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by jon-wood 3y ago
At which point there’s going to be questions about why you were in the can for 90 minutes.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Amazon has been going downhill for a long time, when I first started using them it was quick, it was easy, and I knew what I bought was going to arrive within a reasonable time frame. I bought Alexa devices, I bought their TV box thing, all
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Annoyingly while that’s true on Apple devices there’s a plethora of cheap laptops where only one of the USB-C ports is capable of DisplayPort, and a different one can do USB-PD. Good luck working out which is which.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
[Insert “now there’s n+1 standards” XKCD here]
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I genuinely wish things were this binary. I’m a hacker (using the original definition) at heart, I want to turn random devices I own into other things, which would be so much easier if it weren’t for encrypted storage and signed boot chains
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by jon-wood 3y ago
At least the embedded devices I work on don’t expose any (reasonable) method to persuade them to do anything other than their intended job, so sure, steal the device if you like. With enough effort you can probably turn it into a general pu
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I grew up in the UK and still couldn’t tell you this off the top of my head. Most people can’t - when setting up systems with a cutoff date/time I’ve regularly been asked to have them expire at 11:59pm, because it avoids any ambiguity
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by jon-wood 3y ago
TPM based encryption is hugely useful in embedded devices, where you really don’t want to have to despatch someone to type the passphrase in. By driving it via the TPM you’re protected against someone removing the storage and being able to
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This is a massive overstatement of the situation. Sure, a TPM might not protect you against the NSA or the Chinese government stealing your computer. If configured correctly it probably will protect you against anything less than a major na
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Ok, coffee shop I get in some cases. Libraries though? What harm is someone doing by sitting at one of many empty seats in a library and doing quiet work?
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I sometimes work in coffee shops, but yes I take this into consideration. I’ll usually be working on either something that isn’t sensitive, or writing code where you’d need remarkably good eyesight and attention to work out what I’m actuall
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Find My doesn’t actually map the device to an individual. Someone might know where the device which is currently broadcasting an ID is, but that ID rotates frequently, and can only be resolved to you using keys held against your Apple ID. T
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by jon-wood 3y ago
What are you using for note taking? I while back I bought a small Wacom tablet for this very purpose, particularly being able to quickly sketch out diagrams while in in meetings, but ended up giving up because I couldn't get the hang o
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Unless you’re at huge volume you can totally do this in a Postgres table. Even if you are you can partition that table by date (or whatever other attributes make sense) so that you don’t have to deal with massive indexes. I once did this, a
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by jon-wood 3y ago
And even more uncomfortable for the people in the field.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Most monitors do in fact support this via DDC, but in general the OS doesn’t expose that to the user.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Apologies, my intent wasn’t to have a go at people who CBT genuinely helps, I’m sure it’s very effective in many cases otherwise it wouldn’t be such a big thing. I’m projecting my general frustration at the world onto it to an excessive deg
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by jon-wood 3y ago
> I think a counterpoint to your concern about this app being one-size-fits-all is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT is absolutely a one-size-fits-all solution though, and in my opinion quite harmful in many ways. The core premise of CBT
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I think something people are missing here is that outsourcing your SSO isn't just about whether it's technically easier to do so, or having the competence to run it. A significant factor is also being able to say on contracts with
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by jon-wood 3y ago
If you want a NAS, buy a NAS. I really don’t get people’s desire to take an underpowered single board computer and try to turn it into a useful server. There are absolutely places where a Raspberry Pi makes sense, those places are where you
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by jon-wood 3y ago
The sense I’ve got from what they’ve published, and a few emails back and forth on final orders, is that the guy behind PC Engines has had enough and wants to go do something else with their life.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This is the way to go. "A complaint" in the financial world is a very specific thing, it's not just someone having a grumble about things. Financial Conduct Authority regulations mean that once a formal complaint has been rai
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by jon-wood 3y ago
It really isn't that hard to trigger to them, the UK Sanctions List[0] is huge, and contains quite a lot of broad descriptions that doubtless result in people getting swept up in automated checks of the list. Is your name Ali Khalili?
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by jon-wood 3y ago
But doing so, at least on an Apple device, requires me to explicitly say I trust the USB port I’ve plugged in to. Maybe some people would do that, but I’m sure as hell not going to blindly approve that when charging my phone on the bus.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I can totally believe your conclusion there. I worked for a digital ad agency back in the 2000s and was repeatedly told not to add conversion tracking before things went out to clients because everyone involved knew the numbers would be utt
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by jon-wood 3y ago
This is entirely counter to my usual method of chopping up a block of mince meat before putting it in the pan. I’m going to give it a try next time and see how it goes, I suspect it’ll result in the outer layer being delicious and the rest
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by jon-wood 3y ago
While I do get mildly irritated any time a water spillage triggers the buttons, I mostly love the sensor buttons on my induction hob. I clean the hob far more often now I can just give it a quick wipe down with a cloth and not have to try a
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by jon-wood 3y ago
As an aside, this is how ChatGPT’s plugin support works, and I always find it slightly mind blowing. You give it some OpenAPI docs, and a some brief instructions on what the API is good for, and then off it goes and uses it.
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by jon-wood 3y ago
Off topic, so apologies in advance. Why do environments so often get capitalised like that? Prod isn’t an acronym, it’s an abbreviation of Production. Similarly Dev is an abbreviation of Development. I know in the grand scheme of things it’
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by jon-wood 3y ago
I was somewhat curious about what that first article had to say, but found it impossible not to be distracted by the constant G-d and L-rd. Presumably this is a workaround to deal with somewhere being told not to use the name of God or some

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