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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bm5k; my proof: https://keybase.io/bm5k/sigs/mFaDQ8FeP5heqhFpJgsW3OFGFOtcRTqFVLASYFZ2akM ]
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bm5k··on Zoom is now Chrome only
Works fine on safari + ios27 beta.
bm5k··on Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
I was until new corp rules prevented me from using personal devices.
bm5k··on Why are we still using Markdown?
Textile was better, but less popular IIRC
bm5k··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Heavier than the iPad Pro. Again. Still.
bm5k··on Poker Tournament for LLMs
Who is live-streaming the hand history with running commentary?
bm5k··on Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler
This is satisfactory news. Now we can all get back to coding.
bm5k··on Vectrex Mini
Kickstarter? No thanks. But good luck.
bm5k··on Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
Ew. No.
bm5k··on Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions
+1 for reading on iPad. Especially the 12.9”. Not sure it’ll replace my eInk reader for pulp fiction, but for technical materials, it’s usually more convenient than going to my shelf to grab a physical book.
bm5k··on Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available
Has there been any word of a physical cartridge release?
bm5k··on Patreon laid off their security team
Patreon requires you to "submit your account for deletion" to close your account.

> Starting July 2020, Patreon no longer offers the previous “disable” feature. To close a Patreon account, users must submit their account for deletion through our Privacy center.

bm5k··on Apple Removes SIM Card Tray on All iPhone 14 Models in U.S.
Additional anecdata: My iPhone 12 -> iPhone 13 upgrade smoothly transferred the eSIM as well.
bm5k··on Starting October 19, storage limit will be enforced on all Gitlab Free accounts
Looks like everyone is rushing to check their storage.

> something went wrong while loading usage details

On my free group’s storage page.

bm5k··on How Duke Nukem II’s parallax scrolling worked
A couple of those could be considered "inspired by" if you (a) squint and (b) ignore all the examples that are clearly the same ;)

I played the duke nukem 1 & 2 shareware _back in the day_ but I missed out on Turrican thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole.

bm5k··on CodeSnack IDE: Mobile IDE made from the ground up for mobile devices and tablets
Could be neat. Lots of "This part of the documentation is not ready yet."
bm5k··on Notion Acquires Cron
I discovered cron looking for a way to manage my "two DayJob calendars with 85% duplicate events but 15% unique events".

Specifically since I was annoyed at getting 2 notifications for every event that was duplicated on both calendars.

And cron actually solved that problem by automagically recognizing duplicate events and only notifying once. I turned off all notifications in calendar.app.

The only other differentiating feature I am aware of is how configurable the menu bar app is.

Thankfully, I no longer have the original problem + I don't like things in my menu bar so I'm probably switching back to the built in app.

bm5k··on Sunsetting Atom
It took longer than I expected.
bm5k··on Gitlab: “required pipeline” moved from Premium to Ultimate tier in version 15
They also push features down into lower cost tiers pretty regularly.

I don’t think either of your statements is true.

In fact, I think that gitlab’s very open development process is a strong reason to recommend them over available alternatives.

bm5k··on Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
Never used gittyup but last time I tried the github desktop app was years behind gittower in terms of functionality & features provided.

If you’re earning money developing software but refuse to pay for tools, in my personal and not at all humble opinion, you’re part of The Problem.

bm5k··on Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac
This looks neat, but I don’t see anything off hand that will pull me away from my current git tower + kaleidoscope ~rut~ workflow.

In particular, the drag & drop rebase support in tower is very convenient. Kaleidoscope is capable of all kinds of diffing but the text conflict resolution is probably the feature that I use the most.

bm5k··on Stripe Financial Connections
Yeah, giving out my banking authentication info is a hard nope for me & I discourage everyone I know from using or implementing anything using plaid.
bm5k··on Security.txt is now officially RFC 9116
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9116
bm5k··on AppleCensorship
I worry that will just encourage this practice since "it worked, we got feedback"?
bm5k··on Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
The most common thing I see is companies emailing me after I've asked them not to. In that case I just disable that site specific email and move on.
bm5k··on GitHub: Private Profiles beta
Same. As soon as I made my profile private github.com started 500ing for me. It seems like none of the other pages I've hit are affected.

Edit: Spoke a little soon, my profile page is also 500 when logged out.

bm5k··on Netflix – Executives Fired, Shows Canceled, Accusations of ‘Staged Data’
more likely a long slow decline with several factors

off hand, a few factors I can think of are

- a few users lost here and there due to “bad decisions” (as perceived by exiting customers) - super saturated paid streaming market - more people at home = more users but != more paying customers

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I think the biggest risk they face now is thinking that 100% of account sharing would be paying customers if they somehow eliminate sharing. That kind of thinking tends to lead to decisions that also push currently paying customers away AND makes new/returning customers think twice.

Just my opinion. Full disclosure: I’m in the “no longer a paying customer, not account sharing, and probably won’t be using netflix in the near future” camp.

bm5k··on Friday Facts #368 – Steam Deck, Ghost bugs, Docs improvements
Glad to hear it works, but I’m reading a lack of commitment in

> waiting to see if Factorio gets proper controller support

But maybe I’m overthinking how complicated it will be to configure manually.

bm5k··on Current iPod Touch Now 1k Days Old with No Sign of New Model
The unlocked iPhone SE without a cellular plan seems to be the new iPod touch.
bm5k··on I almost got banned from Hacker News
Wait so should I upvote this or not?

Thanks for all of the work you do.

bm5k··on Apple RealityOS
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