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night-rider commented on Lie About Your Birthday   themarkup.org/gentle-janu... · Posted by u/atg_abhishek
nickcw · 2 years ago
May favorite fake birthday is 1st January 1970.

This is a date very familiar to Unix people

    $ TZ=GMT date -d "@0"
    Thu  1 Jan 00:00:00 GMT 1970
and it gives me a smile!

night-rider · 2 years ago
A lot of hackers do this. One thing I noticed: I get a flood of e-mail on 1st Jan with special offers and companies pretending to 'care' it's your birthday when it's all automated drivel.
night-rider commented on Ask HN: How do you get important news faster? Do you care about it?    · Posted by u/ibaikov
night-rider · 2 years ago
Two things I read:

https://sumi.news/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Just for a quick sweep.

Then I open Twitter/X and browse to my local news site.

This takes at most 5 minutes to skim world (and local) events and catch up.

night-rider commented on Ask HN: WTF Is YouTube Doing?    · Posted by u/laweijfmvo
pwg · 2 years ago
yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Once downloaded, the video files can be played anywhere, on any device.

night-rider · 2 years ago
This is what I use. You need to browse YT to get the relevant URLs you want to download, so YT will still be in the mix. Unless you source the URLs another way?
night-rider commented on The year of Windows on Arm? Google launches official Chrome builds   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/rntn
night-rider · 2 years ago
Weird that Win11 needs absurd hardware requirements but still has an Arm edition.
night-rider commented on Ask HN: Bookmarks Categorizer in Social Media    · Posted by u/gbala
night-rider · 2 years ago
I manually do this at the end of the year. I mostly discover neat URLs on desktop and have a bookmarklet that adds things to Pinboard. I also store stuff locally in my browser's bookmark manager. I never tag anything, and prefer to export everything to a HTML file, then proceed to convert all the URLs into a text-only list, and roughly organize things. I have categories like:

    Useful
    Tech
    News
    How-Tos
    Blogpost
    Whimsical
    Software
    To-Buy
    SaaS
    Programming
    etc

u/night-rider

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