1. Cockbrand Dec 31, 2025 parent

   Not sure if I'm missing something when I look at the discussion here, but there's Got Your Back [0], which backs up all emails in a Gmail account as .eml files.

   This seems to be the easiest and most straightforward way for me.

   [0] https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

2. 1 point Dec 29, 2025

   I'm Russian. Here's how propaganda works [video]

   0 comments Cockbrand youtube.com
3. Cockbrand Dec 26, 2025 parent

   How it can be legal for Waymo to operate a noisy lot like this right in a residential area is absolutely beyond me. Also, did Waymo really not consider the neighbors before setting up the lot? That sounds hardly credible to me.
4. Cockbrand Dec 26, 2025 parent

   Thank you for that, I only dug out the HN discussion, having read the article back when it was on the front page. Weird that the link changed like that!
5. Cockbrand Dec 24, 2025 parent

   In contrast, see “Why Russians never smile”: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=27317859
6. Cockbrand Dec 24, 2025 parent

   > [...] the response can be something like "you should know X" or "you should know this because of Y context" and it can be discouraging.

   This is definitely a cultural problem. You should get clear and non-judgmental answers to questions like these, because it should be regarded as absolutely normal that you can’t keep everything in your mind, or that you may have missed some context.

   In a culturally healthy org, everybody supports each other.

7. Cockbrand Dec 22, 2025 parent

   For a second, I read dogmas as some kind of X-mas for dogs, and I had a hard time parsing the title. To my defense, I haven't had any coffee yet today.

   Anyhow, happy holidays to all of you!

8. Cockbrand Dec 14, 2025 parent

   Lately, many Presta tubes come with valve nuts that fit Schrader valve holes. The nuts look similar to this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/612j5EAmLXL._AC_UF1000,1...

   So there's not necessarily a need to carry tubes with both valve types.

9. Cockbrand Dec 7, 2025 parent

   At least the federal government loves to contract McKinsey, so a lot of the profit still ends up outside of the country. I didn't find any quickly accessible data on the state government in Schleswig-Holstein, though.
10. Cockbrand Dec 7, 2025 parent

    To Heise's (slight) defense, their forum system is at least 24 years old, extrapolated from checking the date of my first comment on it. Probably even older. Apart from driving page impressions, there didn't seem to be an incentive to make the experience smoother, as user engagement is still very high.
11. Cockbrand Dec 6, 2025 parent

    As someone who always thought that it'd be cool to create my own parts and components by milling, but who never actually had access to a milling workshop, I find this video extremely satisfying to watch. Thank you!
12. Cockbrand Nov 24, 2025 parent

    IIRC, amber was considered the most eye friendly color back then. The cheaper monochrome screens were green-on-black.
13. Cockbrand Nov 16, 2025 parent

    I used to have this Debian box (which was a PowerMac G4) in my hallway. It had a 1000+ day uptime, back when this kind of uptime was still cool, or at least I thought it was. At some point it was two major versions behind, and I decided to dist-upgrade it. To my amazement, the upgrade went flawlessly, and the system booted without problems afterward. Debian is just great like that.
14. Cockbrand Nov 14, 2025 parent

    The cringe is strong with this one.

    (Thanks for the heads up, I hadn't seen that)

15. Cockbrand Nov 14, 2025 parent

    GP maybe meant EU + US in addition to the obvious Apple + Google?
16. Cockbrand Nov 11, 2025 parent

    Haha, before looking at the price, I joked "I'm not going to buy this if it's only $99 or less."

    I sure didn't get disappointed.

17. Cockbrand Nov 10, 2025 parent

    In much simpler times (around the turn of the millenium), Dillo was my main browser on my Mac for a while. I loved its simplicity and speed.
18. Cockbrand Nov 10, 2025 parent

    Probably fair re: NeXTSTEP, as I never had a NeXT to play with.
19. Cockbrand Nov 9, 2025 parent

    Also somewhat similar, the first large domain name dispute in Germany, in which a person called Andreas Shell held the domain shell.de:

    https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/-55795?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_...

    German Original: https://www.heise.de/-55795

20. Cockbrand Nov 9, 2025 parent

    Before the advent of Mac OS X, Irix definitely had the best looking, most consistent and most usable GUI of any Unix system.
21. Cockbrand Nov 6, 2025 parent

    > Now that listening to Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1 has officially become impossible outside the UK

    archive.org has a nice collection: https://archive.org/download/BBC_Essential_Mix_Collection

    And then there's always Soulseek, of course.

22. Cockbrand Oct 29, 2025 parent

    Loving the layout (if only it wouldn't scale to the entire window width). Generator meta tag looks credible:

    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) [Netscape]">

23. Cockbrand Oct 21, 2025 parent

    Slightly tangential: there's an excellent Norwegian TV series based on the premise of suddenly appearing immigrants from earlier time periods, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beforeigners.
24. Cockbrand Oct 17, 2025 parent

    There has been a 50% proof of concept, 50% art project by an Austrian university professor to a similar extent:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY_Kindle_Scanner

    https://vimeo.com/73675285

25. Cockbrand Oct 15, 2025 parent

    Mandatory mention of Raquel Meyers' amazing Petscii art:

    https://www.raquelmeyers.com/

26. Cockbrand Oct 13, 2025 parent

    This has been solved a long while ago, for better or for worse.

    See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak

27. Cockbrand Oct 11, 2025 parent

    Others have already pointed out that a knob saves a lot of space. And I'm surprised myself how usable a knob is when controlled with a vertical trackpad scroll gesture. Probably still a frustrating control on a touch screen, though.
28. Cockbrand Oct 11, 2025 parent

    You beat me to posting this. When this version of the QuickTime player came out, I couldn't understand how Apple of all companies could ship this obviously awkward control.

    Edit: Scrolling further down on the article, I get reminded of the weird pop-out drawer at the bottom of the player. I had totally forgotten about it, and it was also a very awkward and un-ergonomic piece of UI.

29. Cockbrand Oct 11, 2025 parent

    > What makes mp3 still worth considering?

    A lot of people (including myself) won't re-encode their existing music collections into another lossy format to avoid degradation in sound quality.

    Also, as much as it sucks these days, a lot of people (including myself) are still in the Apple ecosystem (formerly iTunes, now Music.app). For these people, mp3 seems to be the best compressed format that's compatible with the rest of the world.

30. Cockbrand Oct 7, 2025 parent

    You could use the browser's dev tools to emulate a narrower viewport.

    It should also be almost trivial to create a browser extension for this, if it doesn't even exist yet.

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