L29Ah's comments

On: Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp

[L29Ah]

very ethical phone-tied centralized metadata collection

On: Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

[L29Ah]

where <noscript>??

On: Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork

[L29Ah]

osmand is better anyway :>

[david-gpu → L29Ah]

I use OsmAnd, but perusing both of the repos it is apparent that OrganicMaps has better code.

What I like best about OSMAnd is that you can tweak the routing algorithm without recompiling the code, as the rules are stored in routing.xml.

[Vinnl → L29Ah]

I use both and they're both great, but also not drop-ins for each other. OSMand has more features, but is way more confusing and quite a bit slower. So I have OrganicMaps cover my basic navigation needs, but if e.g. I want to access offline Wikivoyage travel guides, I use OSMand.

[szszrk → L29Ah]

Still a wonderful and stable solution. It has some killer features as well: unlike OM, it let's you route anything. In OM good luck routing without proper GPS fix (from a parking, etc), in Osmand you can do pretty much anything.

It's insane how feature rich Osmand is, up to a point where it became a bit too complex for some.

On: Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service

[L29Ah]

Cloudflare is a MITM you voluntarily setup yourself, innit?

[f311a → L29Ah]

You don't have to setup anything

On: Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal?

[L29Ah]

https://hedgewars.org/ has a game engine is written in Pascal, and it rocks!

On: Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard

[L29Ah]

likely doesn't run GNU/Linux, as only android drivers-supporting distros are listed as supported so plenty of blobs and not much to upstream

On: PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder

[L29Ah]

> Multiple banks now basically require you to have an android app.

It's nice that you can boycott them and use those that don't impose arbitrary technological restrictions on you, right?

On: Modern Alternatives to PGP

[L29Ah]

> how to compell yourself to learn a bazillion of mutually-incompatible tools instead of the swiss army knife that works but fell out of fashion

On: Go is boring, and that’s fantastic

[L29Ah]

data State = On | Off deriving (Eq, Enum)

On: Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent

[L29Ah]

Even if you're not a diabetic, blood glucose spikes affect your mental performance like a weak stimulant, creating mild mood swings. Also, high amounts of high GI foods stimulate body fat production.

[allover → L29Ah]

> Also, high amounts of high GI foods stimulate body fat production.

That idea, 'the insulin hypothesis', has not been proven. In fact there is now evidence that claim is false. (Paywalled study [1], summary in this article [2]).

[1] http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v71/n3/full/ejcn2016260a.... [2] https://www.vox.com/2016/7/6/12105660/do-low-carb-diets-work