Hacker News: ldavison

New comment by ldavison in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

ldavison — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:43:23 +0000

The DRM free books they sell work just fine. Ones with DRM must currently be read using their mobile or web apps. Their FAQ mentions their plans to support Kobo in the future.

https://bookshop.org/info/ebooks#EBOOKFAQ

New comment by ldavison in "Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies"

ldavison — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:09:56 +0000

I was able to get podman setup in WSL2 pretty easily following this:

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-windows-wsl2

New comment by ldavison in "Freenode ops take control of 700 channels"

ldavison — Wed, 26 May 2021 19:45:17 +0000

With so much drama on I-R-C, Freenode is now trash thanks to L-E-E

New comment by ldavison in "Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store"

ldavison — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:54:11 +0000

Technically speaking, it would be domestic terrorism. As citizens they should be afforded due process rights.

One could argue "terrorists" as you're defining re Gitmo should as well, but that's a different topic.

New comment by ldavison in "Google disabled my husband's account"

ldavison — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:38:02 +0000

This is nice, thanks for pointing it out. It's a shame though you can't export to something like S3.

New comment by ldavison in "Sampler for Mac Touchbars"

ldavison — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:08:26 +0000

For me it's not Vim (remapped caps lock to ESC, plus newer MBPs have a physical ESC key again), it's JetBrains.

The number of frequent operations that use F-keys makes the touch bar a truly frustrating experience.

I switched to a Matias keyboard to avoid the touch bar. An added benefit is their placement of the fn key, which is really nice if you use various OSes.

New comment by ldavison in "The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (2017)"

ldavison — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 01:59:10 +0000

I use https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch to do this.

I'm curious if there is something you are using on mobile for vimwiki? I've been using termux on Android, which works well enough.

New comment by ldavison in "“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”"

ldavison — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:21:15 +0000

Which are mainly going to be owned by AWS, GCP, Azure, DO, or CloudFlare

New comment by ldavison in "How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer"

ldavison — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:46:54 +0000

I have been using the "Redirect AMP to HTML" extension:

https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html

New comment by ldavison in "GitHub for Mobile"

ldavison — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 03:28:13 +0000

Agreed. The closest I've found is using:

https://github.com/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+...

I just add "-repo:org/repo-name" for the repos in my org I want removed from the results. Plus, it tells me what I need to review.

As long as you don't open email notifications about PR activity this page will show a blue indicator so you know which ones have been updated since you last viewed them.

New comment by ldavison in "Stack Overflow lets Facebook track users across their sites"

ldavison — Mon, 13 May 2019 23:58:12 +0000

They should. I use the Fanboy Anti-Facebook list (https://www.fanboy.co.nz/) and the avatars from FB on SO don't load for me.

New comment by ldavison in "React Native at Airbnb"

ldavison — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:56:54 +0000

This was recently making the rounds, I suspect this is what OP was referring to:

- https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1002637340291018754

Responses from someone at FB:

- https://twitter.com/sophiebits/status/1003101478427357184 - https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1003104331833532416

New comment by ldavison in "Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)"

ldavison — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:55:01 +0000

Try https://meet.google.com in any browser other than Chrome and you'll get a message saying your browser isn't supported.

If you setup Firefox to use a newer version of Chrome user agent, the page will at least load. Seems like they are using user agent instead of feature detection to limit usage.