Ambroos

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by Ambroos 2y ago
I built a Chromecast receiver application for a broadcaster in Belgium back in 2017, and even then the original Chromecast was just a bit of a PITA. Our service was heavily ad supported, and porting our web ads to Chromecast was painful. Th
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by Ambroos 2y ago
You can just call .isMock() on the location object you receive: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Loc... - without root that can't be bypassed.
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by Ambroos 2y ago
The easiest way is to just have multiple accounts, ideally with payment methods/phone numbers for the relevant country. My primary account is locked to Belgium because of family sharing, but I have a separate US one with a US CC I made
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by Ambroos 2y ago
Pretty much all of the docs are very clearly the output of what the typical LLM produces. It's just words, no meaning.
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by Ambroos 2y ago
I've been reading through the docs and skipping through the one recentish YouTube tutorial trying to make sense of what this actually is. While it seems like an impressive thing for what appears to be a one-man-project, the almost comp
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by Ambroos 2y ago
This is really neat! I just found this after seeing a note from corepack about updating our pnpm. This is perfect for our workspace. We have a JS monorepo with ~20 packages and currently use syncpack to keep versions of most packages in syn
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by Ambroos 2y ago
Alternative Apple ID / Google account with region set in US. Always useful to have! For Android it's much easier, I have a bunch (for every country I've lived in) set up on my phone simultaneously and I can just switch in the
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by Ambroos 2y ago
Yesterday and early this morning there has luckily been a massive push from Belgian media. The proposal this time around came from the Belgian presidency, so it was up to them to withdraw the vote. It's unlikely we'll see any admi
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by Ambroos 2y ago
The first responsibility here lies with the owners of these domains letting them expire, of course. But this is such a simple and effective way gather data for phishing, identity theft and fraud that it will hopefully somehow be handled bet
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by Ambroos 3y ago
It's on AWS, but likely just has issues with provisioned capacity now that it's actually being hammered. Meta has a small collection of tools on AWS to deal with large SEV0 events like these. Another one of them is a basic communi
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by Ambroos 3y ago
The 2021 outage was worse, it completely killed the network access to FB data centers for hours, and even led to issues with FB employees accessing offices (since the badge readers were also offline). It was so bad it got it's own Wiki
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by Ambroos 3y ago
CCS1, the physical connector used in North America, yes. CCS the wire protocol, no. NACS is a physical Tesla connector using the CCS protocol. The CCS adapter used here not working basically tells you the Cybertruck doesn't want to tal
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by Ambroos 3y ago
Facebook's web repo which includes all the PHP and JS for facebook.com and a bunch of other sites is one big massive repo. For development you claim out a server that has a recent checkout of the codebase. Right after claiming it it sy
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by Ambroos 3y ago
Bright light blue / cyan with a touch of green.
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by Ambroos 3y ago
I worked on Facebook copyright claims etc for two years, which uses the same systems as the reports and support cases at FB. I can't say it's the case for OPs case specifically, but I absolutely saw code that automatically closed
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by Ambroos 3y ago
Shooting in RAW gets you the real sensor data without any computational magic.
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by Ambroos 3y ago
And just like the other printer manufacturers Brother now offers an "EcoPro" ink/toner subscription, a copy of HP's Instant Ink model.
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by Ambroos 3y ago
You can cheat with URLs to watch all of them. Grab the ID from the gif thumbnail URL, throw it in something with HLS stream support with this URL: https://stream.mux.com/<id>.m3u8 (Safari and iOS browsers work, on Win
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by Ambroos 3y ago
It's an inline object-fit: cover set explicitly by the website's custom JS. I can't figure out a good reason to do this either. A quick document.querySelector('#player').style = '' in console allows proper
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by Ambroos 3y ago
Ah come on, it's good writing. Sets the scene!
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by Ambroos 3y ago
Facebook account takeovers are really elaborate and very common. Since this is a very easy way to essentially block users from recovering their own account, I can see why they're killing this vector. The account was not taken over thro
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by Ambroos 3y ago
I don't know how they did it, but the range estimate on any recent VW group EV is really super accurate, especially if you set a destination in the navigation. It's very impressive. It really helps with road tripping because it&#x
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by Ambroos 3y ago
That was Map Maker, which allowed you to actually draw map features (park areas, roads, building outlines, you name it). This is just submitting photos that will be shown in Street View if they are in 360 degrees. Photos are clearly user-su
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by Ambroos 3y ago
There's a decent open source option: https://github.com/munki/munki I got to use it at work at Meta (as end user), and it seemed to work quite well. They delivered Android SDKs/IDEs and a bunch of other thing
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by Ambroos 3y ago
Most likely they are just blocking all users who have an EU home country associated with their Instagram account. Meta determines an account home country based on a lot of different signals, and it takes weeks to months to update after actu
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by Ambroos 3y ago
I agree, but the whole set-up seems to have so many massive safety issues that it seems like they were relying on pure dumb luck more than anything else. This feels more like someone went skydiving with a homemade parachute in strong winds
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by Ambroos 3y ago
Is there any way for this to end (other than sabotage and other outlandish options) in which this was not caused by a company trying to make money in an extremely unsafe way?
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by Ambroos 3y ago
True, I should have phrased that differently. I was spoiled with variety in Seattle. In a day of driving I could do mountains or desert or water or urban or ocean. Around Stockholm, where I live now, things are a lot more uniform. And it hu
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by Ambroos 3y ago
I do this a lot, it's very relaxing and a good way to take time to just think. When I lived in Seattle I'd often extend my drive home from work by an hour or two. It really helps to turn off work mode. All my holidays are road tri
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by Ambroos 4y ago
It's hard to find good English press reporting about this. Amazon.be is a domain that has been owned by insurance company Baloise for a long time, and it appears they did not want to let go. Amazon settled for this domain that should m

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