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maybe because of brexit. wouldn't justify it. just a wild guess
Re:Show HN: I made a tool to compare Timezones on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:00PM (#38887608)
isn't supported anymore?
Re:Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:14PM (#38185492)
Spyglass looks interesting, providing a unified search GUI for which I use a bunch of CLI search tools (ripgrep, ripgrep-all, and now bogrep) as well as some simple bash scripts.

Somehow I still prefer some CLI-based tooling though which I can configure as needed instead of a fully-fledged GUI-based solution.

Re:Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:20PM (#38172366)
"Rewind compresses, transcribes, encrypts, and stores your data locally so only you have access." sounds good.

Was your CPU usage ok when running the background service?

Re:Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:59AM (#38164294)
Interesting setup! Personally, I would be cautious to use such a screenshot service though. Even if self-hosted, it could screenshot credentials, environment files, and my password manager for example, which would then be stored in plaintext somewhere?

So I would rather prefer to "keep control" by using a search utility when needed instead of scanning the background permanently.

Re:Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:23AM (#38159169)
Using Bogrep, I could only find https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/ in my bookmarks which is a bit related, but doesn't seem to be what you're looking for.
Re:Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks on Sunday November 05, 2023 @12:50PM (#38153537)
Thanks, yep I'm currently working on proper support for Bogrep on macOS.

Show HN: Bogrep – Grep Your Bookmarks

https://github.com/quambene/bogrep

Occasionally, I need full-text search on my bookmarks to find a specific bookmark I added some time ago.Usually, browsers only support search of bookmarks in the website's title tag which is often not sufficient to find a bookmark.Some browsers, like Safari, provide built-in support for full-text search, but can only be used for content that's already in the browser's history.Bogrep imports...

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Re:My worst tech decision: A G Suite account for personal use on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @07:49PM (#32337759)
Forwarding is clear, but how did you set up the "send as" feature?

Ask HN: Specificity of app permission detection in Google Play

Google is currently contacting developers to remove unnecessary permissions from your app manifest or declare why it is needed.Specifically, it's about "powerful" permissions like QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES or REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES.The request in itself is understandable and reasonable.However, the automated detection of these permissions doesn't seem to work that well (for me), leading to false...

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IMO, building a social network is quite difficult nowadays because you can't monetize it right away. So you either have to bootstrap as a side project and build a community for years or getting paid by VC money early on.

We tried something similar [1] a few years ago. The limit is 5 posts per day. Our approach was minimalistic in a sense as you could post links only and no text, pictures, or videos.

We named it Turtle, symbolizing the opposite of the chatty twitter bird. It wasn't so clever from an SEO point of view though.

[1] https://turtle.community

Re:Apple’s Mistake (2009) on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:01PM (#30419370)
Thanks for trying.

Difficult to change a business model if it's working quite well (financially). Long-term thinking and short-term bonus payments don't align.

Kudos for your decision to leave.

Re:Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) on Sunday February 20, 2022 @11:54PM (#30412107)
Concerning noscript, is this [1] still a thing?

[1] NoScript is harmful and promotes malware - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624000

Re:Ask HN: Is the state of mail user agents that sad? on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:18PM (#30278622)
I'm still fine with Thunderbird as a MUA (more or less). Using number 1 and 4 as shortcuts to mark an email as "todo" or "urgent". Invitation to appointments (ics file format) can be accepted as well. Integration of contacts is a paint point though.

For email automation I have written a lightweight CLI in Rust [1] which supports MIME and SMTP. I'm currently integrating sendmail's capabilities as well, so that it can be used both as a MUA (message user agent) and MTA (message transfer agent). Cargo's feature flags will hopefully give you a UNIX-like experience (only compile the features you want to use).

In general, I share your sentiment. Email is still the best protocol to contact people outside of your organization. It's a pitty that encrypted email somehow haven't prevailed. The matrix protocol might be better suited for standardized and encrypted communication.

I would argue that every citizen should get a state-issued email address which then can be used for official communication with public authorities (signing and encrypting being a prerequisite). In Germany, you still get so much paper via regular mail. Even the ten-page Covid-19 quarantine order is send by post. It only arrives when quarantine is already over. (Admittedly, you get this order by phone, too, and they are asking for your email address.)

[1] https://github.com/quambene/pigeon-rs

Re:Postman Now Supports gRPC on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:59AM (#30177566)
Can confirm. Unfortunately, Postman is too resource-hungry (on Ubuntu). Launching is taking a while as well.

I have to admit I'm quite surprised that VS Code (which is also an electron app) is relatively fast and resource-sensitive. Having open a few applications in my daily workflow, moderate resource consumption is getting an important selling point for me.

Re:Ask HN: Google Play prevents continuous delivery on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:37AM (#30165042)
UI/UX can't be tested easily. IMO, this is why continuous delivery is especially important in (GUI) apps.
Re:Ask HN: Google Play prevents continuous delivery on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:31AM (#30164920)
It's not breaking often. But even handling rare issues is a pain in the app stores.

Ask HN: Google Play prevents continuous delivery

I'm having a Flutter app running both on iOS and Android.Currently, review time of Apple App Store, Samsung Galaxy Store and Huawei AppGallery is about 1-3 days which is not great but tolerable. However, review time in Google Play is a notable 4-10 days.Google's review time does make bugfixing quite impossible to deal with.Especially, GUIs are often impossible to test exhaustively. The obvious...

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Re:I got pwned by my cloud costs on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:56AM (#30058328)
Good point. If you are using Linux on a daily basis, it's easier to set up a server than configuring AWS.
Google did recently update its review process. I was complaining about its previous review process for 10 months at least. It's a little better now.

Previously, an app was suspended without any warning. You even couldn't comply with their requirements neither because they would deactivate access to the app in question in Google Play Console. Your only chance was an appeals request. Your app still suspended in the meantime which could be months. And you might loose all ratings, reviews, and downloads of your app.

My feedback at this time was:

> An easy but important improvement in Google Play:

1.) Don't suspend and remove the complete package id from Google Play, but instead just prevent the specific app update from publishing

2.) If the app update doesn't comply with Google's policies, then give developers the opportunity to fix that

3.) Developer submits a new app update which does comply

4.) App update gets approved by Google

5.) Google is happy and developers are happy

Which might be the case now. At least in Germany.

Right, my history of suffering went on for 11 months.

Unfortunately, I don't know anyone at Google and I didn't made it to HN.

Re:Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:17PM (#29959523)
I read "Shazam for Chess" which would be quite interesting.

1.) Make a photo of a chess position

2.) Recognize position and convert to digital format

3.) Search chess database of grandmasters and return relevant games in png format

Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:34PM (#29853925)
Google's extremely annoying Cookie selection is a UX nightmare: scrolling past two pages before you can press a button. I'd rather go to the library than use Google Search ever again. (An occasional !g bang in DDG is allowed though.)
We built too much. We even had topics before twitter had. But features don't matter much. We gave up when we realized it's at least 1-2 years community building before achieving anything substantial.
Twitter for slow mover: https://turtle.community/

You are only allowed to post no more than 5 turtles per 24 hour period.

I guess, the rule is 1,50 meters distance
In this case, the bloatware is macOS itself with 50GB Xcode.
Tauri looks interesting

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