blep-arsh

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by blep-arsh 5y ago
Reboots should be configurable via Windows Update settings if these aren't taken over by a group policy. Last time I've dealt with random reboots turned out to be a hardware issue (bluescreen->autoreboot).
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
As soon as the company starts collecting metrics and sets up A/B testing infrastructure people can just implement whatever they want, as long as they keep improving these metrics. Very often there's no one who can take a look at t
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
I didn't notice Wayland becoming the default, tbh. Thanks for mentioning this. As for the specific bug, it was introduced by the implementation of a non-essential feature (the languague switch HUD) which was then left in place, likely
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
It's a Gnome-specific thing
95.
by blep-arsh 5y ago
I'm not the person you were replying to, but here's the straw that broke this multilingual camel's back: unless Gnome is running under Wayland, switching the keyboard layout steals the input focus away from the foreground win
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
Honestly, I think the entire situation where we have multiple DEs/toolkits/video drivers/window managers/input methods is unmaintanable. It would be likely unmaintanable even for a well-funded corporation.
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
They aren't. The tag generates and broadcasts a public key that is rotated every 15 minutes. A nearby "finder" device receives a broadcast, encrypts its location with the received key and sends it with a hash of the public ke
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
And others are running on stolen electricity in residential areas, sonetimes causing fires.
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
Hah, I've experienced the absolute/relative volume bug. Sony headphones sometimes end up connecting with independent (relative?) volume controls and then switching the volume control from independent to absolute when you use a tra
100.
by blep-arsh 6y ago
They don't smooth out, for me, at least. Airpods Max, for example, can just decide to transmit nothing but deafening static to the other side in the conversation.
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
This tweet has nothing to do with RAM usage. Maybe about the performance of (uncontended) atomic operations if I'm reading this corectly.
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
I've noticed kernel_task's disk usage is heavily skewed towards writes (e.g. 7GB read for 170GB written over a couple of hours). Assuming it is indeed swapping pages to disk and reads/writes are counted properly, either the d
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
I've been looking at the Activity Monitor and disk writes for the kernel task are crazy high (hundreds of GBs per hour), especially when Rosetta is involved. The Rosetta daemon seems to use a lot of memory, likely causing excessive swa
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
Apple's own Activity Monitor shows hundreds of GBs of disk writes per hour on my M1 Macbook Pro. Smartctl output showing 10+ terabytes of writes per month looks about right. Apple doesn't provide lifetime TBW numbers but e.g. Sams
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
I like iPhones as they are. They do many things I want from a phone well enough - except running sideloaded apps with Apple-exclusive entitlements. I find most Android phones annoying (suffering e.g. from poor palm rejection with borderless
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation! Sorry, I got distracted and forgot to write a reply. I don't need the full range of features offered by OBS yet, but I'm strongly considering setting it up just to have control over the video stream. I&
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
Is it possible to use it to control a Zoom session without virtualizing the audio/video input devices? Discord has a local API for that but I haven't found a way to control Zoom calls from another app.
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
AirPlay 2 is available for Mac and iOS apps, as far as I remember, but is only implemented in the iOS Spotify all
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
Yes. Dell U2414 (afair) could be updated via DDC and the firmware could draw over the input image.
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by blep-arsh 6y ago
Does the tool detect when the site responds with a "we don't want you here" page from specific regions? E.g. the Cloudfront blacklist, Cloudflare captcha/proof-of-work challenge, etc. These pages are usually quick to re
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
Oh cool, a faux-Flash site
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
Huh, does Medium just respond 404 when you try to visit it in incognito mode?
113.
by blep-arsh 7y ago
I mean the current request inspection API, not the new ruleset-based one.
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
30K is just not enough. Intercepting requests is still possible, just not blocking. Extensions have been already abusing this, of course. It's fiendishly difficult to prevent e.g. corporate users from leaking the whole intranet to Simi
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
Incidentally these new declarative rulesets are useless against some very simple tricks. I know people who are working full time on defeating ad blockers and the new Manifest v3 seems to have made their lives so much easier.
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
They could support declarative rulesets without disabling request blocking. And the request inspection API is still live, it seems; I wonder if this means SimilarWeb and other spyware peddlers can stay in business for now.
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
I know people who are building this as a service. It renders this new adblocking API completely helpless. Since it's just a proxy with relatively low CPU load, it's feasible e.g. Cloudflare could also build something like this.
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
Nope, point-to-point.
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by blep-arsh 7y ago
The location permission is not needed to use Bluetooth on Android, but apps must request it to be able to scan for nearby access points and beacons (both for wifi and for BT), since this information can be used to infer the device's lo
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by blep-arsh 8y ago
The more general problem is that the Go implementation depends on its own runtime library and is not particularly suited for linking into other executables or running in unusual contexts, e.g. without threads or without an OS.

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