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ctippett

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An Australian Kiwi living in London.

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ctippett··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Figured it out, it's a shortcut in Raycast that I obviously forgot I'd set up.
ctippett··on CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development
holiday.css for me, only 5kb to boot.
ctippett··on CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development
Not only that, but very few of them differentiate between a visited link and an unvisited one. I noticed this immediately when clicking through the list of themes and getting no visual indication of which ones I'd already looked at.
ctippett··on PS5 Relapse Exploit
I noticed this exact flavour of frustration in the webOS jailbreak scene. Some newcomer proudly announced a vulnerability they found only to be met with hostility because it was seen as premature and unnecessary given there was already an existing jailbreak available that had yet to be patched.
ctippett··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Low bar. Aim higher.
ctippett··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

  > Registered March 19, 2012
C'mon, you've been here long enough to know better.
ctippett··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
I swear such a shortcut exists? I sometimes accidentally trigger it and have to sit through the window-sliding-to-another-space animation.
ctippett··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
I was a teenager in the early 2000s and my parents were quite strict with when and how long I could use the shared family computer to access the internet.

I had my own computer in my bedroom, but the internet was only available on the family computer (256k via a PCI modem). I really really wanted the freedom to use the internet without a curfew, so I started researching how to connect two computers wirelessly... I ended up purchasing two 11mbs USB WLAN adapters for a few hundred dollars each(!) and paired them so I could share the internet connection. Wireless LAN was almost unheard of in those days, so my parents had no idea what I was up to.. although they eventually became suspicious when I stopped wanting to use the family computer yet insisting they keep it powered on.

ctippett··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
You'll note that I alluded to that in the parenthesis.
ctippett··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
If you attempt a less adversarial tone with your comments you'll be less likely to get flagged and you might actually get to have the substantive discussion you're clearly impassioned to have.
ctippett··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
I'm not even sure your comment warrants a response, but surely you can't have meant that as a response to my comment?
ctippett··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Admittedly I still need to do some reading on the current ruling, but how this isn't seen as an open and shut case of vindictive prosecution (if that's even a thing for this branch of law?) is astounding. The administration couldn't have made it more obvious there was no merit to their designation of Anthropic.
ctippett··on Making Tailscale Faster
Interesting. I've obviously heard Cloudflare tunnel, but haven't looked into beyond knowing that it exists. Was going "app-free" the primary motivator in your case for the switch?

I have a few services I've configured static routes for on my router (so my wife can access them without needing to have her phone connected to Tailscale all the time), but other than that it's never been much of a pain point.

ctippett··on Making Tailscale Faster
I followed a similar trajectory for similar reasons. I was playing with wireguard around 2020 when I learned of Tailscale and since then haven't looked back.

Just the other day I was able to set my sister up with access to my Plex server and the ability to piggyback on my UK internet connection to stream BBC/Channel 4 content from Australia. It took all of 5 minutes to get it working.

ctippett··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Correct. It's not so much "modern macOS" though, it's a feature of APFS[1].

  > Most of us still think of file systems in simple terms, like HFS+. Duplicate or copy a file, and macOS copies all the data to a new storage area and makes that a different file. Thankfully, APFS is much smarter than that, and regularly – indeed, as a rule whenever it can – doesn’t copy any data at all. What it does is create a clone file, which is a bit like a hard link, in that the file record points to the same data as the original. Unlike a hard link, the clone is a separate file, with its own iNode.

[1] https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/29/explainer-deduplication/
ctippett··on Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

  > Are incidents such as this a likely side-effect of ubiquitous, low-cost, perhaps even disposable Internet hosts?

The whole write-up is excellent. I was already impressed by the author, but the prescience of this comment... wow.
ctippett··on DaVinci Resolve 21.1
Just finished watching the series. What a great show.
ctippett··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
They show a similar level of respect to their parent company as John Oliver does his.
ctippett··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
The chatter on their Discord leads me to believe there's still a pathway to jailbreaking even on the latest version of webOS. I'm still rocking an older TV so can't verify this myself, but I'd be very surprised if you couldn't still get root on a new TV.
ctippett··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
I commented this only a few days ago on a different LG related thread. What LG are doing is indefensible and we should all vote with our wallets when considering a new TV... but for those who already own an LG TV you really owe it to yourself to jailbreak it and make it "yours", so to speak.

  > OpenLGTV[1] is a collective, non-commercial project for legal reverse engineering and research of LG (Smart and non Smart) TVs firmware, which is partially Open Source.
  > The main goal of the project is to improve the functionality of the TVs by adding new features, fixing bugs and providing new software.
[1] https://openlgtv.github.io
ctippett··on Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
Happy to share it! The community is called OpenLGTV[1]. You'll find a link to their Discord on their website.

  > OpenLGTV is a collective, non-commercial project for legal reverse engineering and research of LG (Smart and non Smart) TVs firmware, which is partially Open Source.
  > The main goal of the project is to improve the functionality of the TVs by adding new features, fixing bugs and providing new software.
[1] https://openlgtv.github.io
ctippett··on Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
My TV is several years old at this point, but I've never had a single ad show up on it. Telemetry is easily blocked via DNS filters and the homebrew software blocks system updates.

Modern versions of Apple TV, Plex, Disney, etc all work fine. The only time I ever watch YouTube is on the TV because it has SponsorBlock baked into it so I never see an ad there either.

ctippett··on Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
There's an active Discord server (I know, I know...) for LG's jailbreak community and there are some incredibly talented folk on there who know the ins and outs of webOS to a crazy level. I'd recommend checking it out if you're interested in that sort of thing.
ctippett··on Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region
Jailbroken LG TVs are the panacea of locked down spyware TVs.

Although like OP, if I ever lose the ability to run root, then that's the day I look for a new TV (lord have mercy).

ctippett··on Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
> I ended up using a tool called ‘z3’. It’s kind of magical? Every time it finds a solution I get a surge of joy.

This resonates so much. I had a similar feeling after going to my very first operations research lecture. Solving seemingly incomprehensibly complex problems by framing them as a bunch of simple constraints and getting a solution seemed like such magic.

ctippett··on .name Termination
New Zealand did this when they introduced/allowed .nz registrations[1]. If you had a domain under .co.nz, .net.nz, etc, you were reserved the right to register the same name under the new TLD. If two different registrants shared the same name, a conflict resolution was put in place to adjudicate who would be allowed to register the .nz equivalent of their domain.

I had/have a .net.nz and someone else owned the .co.nz. I went through the conflict resolution process and ended up being able to register the .nz.

Not sure if or how other registrars manage this sort of thing, but I thought the way NZ's Domain Name Commission handled things was pretty fair and transparent.

[1] https://dnc.org.nz/tools-and-services/how-do-i-2/register-a-...

ctippett··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Lego (Denmark).

They may not be a financial and industrial juggernaut like the others listed, but cultural significance doesn't have to be all about money.

ctippett··on The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks
> Tower Optical began in a Norwalk, Connecticut, machine shop in 1933, and remained in the same family until 2025.

The article doesn't go into too much detail beyond this snippet, but yeah, the original family business was sold to a cohort of investors in 2025[1]. The retrofit was outsourced to a European firm to add the tap-to-pay functionality, so I guess there's nothing left of the original manufacturing business.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/tourist-binocu...

ctippett··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
This is an unfair take. Airlines already take maintenance very seriously. Knock them for their customer service all you want, but engineering doesn't deserve it.
ctippett··on Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737
The connector shown in the article is apparently the 24-pin connector known as the Open Maintenance Connector (OMC). It's located in the electronics and equipment bay under the nose of the Boeing 737 NG and 737 Max.

I say "apparently" as I had Gemini identify the port from the image.

The OMC provides direct access to key avionics data networks, including the ARINC 429 buses that link the pilot's Flight Management Computer (FMC) to the Multi-Function Control and Display Unit (MCDU).

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