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ajvpot··on Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts
> Unfortunately game entitlements, friends, and game save data for newer cross-platform games like Battlefield 2042 are stored in the EA account itself, not the persona, so that data isn't transferred.
ajvpot··on World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients
The map seems to be focused on where foods originated, so Teriyaki and Fish and Chips may not fit Seattle.

I could see Beecher's being on there because a cheese variety "Venus" is nearby, but AFAIK Beechers does not produce any unique varieties of cheese.

I can confirm you can find a Seattle Dog from a street vendor most nights in Capitol Hill. They are alright.

ajvpot··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
Uber, Google Maps, VoLTE, VoWiFi, and eSIM work. You may need to install the sandboxed Google Play Services from the Apps app.

Android Auto is completely disabled as an opinionated security measure.

Google Pay and some banking apps (ones that require Google's Play Integrity API) will not run. GrapheneOS doesn't attempt to spoof these APIs because they are moving towards cryptographic verification [0]. Most apps don't require this check but if they do you are out of luck unless you can get the app developers to trust GrapheneOS's keys.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

ajvpot··on A secret code may have been hiding in Beethoven's manuscripts
IMSLP saved my life as a music student.
ajvpot··on WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
I agree. Unfortunately you can only have 6 SSE streams per origin per browser instance, so you may be limited to 6 tabs without adding extra complexity on the client side.

https://crbug.com/275955

ajvpot··on Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
I love pandoc[0] for tasks like this. It supports most markup formats I've needed.

[0]: https://pandoc.org/

ajvpot··on Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
FYI Craig Wright’s claims are quite contentious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright

ajvpot··on Why is Bluetooth sound quality bad on my Mac
I don't think it's accurate that there is "no way" to "prevent your mac from using the headphone's microphone." There are several workarounds like creating an Aggregate Audio Device in Audio MIDI Setup [0] or disabling HFP [1]. I wish you success with your paid utility though.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/n6trw3/comment/gx98u...

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7495115?sortBy=best

ajvpot··on Show HN: Publish from GitHub Actions using multi-factor authentication
Have you considered adding some kind of encryption of the secrets with a preshared key generated inside the action to make the SaaS zero-knowledge? Currently it appears the service can read all the secrets in plaintext.
ajvpot··on Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020)
Pro tip: Usually one of the buttons on the side of the screen will mute the video even if the UI element isn't displayed.
ajvpot··on Ask HN: What fun have you had with tech recently?
Looks like it's already gone.
ajvpot··on A Sleeping Alexa Can Listen for More Than Just Its Name
From my experience reverse engineering the first generation Echo, there was no coprocessor. However, wake word detection was done offline. There was a software controlled hardware switch to disconnect the microphone when it was muted.