Hacker News: SanchoPanda

New comment by SanchoPanda in ""Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint"

SanchoPanda — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:15:54 +0000

In it's defense, it's epub3 friendly and the majority of the major epub readers are not.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Instapaper Doubles Subscription Price"

SanchoPanda — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 05:24:15 +0000

I was able to answer my own question via their Zendesk (from 2016), for those interested. It looks like I just had not come across the issue, but articles were previously not being saved server side with the exception of those manually emailed.

https://instapaper.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/227342887-W...

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Instapaper Doubles Subscription Price"

SanchoPanda — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:11:07 +0000

How is permanent archiving different from the existing setup. As far as I understand, Instapaper already saved it's version of the article to your account, and I've never seen it lose anything because of a missing underlying article.

Are you saving the underlying article as pinboard does?

Longtime Instapaper fan here, the parser remains excellent and has kept up with all the newest shenanigans of the web over time much to my delight.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Ask HN: Why is Fastmail's search so terrible and how can it be improved?"

SanchoPanda — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:03:19 +0000

Not unless the average user is particualrly technically savvy and the developers happen to be known to browse HN.

...which I think is actually the case for Fastmail.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Ask HN: Why is Fastmail's search so terrible and how can it be improved?"

SanchoPanda — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:01:27 +0000

This is a really interesting question. I just tried playing with it for a bit, and I was able to approximate this for a fair number of emails (and with a large helping of kludgyness) by sorting the search results by subject which puts no subject emails at the top.

Of course within that pile is down to scanning.

I see why it's tricky since the search is indexed, but it does feel like there might be a way.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly"

SanchoPanda — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:36:21 +0000

Those nags can be moderated or turned off by about:config flags or policy.json lines, I forget which at the moment. They used to drive me insane as well.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)"

SanchoPanda — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:33:57 +0000

If ever there were a food item that needed a "Chilean Sea Bass" style marketing rebranding, its the Chokeberry.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)"

SanchoPanda — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:29:02 +0000

Growing up outside the US, black currant was the third default flavor of ice cream after vanilla and chocolate. Having strawberry fill that role here still seems like a missed opportunity for something slightly more bitter in the lineup of your average tiny one cart ice cream vendor on a beach or similar.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Engineering Serendipity: Does Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production? [pdf]"

SanchoPanda — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 04:07:12 +0000

Engineering as a noun versus as a verb really threw me for a loop on this one.

The methodology is cool, the scale of the experiment is very cool (16k meetings), the conclusion is kinda workmanlike - as if the question was specifically 'is shared knowledge necessary to generate new ideas'.

  "Overall, this study takes a critical step towards identifying the processes that explain when serendipitous encounters shape knowledge production outcomes among innovating individuals.
  We show that brief, information-rich interactions between people with some overlapping knowledge interests can have a productive effect on knowledge transfer, creation and diffusion."

This tertiary point was distracting as well, seems out of place.

  "Third, we make methodological contributions by highlighting the benefits of long-term studies that amalgamate multiple forms and uses of data. Prospective experiments can support multiple lines of investigation involving both near-term and long-term outcomes that may not be possible in retrospective, archival studies and suggests the use of multiple sources of data for unpacking the dynamics of knowledge production."

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?"

SanchoPanda — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:32:48 +0000

They have made it clear it is not a focus, and killed features, but that all seemed in the interest of making it something that continued to function without much work on their end. Which seems fair enough.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?"

SanchoPanda — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:38:34 +0000

Believe it or not, Plex. It's a truly mediocre photo organizer, with glaring missing features, but because I already have a Plex server - it's zero marginal work aside from just dropping the photos in a folder on the NAS running it.

I use FileBrowser to autosync the photos off my phone, and family can easily access them because they already know how to use Plex. The fact that there is a client for every device I have ever used is icing on the cake.

If you have a plex server, obviously a very big if, worth investigating just turning it on for a folder of files since it doesnt write to the images itself by default.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams"

SanchoPanda — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 01:49:24 +0000

Looking forward to seeing more.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Typograms: A definition and renderer for ASCII diagrams"

SanchoPanda — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:55:30 +0000

Thank you for svgbob, I adore it.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Ask HN: What plotting tools should I invest in learning?"

SanchoPanda — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:11:14 +0000

Gnuplot in shell. It's old and finicky, but it works and whatever you want to do, someone has done it before and written it up. Those instructions from 15 years ago will still more or less work as well. I output to SVG as part of website stats tools sometimes, which is handy.

For web I like plotly. Usually I will use the UI tool to make a chart I like, and then just automate the data portion. Same for highcharts. Those UI plot makers are fantastic if you just want to template something.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”"

SanchoPanda — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:51:10 +0000

Try that on mobile with their browser.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Ask HN: What YouTube channels do you watch with your kids?"

SanchoPanda — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 04:47:26 +0000

kurzgesagt!

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Critical RCE found in popular Ghostscript open-source PDF library"

SanchoPanda — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:07:33 +0000

There is not. PDF is more ingrained into our tech then ever before. Something like a a quarter or a third of the web is pdfs, it is the default archival format, and the only remotely plausible competitor for the core function of PDF (it more or less looks the same to me as it does to you and you for sure have the software to open it one way or another) is maybe HTML/CSS. There are competitors for the 8,000 other uses of PDFs but only one at a time.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "Firefox address bar"

SanchoPanda — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:00:55 +0000

Or make your own, right now, however you like: https://github.com/dohliam/yub. Can't advocate for this wonderful little html file enough.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "SUSE is forking RHEL"

SanchoPanda — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:28:52 +0000

You would want special head gear in case of over heating, perhaps some kind of low soft felt hat with a curled brim and the crown creased lengthways.

New comment by SanchoPanda in "YunoHost – Operating system aiming to simplify server administration"

SanchoPanda — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:27:28 +0000

Yunohost is broader, with more selection of packages, and no cost. Cloudron is probably slightly more polished. I've used both and was much happier sticking with yunohost.