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cschmittiey··on The new American shopping mall is less Macy's, more church, bowling, bookstore
had the pleasure of attending Crowd Supply’s Teardown 2025 conference and it was in the old Gap in the Lloyd Center. kind of surreal but incredibly fun place to have a small conference!
cschmittiey··on MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans
yeah i’ve recently switched to garage. has been rock solid and there’s UIs out there for the simple self hosted cases that are easy to setup and use (and manage acls!)
cschmittiey··on MeshCore, a new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios
so far it seems like better routing protocol, the ability to set what path your packets take if needed, and some different ideas about roles on the network. i’ve been playing with it for a week or so and people at my hackerspace have been contributing and i’m excited to see how it does, but it’s not good enough to the point where everyone is just going to switch over. some board support and polish needed before that happens imo
cschmittiey··on Baldness? UCLA's New Molecule Could Revolutionize Hair Growth
Many men aren’t happy about balding, especially earlier in life. They feel distress at their body not presenting the way they want it to (with hair!). hence, gender affirming care.
cschmittiey··on Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI
i’ve been using “Xeet”
cschmittiey··on Scalpers Work with Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's 'Non-Transferable' Tickets
https://archive.is/cV5EY
cschmittiey··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
wipr works great for safari, even on iOS. don’t know of any free options though. There’s also Vinegar, which makes web YouTube videos play in a native matter with PiP.
cschmittiey··on How hard can generating 1024-bit primes be?
What are you using for your site? Loved the entropy styling!
cschmittiey··on Waze tests new alerts warning drivers about roads with a ‘history of crashes’
at least on the latest public beta, Apple Maps will suggest a “less turns” route in most cases. At least it did for me earlier
cschmittiey··on You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
I think it’s likely they were confused also by the physical connector - DMX can and often does use the same 5 pin connector as MIDI, if I’m not mistaken.
cschmittiey··on Meshtastic: A Review
VARA FM offers high speeds on FM from what I’ve seen. Haven’t actually played with it myself though. Might be worth checking out!
cschmittiey··on Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
I bought one hoping the same thing - I got it a couole days ago and it seems like that’s not implemented (or maybe possible? Not sure).
cschmittiey··on Demodulation of the LTE uplink
I believe you can also satisfy the encryption requirement by publishing the keys, fwiw
cschmittiey··on Tell HN: Can we surface the M1 Mac laggy/choppy cursor and scroll bug?
I also have this issue. It’s especially bad on the latest developer betas. I remember in previous iterations of the OS if I killed an app it would be fine but I don’t remember which app. Maybe safari?
cschmittiey··on How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp)
Which campus was that at? I feel like I saw something like that used once, but other than that didn’t see it much when I spent my time with E-UNI. I mostly kept to WHC, though.
cschmittiey··on A look at power on the new M1 Max
Have you actually tried playing Minecraft on the M1 laptops? It certainly outperforms any laptop I’ve ever played Minecraft on, especially if you use native Java and native lwjgl. Even under Rosetta, I experienced a smooth 60 fps at native settings.
cschmittiey··on PNC Bank app blocks access for “security reasons” if not allowed to scan files
I will say that’s one thing I appreciate about iOS’s more recent permission tweaks. When you give access to photos, you can pick all, or pick which specific pictures the app gets access to, or no access to any - only write access.

For location, you can pick one time only, or access while you’re using the app (which some apps I think from there try to access it in the background, but iOS will notify you and ask you if you’re sure that’s okay every couple days or so I think. I’ve also been on dev betas and only really remember it complaining about the Weather widget using this all the time).

Definitely seems better than the all or nothing approach I remember from Android. But also I haven’t used android since android 9 was hot, so maybe things have evened out since.

cschmittiey··on What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
I’ve also used that feature and I’ve spent >10 hours working in Immersed - Immersed (and even another app called Virtual Desktop) absolutely is leagues above the built in experience.
cschmittiey··on Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong, according to leaked memo
In Eve they’re called corporations/alliances, but it actually goes even deeper. More details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16048674

Also, I can’t seem to find a source for it but there’s also a technique used where screenshots have the logged in user’s ID encoded in the background of the screenshot by using hex colors that effectively look the same.

cschmittiey··on Google Pixel 3 (XL) bricking out of nothing
iOS 15 (releasing within the next week or so) adds extension support for mobile safari. I’ve been using Wipr with it on the beta and it’s great
cschmittiey··on Ask HN: Linux distro based on Docker images?
Was it Fedora Silverblue?

https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/

cschmittiey··on Puffer – Stream live TV in the browser
Wow, I'm pretty impressed! Switching streams was nearly instant and seems to come in at a good quality.

Kudos to whoever's making this happen, I'd love to see this kind of speed come to both commercial services and services like Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin

cschmittiey··on No Man’s Sky’s next update will let you explore infinite space in VR
I definitely agree on the over-promised features. I was severely disappointed on launch, as was just about everyone else I think. They should not have promised what they did, and they shouldn't have launched at the price they did. They definitely should've playtested and done more Q&A before launch.

Now considering that, I do think that they seem to have made the best out of the situation they were in. Hello Games seems to be a lot more open, not promising things they can't deliver, and they've been quietly bringing the game up to where they said it would be. It really seems like they're trying to make restitution and do things the right way, this time around. That says a lot to me about where they want to be in the future and what they've learned from what they did.

cschmittiey··on Your live coding demo is boring me (2015)
You wouldn't happen to have a link, would you?
cschmittiey··on Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
If you're on Android 8 or above (yes, I know most people aren't) there's support for password managers filling passwords in almost any app. Some apps aren't well built and don't support it. As far as I can tell, it's not something the developer has to explicitly enable support for though.

Anyways, I use the Bitwarden app on my S8 (and previously HTC 10) and it works great. I tap a password field, Android asks me if I want to fill the password, I unlock my "vault" with my fingerprint, and tap the right account for that app. It's pretty easy.

LastPass and Bitwarden also can hook into accessibility features on Android 7, to enable most of the same features, but since it's not part of Android and baked in it doesn't work quite as well.

cschmittiey··on LimeSDR Now Backed by the European Space Agency
He's probably looking for an HF rig -- baofengs definitely don't do HF. As someone else said, the LimeSDR would work well, just need an amplifier because the power out is on the order of milliwatts.
cschmittiey··on Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
I completely agree, but It wouldn't be a major Android update without the changing of the way settings looks.
cschmittiey··on Blender 2.79 released
Wouldn't Resolve be closer to Premiere than After Effects? Having barely used resolve (my computer wasn't strong enough to mess with the 4k video I shot, and davinci didn't like the codec it was originally shot in) and with probably 25 hours in Premiere and After Effects, I could totally be wrong, but Premiere and Resolve felt more like editors, while AE was more for post effects and such.
cschmittiey··on Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web
tomfitz linked the whitepaper for you, and that's a great overview of the basics. However, some things have changed and I'm not sure the docs have updated with what's currently on GitHub.
cschmittiey··on Ringless voice mails from telemarketers
For what it's worth, I've been able to do this in the US as well -- don't remember which carrier, I think Tracfone
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