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> obviously not the best move for one's career

Apparently he no longer has the "Autoweapons" article from 1987 on the web. It's probably on the Internet Archive somewhere.

(Previous Hacker News discussion on that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8153341)



Likewise. My last name contains a non-ascii character. In ~2009 I started at a company whose admin conveniently set up an account for me on their Ubuntu server... on which no-one could then log in locally because the login manager crashed when trying to display the list of users. I logged in via ssh and changed my name to the nearest ASCII equivalent.

I always feel slightly worried on sites that demand that I give my full legal name (such as the US ESTA form), and then refuse to handle it because it includes "illegal" characters.


Full legal name as appears on machine readable zone in your own passport. Allowed characters are A-Z only, see MRZ specifications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport


What's a legal name? It presumes it's somehow different from other ... illegal names. But in which way? Which law has a say?


"Legal name" is a catch-all term that usually means "approved for use on government issued ID". Are there instances when that's not always the case and some forms of ID (not just, say, an ID card, but also in tax filings, for example) actually have different rules? Amazingly, sometimes yes. But usually that's what it means.


I get what it could mean but it's jurisdiction bound and doesnt resolve unambigyously, doesnt match mrz and isnt always ascii.


The name the legal system uses to refer to you.


Legal system as in court of law? They tend to use more letters than I have in my actual passport (definitely more than fits into mrz) and depending on which court we talk about they also use different alphabets. They also assume certain structure in those nsmes, which differs from one court to another.


Are you using courts that insist on different alphabets? Then you have multiple legal names.

And some operations are based on exactly what's on your passport.

It's more than court, taxes are an important and relevant set of laws.


Yes, I had a pleasure do deal with two courts that use two different alphabets this year. They one of the two referenced the other. The name written in neither of two matches whats actually written in my passport. It isn't a complicated name by any reasonable metric.

Taxes are easier -- they just ids and names are display only kind of stuff, sourced from the base registry.


This has happened to me with passwords containing foreign characters. The system would accept it, but further logons would be impossible. Now I always strip diacritics to be safe.


A friend mentioned using control characters in passwords... like ^F and ^B, but not ^C because that's the interrupt character. Feels vaguely risky to me (does ^U empty the line? does ^W delete the last word? does your terminal emulator do some weird encoding like it does for cursor keys?) but if it works, why not?


I remember in school learning that technically speaking on Unix you could have the backspace character as part of your password too

But for the same reason with ^W and ^U I have no idea how you'd implement that in an interactive prompt without escaping


I suspect I have run into a couple bugs because of password generators putting characters that some backend system cannot process in the password. Halfwish they just did DKWhhjwqjkwqjmHSJKHAIUHQwdmlsadkl instead.


PETSCII? On the Commodore 64 you could press the Commodore key and Shift together to change character sets between lowercase and the graphical characters.

But the Unix login thing might have been because of teletypes? https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/teletype/ claims that ASR 33 used 8-bit ASCII but was uppercase only - not sure if the "8-bit" claim can be true.

On some Unix (and Linux) systems, you can still enter a kind of retro mode with "stty olcuc iuclc" (output lowercase to uppercase, input uppercase to lowercase) and turning on Caps Lock.


The Kagi founder mentions 2% in a response to a feedback thread

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...


Yes, you can do it with a "page rule", which the parent comment mentioned. The CloudFlare free tier has a budget of three page rules, which might mean that you have to bundle all your rss feeds in one folder so they share a path prefix.


Curiously, on many terminal emulators the following work:

Ctrl-2 = Ctrl-@ = NUL byte

Ctrl-3 = Ctrl-[ = ESC

Ctrl-4 = Ctrl-\ = default for SIGQUIT

Ctrl-5 = Ctrl-] = jump to definition in vim

Ctrl-6 = Ctrl-^ = mosh escape key

Ctrl-7 = Ctrl-_ = undo in Emacs

I think these probably originate in xterm.


Banking credentials are used a lot in Finland to sign into other services. This means you get phishing emails saying "your medical test results are available" or "you're getting a tax return" where the actual goal is to get into your bank account.


Estonia has this: <https://e-estonia.com/solutions/estonian-e-identity/id-card/>

Finland tried to copy it, but the Finnish card (while based on the same technology) is used very little. Finnish banks already had their own OTP solutions, which they started offering for authentication on other web sites, so no-one wanted an extra authenticator on top of that. This of course means that you get phishing emails pretending to be from all sorts of government services, where the goal is to get your banking credentials and take your money.

Since then, mobile phone operators added their own authentication system based on credentials residing on your SIM card <https://mobiilivarmenne.fi/en/>. You prove your identity when getting a mobile phone contract and can then use that to log into many sites.


Would be interesting to hear from someone who has compared this and https://daylightcomputer.com/


I’ve got a RM2 and a Daylight tablet.

In ambient light the contrast is worse on the Daylight than the RM2 - the screen background is quite significantly darker.

However, the Daylight has a backlight which increases the contrast enormously. And it’s usable in the dark which the RM2 is not. The much faster refresh rate also gives it a more fluid feel.

What I didn’t anticipate is the difference the screen makes in how I use and perceive them:

As the RM2 is so simple and static it feels more like a notebook or book reader that happens to be battery powered, whereas the Daylight is definitely a gadget.

I’m more likely to use the RM2 to take notes or do some thinking and the Daylight as something to tinker with.


Good point!

The remarkable is a lot more like paper and has that simple feel.

Daylight was created for the express purpose of being a portable computer you can use in direct sunlight. It can also just be your notebook but it does so much more than take notes.

I may be a little bit biased but I'd personally prefer a non-laggy device with a little bit worse contrast.

To each their own!


I have both. Daylight is _amazing_ for reading and marking up technical PDFs and books. Also good for marking up web pages.

Remarkable screen and pen latency is much better.

I hope they both succeed. Both awesome. I'll probably get this new Remarkable as well.

(That being said, I use my pen and paper bullet journal ($30) more than both of these combined).


The Remarkable screen and pen latency are better than Daylight? That's opposite of what I've heard previously.


The Daylight screen is _amazing_ for reading technical books. The pen isn't anything special, and I don't like it's thickness, but good enough to get the job done.

Here is a photo I took from earlier this week: http://hub.scroll.pub/daylight2/


Afaik we put the same kind of high polling rate Wacom digitizer that remarkable uses.

Any quirks you notice between it and the daylight would be fascinating to note! Wacom is the most fluid digital pen system on the market from what we could find, especially compared to Ntrig, USI and other approaches.

Also you can use other pens other than the one we included in the box


> Any quirks you notice between it and the daylight would be fascinating to note!

Okay, my Remarkable 2 is currently broken (screen breaks more than I wish. They don't have Apple's level of reliability yet .3rd replacement), so I can't test directly at the moment.

> Also you can use other pens other than the one we included in the box

Oh cool! The pen in box is good enough for me, but now I'm going to look into getting a thin one. Thanks!


I haven't used a Daylight (yet) but here's a side-by-side video of them being used in sunlight: https://x.com/daylightco/status/1808213555579441214

The reMarkable has better contrast, viewing angle, and resolution, the Daylight has a far better refresh rate. There are other tradeoffs between them of course, but display-wise, those are the main ones


DC has even worse contrast than e-ink.


Since when does e-ink have bad contrast?


Depends what your reference is. E-ink displays without a lot of layers (especially Carta 1250) have pretty good contrast, on par with matte paper. Some devices with a thick frontlight layer and a Wacom layer and a touch layer are less impressive.


My Onyx BOOX has at best a background comparable to very dirty newsprint.

I find myself reading with the frontlight on under most indoors circumstances, unless I'm in direct sunlight. With the frontlight, it's fine. Text may be somewhat more washed out, but that bothers me less than a darkish background.

Under sunlight the contrast is actually about perfect, as white paper tends to be too blindingly bright.

My tablet has several layers: capacitive touch, Wacom, and frontlight, all of which probably contribute to the lower contrast.

Mind: I'm addressing your "bad contrast" question. I find the trade-offs reasonable, and for reading ebooks (as opposed to Web browsing or other app use), the frontlight battery consumption is quite reasonable.

If I'm just using the device casually (e.g., listening to podcasts or checking something quickly) it's fine to use w/o the frontlight, but for immersive reading I'll either have a strong reading light, frontlight, or head for a convenient sunbeam.


Have you ever compared with actual printed paper?


Never, and I’m not even sure about the ratio — I just never noticed poor contrast on my old Kindle, which I’ve been using for the last 10 years or so.


Printed paper (black on white) has a contrast ratio of 1:50 to up to (for glossy paper) 1:200, significantly higher than e-ink.


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It's not really a scam but rather a technology that's still in its infancy. I think of it more like the Palm Treo and Blackberry: they're not great but hopefully we're progressing towards the iPhone. I wouldn't buy one at the moment, though.


It's a scam as in it costs much more than the B/W displays but has worse specs than it.


E-ink contrast is something like 1:15, it's pretty bad.


*) in the realm of electrophoretic displays or with strong ambient light, not compared to some 2000 nit OLED in the dark


My reference point is physical paper.


You think e-ink has worst contrast than physical paper? How so?


I hold them side by side.


what's the contrast of physical paper in the dark?


We are talking about e-ink without added edge lighting. I found that if I have to crank up the internal lighting of an e-reader to get adequate contrast, then I may as well use a tablet, because it isn’t reflective illumination anymore to the eye.


I have a Dasun Color, it's by far the worst purchase I ever made. Turd.


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