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_rson Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

You can't run UniFi Protect like this, only the network controller

_rson TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe

I agree - I am running my own Samba server and I don't think I'm affected, but it isn't really clear to me how to double check or why Apple's new default broke things in the first place

_rson Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available

Also hoping that this work continues and tooling is made available. I suppose eventually someone could even make a wrapper around it that implements Docker's remote API

_rson Adventures in upgrading Proxmox

Not to mention, Proxmox does not support running Docker in an LXC officially (of course many users still do it). It is not a supported configuration as of now

_rson Replacing EBS and Rethinking Postgres Storage from First Principles

> Detaching and reattaching EBS volumes can take 10s for healthy volumes to 20m for failed ones

Is there a source for the 20m time limit for failed EBS volumes? I experienced this at work for the first time recently but couldn't find anything documenting the 20m SLA (and it did take just about 20 full minutes).

_rson Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock

I haven't seen any in depth performance comparisons, but I had also started to dig into this and I was leaning towards using Scrypted instead of the HomeBridge plugin. Just wanted to name-drop them for others also interested in all this

_rson A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad

Right? It would be great if I could plug a USB-C cable into 2 ports on my Mac and it could figure out what the cable is capable of

_rson Apple A19 SoC die shot

Fair enough. My apologies. It was quite a vague statement to make at it's best

_rson AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts

From what I have seen that is not the case. The AirPods nor connected iPhones are interacting with the other person’s at all.

_rson iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

If you think those 2 things are even close to comparable I've got a bridge to sell you

_rson Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir

Would you be open to dropping an email address? I'd love to chat about your experience with Elixir for financial applications if you have any time

_rson Breaking the Mirror – A Look at Apple's New iPhone Remote Control Feature [video]

I don’t have to auth on my phone every time. I suspect maybe I do for the first time I use this feature for that boot of my phone, but I haven’t confirmed that yet. This would be useless if you had to auth on the phone every single usage

_rson MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

That was the first thing I checked, and it looks like they’re using some existing python package to parse docx files. I wonder if they contributed to it or vetted it strongly

_rson Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

I suppose the difference is 1st party support for creating the audiogram, plus the clearance from the US gov to market it the way they want as OTC hearing aids

_rson Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

I wonder if the flag gets reset every so often if the device doesn't think it's in the US for a long period of time. I've heard Apple considered that for some of the other EU restrictions

_rson Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

They look a lot like the graphs that Hopper produces :)

_rson Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days

Would be nice if I could add my own holidays instead of only remove them

_rson iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos

Because you'll have users who do it by accident and lose basic hardware functionality of their device without knowing how to fix it

_rson Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate

The $15 makes this pretty hard to scale too. The link someone posted was $0.05/request. I'd love to see how/where you can get this data in bulk from a primary source.

_rson Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate

Uhh this seems like a big fact to gloss over, and something I am quite surprised by. Could you point to any examples as I’m having a hard time finding anything available publicly from any DMVs/states

_rson Why Oxide Chose Illumos

I thought AWS uses KVM, which is the same VM that QEMU would use? Or am I mistaken?

_rson How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works

Non-US watch series 10 specification pages mention it still, so it's there and just disabled. I wonder though if they could legally enable it after the fact on watches imported while the ban was in effect

_rson Apple Watch Series 10

Oh is that true? I was under the impression that retailers still were selling the series 9 with it enabled to this day

_rson Building a WoW (World of Warcraft) Server in Elixir

> but now it just feels like manipulating a database with extra steps

Well, realistically that is most of software development at this point. Sometimes I get depressed about that, but other times it fades away when an app brings delight to its users or solves a problem - it's a bit more humanizing and inspiring

_rson I turned an old phone into a NAS

I never understood this, though, because never even with old rotary phones, did we need to position our hand with our pinky and thumb like that

_rson Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"

Is there documentation for the protocol anywhere, or is this going to be a proprietary protocol to Proton that doesn’t gain much adoption outside of their users? If their claims are true this could be a great alternative for certain use cases

_rson Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain

Do you mean you can catch them and stop them? Or catch them and say "oh I'm starting to feel angry" without letting the anger consume you, but still let it exist. I'd love any elaboration you can share on this

_rson TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

I think that's done as part of disabling wrist-detection