martinml | 3 years ago | on: Ploopy open source thumb trackball
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martinml | 5 years ago | on: One Commander – a new Windows 10 file browser
There's a "Force enable zoom" in Settings > Accessibility too for Chrome (in Android at least).
martinml | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
Just guessing here but probably Backblaze b2? It has a similar pricing.
martinml | 7 years ago | on: I Bought Used Voting Machines on EBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming
They usually are behind a closed booth, at least in Spain.
martinml | 8 years ago | on: 500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken
Clients usually have some public, harcoded nodes to bootstrap the search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301
martinml | 8 years ago | on: Stripe Billing
Paddle.com is one gateway that offers this.
martinml | 8 years ago | on: How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
I know it's my fault and probably obvious but that site doesn't load on Chrome if you have disabled third-party cookies. You might want to show an informative message instead of an infinite spinner :(
https://www.chromium.org/for-testers/bug-reporting-guideline...
martinml | 8 years ago | on: Consider a Dell Optiplex FX160 Instead of a Raspberry Pi
What a coincidence. Just this week I got a used FX160 for 15 € and right now it's working as a home file server, router, wireless AP and general P2P downloader.
It seems to be running fine even inside of a closed cupboard, the CPU is at 31ºC and using about 16-17 watts on average. It's warm to the touch but it might be the apparently good thermal design of the case which allows for fully passive cooling.
What I don't like is that (at least judging by the heat it generates) most of the power consumption seems to be originated in the video chip, which in a headless server is useless. I tried to disable but didn't have any luck (it's a SiS 771/671 chip).
martinml | 9 years ago | on: Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined
You would have to go through a EU bank who would act as a middleman. There are many of them that have zero fees so it would be practically like if you were investing directly with Vanguard.
martinml | 9 years ago | on: Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
This seems to be in all editions of Windows 10, even the Enterprise ones.
martinml | 9 years ago | on: I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam
You seem to have some loop there with the real Uber support?
https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/bmazjsnh/
And in one case the spammer was aware of your site! https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/gywanvsb/
Maybe you can hide from Google with the appropiate robots.txt so the last one doesn't happen.
martinml | 9 years ago | on: Building a more power-efficient browser
Apparently Windows 10 likes to use idle time to test the memory:
http://superuser.com/questions/635837/high-cpu-load-from-sys...
In my desktop it was causing it to rev up the fan when it was idle for a few minutes.
martinml | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
I miss the search feature in Windows XP too. But Agent Ransack is a very good replacement and it even integrates with the file explorer. Try it!
martinml | 10 years ago | on: Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?
We could discuss the technical side, sure. Maybe they can cache the list or create better code to do it more optimally. There might be battery and data usage considerations too, that's true.
But this article revolves around the trope of "if it's free you're the product", and altough it might be true, I don't think the 23k thing is a proof of it. That's what I meant with my comment.
martinml | 10 years ago | on: Why has WhatsApp accessed my contacts 23,709 times?
This seems a bit clickbaity to me. WhatsApp works directly on your contacts, there isn't a remote roster like Facebook Messenger or Telegram.
So if any app were to access my contacts 23k times, I'd say WhatsApp is the one app which could justify that.
martinml | 10 years ago | on: How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq
I think it might be considered linkbait, and that's discouraged in the guidelines:
martinml | 10 years ago | on: Flash 0day from Hacking Team
The documentation says it works in OSX too.
martinml | 11 years ago | on: Google Maps Pacman
I guess it's because in Australia it has been April 1st for 3 hours already.
martinml | 11 years ago | on: Several thousand MongoDBs without access control on the Internet [pdf]
Similar, but with memcached (2010): http://www.sensepost.com/blog/4873.html
martinml | 11 years ago | on: Google Domains Launches to All in U.S
You might want to try NameSilo. Cheap, free privacy, 2FA, acceptable interface.
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I loved that trackball!