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DenseComet··on Kopia – Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup
S3 Glacier Deep Archive is $1/TB/month. Super cheap storage costs, but retrieval costs are insane.
DenseComet··on W3.org Cert Expired
Https also ensures that the connection has not been tampered with by an ISP. Its quite stupid, especially considering you're paying them already, but used to be common when most of the web was http. Also, router malware has been seen injecting JS into http pages to mine crypto.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2925839/code-injection-new...

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/comcast-still-use...

https://blog.avast.com/mikrotik-routers-targeted-by-cryptomi...

DenseComet··on Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
It seems like they do binning. For example, the M1 with 7 gpu cores vs 8 gpu cores.
DenseComet··on Car Connectivity Consortium
As I understand it, the CCC's Digital Key specification is what actually powers tech like Apple's Car Key and Samsung's Digital Key. Is there a list of cars that support this spec anywhere? I haven't been able to find any information outside of a couple of press releases.
DenseComet··on Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs
I've had a pretty good experience with Firefox Sync, although I don't use it for passwords. Firefox Sync has E2E encryption to ensure that Mozilla doesn't have the ability to view any of your data.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

DenseComet··on Apple Fitness+ introduces new workouts, trainers, and Time to Walk guest
snegrus mentioned that this is fixed on iOS 14.5

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26822148

DenseComet··on New GitHub themes for VS Code
https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

Discussed here too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12868946

DenseComet··on Terraform 0.15 General Availability
I think the right way is to use TF to provision the kubernetes cluster and underlying resources such as storage connections, dns, etc, and then use kubernetes to deploy the app.
DenseComet··on LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
The original Pixel had that exact design, although the later designs went in the opposite direction.
DenseComet··on Figma to React
Hey do you have some details on how do do this? I'm having some trouble figuring out how to do this from web app. Am I supposed to use the JSX details in the handoff pane along with the Framer react library? It seems like an incredibly useful feature and would really like to take a look.
DenseComet··on Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta
It's been split up into two tiers. The HOPE scholarship has a 3.0 requirement, and pays approximately 80% for public colleges. The 3.7 requirement is for the Zell-Miller scholarship, which pays 100% for public colleges. It's obviously not as much as before, but I'd hardly call paying 80% of tuition neutering.
DenseComet··on Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta
The HOPE GPA does add 0.5 for all AP/IB classes. It doesn't apply to all honors classes, which is unfortunate, but they do recognize that some classes are harder.
DenseComet··on How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix
Matrix.to should remember your homeserver, but a "matrix://" url scheme is being worked on [1]. Work on that is caught up a bit in the backlog however, but there are folks in the ecosystem pushing that along in 3rd party clients.

Communities are going away in favor of spaces (relatively?) soon. That was the topic of Matthew's talk at FOSDEM [2], and the entire experience should be vastly better.

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2312 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUfS08lMek

DenseComet··on IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources
The main thing I like about Filecoin is how Filecoin is tied to IPFS, but IPFS is not tied to Filecoin. It provides useful functions to applications building on IPFS and uses proven tech, but if I just want to use IPFS, I don't have to touch any crypto.
DenseComet··on Who does that server really serve? (2010)
> Dealing with the SaaSS Problem

> For the simple case, where you are doing your own computing on data in your own hands, the solution is simple: use your own copy of a free software application.

> What if there is no free program available? A proprietary program or SaaSS would take away your freedom, so you shouldn't use those. You can contribute your time or your money to development of a free replacement.

Statements like this are why GNU's and the FSF's arguments often fall apart. If someone wants to do something and free software is not available to help them achieve it, telling them to just not do it is not a good solution. Change requires compromise, and its counterproductive to hold such a firm stance.

DenseComet··on IPFS Support in Brave
Its not just about having tabs from different profiles in a single window. Firefox containers allows things like automatically opening a specific site in a certain container. It allows for extensions such as the Facebook Container and Temporary Containers. There's a huge amount of functionality it provides.
DenseComet··on Bridge WhatsApp with Matrix (and Signal, Telegram, iMessage, Mattermost, etc.)
Matrix itself works pretty well. This is specifically a guide on bridging WhatsApp with Matrix, and since WhatsApp really does not want you using its service without using its app, its bound to be a bit complicated.
DenseComet··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
100% going to use this. Was trying to pick out SMD parts from the JLCPCB inventory just a couple weeks ago, and it was definitely a giant pain. This looks great!
DenseComet··on I Built a Smart Thermostat
I have a similar thermostat, and I ended up going the Home Assistant route with the Nexia integration[1]. It still relies on the Nexia cloud, which is unfortunate, but it lets Home Assistant directly control the temperature.

I don't think it'll let you use Quiet mode, but it will let you do all the other thing you're missing, and it'll be much simpler than building out everything yourself for sure.

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nexia/

DenseComet··on GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark
I've seen this more and more, but I wish sites would provide a way to switch themes. For example, the Ghost blog default theme follows your device preference, but AFAIK there's no way to toggle to light mode, which is quite annoying considering how common it is.
DenseComet··on Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages, for deploying and hosting JAMstack
Cloudflare already had the ability to host static pages on the edge with Workers Sites [1] but it required a paid subscription to Workers KV. They recently introduced a free tier for that [2], so Cloudflare Pages seems like a packaged up service with CI/CD added to the mix.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/sites

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-kv-free-tier/

DenseComet··on Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
If you are on reddit.com, click the share icon, and there will be a "open in Apollo" option. If you end up on an AMP page, you have to click the share icon in the gray bar up top next to the reddit.com header, and there will be an "open in Apollo" option.
DenseComet··on Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
From their blog post about Apple Silicon[1]

> In the future, we will release a package that allows you to "merge" your arm64 and x64 apps into a single universal binary, but it's worth noting that this binary would be huge and probably isn't ideal for shipping to users.

It seems like things are going to get a bit confusing with Electron apps, and with the number of Electron apps that exist, this transition might not be as transparent as Apple might have hoped.

[1] https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon

DenseComet··on Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
Your concern about smart devices using DoH can be trivially avoided by not buying smart devices that use DoH, or even connect to the internet. Make sure that whatever you buy works with a local server such as Home Assistant and is actually under your own control. A system like this will be more reliable and customizable too.
DenseComet··on Slingbox Discontinued Announcement and FAQ
If you have an HDHomeRun (or another supported tuner), you can attach an antenna and connect it to a Plex server. Jellyfin also has a live TV feature and is completely open source, but I'm not sure of the state of their apps.

Plex and Jellyfin support streaming from anywhere as part of their core offering, and live on your own hardware, and seem like an all around better option.

DenseComet··on Learn how to design and defend an embedded Linux device
Interesting, thank you! I'll take a look at Xemomai, but it seems like the options are very limited. I'm building a TVC rocket, so hard real time is unfortunately a strict requirement.
DenseComet··on Learn how to design and defend an embedded Linux device
A question very marginally related to embedded Linux, but is there any way to do hard real time on Linux? I'm working on an embedded project that requires it, and while its achievable with microcontrollers and embedded Rust, it would just be so much easier if I had an actual OS.
DenseComet··on A pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg
For a lot of those things, competitors have a viable path to profitability if they make a better alternative. With Youtube, even if you make a better alternative, you're still loosing a ton of money due to costs of serving video and scaling (especially if you want to let people watch and upload for free).
DenseComet··on NAT Slipstreaming
People argue against IPv6 because they claim that NAT provides some security, even if its just another layer by obscurity. The argument was already pretty shaky, but with attacks like this, it's pretty evident that firewalls provides security, not NAT.
DenseComet··on When is no-code useful?
You're probably right that the code Webflow produces is decent for maintainability, but the Webflow website (made in Webflow) does not inspire confidence. At 100% zoom on Firefox/MacOS, content does not actually fit the entire width of the page. Even the headers don't stretch from edge to edge, leaving white bars on the side of most pages. Maybe this is what they intended, but it makes it look like the CSS is broken.
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