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Thanks! I checked Settings but for some reason only the Privacy/Security section where I thought this option might be. No wonder I didn't see it.

I would consider using this app on my desktop instead of Thunderbird primarily due to the improved search.

After giving it a spin for 180 seconds, the main nuisance for me is that I can't elect to "Always show images from this sender". I use that in other desktop clients to ensure the image blocking banner doesn't end up being subconsciously ignored by me, as it will then only show for new senders who I'm not familiar with and need to be more wary of.

Also, like all banners everywhere no matter how well designed, it's ugly. In fact to be honest... this is the main reason I want the option to get rid of it.

I can understand why you don't offer that in the web app if you're storing it server side for each customer's list of saved senders, but for a desktop app where it can be stored locally, I'd value it.

Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last.

I use the Awesome RSS add-on for that in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/

I slapped together a little shareable sprint calendar tool, since I was constantly finding myself having to click too many times in other tools to get what should be a simple at-a-glance overview. I now use it almost every day, during team or stakeholder chats at work.

My team runs with: https://sprintcalendar.com/3-week-sprints/start-2020-12-03/r...

I've only tweaked it a bit since then, after sharing it and getting some feedback from others who found it useful.

This is what I am using, with the FeedMe app on Android so I can read wherever I am. Works well.

Yep. As an Australian in Taipei today, what struck me most was the effort involved. People have to go to the physical voting location where they are registered, which for many can mean a long trip. Traffic was subsequently awful today, driving out to Taoyuan to visit a relative ended up being a 5 hour round trip, double the usual.

People go to the effort even though voting is not compulsory - unlike where I'm from. There is also no postal or early voting. Despite all this, the turnout is 70ish percent.

Excellent. Wish I'd had this years ago for a bunch of projects! Tempted to revisit some of them now, knowing it can be this easy. Might be able to do a better job.

I just made a simple sprint calendar so I could keep track of my team's big dates more effectively at work, at a glance from my phone etc.

https://sprintcalendar.com

My team runs with:

https://sprintcalendar.com/3-week-sprints/start-2023-03-23/r...

Take note of things in your day-to-day which annoy you.

I became a product owner for a team running 3-week sprints, and kept finding myself being caught out in stakeholder meetings - being asked for prospective delivery dates relative to our sprint cycles. I have others on my team to organise ceremony dates and handle the Jira stuff etc, I just needed something to glance at on my phone within a few seconds.

I'm not a developer by trade so it's nothing fancy, but I made https://sprintcalendar.com and I use it most days at work now. I can't see how I'd monetize it, but it was fun to put together and solved a problem I had.

This is what came to mind immediately when a friend of mine was recalling a prank (purportedly) pulled on a Sydney restaurant. The QR code sticker on various tables was replaced with a legit-looking sticker which actually took users to a rather NSFW URL instead of an ordering page.

I hope it has caused people to start thinking about what could happen beyond the jokes.

I did this yesterday as well, Aegis seems really nice. I've got Syncthing up and running with my desktop as a middleman, so my old phone can be whipped out at any time if my current one gets stolen/lost/bricked.

But now I am wondering if I should be re-seeding across all my TOTP-enabled accounts in case we continue to be drip-fed new information about how much worse this breach is getting.

I've triggered the deletion process for my Authy account - the claim is that all my info will be deleted after 30 days.

It seems our governments tried to walk a fine line for a while with China, because the trade dollars were so good. That's all a bit out the window now. They've slapped us (economically) a few times over the last couple of years but I don't think they can go too much further down that route - they still need a lot of the stuff we're digging out of the ground.

With little for Australia left to lose trade-wise, doubling down on the US relationship makes sense. We're so intertwined already, we may as well get any more benefits we can out of it. The more the US has sitting in Australia, the more it's in their interests for us to be safe and stable.

Pity about France but it seems that project was not going well anyway. If we're going to waste money we may as well get better kit out of it (eventually).

I'm sure many here on HN did this long ago, but for me: Learning how to get by in a large org for the first time.

1 month ago I was responsible for the entire IT function of an SMB. I was the guy who knew everything required to get stuff done, and I reported directly to the CEO. A lot of processes were not formalised because the overheads of doing so weren't worth it.

New job, now working for the government in a skyscraper full of colleagues. I know virtually nothing, there is no onboarding to speak of, and I am second from the bottom in a huge hierarchy strangled by red tape. Every day I find out that there is another whole team dedicated to doing something I thought I was going to have to work out myself - which has pros and cons. I haven't even seen an org chart yet, but I've just been told "those teams over there are getting outsourced next month". So I think I know why there is no up-to-date org chart...

It's different. But it's a pay rise, and I'm not bored anymore. The level of coordination required to get anything done here is a learning exercise in itself. After my first week I was worried I wasn't cut out for this sort of thing, but after a couple more weeks I'm finding it... fun? Still weird though.

That medical software is simply bad is also my experience, having been an IT Manager for a clinic management company for a few years now.

In Australia at least, 85%+ of medical practices run one of two practice management systems. Both of these systems were originally developed by the same guy, and both have their centre of operations in the same small regional town in Queensland.

I don't think it's a surprise that top-tier developers are unlikely to be willing to move to the middle of nowhere. My experience with the version we use is that its UX is unpleasant, the platform isn't reliable, and it doesn't perform well at scale for larger clinics like ours.

I completely understand that the monolithic design of the software is mandated by too many competing interests (and regulations) for it to be simple. But I am sure it could be better.

I'm most excited about these too, but for another reason: noise. Looking for a place to live, and there are many nice suburban streets which I pretty much have to avoid because I am such a light sleeper. A late night or early morning bus route would drive me insane.

The colour under UV immediately brought to mind the space LEGO sets I enjoyed as a kid in the early 90s: https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/6923_Particle_Ionizer

I wonder if uranium glass was actually the inspiration for the neon green elements in these pieces?

We are currently at 7.8 billion.

1.2 billion people ago was 2006 or 2007.

I use https://pinpayments.com/ to accept credit/debit cards. My target market is 100% Australian so it was an easy option for me, but it won't be suitable for most people here.

True, and this is the reason I instead direct friends to options such as Authy or Aegis which allow the use of more than one device.

Unfortunately my bank (ANZ) and my government's online platform (myGov) in AU both have dedicated OTP apps which only allow single-device installations. When I lived overseas, my bank in Germany also had their own dedicated OTP app but they allowed installation on a backup device as well. Much better.

My understanding from his various posts online (and website [1]) is that he owns and lives near the land where the filming takes place. In Far North Queensland these sorts of areas would not be difficult to come across, not even far from a major town.

He probably just walks or (more likely) drives home each day.

[1] https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/about/ :

"Also It should be noted that I don’t live in the wild but just practice this as a hobby. I live in a modern house and eat modern food. I just like to see how people in ancient times built and made things."

Insect-wise, Ross River Virus is a problem in that part of the country. It's spread by mosquito. You wouldn't catch me outside at night up there in summer, at least not without protection.

German internet didn't seem so bad to me, and I suspect it is because I am Australian. The parallels between Telstra and Telekom were uncanny.

In Germany eventually I ended up with 50mbit VDSL which was fine, but having to get Telekom out to connect a phone line in a new building was not fun. Lots of hoops had to be jumped through.

Coming back home to Sydney, stuck on 3mbit ADSL2+ (4km from exchange) was also not fun, but at least it was upgraded to HFC NBN a year later. We're making progress... but as in Germany, it all depends on where you live.

Indeed. And it's worth remembering that one of those design constraints for the South Australia project was Musk's "Done in 100 days or it's free" offer. While surely done for publicity, it was in fact included in the contractual agreement with the state government.

As best I can tell, it adds risks which may or may not be a sufficient deterrent - depending on the business.

Once $10k+ cash transactions are banned, questions will be raised over any cash withdrawals that a business makes that are near, at, or over that limit - and possibly over any regular ones that are below the limit but couldn't be easily explained away on other expenses.

For a business to continue the practice you've mentioned, they would need to keep sufficient cash on hand for making such transactions as needed, at all times. So there are all the associated risks of having cash lying around, on top of the risks of being caught.

It can be worked around, but for some businesses I can imagine that the additional loopholes will be considered onerous enough to stop bothering.

I am not sure how much you've had to do with the LGBT+ community as a whole, but please do not reduce "Pride" to certain risque parts of certain glitzy annual parades. That is just a media-distilled version of the tip of a very big iceberg.

Your comment is not just too negative, it is simply wrong. Without Pride, same-sex marriage would never have been possible.

Definitions used for this sense of Pride (ripped from Google define, since they're good enough and I am lazy):

"Confidence and self-respect as expressed by members of a group, typically one that has been socially marginalized, on the basis of their shared identity, culture, and experience."

and

"Consciousness of one's own dignity" (Antonym: Shame.)

Note the Google definitions of Pride not being used in this sense:

"The quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance." (Antonyms: modesty, humility)

and

"A feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired."

Because this is a misunderstanding of LGBT+ "Pride". It is not just "Pride" in the common sense - rather it is in opposition to Shame.

Straight people have never been systematically subjected to shaming due to their sexuality or gender identity.

Given Mozilla's current direction in terms of looking for more revenue streams, it might be quite well timed - if it can be commercialized successfully on the B2B end, that is.

https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=&to=en&a=https://t3n.d...

Install NoRoot Firewall as HenryBemis mentioned, it's on the Play store. The app tells you what IP addresses apps are trying to communicate with in a fairly neat and simple way.

I've just installed it on my 6.1 Plus. Nothing sus yet but it's only been 5 minutes.

I'm an IT/SysAdmin type guy so I don't really code beyond web stuff at a hobbyist level, though I did do CompSci at uni way back when. However when I followed my partner overseas for a few years, the only job I had while away was working in a computational research group at a university.

I was brought on to provide a nice looking web UI for an online system that scientists could use to submit jobs to a server running molecular dynamics simulations. After finishing the job queue and interfaces though, I had plenty of time to spare. So the boss asked me to try and run some necessary manipulations on the uploaded PDB (protein data bank) files, before they would be sent to run in the simulation.

It's still the only time I have ever actually used direct material from my undergrad degree at work - using Dijkstra's algorithm and standard deviation to discover protein structural features, then manipulating them. It was also the only time I ever used the Python I spent just one semester learning a decade before. With all those libraries, I can understand why it was the language of choice my boss' field.

I made a log of the jobs as well, and in the 5 year since then, over 10,000 jobs have been submitted, helping scientists from dozens of countries all over the world. It's also the only code I've written since my uni days which isn't just typical web app type stuff. It's just this pokey little online service but I'm really proud of it, and I hope I've contributed to humanity's progress in some tiny way.

I do and while I am happy with 3 year terms, I don't disagree with much else.

We Aussies are pretty proud of the various improvements we have over the UK and US systems. Our independent electoral commissions minimise gerrymandering. Our preferential voting system ensures more accurate representation. Mandatory voter turnout has a moderating influence on political campaigning and avoids voter disenfranchisement issues.

But you can't look at the last decade of federal politics in the country and say it has been much other than a joke. We've just per chance had Brexit and Trump happening lately which has made it seem less ridiculous in comparison.

Leadership issues aside, we need a federal anti-corruption body and a well-worded bill of rights. As it stands, the government has far more room to move than they should, and on many issues the opposition has been either useless or complicit.

At the moment we have non-searchable PDFs coming in to a network drive. These are manually reviewed and sent to the relevant GP's inbox (or to nursing or to management) as necessary, with the relevant patient selected so all the doctor has to do is read it and hit "accept" or "seen". They're not willing to do more than that, of course.

Adding in OCR to make the documents searchable doesn't help a lot on its own. Just because one of our GP's names is listed on a fax doesn't mean it's actually for them, nor does another name mean it is the patient in question. A lot of names get put on these documents. Every fax we get is laid out differently, there's no consistency of any kind. Faxes being unreliable means we are sent plenty of duplicates, half-sent documents, and upside down ones too.

Nothing can beat an electronic message that contains the recipient doctor's ID, the patient's name and birth date (we have plenty with same names), and all the other relevant info. It's the only way forward.