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by varenc 5y ago
The ability to search menus is pretty discoverable. The search field is the first thing in the menu when you click the Help menu bar in any app. But of course the shortcut to jump to the search area is completely undiscoverable, as are many
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by varenc 5y ago
https://warp.dev is trying!
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by varenc 5y ago
That’s still how I install 95% of Mac apps? (.dmg) I don’t think the Mac App Store is even that popular. Rarely is an app exclusively there, though times might be changing. About 5% of things come as .pkg installers but usually in a situat
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by varenc 5y ago
I suppose "ensure" is too definite of a claim. But it's clear that the US can apply all types of pressure to try to hinder a takeover of TSMC/Taiwan. Methods range from open negotiations, to trade/economics sancti
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by varenc 5y ago
Another fun fact: Upper-casing is language dependent. In English uppercasing 'i' gets you 'I'. But Turkish has a dotted and un-dotted 'i', each with an uppercase variant. So if your user's language was
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by varenc 5y ago
There is! Found a simple example: https://gist.github.com/dagronf/3d03094a7ee79c1f91607f4c365f... I've thought about just making a simpler shell script that turns a valid `fd` query into the obscure `mdfind` incan
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by varenc 5y ago
Not a direct part of the filesystem, but macOS does a good job of keeping a constantly up to date filesystem index. It powers Spotlight but is also used for other less user facing things. Running `mdfind` will locate whatever file I want n
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by varenc 5y ago
The article actually enumerates what else the fee is used for. In Google’s words its: """ Android & the Google Play Store: The free Android operating system enables hardware manufacturers to build a wide range of devices
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by varenc 5y ago
Nope, I checked the LSC website and confirmed they are indeed showing movies! So it’s just that the finger server isn’t being updated: http://lsc.mit.edu/ (Note the HTTP link. The HTTPS cert is expired. But even if you bypa
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by varenc 5y ago
Fun Fact: MIT still runs a finger server at mit.edu (no subdomain!) that lets you look up anyone with a registered account. Years ago it was publically accessible, but now you need to make your request from within the MIT network to get a r
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by varenc 5y ago
I actually love this site. So refreshing. Feels like a homepage put together very manually by people that really care. Love the "Around The Web" section and how it genuinely just wants you to see a video of a cat playing piano [
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by varenc 5y ago
Notably, HN does this too for the YC company job ads shown on the HN front page. Allowing users to comment on your job ad will inevitably lead to negative content so HN disables it. (Though compared to reddit ads, these job listing have a
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by varenc 5y ago
Was genuinely curious. Thanks for the info. Of course Babel Street isn’t listed in the official CCPA Data Broker registry: https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers So by not allowing me to access and delete my data on Babel Street,
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by varenc 5y ago
Babel Street, the firm selling data to the IRS, seems to say they don't have to follow the California CCPA requirements around data access or data deletion. Their only mention of CCPA is obtuse but implies it's their customers&#x
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by varenc 5y ago
The semantic point I was trying to make is that calling anyone a "grave robber" can be reasonably interpreted to imply the victim of the theft is those whose grave it is. Namely the dead. They're dead, so they certainly aren&
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by varenc 5y ago
Of course if you try the query with spheres you see Wolfram Alpha's typical catatrophic failure. I love WA and use it all the time, but it's so hard to know when a query will work and when it won't. When it fails it fails hi
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by varenc 5y ago
It is an option! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205220 I make encrypted iOS backups to my computer. Happens automatically when I plug in my phone. Data never touches the cloud. Also Apple does use E2EE for some iCl
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by varenc 5y ago
Semantically I find it a bit funny we call the thieves "grave robbers". If they're stealing from someone's grave, isn't the current excavation robbing someone's grave too? But of course, the current excavation
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by varenc 5y ago
Would this stop the NSA? No way. But assuming this component is critical for Face ID security, then yes I do think it would slow down the NSA. And it's probably moot since well-funded state actors have access to RCE 0-days anyway. Bu
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by varenc 5y ago
The workaround requires physically moving the original chip to new phone screen. Assuming that chip is where the important Face ID stuff happens, this ensures the important component hasn’t been tampered with and would thwart the NSA hardwa
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by varenc 5y ago
Serial numbers should come in two parts! A public portion and a private portion. You can use the public portion to confirm the GPU isn’t stolen, look up its warranty policy, etc. The extra private portion is need to actually register and
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by varenc 5y ago
Note that Apple explicitly tries to prevent apps from generating any sort of overall device fingerprint besides the ad tracking identifier one which now requires user consent in iOS 14. You can still generate an app-scoped device ID though
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by varenc 5y ago
But they have a white paper on how ethical their proxies are! https://oxylabs.io/Oxylabs_Residential_Proxy_Acquisition_Han...
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by varenc 5y ago
This! Mobile IPs are far more lucrative. Many services will drop captchas and other anti-bot stuff for consumer mobile IPs. I recall Plaid at some point would run their bank scraping through mobile IPs. This sketchy company lets mobile app
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by varenc 5y ago
I use nPlayer to access my files over the network/sftp/Dropbox/WebDAV/put.io/HTTP and download to my local device. But like I said, streaming directly from the network works too. But for a high bitrate 4k file down
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by varenc 5y ago
I stream 4K MKVs from my phone (an iPhone) to my Apple TV 4K using AirPlay all the time. It used to be a challenge getting the codecs right, but there's broader support now. It took awhile to find a good iOS app that supports this, but
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by varenc 5y ago
Can you explain this more for me? Basically, the TSA didn’t try to establish that prior art for this patent existed? Why would they not do that? Is it too late for them to try now?
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by varenc 5y ago
Yea I assume poachers shoot elephants, not trap them. So they only want to shoot ones with visible tusks. Edit: I found an article[0] describing some poaching methods and apparently they do use traps! Including snares and a spiked board. B
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by varenc 5y ago
> They can do whatever they want with 0 compatibility or backward compatibility. Apple put in quite a bit of effort to make sure x86 binaries still run the ARM Macs. It works for 99.5% of things in my experience. They have even been obse
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by varenc 5y ago
discussion from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945312

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