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Any recommendation on how I could improve my submission? Sorry for giving the impression that this was a spam but without any possibility to contact the user @ryes, I figured this was the only way to get any answers. swurl was awesome btw.

My related story: we have door phone system in our apartment house and I wanted to get a notification whenever our flat got buzzed. I hacked the phone in our flat - attached a circuit directly to the wires leading to the coil of the buzzer and through arduino to the pc. Then I stitched together some code utilizing firebase to send notifications. Worked like a charm until google began to require credit cards for the free stuff.

Tangent to this: there was an airline accident when the service crew used transparent tape instead of the reflective silver tape somewhere on the belly of the plane (or wings, I don't remember). Then when the pilot was doing preflight inspection at night with a torchlight, the spot with the transparent tape was not visible to him. This was an error on the ground crew side.

It would need some googling to find the details.

This interesting for me from the standpoint of shared controllers. What is the general idea behind this? Did you write a driver that would fake these controllers on the 'server'? What platforms have you covered? I'm into massively local multiplayer game and was always toying with ideas on how to reliably connect as much controllers as possible into a game.

I think the audience here would appreciate some stories on the darknetdiaries.com. There are even several interviews with people describing how they got interested in the IT security field in their teens in highschool. Can't really recommend any specific from the top of my head.

Can confirm. Have been using wireless Logitech MX master 3. There is like 1 in 10 chance that my Linux machine hangs when putting it into sleep and I touch the mouse. Also it is almost guaranteed the machine freezes when i turn the mouse off with the switch on its belly while putting the computer to sleep. It taught me to always save my work at least:)

At my previous job I worked at a whole UI framework (server side) based on XSLT transformations. We built kind of abstraction layer on top of ExtJS,HighCharts and some 3D rendering lib at that time. It was hell to debug anything in there because the output was HTML sprinkled with JavaScript and it was not always easy to identify what part of XML and XSLT was responsible for given part of output. It was quite successfully used in one internal ERP mashup app that sucked data out of some SAP system. Learning XSLT actually helped me understand C++ templates (big aha moment). So we had this XSLT monster crunching on XML files but what we really needed was JSX which probably wasn't a thing until few years into the project.

For the thread collapsing functionality I think the long press/touch could mitigate the need for pinch zooming. Just hold your thumb on the comment long enough and bang, it's gone. For me this is the most commonly performed interaction with the site.