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by paxswill 6y ago
Say Alice tests positive. Contact tracing: Alice is able to say, “I was in contact with Bill and Carol.” Then authorities can talk to Bill and Carol, and have them trigger their phones to see who they’ve been near. But because that’s slow,
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by paxswill 6y ago
This brought back memories of using my first computer, a Mac IIci my dad gave to me and my brother. We had the mouse set up in front of it in a way that it was way pretty easy to hit the reset and debugger buttons, which seemed to happen mo
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by paxswill 6y ago
Commenting from the perspective of iOS and its configuration profiles, you can configure them to match based on an HTTP connection (among other things). I haven't tested it (yet, I think I know what I'm playing with tomorrow), but
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by paxswill 6y ago
Having multiple access points with different BSSIDs (sibling comment explains those) but the same SSID and credentials is how network roaaming works. As a client's signal strength goes down (and also periodically) it will scan for othe
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by paxswill 6y ago
His personal blog is at jwz.org.
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by paxswill 7y ago
My understanding is that the chip is a proxy for when they started including it in the design. Similar to how some older macOS/OS X releases had requirements like, "faster than 867MHz", or "newer than 2012" instead
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by paxswill 7y ago
Apple includes a customized version of OpenSSH. From what I recall from the last time I looked at it, the changes were mostly integrating the key retrieval mechanisms with the rest of macOS. For example, Apple's ssh-add can store key p
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by paxswill 7y ago
Looks like that's for macOS 10.15.0 as version.h for that OpenSSH release is for 7.9p1 (macOS 10.15.4 has OpenSSH 8.1p1).
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by paxswill 7y ago
Even though the watches have the technical ability to measure spO2 right now, I’m not sure that’s even recorded anywhere. On the bright side there are references to it in iOS 14, so it might be coming soon.
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by paxswill 7y ago
I love using Sanoid+Syncoid for keeping my laptop (with Xubuntu on ZFS) backed up to my NAS (running FreeNAS). In addition to the periodic snapshots Sanoid manages, I also have a small script (shameless plug [0]) that hooks into APT to take
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by paxswill 7y ago
Just thinking of another way to do this with (hopefully) less human interaction. A local apt repository (Using debmirror with some scripts to generate a list of allowed packages), and set most machines to use that repository. Then set up un
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by paxswill 7y ago
I'm curious if Apple's work on hardening their secure boot process on x86 affects this at all? For this unaware, this [0] video covers it over about seven minutes. Basically they claim to be enabling the IOMMU with a basic deny ev
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by paxswill 7y ago
Would having them print directly in the shell prompt work? For bash, I combine PS0 support (in bash >=4.4) and PROMPT_COMMAND to do this. My prompt command: https://github.com/paxswill/dotfiles/blob/c4c6d50
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by paxswill 7y ago
Actually curious on this, my knowledge of financial theory is sorely lacking. To my understanding, states can (and do) issue debt through municipal bonds. Is this one of those “exceptions and loopholes”? My understanding of the Puerto Rican
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by paxswill 7y ago
There was IrDA (infrared based communication) that could be used for serial connections to other Newtons, computers printers and cell phones. It was slow though, so the better step up was an actual serial connection to either a modem or a c
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by paxswill 7y ago
In the case of people using .test as a TLD we should be safe(r); .test is a reserved TLD along with .example, .invalid, .localhost and .local (the last being reserved in the long proposed mDNS RFC).
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by paxswill 7y ago
Most of the incentives are tied to specific goals; the bulk of the money is tied to specific numbers of jobs being added above a certain pay level (I think it was 25k jobs with an average salary over $100k/year, but haven’t gone back t
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by paxswill 7y ago
I’ve recently experienced two hospitals’ EMR systems (one using Epic, the other Cerner) from the patient’s perspective. Integrating/accessing my data from external systems (in my case Apple Health) is roughly equivalent–the important t
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by paxswill 7y ago
Previous discussion from bunnie's blog post on this talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21891056
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by paxswill 7y ago
One of the things I've really liked about my local commuter rail (Virginia Railway Express [0]) is the level of detail and communication they have with the community/riders. Their RSS feed typically has a post if there's any
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by paxswill 7y ago
Even this depends. In DC political affiliation is a protected class. https://ohr.dc.gov/protectedtraits
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by paxswill 7y ago
Because of how Obj-C works, it’s not really possible to have completely hidden classes or methods. You can instantiate classes by name at runtime, and can similarly create a message (aka call a method) at runtime. This is basically the “con
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by paxswill 7y ago
My university had one in the science building and I played with it a bit. It was able to view various visualizations of data covering the globe (temperature I think might've been one, but I'm near positive weather was also availab
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by paxswill 7y ago
It looks really cool, but it spikes my browser's (Firefox and Chromium on Ubuntu 19.04) CPU usage whenever it's active. Not even scrolling, just visible. Reiterating though, this is really cool!
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by paxswill 7y ago
Use an encrypted disk, and overwrite the master keys (something like `cryptsetup luksErase <device>` on Linux, probably a combo of `fdesetup list`, `fdesetup remove` and `fdesetup removerecovery` for macOS) and then force a shutdown.
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by paxswill 7y ago
Plugging a small script I wrote that is a bit more targeted than this by only snapshotting the datasets that are going to be changed. Haven't written a readme for it yet (or packaged it :) ) but both files have some header comments exp
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by paxswill 7y ago
Large scale NAT is one reason that would fail. Some mobile carriers have most of their customers behind a handful of IPs. Wikipedia has dealt with this a lot, and has a page explaining why conflating an IP address to a person isn't usu
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by paxswill 7y ago
Echoing this. I ran across my current employer in a Who’s Hiring post, bookmarked it for later, and then ran across them again an Angel List and applied. Been here for a few months now.
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by paxswill 7y ago
An IOMMU serves a slightly different purpose than a normal MMU. The graphic on Wikipedia [0] sums it up pretty well. The lack of an IOMMU would mean that if the firmware on the USB controller was malicious in some way, it could access memor
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by paxswill 7y ago
No, other browsers on iOS are basically wrapping Safari. If you want ad blocking on iOS, you have to use an app that uses the content blocker API. My favorite is 1Blocker X, which seems to be pretty well reviewed as well.

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