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Re:HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint on Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:41AM (#38287941)
Logitech makes excellent, "mac style" keyboards for Windows. Checkout Logitech MX Keys. It should fit your needs if you liked Apple Magic Keyboard
Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:09AM (#37940365)
Funny thing about religious people is that very often they do not agree with 100% of what that church is saying and doing.

Ask HN: What happened to SecuriCAD and what are good alternatives?

I'm looking for best possible solution for building threat models and attack path analysis. I watched few presentations about SecuriCAD by Foreseeti which looked very impressive however their website seems to be down for sometime and looks like they disappeared.Did they rebranded or dissolved? Are there any other threat modelling tools that have similar functionality to what SecuriCAD was...

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It's BS solution and another "security by obscurity" theatre since laptops like Thinkpad X250 have 2 batteries, one internal and one external which is removable. This is another proof that this "security" doesn't work, and anyone willing can go around it.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:37AM (#36858373)
Yeah, he failed at that. Originally he wanted to have Model E but Ford holds rights to naming cars with that letter.
Re:Playstation 5 root keys obtained on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:47AM (#29146922)
This is the true reason that I feel like everybody are dancing around. Let's not lie to ourselves, hacking consoles in PS1, PS2 and DC era was for pirating games. Running unlicensed apps or linux was just a nice side effect of true goal. This days it's far less popular because of size, connectivity and prices of games.
Re:Ask HN: Best Keyboard for Programming in 2021? on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:10AM (#29093095)
I enjoy pretty budget Magicforce Smart 2 68. I'm using it for almost 6 years now and I'm on my 3rd keyboard. First I tried Outemu Blue switches, they was way to loud, shortly after I replaced them with Outemu Brown, which I used for I think 4 years until they started to fail registering clicks (I can't expect much from $40 keyboard), then I bought another one this time with backlit Gateron Browns and I like very much. For some reason the layout is just perfect for me and I'm still using keycaps from the second one because I didn't liked keycaps from backlit version. Text on keycaps is as it was when new, keycaps got a little bit shiny from typing (which I actually like), unfortunately they're turning a little bit yellow since I moved my desk very close to the window 2 years ago. Overall I can recommend it.
Re:Ask HN: Functioning hidpi setup on Linux, how? on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:55AM (#29093023)
Maybe my lack of knowledge is playing a role here but this is why I'm not fan of pushing Wayland everywhere. It seem like X server works pretty nicely while I hear everywhere about performance and functionality issues with Wayland. Wayland supposed to be better solution but I don't understand how since it have so many flaws.
Re:macOS Monterey on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:36AM (#28998259)
And it's not like it's under Linux or Windows where target hardware configuration is more or less unknown. Building both software and hardware by Apple supposed to be advantage of Macs.
Re:Ask HN: Can I hire an agent or how to get short-term contracts? on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:08PM (#28396734)
Easier said than done. While I do have recruiters in my network specializing in work for my skill set, pretty much all of them have offers for full time jobs in a big projects.

Ask HN: Can I hire an agent or how to get short-term contracts?

I'm looking into transitioning from full-time job into short term contracts. Ideally I would like to sign in a project for 1-6 months, do the job and have month or two off. Is there a good place to find such contracts outside of my LinkedIn network? Is something like agent for developer a thing? Kind of like authors, singer and actors have. I would love to hire someone like that, give him a cut...

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2021) on Thursday September 02, 2021 @01:49PM (#28395142)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

Location: Europe, from GMT-4 to GMT+6.

Technologies: PHP (Symfony, Laravel, Codeigniter), JS, TypeScript, backend, APIs.

I am a software developer and Linux system administrator with over 13 years experience developing software solutions for variety of applications. PHP is my main language of choice but I have industry experience coding in JS, TypeScript, Perl, Python, Ruby. I have experience with various MVC frameworks such as Codeigniter, Symfony, Laravel. I have experience leading software development team in Agile/SCRUM.

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrzej-jarzebowski-9727b06b/

I feel like this is what Twitch is also fighting against. Twitch started slowly becoming erotic streaming platform.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2021) on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:22PM (#27701674)
Location: Europe, from GMT-4 to GMT+6.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP (Symfony, Laravel, Codeigniter), JS, TypeScript, backend, APIs (SOAP/REST).

Email: [email protected]

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrzej-jarzebowski-9727b06b/

I am a software developer and Linux system administrator with over 13 years experience developing software solutions for variety of applications. PHP is my main language of choice but I have industry experience coding in JS, TypeScript, Perl, Python, Ruby. I have experience with various MVC frameworks such as Codeigniter, Symfony, Laravel. I have experience leading software development team in Agile/SCRUM.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2021) on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:19PM (#27701646)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

Location: Europe, from GMT-4 to GMT+6.

Technologies: PHP (Symfony, Laravel, Codeigniter), JS, TypeScript, backend, APIs.

I am a software developer and Linux system administrator with over 13 years experience developing software solutions for variety of applications. PHP is my main language of choice but I have industry experience coding in JS, TypeScript, Perl, Python, Ruby. I have experience with various MVC frameworks such as Codeigniter, Symfony, Laravel. I have experience leading software development team in Agile/SCRUM.

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrzej-jarzebowski-9727b06b/

Re:Nvidia Canvas on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:26AM (#27630479)
Yes I remember vividly, it was April 2021!
Re:GitHub was having issues on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:54AM (#27366440)
It seems that status pages never work properly in those kind of situations. The only reliable source of information seems to be twitter and HN
Re:Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:13AM (#27263432)
Well two MiG-29 was actually "escorting" the plane to Minsk and there was KGB agents on board. I don't think crew had much to say. This was pure aircraft hijacking backed up by country (or two).
Re:Have I Been Facebooked? on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:17AM (#26712026)
In EU there's GDPR and right to be forgotten. If I forbid company to store my data they're obligated by law to remove it from their servers.
Re:The Global Population Crisis That Never Was on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:14PM (#26305963)
IMHO education plays huge role. More often people decide to go to collage, then have a career, people also learn what a huge effort have to be put into rising child. On top of that there is so many fantastic things that person can do and have to give up at least to some extend if having a baby. In my opinion those are huge factors. This is a reason why on average successful, well educated people tend to have less children even though they have all the resources to have a lot of them.
Re:The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology on Thursday February 25, 2021 @10:10AM (#26263517)
Well you still have easier and more difficult distros. You can go easy route and play with Ubuntu or Fedora but you can approach linux from the hard side and try Arch or Gentoo
Re:The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:55AM (#26261012)
Classic PC and even some laptops especially with open operating systems are still fantastic tool for learning and tinkering. There's just more options now for people that simply wants to consume media without thinking too much about everything else. PC enthusiast scene is getting bigger every year.
Re:Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:21AM (#26062766)
That's a blast from the bast. I played a lot of Soldat in high school in Poland like 15 years ago. We was virtually never doing any actual learning we just played MoH:AA, Unreal Tournament and Soldat for hours.
But what does that change? Major flaw of Wankel engines, apex seals are still there, only now they are fixed in place not on the piston. I think "flipping" the design allows for smaller engine but reliability seems to stay the same. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder on Thursday December 17, 2020 @09:50AM (#25456048)
But seriously, can somebody ELI5 this project. If Centos is just 1:1 RHEL with removed branding then what new bugs will show up in Centos that are result of that rebranding and will not be fixed by RHEL devs? Is there a code in RHEL that is also copy writed which had to replaced and maintained by Centos devs? What am I missing?
Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder on Thursday December 17, 2020 @09:30AM (#25455837)
Let's face it, idea for using word "gimp" probably came before they figured out what it stands for. Even now when everyone understands what that means and what consequences are behind using that word, there is still a lot of debate around that name and instead of changing it to something more marketable they are stubborn and are sticking to it. They even allow for bigger market fragmentation (Glimpse fork of GIMP) just to not change that name, that's childish.
Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder on Thursday December 17, 2020 @09:23AM (#25455774)
While you at it tell your manager how many plugins your putting in your Gimp.
Re:Adopt your elePHPant now, the only original PHP elephant on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:11PM (#25258332)
You can now buy elePHPant without need for contacting via Messenger here https://www.vincentpontier.com/elephpant/etiquette-produit/b...
And have only 50-75 miles range, I assume that's under load. Average DHL courier in my country does between 60 and 200 miles daily.
For years people will prefer non-electric cars. From a perspective of someone with his own driveway this is a nobrainer to have electric car but many people in EU live in apartment blocks and there is simply no infrastructure there to charge all necessary cars. I will be able to say that "no one should have a reason to drive petrol car" when 0-100 charge time will be around 15 minutes.

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