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christefano

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I work at the engineering firm, Exaltation of Larks, and at the Droplabs network of coworking spaces, which are two companies I co-founded.

In my spare time I'm a public speaker on open source software, high performance websites and internet security, and am a startup mentor and Drupal community manager and organizer.

My new company is Solar Ignition, a venture capital seed fund and accelerator program. We back entrepreneurs working on big ideas and values-based businesses using open source principles.

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adamadam.blog 1mo ago

General, automated WordPress-to-WordPress sync is unsolvable

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dri.es 1mo ago

AI and the Great CMS Unbundling

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www.patreon.com 5y ago

Epichrome ends development; Seeking new maintainer

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www.independent.co.uk 5y ago

People who regularly eat chilli peppers live longer, research suggests

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austinmann.com 5y ago

Austin Mann Reviews the iPhone 12 Pro Camera in Glacier National Park

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joshtronic.com 5y ago

VPS Showdown – October 2020 – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

It’s Cheaper to Use Apple Watch Family Sharing with Verizon Now

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mashable.com 5y ago

Portland's facial recognition ban is a major win, especially against Amazon

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www.medrxiv.org 6y ago

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 infection risk with Apple/Google exposure notifications

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www.jacobinmag.com 6y ago

How to Be an Anticapitalist Today (2015)

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www.wsj.com 6y ago

Do You Dare Switch Jobs in the Coronavirus Economy?

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greatergood.berkeley.edu 6y ago

How to Form a Pandemic Pod

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youtu.be 6y ago

Coffee Expert James Hoffman: Crema Explained

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www.reddit.com 6y ago

Pins now optional in Signal v3.13.1

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www.wsj.com 6y ago

Zoom Targets Prolonged Remote-Work Era as Coronavirus Drags On

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www.theatlantic.com 6y ago

The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic

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boards.fool.com 6y ago

Laundry: A Quantum Mechanical Approach By: Brian J. Reardon (2007)

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

Hong Kong downloads of Signal surge as residents fear crackdown

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www.turbotaxsucksass.com 6y ago

TurboTax Sucks Ass

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www.fastcompany.com 6y ago

CommunityX: Why this ex-Google employee built a better platform for protesting

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www.washingtonpost.com 6y ago

Facebook, show us your secret recipe

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blog.mozvr.com 6y ago

Scaling Virtual Events with Mozilla Hubs and Hubs Cloud

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Who do you use for DNS management and why? (2020)

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Bookshop.org earns more than $1M for indie bookstores

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joshtronic.com 6y ago

VPS Showdown (May, 2020), DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

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www.wired.com 6y ago

Want to Ditch Zoom? Jitsi Offers an Open-Source Alternative

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github.com 6y ago

Zoombot attends your Zoom meetings so you don’t have to

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www.wsj.com 6y ago

Zoom CEO: ‘I Messed Up’ on Security as Coronavirus Drove Video Tool’s Appeal

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www.adamhyde.net 6y ago

Self hosted open source video conferencing “in 5 minutes” with Jitsi Meet (2017)

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www.zoho.com 6y ago

Zoho Remotely free for remote workers

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Bugs Apple loves 6 months ago

Getting HTML email signatures to work in iOS Mail is a trial and error nightmare, and it requires a second device.

Create an HTML email signature in TextEdit or some other rich text editor on macOS, copy it and paste it on iOS using Continuity Clipboard into the signature text field in iOS’ Settings -> Apps -> Mail -> Signature text field, and pray that it works.

When it does work, it ignores text size. Want your email signature to be in a smaller font size? Too bad.

The only workaround I’ve found is to copy an email signature from another email account that miraculously did copy over successfully, copy it on iOS and paste that in to another’s email signature field, and manually rewrite the whole thing.

Of course, the HTML links aren’t editable, and the Signature text fields don’t enable the “Add Link” item to the hover tools menu when selecting text.

Worst of all, even when the email signature is finally perfect, the Signature text field doesn’t preview it properly. If text is pasted in at a smaller text size, the preview still shows it at the default size. The only way to accurately preview an email signature is to draft a new email and hope the email signature displays like it did originally in TextEdit.

In short, never create a new HTML email signature on iOS. Create in on a Mac (source), copy it over the network with Continuity Clipboard, hope it works, and treat the iOS email signature fields (destination) as a never- or rarely-editable workspace.

Bugs Apple loves 6 months ago

That does sound annoying.

I have a dozen regularly typed words that I have had to set up string replacements for (in General -> Keyboard -> Text Replacement) to work around recorrect the autocorrect.

It used to be possible to tell autocorrect to ignore certain words and add them to the system dictionary (by typing the word, having jt autocorrected, hutting backspace and fixing the autocorrected word, and repeating the process 2 or 3 times), but that inexplicably stopped working for me a few years ago.

Bugs Apple loves 6 months ago

In the shutdown / restart confirmation dialog there’s a checkbox to reopen apps at login. If there’s a bug with it I haven’t noticed it. You can also run

defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowLaunchesRelaunchApps -bool false

Wikipedia, yes. Without attribution no. It says they use Wikipedia on the ‘about’ page, where they also say they donate half their profits to the Wikipedia Foundation.

I’m not associated with factsasnews at all; I just took a minute and clicked on the ‘about’ page.

“One worrying trend I’ve observed among my male investor friends is that they’re much more wary of giving candid advice to women founders than they used to be. They are afraid of saying anything that a female founder might misinterpret as sexism. So, when giving feedback to a woman they don’t know well enough to trust, they talk with less candor than they would with a male founder.¹ When this happens, women are missing out on potentially valuable advice.”

Oh. My. God. Just ask the person if they want your advice.

It’s the same in the (presumably male-dominated) workplace as it is in anywhere, such as giving unsolicited advice to someone at the (usually male-dominated) rock gym.

Surprising for me. I just shared the link with my COVID pod, and I’m giddy for the mayhem to begin. Thanks for the link!

Great call to action. With other nonprofits I would immediately agree, matching is important. Is Signal in more need than other nonprofits, though? I imagine they’re still sitting on some of the $40 million the Signal Foundation got from Brian Acton, former WhatApp CEO.

Would love to hear the community’s response to these questions. Post it as an Ask HN if you’re up for it!

Pleroma has been the front runner for a community of mine that has about 1,000 members in the Portland, Oregon area. (In that context, joining the fediverse is a bonus and not a core reason for using Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.)

About half our members are on Meetup and the other half is on Facebook, and the community has definitely bifarcated after we paused our in-person meetups due to physical distancing.

I’m hoping groups and group chats become a thing for Pleroma soon, and those are more or less the 2 features I’m waiting for before scheduling time for the build.

I was originally leaning toward OpenSocial, but ActivityPub for Drupal had only just reached alpha within the last few weeks.

Touch ID (combined with a home button) is a lot faster. You can reach into your pocket or handbag, put the finger on the button and press it while you're taking it out. By the time your phone is out it's unlocked and on the home screen. I don't recall seeing people failing to unlock their phones while paying with Apple Pay before but now it's a reasonably common occurrence if they didn't "prime" it ahead of time.

I was excited when I discovered this, but I now consider this “feature” to be a security issue. I used to “prime” my Touch ID-equipped iPhones until I accidental authorized an in-app purchase because my thumb was pre-placed on the sensor.

Never again.

I had modified the Accessibility settings so that resting a finger on the sensor would unlock the device, and when reverting that setting I still ran into the same issue.

And the screen size, too…

It wasn’t until home widgets became a thing that I actually began entertaining the idea of getting a Pro Max.

Thanks! I found this helpful.

To anyone else also just learning about Mail-in-a-Box:

“Mail-in-a-Box is based on Postfix, Dovecot, Z-Push, Roundcube, Nextcloud, Apache SpamAssassin, Postgrey, Nginx, @konklone’s nginx config, and more.”

I’m sorry for your loss.

It sounds like you used a Back-UPS unit instead of a Smart-UPS, which I’ve heard switches to battery 10x faster than the Back-UPS.

After learning this I won’t use a Back-UPS for anything where meaningful data loss might happen. They’re great for lights, cable modems, WiFi routers, etc., though.

Had to look up “hypersonic,” so consider this back of the envelope math from an interested amateur.

Hypersonic is the term used for speeds over Mach 5. Mach 1 is equal to the speed of sound, however the speed of sound varies at different elevation.

Sound travels slower in mediums that are less dense, so the higher you go in elevation the slower Mach is.

Mach 5 is about 6,125km/h (3,805.9mph) at sea level, and about 5,339 km/h (3,317.5mph) at 35,000ft, which makes is where you’ll see lots of commercial airliners.

Source: https://www.quora.com/How-fast-is-mach-5-speed?share=1