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amaccuish··on Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC
Because that would effectively broadcast your browsing history to the LAN.
amaccuish··on GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
I have the same problem with Slack, unsure why Microsoft needed to copy the pitiful performance. That the Slack mobile apps mirror the non-existent reliability of the desktop clients is actually pretty amazing.
amaccuish··on HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture
I used to use elementaryOS but it sucks running on an LTS version when important kernel fixes come for my Lenovo hardware in literally every release.
amaccuish··on WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
I really wish we would make more of WiFi routers, AVM with their Fritzboxes seem to be the only ones doing something interesting, with features like SIP Server, SAT>IP Server, Internet Radio etc.

Routers can have attached storage, why can't we backup our phones to them instead of iCloud (instead of workarounds like Nextcloud)? Why can't they directly provide location information over a standard protocol, thus potentially avoiding a request to a cloud service?

amaccuish··on Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box
I brought mine over from the UK for use here in Germany and just upgraded. Sadly it seems their extenders are only available with EU plugs so I'll have to send some back for my parents, they really are that hassle free that it's worth the effort.
amaccuish··on The infrastructure behind ATMs
Could you elaborate? This sounds interesting.
amaccuish··on Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box
Fritzboxes have the best non-OpenWRT OS IMHO
amaccuish··on Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001)
> how its inheritance worked

So I never worked with Novell, but I remember reading somewhere that child objects didn't contain a full ACL, so on every object load the FS tree would be walked and each parent ACL checked? Is that the case? So in direct contrast to the ntSecurityDescriptor storing the entire ACL on every object.

If so, with SSDs now, I can't see it being a massive performance problem nowadays no? I do certainly dislike sitting at the Windows ACL screen for 20 minutes while it goes through recursively to update child ACLs.

amaccuish··on FTC orders Mastercard to open debit transactions to competing payment networks
This I think is a better explanation: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3786962-ftc-orders-master...

The point is I believe, the payment can be settled outside of the mastercard network, but mastercard only allows their service to perform the mapping between token and PAN, and force settlement to happen over the mastercard network. The idea here is that the token can be taken by another card network, mapped to the real PAN, and then settlement happens between the issuing bank and merchant over the other network.

I.e. instead of acquirer <-> mastercard <-> issuer it becomes acquirer <-> X-Network <-> issuer, even though Mastercard was used to create the initial link between device and bank account.

amaccuish··on Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web
It's using S/MIME

https://support.google.com/a/answer/13069736?visit_id=638068...

amaccuish··on Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000
> but you don’t have to have one,

A simple Google search refutes this. Ok, if you count running some cmd magic as meaning they don't require you to have a Microsoft account, we're never going to agree. For Joe Bloggs, a Microsoft account is required and there is no way around it.

amaccuish··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
But if they have emigrated, they are by definition resident?
amaccuish··on Hippotat: IP over HTTP
It does some things differently than what a normal browser-based TLS connection does. There's some background here: https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/networking-and-server...
amaccuish··on Hippotat: IP over HTTP
Why not use the openconnect vpn server, ocserv? [0]

It opportunistically uses DTLS over UDP where it can, but falls back to plain TLS over TCP where not. And I mean real TLS, not the sort-of-TLS that OpenVPN uses.

[0] https://ocserv.gitlab.io/www/index.html

amaccuish··on How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?
He said "without an enterprise install"
amaccuish··on U.S. pushes Japan and other allies to join China chip curbs
> They are an isolationist authoritarian nation, with already-large and still-growing influence

Your first part doesn't really go with the second.

I agree, China is very isolationist. But that's precisely why I'm not concerned about this "influence". They're absolutely not interested in converting other countries to their system, they will work with anyone who they can do business with.

amaccuish··on PayPal Allows Bypassing Two-Factor Auth with a Button Click
The worst is PayPal for iOS. Even with Face ID turned on, I still have to enter my TOTP code, EVERY time I open the app.
amaccuish··on AdGuard Home: Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server
Out of interest, what would you use instead of DD-WRT now?
amaccuish··on The Germans Have Learned Nothing from History – DER Spiegel
Whilst I agree in general with your summary, the chickenpox vaccine isn't a part of the general vaccination program, so the lack of it is only a concern to a very small number of people.
amaccuish··on Ask HN: What did Linux not do right?
UIDs rather than Windows SIDs is my bugbear. Makes a whole mess when you introduce docker into the mix.
amaccuish··on When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
Microsoft doesn't by default block the embedded Thunderbird browser. An admin can however enable that setting.
amaccuish··on Show HN: Distributed JMAP and IMAP Servers in Rust
Maybe the wrong place to ask but... This seems perfect for us, but are there plans to support things like LDAP or even GSSAPI auth?
amaccuish··on Ask HN: Foreign language learners, what's the workflow you find most effective?
I learnt Russian at uni and our course book was the New Penguin course. I found the order of things being taught weird but otherwise an excellent book. I had however learned German and French well, so was already linguistically oriented. Things like cases just make sense to me. I'm not sure how good the book is if you're not that way inclined.

I can only tell you, if you don't deeply understand what cases do, when they are used, and what other languages do without them, you will always struggle. So maybe worth reading up on english-language articles, books, wikipedia (not necessarily about Russian, maybe even German), to understand more about them.

amaccuish··on Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
The worst is when there's important links on the footer of the page. You end up trying to race the loading to click the link you need in time.
amaccuish··on After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
The worst is Telekom in DE. They required you to host a website with your address, contact e-mail and phone number. If you don't, your e-mail is just blocked.
amaccuish··on Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
Thank you for the follow up and fix. It's a great project you have there!
amaccuish··on Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin
Nice, only thing is it's not currently accurate. The U1 and U2 have temporarily combined into the U12.
amaccuish··on Ambient Scotrail Beats – Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats
Now all that needs to be done is make this into a radio station for Sonos. Sunday sorted.
amaccuish··on RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
I'm the complete other way. First thing I did when setting up MacOS was to install RedQuits. I think it stopped working sometime after an update. I never liked my dock crowding up with things.

And with Firefox, it would make the "Restore all tabs on open" not work, since clicking X didn't close the app, and thus pressing Firefox again would just create a new empty window. For it to work, I had to not use the red button, but cmd + q or the menu bar.

amaccuish··on Open AirPlay 2 Receiver
This is why I will replace my phone with an iPhone. The chromecast protocols are so locked down, it makes casting really suck, and chromecast audio pucks are no more.
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