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by TheKnack 4y ago
Here's some info on the relevant law as it pertains to California (where AWS is based). TLDR: "non-compete agreements are not enforceable in California" https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceabl
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by TheKnack 5y ago
Apple invites this kind of reaction by not being transparent and not cooperating with the larger security community, for reasons that are difficult to understand. This week's episode of the the podcast run by the Intego Mac Antivirus c
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by TheKnack 5y ago
It runs on M1 under Rosetta emulation. Performance and stability would be better with an M1 native version. It looks like the chmod issue has been around a long time. I found Reddit posts going back a year or two. If it's not going to
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by TheKnack 5y ago
Is the user supposed to have to use chmod to make the launcher executable on Mac? The docs don't mention anything about it so I'm not sure how non-devs will figure out how to run it. Are there plans for an M1 version? I checked Gi
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by TheKnack 5y ago
If you put the paper in the freezer, the ink will reappear. The ink doesn't really go anywhere, even when you use the "eraser". It just becomes transparent. This can be reversed by exposing it to cold. Pilot mentions this on
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by TheKnack 5y ago
A rural school district that I work with has to close the entire district during bad weather a few times a year because of three unpaved roads that prevent buses from reaching a small number of students. If they only had one or two of these
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by TheKnack 5y ago
I used this to replace Visualping.io. The only features it lacks compared to VisualPing is a GUI for selecting page elements to monitor and fully rendered diff results. It either monitors the whole page or you can add a CSS selector manuall
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by TheKnack 5y ago
I tried this a while ago but had to turn it off because it made too many links stop working, especially URLs in emails. It also breaks some Google Sheets functionality. There's a request on Github to add a whitelist for sites that brea
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by TheKnack 6y ago
The "My Year in Mensa" podcast is a good (and entertaining) way to understand some of what really goes on in Mensa, and what type of people are likely to join. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-yea
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by TheKnack 6y ago
One can just listed to the podcast "My Year in Mensa" to confirm this as a major issue with this research. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id149...
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by TheKnack 6y ago
It may be an unintentional side effect, but doing this may prevent some degree of "Win rot", which Macos (and iOS) has also suffered from to a degree in the past. A huge number of mysterious iOS and Macos problems are caused by an
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by TheKnack 6y ago
Came here to say this. This happens on all of Apple's operating systems - Mac, iOS, etc. It's also a good idea to clean install all major (annual) versions of Apple OS's. When you install one major version over another, the u
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by TheKnack 6y ago
When Facebook bought Oculus, Palmer Luckey said that a Facebook login would never be required to use Oculus products. The Oculus Quest 2 that comes out in October will require a Facebook login. https://www.roadtovr.com/oculu
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by TheKnack 6y ago
Here's a link to the storage pricing. There are links on that page to pricing details for just about any scenario. https://support.paperspace.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000380433... The lowest level is 50GB
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by TheKnack 7y ago
This extension removes the URL intercept/redirect on Gmail and many other sites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-redirect... This one handles the other situation, tracking parameters
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by TheKnack 7y ago
The Chief Security Architect of FireEye posted this Tweet last week clarifying that there isn't a new compromise of TeamViewer, and the social media posts suggesting there is are misinterpreting a slide from a conference presentation.
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by TheKnack 7y ago
There are well supported ways to keep using OpenGL on MacOS and iOS. This company is offering a wrapper that makes OpenGL run faster on top of Metal than it did natively, and promises support for future OS versions indefinitely.. https:&#x
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by TheKnack 8y ago
> If Apple actually cared about accessibility (it does not), on the setup screen for every iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch would be a step you could not skip wherein you have to choose your preferred text size. iPhones literally do have an
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by TheKnack 8y ago
I tried using Airtable for a project recently, to collect data from customers, but found that it was unworkable due to having little to no field validation. Google Sheets/Forms actually has reasonable field validation for data input, b
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by TheKnack 8y ago
Here's a link without a paywall: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/in-australia-town-...
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by TheKnack 8y ago
Here's an explanation of what APFS is doing to make file copying to the same volume almost instantaneous: http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/19/apfs-part3/ The Mac App Store reviews on th
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by TheKnack 8y ago
They admit in the article that a lot of this performance could be an illusion caused by the APFS instant cloning feature, which essentially just creates a new directory listing pointing to the existing file when you copy a file to the same
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by TheKnack 10y ago
In my experience, this is because major iOS upgrades tend to come out at the same time as new phones, and installing one major iOS version as an upgrade over the previous creates issues, especially if you've not set up a phone a new in
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by TheKnack 10y ago
Skills do require training, but isn't it a mistake to discount "talent" as something that doesn't exist? Certainly some people are born with much higher and lower levels of intelligence which is the result of genetics an
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by TheKnack 11y ago
Someone already did this: http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/30/5666092/pixel-press-review