nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Amazon Review Scam
Amazon reviews are not trustworthy. I use https://fakespot.com to help me sort through the fake reviews. In my experience, it works pretty well.
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nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Upstract – The Web's Most Exclusive Society of Refined News Enthusiasts
I love the concept! I’ll be following along for sure.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Goodbye, Native Apps
To be fair, JetBrains runs on the JVM which arguably has the same problems.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: WildDuck Mail Server – Self hosted modern mail server
This might be what you're looking for. I came across it while searching for this stuff: https://mailinabox.email/
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: An example of how brands build fake reviews on Amazon
I find https://www.fakespot.com/ very useful if I’m shopping on Amazon.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
I've been really interested in purchasing a VR platform but Oculus' Facebook integration has always been a dealbreaker for me.
What are the alternatives for a self-contained VR system? I don't want to have to plug into a PC.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there any good websites for tracking stock prices?
Very nice, thanks!
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there any good websites for tracking stock prices?
Koyfin looks cool, thanks for sharing!
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there any good websites for tracking stock prices?
I'm looking for more data, less Jim Cramer types.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: “Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”
I haven't tried this, but you could try the Ruffle browser extension. I think it's designed as a drop in replacement for the flash player.
https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Using-Ruffle#browse...
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: “Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”
https://www.newgrounds.com/ has been around for a long long time and has a wealth of old content built in flash.
Luckily they are creating https://ruffle.rs which is a flash emulator written in rust. All of this fantastic media should be preserved!
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document
I feel the same way. I had a good laugh at your Stockholm Syndrome comment!
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
Digital Ocean has managed Postgres for $15/mo
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
Maybe, but you normally can't move weather cameras and I don't think they have such a high resolution...
From another comment, apparently the cameras are distributed by https://www.crimepoint.net/
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
Ken Kocienda talks about this in his book Creative Selection. While working at Apple, they identified processes that needed to optimized with heuristics as opposed to algorithms. Some things need to be tweaked by a person and cannot be solved by applying an algorithm. He posits that this is the reason Apple has traditionally had such a great user experience with the products.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
I was just thinking about that! System76 would be wise to put some resources towards this.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
It’s funny that people want this so badly that the site has been down for me the whole time it’s been on the front page yet it’s still getting upvoted to the top.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: New 13-inch MacBook Pro
I’ve been a Big Mac user for the last 7 years or so. I initially moved over from Linux after experiencing the ease of the OSX operating system when working in software development without the overhead of maintaining something like Arch Linux.
I’m now looking at system76 and Pop!_OS for my next machine. They seem to be doing a really good job of creating compelling hardware and software that works well together. From the sounds of it, Pop!_OS does a really good job creating that Apple “just works” experience without all the cruft.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Insomnia Designer – Open-source collaborative editor for API design
This is great. I'm a huge fan of Insomnia for testing APIs and I've been looking for a good tool to help with the design aspect.
nbrempel | 5 years ago | on: ActivityPub Could Be the Future
If the network of decentralized social websites grows large enough, then it can overtake Twitter and even Facebook. Just as the World Wide Web won over AOL in the early days.
The network effect is powerful.