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New comment by madmads in "German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells"

madmads — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:17:36 +0000

The story starts with a German man, John Boepple, in his button shop in Germany. He immigrates to the US with the resolve to search for more freshwater mussels. So yes, it is relevant if you're interested in telling a story of the events that transpired.

New comment by madmads in "YouTube as Storage"

madmads — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:24:18 +0000

I think it's just meant to be a fun experiment, not your next enterprise backup site

New comment by madmads in "American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana"

madmads — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:22:10 +0000

What would be an alternative that conveys the same thing, in your opinion?

New comment by madmads in "Introduction to GrapheneOS"

madmads — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:57:19 +0000

That was my experience too. Up and running in 30 minutes, I was quite surprised

New comment by madmads in "Hermes 4"

madmads — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:58:11 +0000

Exactly

New comment by madmads in "Type 2 diabetes drug associated with 35% lower risk of dementia, study finds"

madmads — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:37:52 +0000

The smarter way to comment online: Read the article before commenting on how to best understand it. As the other reader mentioned, that's not what the article says.

New comment by madmads in "DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android"

madmads — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:27:50 +0000

Not universally true, I use banking apps on my Pixel running the latest GrapheneOS. There is literally nothing I cannot do on my phone. I think it's possible that no US banks have apps that can be used as it seems a universal experience among Americans.

Legibility Group

madmads — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:02:14 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legibility_Group

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37928028

Points: 1

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New comment by madmads in "4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution"

madmads — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:51:03 +0000

Yea it's probably to have a catchy name and get some attention. Although it's technically accurate to call it 4D since it includes time, I think 3D video recording would probably get the point across to more people in a less sensationalist way.

New comment by madmads in "Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty"

madmads — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:35:24 +0000

What are you talking about? How does this relate to anything in the discussion? Besides, you were denigrating the intelligence of the average person, as though that's the reason they don't acquire all the skills necessary to have digital privacy.

Ironically, that's a stupid assumption to have. You might be in your own bubble, but I know many very intelligent people who do not have the time or interest in gaining digital privacy. It's not as easy or without compromise as you seem to think.

New comment by madmads in "Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty"

madmads — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:23:39 +0000

That's probably the most self-aggrandizing interpretation. Could it be that other people have other priorities or interests rather than spending their time figuring out how to obtain digital privacy without compromising in the areas they care about? No surely it's their low "cognitive capital" /s

New comment by madmads in "F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect"

madmads — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 11:04:13 +0000

Fair enough, but on the flipside I wanted to point out that for at least some of us it's possible to use GrapheneOS with no compromises to the experience. Usually you only hear about those telling you categorically that you "can't" use banking, government and other sensitive apps when that's not true. Anyone on the fence should try it out themselves.

New comment by madmads in "F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect"

madmads — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:20:25 +0000

I use GrapheneOS daily and use banking, government, and other sensitive apps without problem. It's a common myth that you can't use those apps on GrapheneOS.

New comment by madmads in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

madmads — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:22:16 +0000

Maybe if you sprinkle the advice with your own bit of reasoning it becomes usable, you don't have to take it as literally as written on the page.

New comment by madmads in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

madmads — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:25:18 +0000

I think it's assumed that it's within reason and in situations where the ultimatum has the purpose of pushing you into a situation you would prefer not to be in. The WoW example is an example of dysfunctional behavior and the HR example is a routine process and not unexpected from the recipient nor is the cost of filling it in extreme. Your examples don't apply and it should be obvious why.

New comment by madmads in "Tinder Offers $500-a-Month Subscription to Its Most Active Users"

madmads — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:01:37 +0000

Yea that doesn't make much sense

New comment by madmads in "TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken"

madmads — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 12:42:02 +0000

You might wanna check out Chronophoto for just guessing the time.

https://www.chronophoto.app/

New comment by madmads in "ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links"

madmads — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:46:52 +0000

Do you think it's possible to pay a new group of people and have them care as much as the people who met voluntarily out of sheer interest and dedication to their community? I doubt it.

Edit: not that I'm against paying mods, I support that. But replacing enthusiast mods with paid mods, I doubt that'll be adequate.

New comment by madmads in "Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users"

madmads — Mon, 08 May 2023 14:46:51 +0000

Are we still getting surprised by this? I feel like I've read a version of your comment on posts like this for the past couple of years.

New comment by madmads in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

madmads — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:44:51 +0000

NL is meant as Netherlands here and the context is that since you can't talk about growing cannabis in the open, people talk about their "vegetable" gardens or "herbs" instead. The comment you're responding to is implying that the grow tent is used to grow cannabis but he's covering it up by saying it's a vegetable garden.