NiekvdMaas

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https://github.com/niek

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NiekvdMaas··on Kape Technologies buys ExpressVPN for $936M

Cyberghost was their first VPN service

NiekvdMaas··on Facebook, Ray-Ban launch smart glasses

First hands-on: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

FB announcement: https://tech.fb.com/ray-ban-and-facebook-introduce-ray-ban-s...

Ray-Ban link: http://www.ray-ban.com/discover-ray-ban-stories

NiekvdMaas··on Improve Docker performance on macOS by 20x

Can you retest with experimental virtualization enabled? At least on my M1 this boosted performance a LOT (in addition to using gRPC FUSE mounts, as a other commenter also posted)

NiekvdMaas··on Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card

This 100%. I had the same thing happen to me (even though I have 2FA everywhere):

https://github.com/Niek/Niek/blob/master/facebook-scam/READM...

NiekvdMaas··on Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

Maestral provides a universal binary on macOS, so it runs natively on arm64. The official Dropbox client is x64-only, so it needs to run in an emulation layer (Rosetta) on a M1. For something low-level as a file syncing service, that's very unfortunate. There are loads of request on the Dropbox forum to support arm64, but no sight of it being added anytime soon.

NiekvdMaas··on Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more

The title of the incident has been updated to: "Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Issues, GitHub Packages, GitHub Pages, Pull Requests, and Webhooks". Basically all core functionality is down at the moment.

NiekvdMaas··on Microsoft Ubuntu repositories are broken because of space issues

For your home setup: sure, it should be resolved soon, not too big of an issue.

What's much more annoying is that this breaks CI/Docker builds. Right now you can't deploy new container images that depend on a MS repository. I hope it's resolved soon.

NiekvdMaas··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

Looking at the the commit activity of some maintainers, that seems to be correct:

7 commits in a year: https://github.com/babel/babel/commits?author=hzoo&since=202...

$110k invoiced: https://opencollective.com/left_pad/transactions

NiekvdMaas··on Brave disables Chromium FLoC features

It's possible to disable the field trial in regular Chrome too:

--disable-blink-features=InterestCohortAPI,InterestCohortFeaturePolicy

NiekvdMaas··on Tesla Q1 2021 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

This is incredible, Q1 is usually a very slow quarter. Tesla beat Q4 production numbers even though S/X production lines were down for the whole quarter and CNY slowed production in China last Q.

YoY production growth: +76%

YoY deliveries growth: +109%

NiekvdMaas··on Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?

I assume you mean k8s (kubernetes)?

NiekvdMaas··on YC-backed Alpaca Trading blocks buy orders on popular stocks

They kind of rolled it back now:

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Effective immediately, the following conditions apply to these stocks:

No longer restricted to ‘closing only’ status; you now have the ability to buy and sell.

100% margin maintenance requirement.

No short sales allowed.

NiekvdMaas··on JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

Not sure if it's the same company, but this ICP number also owns flintos.com;

https://icplishi.com/%E4%BA%ACICP%E5%A4%8716065045%E5%8F%B7/

NiekvdMaas··on JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

Looking at the launch video [0], this looks very professional done. Which company is behind this? I can't find any info on the site. Is this team related to Huawei?

0. https://youtu.be/3E0ADUIiFzA

NiekvdMaas··on Pfizer vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants

Source? This is ongoing research but the hypothesis is that vaccinated people spread the same rate as asymptonic COVID-19 carriers.

For example: https://globalnews-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/globalnews.ca/n...

NiekvdMaas··on V (Vlang) 0.2

Congrats on releasing V v0.2! It's a great language and the compile times are amazing. My only issue is keeping up with the constantly changing vlib.

Do you have any plans to resume working on Volt (the original V app)? I thought the idea behind it was great, but there hasn't been an update in 1.5 years.

NiekvdMaas··on CSS in GitHub Readmes

GitHub uses Camo [1] to serve assets like images and SVG files. It removes any "dangerous" code like JS from the file before serving it from a GitHub CDN.

1. https://github.com/atmos/camo

NiekvdMaas··on OBS Studio 26.0

Unfortunately not, but the free version is quite reasonable (small logo).

NiekvdMaas··on OBS Studio 26.0

OBS is an amazing piece of software. When the Streamlabs OBS fork came out, many people switched - but the original OBS keeps improving.

If you're looking to control OBS through a web interface (e.g. to switch scenes from a phone/tablet), see my project https://github.com/Niek/obs-web

NiekvdMaas··on OBS Studio 26.0

I would recommend to try https://iriun.com/ - cross-platform and it streams video + audio in very low latency to OBS.

NiekvdMaas··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

Yes, pretty sure. It wasn't an oauth screen but the actual FB login screen.

NiekvdMaas··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

(OP here)

While you are absolutely right, I want to highlight that this was done in a quite sophisticated way. It's actually the real login page of Facebook in a webview. I have 2FA on all my accounts including FB, so it looked very legit. Once you have logged in, they seem to grep the token and close the webview.

NiekvdMaas··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

Actually I am ;)

NiekvdMaas··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

No worries, no offense taken.

I still can't believe myself I fell for this, as said I have 2FA on all accounts and I'm normally very cautious. I guess it's a combination of all the factors here at play: Facebook allowing a fake TikTok Ads advertiser, the ad looking very legit (referring to an existing ad credit program), Google allowing a fake TikTok Ads app with fake reviews, and not getting any notifications until the amount was charged from my PayPal account.

NiekvdMaas··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

Exactly this, it doesn't really stand out. Obviously I wouldn't have installed the app if I would have noticed.

NiekvdMaas··on I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

It's actually the real login page of Facebook in a webview. I have 2FA on all my accounts including FB, so it looked very legit. Once you have logged in, they seem to grep the token and close the webview.

NiekvdMaas··on How I lost €4k in a Facebook scam

I initiated a chargeback process, but I'm not sure how successful that will be. Facebook is a pre-approved merchant so I doubt they'll honor the request.

NiekvdMaas··on Show HN: DataSpeeder Instant End-User Web GUI for MySQL

Looks nice! Can you elaborate how this compares to some open source solutions, for example react-admin?

NiekvdMaas··on Anatomy of a Bubble – Tesla and Bitcoin

https://youshouldhaveboughtstocks.com/

Actually the amount in the article is correct

NiekvdMaas··on Applebot

Can you share some more details about the current state? Is it still written in Go?

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