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chedabob··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
> Both expected to be caught by chopsticks. Will be a first for Starship.

SpaceX's flight profile says both are splashdowns?

chedabob··on HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory
Dell's equivalent starts at £180k.
chedabob··on My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
I use the water lock which is a bit annoying when I need to actually swipe on the screen.
chedabob··on Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds
Hongju PB86-A1
chedabob··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
And 900k litres of fish sauce.
chedabob··on Less Coffee, Better Sleep
E-reader. Went for the latest Kindle Paperwhite as it can adjust the colour temperature as well.
chedabob··on Less Coffee, Better Sleep
I always aim to stop doing anything with high cognitive load at least half an hour before getting ready for bed.

Not necessarily no screen time, but coding stops, and the remaining time is spent gaming or watching TV, or I go to bed early and read.

chedabob··on Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth
A Product Manager in some AI-adjacent department needs a promotion.
chedabob··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
I agree with you, but given that a lot of car theft is now done by exploiting the keyless entry system, it feels like there'd be easier targets.
chedabob··on HMD Touch 4G
They couldn't find a stock photo for the selfie cam instead of using AI slop?
chedabob··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
8GB RAM and no active cooling would be miserable.

Mac Mini is the best bang for buck at the moment. I have an M1 Air as well, but if I'm away from my desk and doing anything that would push the SOC hard, I remote into my Mini.

chedabob··on Artemis II safely splashes down
Do you think the billions spent disappear into space? It pays the salaries of everyone involved so they can eat.
chedabob··on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
Love it when it forgets the Mac apps exist, and launches Maps or Calendar in phone mirroring. I use mirroring a fair bit, but never for anything where I have the Mac app installed.
chedabob··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
Ye some of the weirdest issues I've fixed have been PSU related.

I had a PC come to me that would boot fine, but if you opened the CD drive it'd shut off instantly.

chedabob··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
Ye, kick off into some higher-level language instead of being at the mercy of your CI provider's plugins.

I use Fastlane extensively on mobile, as it reduces boilerplate and gives enough structure that the inherent risk of depending on a 3rd-party is worth it. If all else fails, it's just Ruby, so can break out of it.

chedabob··on Self Sanitizing Door Handle
> Why is it push to enter, pull to exit at all?

So that in an emergency your escape route can't be blocked. Also having doors swing out into corridors is bad practice as you're more likely to open it into someone walking past.

chedabob··on Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
And those stupid stylised "fonts" that create problems for screenreaders by using obscure Unicode characters.
chedabob··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
I thought that as we're seeing issues with LON, but their Manchester POP is also down and that didn't have any maintenance this morning.
chedabob··on Apple M5 chip
My guess would be those are going into the rumoured OLED models coming out next year.
chedabob··on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones
You can't put one app on top of another, so that mitigates at least the 1st stage of this kind of attack.
chedabob··on A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad
USB4 is supposed to have proper labels: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2602229/better-usb-labels-ar...

I don't know if that necessarily helps though, because I've seen USB3 cables that seemingly have the bandwidth and power capabilities, but won't do video.

chedabob··on Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it
And again in 2010, although as far as I'm aware this was just based on speculation and it was never proved that it was intentional, or that the optimisation would have netted the gains the author said: https://web.archive.org/web/20250325144612/https://www.realw...
chedabob··on Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC
Yeah there was this the other day, although I'd expect the hardware for this is much smaller than is shown in the photos in the OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294766
chedabob··on Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max
They are getting rid of comingling which should reduce some of the counterfeiting problems: https://www.geekwire.com/2025/after-years-of-backlash-amazon...
chedabob··on SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight
I'd say it's a mixture of chaos engineering and load testing. They know what performance they need for a safe flight, but they want to know how much margin of error they've got (and how close their simulations are), and what they can do to optimise.

It's a different apporach to say the Apollo program, where they did heavy up-front analysis, at the expense of cost-efficiency, speed, and innovation. They had one-shot for a flight, otherwise that's several $bn up in flames.

Even with the last few mishaps, it's an approach that seems to be working. If you look at Starship and Falcon's journey in comparison to SLS and Blue Origin, they have done so much in such a short timespan.

chedabob··on Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
It's in the Apple PR https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/an-update-on-blood-ox...

> sensor data from the Blood Oxygen app on Apple Watch will be measured and calculated on the paired iPhone

chedabob··on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
They've borrowed the name from the CloudKey/Dream Machine to make it clear that this will have parity, instead of what we had previously where you could only run some of the apps in isolation that would normally be bundled in the full system image for the CloudKey.
chedabob··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
The criminals will just use something that hides in plain sight.

I think it was Encrochat devices that booted into a fairly vanilla looking OS, and there was another platform where it was hidden in something like a calculator app.

chedabob··on Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android
Does the Yandex HTTPS one mean they're shipping the private key for their cert in the app, therefore anything running on localhost (or on a network with poisoned DNS) can spoof the yandexmetrica site?

There is a cert for it in the logs: https://crt.sh/?q=yandexmetrica.com

chedabob··on Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android
I thought they did for resources and JS, which is why Meta have to use WebRTC instead?

I think the Yandex one slips through because CORS does a naive check against just what's in the header, not what it resolves to?

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