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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp on Saturday June 21, 2025 @12:23PM (#44338746)
very ethical phone-tied centralized metadata collection
Re:Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool on Saturday May 17, 2025 @06:10PM (#44017394)
where <noscript>??
osmand is better anyway :>
Cloudflare is a MITM you voluntarily setup yourself, innit?
Re:Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal in 2023? on Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:20PM (#34947860)
https://hedgewars.org/ has a game engine is written in Pascal, and it rocks!
Re:Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:14AM (#26660739)
likely doesn't run GNU/Linux, as only android drivers-supporting distros are listed as supported so plenty of blobs and not much to upstream
Re:PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:54AM (#26579619)
> Multiple banks now basically require you to have an android app.

It's nice that you can boycott them and use those that don't impose arbitrary technological restrictions on you, right?

Re:Modern Alternatives to PGP on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:21AM (#26341962)
> how to compell yourself to learn a bazillion of mutually-incompatible tools instead of the swiss army knife that works but fell out of fashion
Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:45PM (#23715156)
data State = On | Off deriving (Eq, Enum)
Re:Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:18PM (#15051017)
Even if you're not a diabetic, blood glucose spikes affect your mental performance like a weak stimulant, creating mild mood swings. Also, high amounts of high GI foods stimulate body fat production.
Re:Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:51PM (#15050904)
AFAIK, cellulose in oats prevents quick digestion of starch so its glycemic index is in 50s.
Re:Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:32PM (#15050833)
Thank you; I've expanded it a bit.
Re:Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:21PM (#15050785)
I invest in starch instead and use sucralose as a sweetener.
Re:Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent on Friday August 18, 2017 @08:16PM (#15050763)
What else could it have been? I needed a way to do simple arithmetic and pretty-print my recipe and its nutrients as I (re-)adjust it at least.