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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:22PM (#21942031)
I'm hoping that when my kids grow up they're horrified that we ever drove gas-powered cars.
Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:47PM (#21907245)
The software and the database can be downloaded. There's already a few links here to do just that.

I'm sure a few clone sites will pop up and you could always run a local copy yourself.

If Exact Audio Copy doesn't allow you to set the API to connect to, you could always use some proxy software (I use Charles) to forward freedb links to your chosen replacement.

Re:Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:29PM (#21907129)
I do have 4G, but at $1 per 100MB. I'd rather have the WiFi password when one's available.
Re:Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:10PM (#21907005)
I use DDG as my daily search engine and didn't know about this. I'm frequently impressed by all the "extras" that they include.

I think I'll start using this a lot!

Unnecessary sarcasm aside, I'm Keen to look at it simple because it's written in Rust. I like Rust so this is interesting for that reason alone.

Besides that, Mozilla and the Firefox community have a lot of Rust devs so writing this in Rust may make this more likely to get PRs from people involved in the FF Send project