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angrygoat ◴[] No.42135621[source]
What a beautiful use of technology to uphold someone's personhood, and let them know they are loved, despite (and with regard to) a profound injury.

This reminds me of a desire I've had for a long time: a simple, wall-mountable eInk device that could be configured with a URL (+wifi creds) and render a markdown file, refreshing once every hour or so. It would be so useful for so many applications – I'm a parish priest and so I could use it to let people know what events are on, if a service is cancelled, the current prayer list, ... the applications would be endless. I'd definitely pay a couple of hundred dollars per device for a solid version of such a thing, if it could be mounted and then recharged every month or two.

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allenrb ◴[] No.42138858[source]
Just an aside, but “parish priest” must surely be the opposite of “software developer” on the Hacker News Table of Occupational Frequency. Neat!
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1. aitchnyu ◴[] No.42144880[source]
To save a few moments stalking his profile yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38762380

TLDR: 20 years as SWE, then used his skills for his calling.