and particularly in gaming), but those jobs seem nearly non-existent.

How do you recommend going about finding opportunities like yours?

Mullvad has been tremendous and the ease of use is terrific. I use a VPN relatively infrequently, sometimes going months without turning it on, so the one-time payments have been wonderful. The app is simple to use, and it's so, so easy to reactivate for a month when I need it.

I can't speak to their privacy as my VPN usecase is usually just "I need an IP in another region," but to the best of my understanding they are one of if not the best in the business.

The conversations can be interesting to put it mildly. When I get the chance to play, I mainly play a police officer and it has caused more than one moment of confusion when I didn't realize my partner had taken a work call and their co-workers could hear me barking out "lawful orders" from the other room.

Roleplaying games are really great for exercising your social skills and creative expression though, that's for sure.

FiveM is the most popular platform for this type of modding, and is the one I use. nopixel is the most popular server on the platform and usually a good place to start getting a feel for what's possible on a modded GTA server.

If you check out https://nopixel.hasroot.com/, they maintain a list of all Twitch streamers currently streaming nopixel.

nb: I have no affiliation with nopixel.

My side project currently grosses close to $1,400 per month through Patreon.

I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and houses, holding jobs, opening businesses, receiving medical treatment, being arrested, etc.

I've spent around three years working on the gamemode and spend, on average, 30-60 hours per week on it. It's really a pure passion project. Players support the project through Patreon in exchange for priority queue access (when the server is full, players are held in a queue until a slot opens up for them), custom license plates on their vehicles, custom phone numbers, and other cosmetic perks.

I've taken a bit of a middle ground approach, partly out of laziness and partly because it just doesn't seem all that necessary.

I have to wash my hair daily otherwise I feel absolutely gross, and I'll also wash the private and smelly bits daily with soap, but otherwise I only use soap head to tow twice a week.

My partners have never seemed to notice or complain about any off smells although I realize being around someone for long periods of time can desensitize you so I've taken a few opportunities to ask my parents who would certainly be the first to tell me if I smell like crap and they've never had any complaints.

Anecdotally, every partner I've had has told me I have great skin. Hair stylists have also told me I have incredibly healthy hair - I've been using cheap Suave Essentials (the clear baby blue bottle) shampoo with no conditioner since I was a kid.

Having worked on a John Deere integration for an agtech company I can't say I'm surprised. The MyJohnDeere API had a lot of idiosyncrasies that smelled like inexperienced or mismanaged development, especially around authentication/authorization.

At the time I was working on it they had some extremely arcane authentication process that required round-trip emails, various link clicking and code entering, and all kinds of craziness. Toward the end of my tenure our point of contact finally told us they were moving to OAuth but they had nearly zero documentation on it.

For anyone who isn't knowledgable in the farming space, I'd highly recommend a browse through John Deere's API documentation [0]. Before the agtech gig I hadn't really given it a second though, but modern farms are very high tech operations. Really cool stuff happening in agtech.

[0] https://developer-portal.deere.com/#/myjohndeere/api-invento...

Wow, I had no idea about Invidious. This perfectly solves my use case of needing a REST API to get MP3 urls for YouTube videos. I was looking into building or finding a REST API for youtube-dl, but this seems a lot easier.

You would probably be pleasantly surprised with how easy handling modifications are in GTA:V.

The handling meta files are all XML now, in more or less plain English, and very well documented by the modding community.

I run an GTA:V multiplayer RPG server using FiveM[0] and the community around vehicle mods is really incredible. 3D modelers produce all kinds of real-world vehicles for GTA:V from Nissan GTR’s up to hyper-accurate law enforcement Dodge Chargers[1] with accurate Whelen lights, Setina bull bars, etc.

[0] https://fivem.net/ [1] https://redneckmods.com/product?id=3fbaf24e-7775-432e-87e1-f...

Interesting product. Can't think of an immediate use for it but I'll keep it in mind.

PS, typo on list item three:

Time Trigger is meant run individual tasks a a specific time.

Tailwind themselves offer a paid one called TailwindUI[0].

It's still in early access, and I commonly run up against components that are missing and I have to devise a style for myself, but it provides a pretty good starting point for building out a clean looking web app.

[0] https://tailwindui.com/

CapOne offers that for their credit cards, but it's so clunky and unintuitive that I still wind up using Privacy 90% of the time.

This may run afoul of your "no privacy invading methods", but are you able to implement email verification before new users can post? Then once they get bored of trying to attack the site you can go and purge all accounts created in the last n days that haven't been verified yet.

I run a gaming community with several thousand members and we regularly have to fend off attacks on both the community (spam bots in Discord) and the game servers themselves (targeted DDOS attacks usually in the 200-300Gbps range.)

From my experience, they tend to get bored and move on rather quickly so often times whatever we have to implement is more temporary in nature and doesn't really affect the existing community much if at all.

I have been using one from IOGEAR (SKU GUS432CA1KIT) for the last 6 months and I haven't had a single problem with it.

I use it to switch all of my peripherals (keyboard, mouse, wireless headset dongle, webcam, and mixer) between my desktop and my MacBook several times per day and have not had a single failure yet.

As a counter point; ICE has recently said they will only be arresting illegal immigrants who pose a public safety risk and will be delaying enforcement actions until after the crisis for others.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-says-it-will-not-detain-mos...

Very impressed with how the documentation looks. Similar to ReadMe.io, but a little bit more simple. Would love to know as well!

I'm a full time Laravel dev and love Laravel, but it's default auth is one of my least favorite parts. I personally feel like it's abstracted to an extreme, and to the point where you have to take it or leave it wholesale.

On most apps I find myself writing my own register / login / password reset logic, and just using Auth::login($user); to get the user logged in and give them a session.

From that point onwards though, Laravel does a fantastic job and Passport is a god send.

Liberty BASIC (JustBASIC first, then later switched to Liberty) was how I got started in programming as well. The community was awesome and there were tons of examples out there to reference from.

Later I spent a lot of time writing IRC bots and the IRC communities were equally as friendly.

The real light bulb moment for me was a PHP tutorial from, I think, W3Schools. There was this moment where I realized I could build this thing and with a single click anyone in the world with a computer and internet connection could consume it. Everybody has a web browser! That was the moment I realized I wanted to to be a web developer and I never looked back.

Will tack QZ Tray (https://qz.io) onto this list. I've actually used it at my last two jobs for everything from dot matrix printers, laser printers, shipping label printers, and scales (Mettler Toledo.)

Worked great and support was phenomenal.

Thank you, I will give that a shot!

o/t: How did you get your logo to look so sharp in HelpScout? No matter what format/dimensions/size I upload mine in it comes out blurry.

A semi-interesting story, we used Postmark at my last company. When we signed up they offered something like 50,000 free credits. Then if we setup DKIM they offered another 50,000 or so credits. Then about three months later they sent us a survey and offered us another 75,000 credits if we filled it out.

All in all before we had even launched our application they had thrown nearly 200,000 free email credits at us. We hadn't even provided a credit card yet.

Considering at launch we were sending about 2,000 emails per month on a busy month we joked that we would never have to pay these guys.

Come a year and a half later we're sending a lot more than 2k emails per month and we're just about out of credits. At this point Postmark had become so ingrained in our applications (we made heavy use of their SDKs and templates) there wasn't any easy way to switch if we wanted to.

While we thought they were the fools for giving us such an obscene amount of free credits, they ultimately won in the long game and that company is still using (and now paying) Postmark.

All of that said, Postmark IS fantastic. I use them for every project where I need to send or receive mail, and I wouldn't consider anyone else. Highly recommend them.

The correct way to setup security cameras is to slap them on their own segregated network, completely disconnected from the internet. Your IPVMS appliance has two NICs, one to connect to the camera network, and one to connect to your main network / the internet.

Open source IPVMS: https://zoneminder.com/

Paid ($90 per cam for lifetime license): https://digital-watchdog.com/productdetail/DW-Spectrum-IPVMS...

(Not affiliated, have just installed hundreds of cameras on DW systems and have never had a bad experience.)

Now, yes.

A few months ago I went through a nasty breakup days before I was about to propose. I suddenly found myself completely alone having pushed all my friends away over the course of the six year relationship, homeless (in the sense of not having a "home" although I did have a roof over my head), and in a job that I quickly realized I had only been sticking with to support us because it was stable. I hated it.

Now I have reconnected with old friends, made more new ones than I can count, spent a lot of time with a therapist, and my mental health is much better than it ever has been.

On Saturday I start a several thousand mile drive to a new beginning in a new state with a new job that aligns perfectly with my skill set and comes with a nice 62% pay bump.

So for today, I'm doing alright.