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by varenc 4y ago
I generally agree, but that's no reason why we shouldn't push for a law banning use of private data like this now. It seems like a first step towards that culture shift we want. And even if enforcement of this new law is lacking,
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by varenc 4y ago
100% agree. This is why I’m always a bit dubious of in-browser decryption. At any moment a little extra snippet of JS can be added to stealthily leak my secrets. There’s no great mechanism to ensure the JS I’m running is always the same JS
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by varenc 4y ago
As far as I know, you can’t get an executable script like that to act like an app that’s launchable when double clicked from Finder or clicked the Dock. Even though it’s executable.
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by varenc 4y ago
That's doing speech recognition on the YouTube video's audio and then embedding the result as subtitles? Is the idea that this is superior to YouTube's own automatic subtitles? Though if the youtube video actually has manuall
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by varenc 4y ago
That gets me the subs in some usual complicated format? It's a bit of work to extract the actual text from that. To get youtube subs in .srt format this gave me some limited success: yt-dlp --convert-subs=srt --write-auto-sub --
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by varenc 4y ago
SIP is another system that exists besides POSIX and the root user. With SIP enabled, let me demonstrate: chris@chriscomp /usr/bin # sudo su root root@chriscomp /usr/bin # touch testo touch: testo: Operatio
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by varenc 4y ago
This is because newer versions of macOS still present themselves as 10.15 (Catalina). A bunch of user agent parsers just assume macOS never goes beyond version 10 and to minimize breakage so they've just frozen the macOS version at &q
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by varenc 4y ago
I love seeing more excellent tooling made with bash/shell scripts. For situations like this one, where all the underlying heavy lifting is done with other CLI utilities, shellscript is the perfect fit.
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by varenc 4y ago
Sadly the name "Frida" suffers from poor googleability. But here you go: https://frida.re/ Basically it's _the_ reverse engineering toolkit for security researchers. Has excellent support across Android, iOS,
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by varenc 4y ago
It's near the end of the quarter and holidays tends to be less productive time for employees with many taking extra time off anyway. Even with the very generous severance is still makes sense to announce these layoffs before some of t
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by varenc 4y ago
Sadly it seems that Brother's only 11x17 "Ledger Size" printers are inkjet... alas. But the MFC-J5855DW inkjet printer from Brother looks decent. Will look at Lexmark too! edit: Lexmark does look very nice, but their 11x17 p
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by varenc 4y ago
Digression: Does anyone have a printer recommendation from a manufacturer that doesn’t pull this crap? I would love to patronize the least scummy manufacturer. Particularly I’m looking for a larger format printer that can do 11”x17” pages.
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by varenc 4y ago
Google runs the .dev gTLD but isn’t the only registrar. Google lists the many other .dev registrars here: https://www.registry.google/register-a-domain/ Presumably you can freely move your .dev domains between those re
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by varenc 4y ago
That set of features literally already exists. An iDevice will very aggressively warn your about trackers that don’t belong to you following you around. But of course only on iDevices. Though there’s no way to share an AirTag with someone e
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by varenc 4y ago
Sorry, you're 100% right. It should be AWDLEnabled=NO ! (and was in my testing) Also you can check what your current prefs by just not passing any args after `prefs`: sudo /usr/libexec/airportd en0 prefs
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by varenc 4y ago
Wow I didn't know about that undocumented ability to change Airport prefs! I was able to somewhat disable AWDL by doing this like you suggest: sudo /usr/libexec/airportd en0 prefs AWDLEnabled=YES And then restar
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by varenc 4y ago
Their actual solution for disabling AWDL is running this script in the background: while true; do if ifconfig awdl0 |grep -q "<UP"; then (set -x; ifconfig awdl0 down) fi sleep 1 done
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by varenc 4y ago
Based on my experiences going out in the pre-Uber world: When taxis are in high demand they’re also every hard to find. Usually you could find one in ~15 minutes but not always. And back then they’d sometimes insist on cash so if you didn’t
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by varenc 4y ago
Another vote for rclone. Let's you easily turn any cloud storage service into one with E2EE encryption. And with 'rclone mount' you can get a network file system easily with decent performance and good local caching.
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by varenc 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying! Also I appreciate the honesty in disclosing geo ip analytics even though it be easily misinterpreted. Cheers
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by varenc 4y ago
Another vote for iStat Menus. It costs money, but it's my favorite and a bit superior to the open source alternatives like Stats, IMHO, which is somewhat influenced by iStat Menus' design. (though I like Stats's graph view mo
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by varenc 4y ago
I see that in the app privacy report, but it doesn’t ask for location permission. Not really sure what to think. Perhaps it’s just tracking/logging your IP’s geo location and that alone is enough to require disclosure?
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by varenc 4y ago
> Cubik Partners also said Mr T was difficult to work with and a poor listener. This is of course a great and somewhat obvious conclusion. Though the cynic in me thinks that Cubik Partners has simply learned they need to have other offic
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by varenc 4y ago
digression: on macOS it is possible to manage apfs snapshots manually, though it's not great. You take a snapshot with `tmutil snapshot /`, list them with `tmutil listlocalsnapshots /`, and then use the undocumented `tmutil m
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by varenc 4y ago
It's a beautiful page! I miss sites like this. Though strangely, it seems to disable all of my browser keyboard shortcuts. Even basic ones like going back, selecting the address bar, or changing the zoom level. I assume it's just
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by varenc 4y ago
On that topic... US federal regulations[0] limit shower heads to a flow rate of 2.5 gallons per minute (GPM). And California[1] limits them to 1.8 GPM! This seems somewhat analogous to the mobile data discussion. "You are paying for
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by varenc 4y ago
Yes... you can see the cache in /var/db/oah/ Though only the actual binary size that gets doubled. For large apps it’s usually not the binary that’s taking up most of the space.
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by varenc 4y ago
This was almost posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509571
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by varenc 4y ago
> How many followers on Signal do you have? As of now, Signal still has no concept of followers. My stories are at most only visible to all my contacts on Signal. In my mind this is a big difference between all the other major platforms
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by varenc 4y ago
Wouldn’t it be pretty obvious you never actually boarded your flight to Detroit? They scan your ticket when you board. Though totally agree you could fly on a different flight under a fake name assuming that the airlines don’t sync up their

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