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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:36AM (#24774809)
Check https://grapheneos.org/

Google hardware without Google software. With USB-C and headphone jack, for now at least.

The world would be such a better place if Google could simply communicate a little bit better.
Can you add a switch for Amazon UK DE FR ES?
Re:African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:23AM (#20380905)
It's not as if most people are rich in Equatorial Guinea. It's an appalling outlier in terms of inequality, even on such an unequal continent as Africa.

"Only about half of the country’s population has access to clean drinking water, overcrowded living condition is—surprisingly given the country’s low population density—rampant and very few children enjoy the advantages of urban life such as education, medical services and recreational facilities." https://borgenproject.org/equatorial-guinea-poverty/

I tried to find data about GINI for the country but the World Bank and the UN don't have anything. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/income-gini-coefficient

Re:VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies on Saturday July 06, 2019 @04:04AM (#20368561)
Not sure if it really helps when making a choice but here's an extensive overview of 185 VPN services over 30+ factors: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison
Re:Slack Is Not Where 'Deep Work' Happens on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:00AM (#19644371)
Neither is Hacker News.
Re:Study: Two Monitors or One Ultrawide on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:40PM (#19597959)
ShiftIt helps me a lot. Basic, simple keyboard shortcuts. And it's free (as in free speech). https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
Re:Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed? on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:35PM (#19597905)
Plus Google Talk was XMPP compatible for a long time.
Re:Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:37PM (#19558326)
bahn.de used to be my go-to place (even for trains inside Italy) but these days https://www.thetrainline.com/ is the best for finding good train connections across Europe.

https://www.rome2rio.com/ can come in handy as well.

Re:MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:29AM (#19552632)
I like http://webmsx.org/ a lot. Works right inside your browser.
Re:We moved our servers to Iceland on Saturday March 30, 2019 @06:27AM (#19528735)
Matomo is analytics for folks who really care about privacy (or folks who want to simply have more control over their users analytics data). Install https://matomo.org/ and run it in the same location as the project you're already running. Your own instance of Matomo is not going to be on EasyList any time soon.
Ha! I'm pretty sure deusofnull was being sarcastic here.
Re:Social Media Endangers Knowledge on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:35AM (#15531397)
Do you have links to your analytical work?

Bonus for links to your thoughts on how to fork and expand another order of magnitude. This is something I'd love to work on at some point.

Re:After the end of the startup era on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:42PM (#15529112)
Plus the article could do with some basic fact checking.

"The web boom of 1997-2006 brought us Amazon, Facebook, Google, Salesforce, Airbnb"

Wikipedia AirBnB page: "Founded August 2008; 9 years ago"

For website of a purist software freedom company I was surprised to see Privacy Badger show up with a red 5:

ajax.googleapis.com fonts.googleapis.com secure.gravatar.com fonts.gstatic.com code.jquery.com

Re:The Everything Bubble [infographic] on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:15AM (#15364933)
It is a fiat bubble.
Re:Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M? on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:14PM (#15315387)
Did you watch Silicon Valley episode 1?

If you still don't know what to do after that, just watch some more episodes.

Re:Basic Income Research Proposal on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:03PM (#15304818)
Trillions. That's what's currently going around in quantitative easing. That's why many are calling for QE for the people. Instead of giving money to financial institutions, give it directly to the people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

Re:Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:43AM (#15275819)
https://satoshipay.io/ is another interesting project. (Disclaimer: I don't have any stake in the company but Meinhard is a friend of mine.)
The problem is called deletionism and I (re)started http://deletionpedia.org/ because of this problem, currently at 50k+ articles in English.
Hitchhiking guide http://hitchwiki.org dumpster diving guide http://trashwiki.org social network https://www.trustroots.org
Re:Ask HN: What credit card does your US startup use? on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:00AM (#14105300)
Not for the US: http://holvi.com is great for Finnish, German and Austrian startups. You can get multiple cards, comes with bookkeeping built in and reimbursement functionality.
Re:Finding Free Food with Python on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @03:56AM (#13809144)
Finding free food with PHP: http://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page
The Arabic ZIM file of February 2017 is 5.4G. http://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
Re:Private search browser Cliqz buys Ghostery ad-tracker tool on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:08PM (#13655356)
I moved over to Privacy Badger a while ago. It's an EFF project unlikely to ever be bought by a for profit company.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

Re:Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:59PM (#13646091)
http://deletionpedia.org/ is a small project to cope with this in a positive way. A couple of years ago, when I was frustrated by deletionism once again, I wrote a bot that automatically copies articles that are about to be deleted.
Re:Ask HN: How can I get investor intros in Berlin? on Monday February 13, 2017 @07:06AM (#13634670)
There are Techstars programs in Berlin, if you make it in you get 20K+100K. Plus convenient intros with numerous investors as part of the program and comfy intros to hundreds of investors afterwards. You also learn a few other things about building a scalable business.

Check http://www.techstars.com/programs/berlin-program/ and https://www.metroaccelerator.com/

I started editing Wikipedia in 2003. It was fun. Over the years it became less fun, I gave up on participating and quite a few articles I had started ended up being deleted.

I also often found myself looking for articles I knew had been on Wikipedia, but had been deleted.

In December 2013 I had enough of the deletionism. I spent a few hours to set up http://deletionpedia.org/ - to rescue articles from deletion.

It doesn't deal with harassment, but it's a useful resource if you want to find back something that was deleted on Wikipedia.

(The site had been set up before, but the original creator let it slip.)

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