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avelon macOS Container Machines

Yes, that article states that as well under limitations: "Deprecation status: While functional, Apple discourages its direct use in favor of App Sandbox for developers."

avelon Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

Cool cool cool. So to confirm, you just installed the Home Assistant APK and that worked without issues?

avelon Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]

Related: Honda's 2 Motor Hybrid System Explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_VChtMGK8

avelon Math Notepad

$39?! I'll stick with qalc!

avelon What your Bluetooth devices reveal

Similar story - "Home assistant picked up my neighbours Bluetooth toothbrush and now I can see when they brush their teeth"

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1306pcw/home...

avelon Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free

Also the Dacia Spring is exactly that.

avelon Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility

Slightly tangential, but there's this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/

avelon Sign in with Google in Chrome

Good information, but you can already turn this off via the (quite hidden, I admit) setting that is mentioned in the article. That's a better way to turn this off completely, rather than patch it via a visual rule.

avelon Sign in with Google in Chrome

That does not completely turn off the federated sign-in popup you see on the top right in various websites. The solution is actually already mentioned in the article.

avelon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

What travel ban are you referring to?

avelon Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

You need a farm of machines that run the actual mail clients, to do that reliably. https://www.emailonacid.com/ is such a service.

avelon Bigscreen Beyond 2

Two video reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbFU6KoEASU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpzZWTz1h0w

avelon Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

This is a great article on the topic: https://hbr.org/2022/03/what-great-hybrid-cultures-do-differ...

avelon Tegelwippen

Somewhat related: NYC Rain Gardens https://home.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/rain-gardens.page

avelon Show HN: We relaunched the Official MTA App for NYC public transit

For NYC specifically I've been burned many times by Citymapper. It is trying to be clever and parse the messages about service changes, but does it all wrong and in the end gives you wrong directions, leaving you stranded. Sometimes it doesn't show the alerts by MTA at all.

Now that the MTA app is so good and has achieved feature parity with Citymapper, I prefer that for 90% of the time. It doesn't have multi-modal (eg subway + citibike) and doesn't show estimates of uber/lyft prices, but those have not been very useful in my experience.

Citymapper is still ok to quickly check upcoming train or bus departures.

avelon Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

Pretty cool. If you have adguard home and google assistant, you have access to a switch that can enable/disable adguard home protection. So with the homeassistant app you can add that as a quick tile as well. The only caveat is that this will disable it across all devices.

avelon Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

It's not that tedious.

In adguard home you have a switch on/off in the web UI. You can also expose that switch to homeassistant.

And there are some other good ideas in this thread as well for android and ios.

avelon ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails

> you get meals every week, unless you opt-out

But that is what the subscription is about.

There are clear options under account settings to "Cancel plan" and "Pause deliveries".

avelon A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks

You can only apply the fix to the URL field in the payload described, not to normal message text.

avelon IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks

You probably have battery issues because you are using SmartThings as the zigbee hub and it's polling the remote way too much.

I have switched to HomeAssistant with a Zigbee USB adaptor and there are no more battery issues.

SmartThings are aware of the issue but do not care enough to fix it.

avelon Formula 1 didn't realize Las Vegas would be cold in November

I clicked on one of these links in Google News, and now I get all the click-baits for the Las Vegas GP such as "Las Vegas GP cancelled?". Jalopnik is one of them, but they are all pretty much trash. This is definitely not HN material.

avelon DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months

DJI used to have the "Mimo" app in the play store. It was rated very low, 2.3 stars. The app required users to allow the permission to read the phone's IMEI. If you denied that permission, the app closed. Myself, and I'm sure plenty of others, have reported this to the play store as something against the play store policies. Perhaps Google gave in to the complaints eventually and told DJI, enough is enough with your crap, who knows... And that made DJI say, "enough is enough with _you_, we're big enough to distribute these outside the play store and keep our invasive tracking and permissions".

Page visible only if you have installed the app in the past: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dji.mimo

avelon JSON Schema Store

Awesome tool, thank you for sharing. I made use of it already!

avelon San Francisco’s North Beach streets clogged by long line of Cruise robotaxis

https://twitter.com/friscolive415/status/1690281516935589888...

"A large festival posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles. We are actively investigating and working on solutions to prevent this from happening again. We apologize to those who were impacted."

avelon The complex simplicity of my static websites

There's probably a reason why haml (and also coffeescript) didn't take off and got abandoned.

If anyone knows the reason, feel free to share.

avelon Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension

"dang near perfect" is correct!

The only issue is the font, really. I use the stylus extension to change it to:

* { font-family: Open sans; }

And _now_ it's perfect. For desktop at least.

avelon Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years

Rancher desktop, or (my preferred) colima + docker cli.

avelon Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]

This is not related to radio hacks, it is just a poorly secured web API.

avelon Yahoo Pipes

  - node-RED
  - n8n.io

avelon A few thoughts on Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift

I think your perception is incorrect in both counts.

They went bankrupt and saved the app by selling it to Warner and selling IP to Live Nation.

And it doesn't seem like he was aiming for a heartwarming tale, the last message says "we gave it our best shot" and he is disappointed that there is no big, healthy competition.