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I really like the sound quality of Amazon’s newest Echo Dot generation compared to it size and price.

However, in my experience Alexa is still pretty stupid. The only things it does well, is to play music, switch lights and read Wikipedia articles.

The one thing I'm scared of is Alexa sending everything it hears to Amazon, and not only things I said after the trigger word. I know for a fact, Alexa constantly records even today, because it can filter "trigger word in the middle of a sentence" scenarios, when no actual request is intended. I really do hope, that only actual requests (or false-positives) are currently sent to the AWS cloud.

If that won’t be the case anymore in the future, I’ll be out.

Do you have a large smart phone?

I like small phones. So I own a tablet for all the personal stuff at home. I use my PC for work, my Phone for messaging and travel and my tablet for everything else. It’s really the most comfortable way of consuming.

Is there a simple way to get the direct URL of the file (e.g. to use in wget cli calls).

Exactly my thoughts. I hate things like that. It’s an art to tell visitors in one or two snappy lines, what your product is all about.

I clicked on it. I’m a regular visitor of HN. q.e.d.

And I want to look good on photos, 'cause I’m a good looking hacker in RL.

This is the most overdue feature of Twitter. Since ages.

I have no idea, why they do not offer a global show/hide retweets option. If you follow a couple of hundred accounts—like I do—having retweets enabled pretty much ruins your entire timeline.

The Desktop browser version of Facebook is slow af. It almost feels like they are loading every single HTML element with yet another API request.

Using cloud services is scary. But giving a cloud service full access to all my cloud services scares the * out of me. I’m a scared person.

While I completely understand the problem, I do not like your solution. To me it doesn’t look as good as the original and takes away a lot of space for information within the notification itself.

I’d rather build in a hidden timer, so taps on a notification only trigger an app change after a certain amount of time. E.g. 0.5 seconds after it popped up.

We currently do use Keybase teams. We love the concept. Unfortunately, we do not consider Keybase production-ready, yet.

Especially the mobile apps are pretty buggy atm, which is one consideration why we’re looking for an alternative.

If you use it for authorization only, it doesn’t.

What I am most interested in is how to test/debug webhooks during development.

How do I tell webhook providers to send test notifications to my local development instance without tampering with the production setup on both sides?

But their salary source may be. Complicated world.

Wow, this document totally overtaxes my perception ability.