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octosphere commented on Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host   imgz.org/... · Posted by u/stavros
octosphere · 6 years ago
What if I need absolute surety my image(s) is not going to be subject to bit rot and not be available in a few years time? What if I do 'multi-posts' and share the same image across 10,000+ bulletin boards? Your bandwidth will run out very quickly if you saw the types of posting that I do (I use automation software to post to 10,000+ boards). And those posts last for decades. I am not sure I can rely on this service for my needs.

This is why I self-host my own image server and have it hooked up to a well-provisioned CDN for peace of mind. Then I have full control and can renew the domain for ten years each time to keep the images online.

octosphere commented on Bye Bye Microsoft Office, Hello LibreOffice   easydns.com/blog/2019/11/... · Posted by u/StuntPope
xeeeeeeeeeeenu · 6 years ago
One of the reasons why I don't use LibreOffice is completely broken kerning: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103322
octosphere · 6 years ago
Any other show stopping bugs you have encountered? I'm thinking of making the switch myself, but I hear nothing but anecdotes of people having a bad time getting proprietary Microsoft Office .docx files to play nice in LibreOffice
octosphere commented on The Hidden Life of an Amazon User   janavirgin.com/AMZ/... · Posted by u/rudenoise
ars · 6 years ago
> after witnessing you researching something to buy.

Amazon has never done that (different prices for different customers), their prices are the same for all users.

They didn't raise it because of anything you personally did.

Their prices just go up and down all the time randomly.

Leave the item in your shopping cart and check it daily (or more) and watch the price bounce around. You can use this to your advantage if you are not in a rush and wait for a good price. You can also use camelcamelcamel as a price tracker.

octosphere · 6 years ago
> Amazon has never done that

Well maybe they do? I know Amazon's algorithms are opaque to the user, but after several purchases on Amazon I noticed this trend of items I researched showing a small uptick in the price after a few days when I go to buy it. The price uptick is there for all users, but Amazon knows only one specific person will buy it, so the price is adjusted for that person and no-one else. After buying, the price goes back to its default in a few days.

octosphere commented on The Hidden Life of an Amazon User   janavirgin.com/AMZ/... · Posted by u/rudenoise
octosphere · 6 years ago
Never liked when Amazon increases the price a few days later after witnessing you researching something to buy. This is why I only purchase items 'on-the-spot' in a small window of time which allows me to escape such a practice.
octosphere commented on Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker   hackernewstitles.netlify.... · Posted by u/petercooper
dang · 6 years ago
That is such a great UI. I feel like the list should be longer. Can you do that without it costing more?

Not all of those edits are by mods, of course. Some are made by submitters (edit: as the site points out!). Also, some are because we switched the URL and thus to the title of the new article (example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616157). Those look weird if you assume they're moderation edits.

It looks like the list is sorted by reverse ID, which means articles that were submitted earlier are lower down on the page. But sometimes we re-up those (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), so from a front-page perspective some 'newer' stories are below older ones.

octosphere · 6 years ago
> I feel like the list should be longer

Isn't there a small window of time to edit a submission before it gets committed permanently to HN? I imagine the list would be bigger if the grace period lasted much longer.

octosphere commented on The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)   staltz.com/the-web-began-... · Posted by u/goranmoomin
JBiserkov · 6 years ago
Use https://decentraleyes.org

"Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers."

octosphere · 6 years ago
Thanks for recommending that :)
octosphere commented on Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/sxp
mkoryak · 6 years ago
I bet he did lie and its not 64 characters. He was probably saying that to make them not try to break his password12345.
octosphere · 6 years ago
Worse still is the threat of quantum computers that will make cracking his vault trivial. Apparently in 20-30 years people will be able to fit a quantum computer into a laptop form factor and break certain types of crypto at will, regardless of the keysize or key complexity.
octosphere commented on Windows 10 features we’re no longer developing   docs.microsoft.com/en-us/... · Posted by u/kbumsik
octosphere · 6 years ago
Sad to see Windows To Go being deprecated. It's the only way to have Windows running off a USB device. I hope it doesn't break the devices I own with WTG on them.

I wish Microsoft devs would add the option to install Windows on a USB drive during the initial install procedure.

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