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New comment by bogidon in "Is Gmail killing independent email?"

bogidon — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:58:08 +0000

Chiming in with something I've posted in the past that I've found reduced about 80% of this spam mail and only takes 10 minutes to set up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070730

Reducing Junk Mail

bogidon — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.die.net/musings/junk_mail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31856140

Points: 2

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New comment by bogidon in "EU drive for new clean energy could see solar panels on all new buildings"

bogidon — Mon, 23 May 2022 20:09:45 +0000

https://archive.ph/7Kfjn

EU drive for new clean energy could see solar panels on all new buildings

bogidon — Mon, 23 May 2022 20:09:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/96d2dac1-0bc6-4c7f-b3b6-23bc307f4227

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31484219

Points: 1

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New comment by bogidon in "Americans are drowning in spam"

bogidon — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:52:03 +0000

For sure. Except I don't think this site provides "official interaction with US government stuff". My expectation is that the government was involved only to create the regulation and the implementation was left to the credit bureaus. Which of course are incentivized to make the conversion rate of this site as low as possibly. So offputtingly sketchy is probably a good thing for them.

New comment by bogidon in "Americans are drowning in spam"

bogidon — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:03:43 +0000

In my experience lots of unwanted mail comes from credit card offers, insurance, etc. Turns out that unless you have an account with them, all these financial service companies get their prospective mailing data through the credit bureaus. However there is a 2003 law that required the bureaus to create an opt out mechanism, which is available here: https://www.optoutprescreen.com/

Doing this has cut out 99% of my spam paper mail for the last year. Would highly recommend for sanity and as an easy way to cut down some on environmental impact. You can opt out for up to 5 years through the website or permanently by writing a paper letter. I did the latter through one of the "you write digitally, we'll send physical letter" services you can find on google and it's been great.

New comment by bogidon in "I need to find an apartment"

bogidon — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:48:16 +0000

I just spent two months apartment searching in NYC. I talked to many brokers but not one was interested in actively searching on my behalf. The market is incredibly disadvantageous to renters right now. Maybe parent is sharing experience from a different time or has broker connections I did not.

As an aside I also tried to automate my apartment hunt. The main thing that matters in NYC is time to respond. Unfortunately Zillow, StreetEasy, etc are not very easy to automate on the messaging side due to bot countermeasures. It was an incredibly time consuming, manual process. Happily found a great place though.

Explain Shell

bogidon — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 04:10:41 +0000

Article URL: https://explainshell.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30762652

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

T-Mobile Forum: I was promised a third line for free and didn't receive it

bogidon — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:18:08 +0000

Article URL: https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/i-was-promised-a-third-line-for-free-and-didn-t-receive-it-38728

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430599

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

McDonald’s Hall of Zodiacs: 2022 Lunar New Year by Humberto Leon (VR)

bogidon — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:33:30 +0000

Article URL: https://mcdhallofzodiacs.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30209005

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bogidon in "USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools"

bogidon — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 06:58:12 +0000

Oh that’s awesome. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by bogidon in "USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools"

bogidon — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 01:23:28 +0000

I have a poor understanding of electrical engineering so I am not sure this would actually work. But I've wondered if one could make a fairly cheap gadget for turning a decent USB-PD supply into a somewhat useful hobbyist variable voltage DC power supply.

Especially with USB-PD 3.1 which has an adjustable voltage supply mode [1] so you are not constrained to only a handful of power profiles. I think in theory you could offer 5V, 9V, and 15-48V.

It would be cool because it would be much easier to carry (keep in your backpack) and I imagine cheaper than a benchtop power supply so long as you have access to a capable USB-C charger. But I'm not sure what you'd be missing out on versus a proper benchtop.

[1] https://www.usb.org/usb-charger-pd

Why I (a bike advocate) don't Support the Treeline Trail Plan

bogidon — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:19:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.damnarbor.com/2022/01/opinion-why-i-dont-support-treeline.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30012543

Points: 2

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New comment by bogidon in "Google says iMessage is too powerful"

bogidon — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:36:49 +0000

I still have an iPhone for now (am waiting for mobile Linux to become just a little more mature) but I’ve turned off iMessage. When I get asked about how I can be reached by IM I tell people they can find me on Signal.

Been doing this for about two years and now ~80% of my personal conversations are over Signal. And most of these friends are not very technical.

I love my little successful rebellion against the walled garden. And it will make my eventual transition away from iOS much easier.

Just a somewhat related personal anecdote, sorry to deviate a bit from topic.

EDIT: Yes, Signal is centralized and I would have loved to use Matrix. But the clients are bad. Email me if you want to build a better one

New comment by bogidon in "Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence"

bogidon — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 23:39:02 +0000

Big plus one. In order to encourage (what I strongly believe to be much needed) experimentation with personal messaging we have to break away from having each. new. client. establish it's own network. Otherwise competition in this field will always be limited. Matrix I believe is currently the most promising answer to this problem.

New comment by bogidon in "What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?"

bogidon — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:15:18 +0000

I only started feeling a sense of actually understanding CSS (as opposed to working on it based on acquired intuition) when I started reading the official specs. I think that most other material is an abstraction over those that usually doesn’t explain the broader context surrounding a feature or its edge cases / interactions with other features. For example here’s the spec on positioning: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-position-3/

I’ve found directly useful information in specs that was not commonly pointed out in tutorials/stack overflow/etc when discussing those features (not remembering a specific example right now unfortunately). Can say the same for JavaScript.

I think in general when learning about an API it’s best for understanding to read primary sources. And thankfully the W3C specs are quite good documents and not too inaccessible in my opinion.

New comment by bogidon in "Telegram founder says over 70M new users joined during Facebook outage"

bogidon — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:17:22 +0000

"millions"

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1445164521102979080?s=2...

New comment by bogidon in "Tab Unloading in Firefox 93"

bogidon — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:28:50 +0000

I was surprised recently to learn about the back/forward cache (bfcache) [1], a common browser optimization that sort of does what you're describing but stores a more complete snapshot of the page, including the JS heap. I'm not sure if it's used in this new FF feature (the article doesn't give details about the mechanism of unloading).

However the bfcache unsurprisingly causes edge cases in JS-heavy pages/SPAs, and a prevailing solution [2] is for the page to force a reload when it is restored from this cache rather than explicitly handling those edge cases, nullifying the optimization.

[1] https://web.dev/bfcache/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/13123626/14665201

New comment by bogidon in "The Perils of an .xyz Domain"

bogidon — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 04:23:56 +0000

I like to chime in with this one when possible (due to a deep resentment for credit card offer spam). In case you didn’t know, you can opt out of the credit industry’s vast marketing machinery.

It’s a bit obtuse, as you’d expect from the bureaus, but I am thankful for this bit of regulation: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/prescreened-credit-and...

New comment by bogidon in "Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos"

bogidon — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:52:42 +0000

Have been hoping for something like this for probably a decade – and your product looks great.

Also have a question about the pricing. I’m happy to pay at the current tiers, especially to help getting y’all bootstrapped. But I’m curious if reducing the pricing will be an objective for you as you scale? I’m not sure I see myself maintaining the current expense indefinitely or it making it easy to recommend to less technical friends/family.