BrandoElFollito

My digital life revolves around my Android phone and Windows 11 laptop (and then Linux servers, but this is irrelevant to my question). My main problem is that when I start something on the phone (usually a web page) I…

There is a lot of discussion about the last 23andMe leak and this Magde me rethink about sequencing my genome. This is illegal in France but let's assume I did it and have a file with the sequencing - what build I do…

I am desperately trying to find a product that someone mentioned here a few weeks ago (maybe a month or two). It was part of a "Show HN" discussion and was given as an alternative to the submitted product (as a comment,…

I self host quite a lot of third-party services and my own applications and I am finally done with jumping from system to system to check the logs. I have been thinking about setting up a log engine for the last 15…

Note: this is different from a few previous Ask HN posts where the impacted person was technically apt (if not a geek). Here this is for a typical older person whose technical capacities are small. My mother has a…

If I was a hacker and received a 10M€ ransom, how would I go to turn it into tangible assets (from buying a house to everyday expenses)? I can understand that occasional small amounts converted from crypto currency to…

If you use the excellent Syncthing[1], you may quickly be lost in the various shares between devices. I was. This was the trigger to write a small application that creates a map of your devices, their folders, and how…

I have AutoHotKey[1] for years but only recently started to make a real use of it. It is surprisingly powerful but of course does not work on its own - it needs actions to perform as a response to <something>. I would…

Background: I have a PhD in physics and moved to IT ~30 years ago. I am passionate with technology, code open-source for pleasure and am generally a nerd. Since I read technical stuff all the time, I gave up on fiction…

With the Google Apps changes I am looking at moving my emails somewhere else. One solution is a SaaS service that would cover all my needs, but they all have limitations (except at very premium levels of prices). I am…

In the light of the recent announcement of Google Apps closing, I started to look for providers. I had a look at the typical ones (fastmail, zoho, protonmail) and recall that in a comment, some 2-3 years ago, someone…

I have a 1000/400 Mbps fibre connection at home that is and will not ever be loaded. Is there a project I could donate it to? Some kind of shared-something where the missing medium would be bandwidth? I already…

I have lots of stuff (various small equipment, cables, sharpies, small screwdriver, velcro, ...) that is scattered across my apartment. If I had a house, I could devote space on my garage to gather all of that, but this…

I have a "highly annoying" case of fever hay (allergy to pollen). I use the wording "highly annoying" because I am in the middle of the scale between "a sneeze here and there" and "debilitating". It makes me physically…

I work in IT but has never been responsible for the operations of a large information system (say, PeopleSoft installation, or some legacy systems). I do a lot of amateur containerization (also for non critical…

Our team of five (IT) has the freedom to do some side projects in addition to general duties.These duties are also a lot research oriented and not very predictible. We struggle with having a shared TODO list which would…