Ask HN: What are your favorite tech podcasts and why?
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@Kovah
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Does anyone has an idea how to make this work in Brave without uBlock? I added the block list to custom filters (brave://adblock/) but results for those spam sites are still shown in Duckduck.
People really tend to underestimate the power of simple servers, and overestimate the resources needed to run a website. All my projects run on one single VPS (so not even a dedicated machine) with 2 Cores and 4 GB RAM. It costs me about 6€ per month. If I would run all that on AWS, Azure or GCP, I would probably pay at least 60€, if not even more.
Aside from the general topic, I can recommend trying Hetzner. Happy customer for a couple of years now.
Well, I can't speak of Mix, and Digg is definitely more clickbait content than anything else, but all others are really good and have only little ads.
The 21 best StumbleUpon alternatives of 2022
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As a long-term user of Synology NAS, I already have one central solution to store all photos and videos, a Diskstation 918+ with 10TB storage. The NAS has a "photos" folder, all important family members have accounts and can store all photos in that folder. It's organized by year and one folder for each event.
When I first set up that photo solution I feared that no one would like to use it, but everyone liked the idea to have one central storage for all photos where everyone can also see and download the photos of others.
To make sure this is not the only place where everything is stored, I have another, older NAS sitting at my mom's house that is used as a remote backup solution. If ever comes the situation that both my and my mom's NAS are destroyed, photos probably don't matter anymore, so that's totally fine for me.
Of course, two NAS with much storage is quite expensive, but I guess it's cheaper in the long term, than paying for a multi-TB cloud storage every year.
TLDR: two NAS at different locations, one has a shared folder where all family photos are stored, one is backup only.
"The third Web" by Tante is a really great write-up: https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
Can anybody tell me why so many people think that Web 3 = NFTs + crypto currencies? NFTs and crypto currencies are a part of what people think the Web 3.0 will be, but they are definitely not synonyms. The author, however, seem to have did that.
Is there some blog article on how to do that? Would be interested in trying it out.
Glad you like it! Either me or other users submit sites (you need an account). At the moment I am the only one reviewing them. It's hard to judge sometimes, but it's the least I can do prevent spam and clickbait bullshit.
Show HN: Stumbled – A Stumbleupon successor to discover interesting websites
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What If Phones Were Designed for Hands?
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> Open-source creators are underpaid.
Maybe you should rephrase your article, or remove him. Sindre is one of the most-paid open source creators. There are other creators which definitely deserve to be listed here instead of him.
I cite my comment from Reddit I posted some time ago explaining what happened to SU:
> Stumbleupon had a declining user base because more and more spam flooded the site. Moderation couldn’t just keep up to it. As a result, advertisements were increased to keep up the profits from the remaining users. As you might imagine, this pushed those remaining users off the site even more. At some point, the management decided to put effort into a new platform: Mix.com. The CEO also spent a lot of his time building Uber (yes, the taxi company).
I asked myself this question about a year ago. There are a lot of sites similar to Stumbleupon, but all of them were exhausted quite fast or had the same sites listed. That's why I built my own internet discovery website based on what I remembered from Stumbleupon. https://stumbled.to
I first thought that I would never use Alpine, but now it is part of almost all new projects. "Putting JS into the HTML" seemed so obviously wrong for me first, but it's absolutely enough for 90% of micro interactions like dropdowns, navigations, toggles or whatever you would put into a 10-line JS file otherwise. Of course, it is NOT a replacement for React or other big frontend frameworks.
I just started reading "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" by Steven Johnson. Not a highly technical piece, but heard that it should be one of the must-reads for anybody in tech.
I don't think that any decent figure would make Google stop using it. Floc is their try on locking more and more vendors in their ad ecosystem, it makes Google the superior ad provider because they now have an even bigger (and more unfair) advantage over other providers. My hypothesis: if you are blocking floc, you are not really dependent on Google's ad system, neither as a website hosting ads, nor being found through ads. Unfortunately, Google owns too much of the ad market and too many vendors are already dependent on Google.
Your feedback is valid, no worries. I thought a lot about the process, which websites to add and how much control users should have about the stumble process. I think I won't add options to control which websites to display. If you found articles that are of low quality or pure clickbait, please report them. All articles are reviewed and all accepted must be of high quality.
Please use the exclamation mark beside the url to report a Stumble.
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