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chedabob··on Show HN: DockFlow – Switch between multiple macOS Dock layouts instantly
If you go into System Preferences and disable "Displays have separate Spaces" it'll keep the dock and app switcher on your primary display.

I'm not a Spaces user so not sure what impact this has outside of the dock behaviour.

chedabob··on Should I Block ICMP?
I wish I could block any IP that runs CPanel and Wordpress.

Every time a server is hammering our corporate firewall, I know that if I put it into Shodan, it's going to be running out of date versions of those two. It's rare they come from the same IP block, so at best I can block a /32 if they're a persistent offender.

chedabob··on SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
For the longest time Authenticator was almost abandoned by Google, so it's not surprising the team responsible for the bundled Android apps swerved it.

It didn't need bells and whistles and constant security updates, but it took 13 years for it to get cloud-sync support so you could backup your codes.

chedabob··on Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
What do you use to interface with Qwen?

I have LMStudio installed, and use Continue in VSCode, but it doesn't feel nearly as feature rich compared to using something like Cursor's IDE, or the GitHub Copilot plugin.

chedabob··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
I had to do it on either Atom Bank or Starling (signed up for both at a similar time).

Monzo also have you recite something but it's something far less exciting like "My name is X and I bank with Monzo".

chedabob··on Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)
Yeah the commit messages suggest all the heavy-lifting was done on kernel.org's server. It's just matched his GH user to the email in the commit.
chedabob··on Netflix’s Media Production Suite
Wouldn't surprise me if they had something like this in a few cities with big production teams. There must've been pipelines in place from when 35mm was the standard for movies, and crews needed to get hours of footage developed and over to various people for review each day.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-physical-aws-data-trans...

chedabob··on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
I don't even know what these big flashy features are anymore. Every year I get asked by staff "Can I upgrade to <latest major Mac OS>" and every time I tell them they can, but they won't see anything different. There's not even big architectural changes under the hood to improve stability or performance.

Short of it being a requirement to use the latest version of Xcode (once they bump the minimum in the following Feburary), and security updates stopping, there's been very little reason to actually upgrade.

chedabob··on AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI
It was quite jarring in Amazon's Citadel Diana. The voices were ever so slightly out of sync with the lip movements, and the audio sounded like the studio recording hadn't been processed to match the environment.
chedabob··on A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed My Mailchimp Mailing List
Apple Intelligence will gladly promote an obvious phishing email to the top of your inbox: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1h5jf7s/apple_intell...
chedabob··on AWS paywalling select knowledge base articles, requiring Premium Support plan
I'm impressed they've somehow managed to make their documentation worse.
chedabob··on Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code
Damn, was hoping this would bring TF2 back to Mac. Haven't had a good LAN party in the office since Apple dropped 32-bit support.
chedabob··on Man who lost $800M Bitcoin in landfill wants to buy the garbage dump
It won't spin but there's probably forensics teams out there that can get the data off for a lot less than $800M.
chedabob··on Starship Flight 7
I suspect some of these channels are on stolen accounts.

One of them has the "Official Artist Channel" badge, and a handful of completely unrelated videos.

chedabob··on iTerm2 critical security release
I just like having it docked to the top of my screen, and accessible via a global shortcut.

I'm sure there's a thousand others that do both of those things, but I adopted iTerm2 about 10 years ago, and it hasn't given me cause to investigate others.

chedabob··on Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]
To what end?

I can't think of an Apple product that needs low power Wifi and/or Bluetooth, and also operates at such a low price-point that there's not budget to put something bigger on the BoM.

chedabob··on Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine)
There's at least one error log that references Three.js.
chedabob··on Apple wins $250 US jury verdict in patent case over Masimo smartwatches
Ye it's a big issue with Garmin's pogo-pin charge port. The pins corrode, and for some unlucky people, create quite serious skin irritation.
chedabob··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
It weighs about 10% of what it did at liftoff, but half of the engines fire to slow it down.

Also I don't think the telemetry on the feed is that accurate, so with all of the atmospheric braking, it was probably going a bit slower than the 1200km/h at engine reignition.

chedabob··on Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/#no...

It only does it for tabs that you've viewed previously (i.e. not restored from a previous session), and not the current tab.

chedabob··on Phrack 71
Pretty fitting as I can't get on that site because it's marked as "Radicalization and Extremism" by SonicWall's content filter on our corporate firewall.
chedabob··on A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final
I suspect it's probably just easier for them to print all the race numbers the same way, but only use the transponder on races where it doesn't need to be accurate, or they need to take several measurements throughout the race.

For the longer distances, the lap times and finish times show up almost instantly when there's a big gap between athletes, although I believe there's a laser at the finish line too.

chedabob··on Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?
I won't run my primary as an eSIM as it's just way too much aggro to move it between phones if needed, and you're well and truly stuck if you need to reprovision but don't have a Wifi connection.

We've just switched mobile providers at work, and the eSIMs were a monumental headache. A lot of it was user error, but ultimately it's hard to cock-up taking a physical SIM out and putting a new one in.

As a secondary they're great. I had awful speeds on Lebara in Prague on my main SIM, so grabbed a 3-day one off Nomad just for data.

chedabob··on Cloudflare Introduces Automatic SSL/TLS
I'm not that experienced with CF, but I believe you can do this with Origin rules.
chedabob··on Techniques used by developers to bypass App Store review
Ye we've had apps rejected because they hit our IP geoblock, and the logs would always indicate they were testing via an Irish mobile network.

We specifically allow-listed Apple's /8 range, but they don't always use the corporate VPN.

chedabob··on Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice
When we went to war against someone using our name in a recruitement scam, by the time they moved on, it seemed like they were up 5x on what it costs them in domains.

It's all heavily automated, and I suspect there's some credit card fraud involved too. I also reckon there's a few unscrupulous registrars that are helping them.

chedabob··on How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
Someone managed to snag a copy: http://web.archive.org/web/20240531155301/https://www.unterm...
chedabob··on Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR: The Best All-Purpose Lens I've Ever Used
All 3 of you are correct. The first two generations are 200mm, and the following two are 600mm

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/features/sony-rx10-vs-son...

chedabob··on Only9Fans
SonicWall maintain their own content filter list for their products: https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/content-fil...

I was suggesting it had been incorrectly classified previously by a single vendor, presumably in response to a report (or a court order) for a single page. There's no nuance to the filtering, so the whole site gets blocked.

It happens regularly for Imgur: Someone posts CSAM, and the whole site gets added to Cleanfeed (the UK ISP level filter) for a couple of hours until the original image is removed.

chedabob··on Only9Fans
SonicWall were classifying it as "Extremism" at one point. Presumably something unsavoury has been archived, and it's just been blanket blocked.
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