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They need to find a way reinvent "channel surfing". Discovery via "flipping" has lead me to watch things I'd otherwise never would click in an app interface.

I've always been surprised that Netflix, and other services, don't create "live channels" (e.g "The Office" channel) of their libraries.

Super smooth on desktop, but a horrible experience on my handheld device.

I've never had a good mobile experience on any scrolljacking site, even the ones done by Apple or Google.

Noted and appreciated.

But the fact still stands that that all-cause mortality was up about 40% at the time this was recorded. (See: https://www.usmortality.com/excess-percent)

Regardless of whether it's from second-order effects created by Covid policies (e.g drug overdoses) or other unrelated causes, it's a substantial figure worth investigating.

Hopefully more reputable sources will start investigating such claims -- until then I hope people can be open-minded to the fact that "the worst person you know might have just made a good point"

And you're engaging in some kind of ad-hominem fallacy -- refute the claims with facts, don't attack the messengers

I've gotten around this by disabling cookies and javascript on a per site basis.

These sites require blocking both javascript and cookies: NYT, Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, Wired, National Geographic and LA Times

These sites require only blocking cookies: Medium, Scientific American, Quartz, The Atlantic, Bloomberg and Harvard Business Review

The one downside is when the linked article is an "interactive feature/story" and it's a site which requires blocking javascript. It's an annoyance to temporarily allow such an article's source, but I'd rather have to deal with that than reaching their "free limit".

I'd much prefer if submitters choose more user-respecting sources, but until then I refuse to feel guilty over stopping these intrusive sites and their dark patterns.

The only source I wish was permanently banned is Financial Times -- every article is paywalled and provides no snippet.

Do you assume all HN users would reach the paywalls' read-limits through organic everyday use?

I felt forced to disable cookies and javascript on the following sites just after exclusively clicking on links submitted to HN: NYT, Medium, Washington Post, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review and Harvard Business Review.

I'd prefer if submitters choose more user-respecting sources, but until then I refuse to feel guilty over stopping these intrusive sites and their dark patterns.

Chromium is the only app I compile that still uses Python 2, but I do know Google utilize's it in many repos. I'd love to read anything that would cover how they're planning to handle EOL. Will they maintain a legacy hard-fork, upgrade to 3 or ditch Python for a different scripting language for their build systems?

I'm always left perplexed when projects like these don't make F-Droid distribution a priority over the Play store. Regardless, I'll check it out if it ever finds its way to F-Droid.

Blocking cookies from the paywall content providers' domain is alternative approach that doesn't require an extension.

I've done this successfully for medium.com and nytimes.com. If those content providers' start being more aggressive on the client-side via JS, you could go with the nuclear option of disabling JS for the provider as well.

If you want to trial this approach on Medium, an easy test-case is to click through some of the "Recent Stories That Members Loved" located on https://medium.com/creators before and after blocking cookie

As a catch-all you could start regexing messages' content and deny the abuser if one of their common patterns matched -- you'll still be in a never-ending game of cat and mouse.

There's also the possibility of false positives, which might mean some of your users' beign messages get rejected. Over time you could event start to integrate ML and NLP, which would hopefully limit the amount of manual oversight needed to detect spam in the future

At trial, prosecutors must introduce credible evidence that is sufficient to prove each defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, to the unanimous satisfaction of a jury of twelve citizens.

This case was investigated with the help of the FBI’s cyber teams in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and San Francisco and the National Security Division.

Assuming this never goes to trial, could the DOJ ever be compelled to release the evidence used to attribute the defendants? Or will it remain "pending arraignment" indefinitely?

I'd love to see an in-depth technical analysis of how they were able to substantiate these allegations

+1, very much looking forward to that Show HN.

Directus is always at the top of self-hosted CMS lists, but one of the reasons I avoid it and other PHP self-hosted headless CMS solutions is due to the difficulties(tech debt) of automating dev environments and CI/CD pipelines across different distros and OSes.

I would have possibly given Directus a spin if it didn't have hard dependencies on the following PHP system extensions: curl, gd, finfo, pdo_mysql and mbstring. Not to go too off topic, but I wish PHP extensions could be installed via Composer and Packagist (similar to how NPM handles native modules).

It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab

I've been using an X1 Gen 4 w Arch as my daily driver for the past 2 years. It's an extremely reliable machine minus a few annoying KMS/Xorg issues I've encountered -- to be fair though they weren't really "issues", but rather determining whether or not I needed to install/uninstall Intel's video drivers for proper multi-monitor functionality (you do need them installed at the moment with the latest changes in xorg-server-1.20)

While I love the matte screen, 4k will be of way more importance to me in the future -- those KMS/Xorg "issues" wouldn't have been so annoying if I didn't have to deal with fractional scaling via xrandr due to mixed DPIs in multi-monitor setups.

The aesthetics could be a little more fanciful on the X1, but that's subjective. I'm actually planning on getting a new Precision 5530 whenever Dell releases the Developer edition without Windows.

Download each tab to preserve contents and enable offline access. Your local directory's `file:///` URI can be used as an index view to avoid the need for a file manager

I wish someone would file suit against both the DNC and RNC for conspiring against the American public and third-party/independent candidates

What's unfortunate about Directus and Cockpit, is they still have a hard dependency on a PHP.

If I'm going headless, the last thing I want to do is setup a PHP stack.

Wasn't aware! I use it mainly as a "reader" and usually only comment on desktop. Nice to know though, thanks for pointing that out!

Materialistic, it's available on both F-Droid, https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialistic/, and the Play Store, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...

Ideological reasons. I'm no Richard Stallman, but try to exclusively use FOSS software. I have made concessions for requirements at work (G Suite, Slack, Ngrok for conference calls/webhooks, etc).

The source for the backend portion is also available, https://github.com/localtunnel/server. Going to set it up shortly on my own personal box, and if it works smoothly I'll be able to present it as a self-hosted alternative to my employer.

I must have overlooked this when I unhappily settled for ngrok -- thank you for sharing a FOSS alternative.

In NYC and I've always just brought along my Linux laptop - no one's ever told me it's not allowed. Disclaimer: I use Linux because of the philosophy, hate mega-corps and will turn down any job offer if the offering company runs an Exchange server.

The MBP I'm usually given is left at the office. I use it strictly for iOS/macOS testing and the occasional Sketch/AI/PSD file.

Thanks, had no idea! Instead I was wondering why HN Special broke for the second time in the past few months without the extension getting an upgrade.

Any particular reason this isn't FOSS? Seems like a nice alternative to Bartender, but making it "free as in speech" rather than "free as in beer" would make this much more attractive.

Yes - and while I'm no Richard Stallman - I try to only use FOSS software but have made concessions for requirements at work (G Suite, Slack, etc).

Would have been an instant install otherwise.

I wish SaaS companies (not just DatoCMS) would learn that developers will not adopt their products if they don't have source access.

This product could have easily been FOSS with it's pricing model based exclusively on support/hosting.

If you want early-adopters - be hacker-friendly, not money/data-hungry.

- Delete all Google Accounts

- Flash AOSP (Compiling it from source rather than a pre-compiled rom is even better)

- Install microG, a drop in FOSS replacement for Google Play Services | https://microg.org/

- Install F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/

- Install Yalp Store, an app for downloading apks from Google Play Store via F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=yalp&fdid=co...

- Build CAF, Chromium for Snap Dragon | https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/chrome4sdp/ and tweak as you like. I add DuckDuckGo as my primary search and also use a majority of the patches from the inox-patchset | https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset

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With microG and Yalp you'll be able to cover 95% of your proprietary app needs. For example, I use it to occasionally install Slack when I work remote. But remember to always use the unstable version of microG so the latest apps won't complain about your Google Play Services being out of date.

You might want to call your card-issuer and report the charges as fraudulent

Personally I hope that crew is joining the "anything but proprietary" group. Sorry, I'm sure you were fishing for a more pro-MS response.