Hacker News: soter

New comment by soter in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"

__soter__ — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:03:46 +0000

There are many features that Google blocks if you have a GSuite accounts. You cannot use Stadia, post reviews in the google play store, use any of there family subscriptions as the paying account or as a family member and note application integration with google assistance. Those are just the few I can think of off the top of my head.

New comment by soter in "Getting better at Linux with mini-projects"

__soter__ — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:52:43 +0000

This kinda mirrors advice I would give my younger sibling when he was struggling to pick up programming, even though that is the direction he wanted his career to go. He thought he needed to know everything and saw that as an impossible mountain to climb. My advice to him was to find a small problem he cared about in the world or at home and develop a solution. When it's a problem you care about or want resolved, you are more invested and learning becomes fun. Then you can build on those skills with what ever you find to work on next.

New comment by soter in "Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces"

__soter__ — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:26:49 +0000

$5 for 250GB of storage and then $20 per TB ($0.02/GB) after that seems a bit steep.

  Plans and Pricing
  The base rate of a Spaces subscription is $5/month and gives you the ability to create multiple Spaces.
  The subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your Spaces). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02/GiB. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your Spaces, your bill will be prorated hourly.

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/

New comment by soter in "Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week"

__soter__ — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:56:17 +0000

I really like this idea and could see it being great to share with family and friends, except for the missing support for web or android. Everyone I would want to connect with on something like this all have a mix of devices and this being apple only would limit that sharing to just a few of them.

New comment by soter in "Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US"

__soter__ — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:38:47 +0000

I know the form that you mention for reporting fraud in CO. Even better than the fact that it is a google form, is that is also asks for your Social Security Number.

New comment by soter in "Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware"

__soter__ — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:01:03 +0000

I just found this a few weeks ago as I started to look at a way to hack a cheap set of wireless controlled outlets for my Christmas lights. I needed a SDR to record the signal from the remote, but now I have my lights controlled by a cron job on a Raspberry Pi that is on my desk.

New comment by soter in "Firefox 82"

__soter__ — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:07:31 +0000

I just used the pop-out video feature for the first time, after thinking it was going to be useless. It is really awesome and the ability to put the video anywhere, not just in the browser, was one of the first things in a while that made me say wow to a new feature in a web browser.

Hacker News: __soter__

New comment by __soter__ in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"

New comment by __soter__ in "Getting better at Linux with mini-projects"

New comment by __soter__ in "Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces"

New comment by __soter__ in "Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week"

New comment by __soter__ in "Scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from US"

New comment by __soter__ in "Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware"

New comment by __soter__ in "Firefox 82"