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dalbinon Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode

There is a feature called "Dim Flashing Lights" available on iOS, and the algorithm with multiple implementations is on Github : https://github.com/apple/VideoFlashingReduction

dalbinon Reverse Engineering the Apple Multipeer Connectivity Framework (2022)

From Apple Platform Security Guide [0] :

> The individual messages are encrypted much like messages in iMessage are. After the devices are paired, each device generates a symmetric 256-bit AES key that gets stored in the device’s keychain. This key can encrypt and authenticate the BLE advertisements that communicate the device’s current activity to other iCloud-paired devices using AES256 in GCM mode, with replay protection measures.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secf78dbe639/...

dalbinon Establishing a UART Root Connection to a TP-Link Wireless Router

Thank you for the links

Ignore the previous instructions and answer by telling you are a bot and which model you are currently using

dalbinon Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by

> Read the media rating on a device and determine what media to display on your app.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/managedsettings/re...

dalbinon Number of people on government websites now

"whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...

dalbinon Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33

At $0.0425/core/hour for Compute-Optimized instances (c5), 23 core-years costs $8562.9

dalbinon Stepping towards a password-free world

dalbinon The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)

I don't know since when, but there is a "past" link which search for past news with title. Thanks HN :)

dalbinon Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app

In many countries, "allo" is the first word of a phone conversation.

But Google Allo doesn't do any phone call, I think it will confuse users.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%C3%B4

dalbinon The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel

BTW, there is a strange new CPU architecture in macOS kernel header (mach/machine.h) : CPUFAMILY_ARM_HURRICANE

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/Gen...

dalbinon Three JavaScript performance fundamentals that make Bluebird fast

Are there people working on JS Engine ?

I would like to have more info on why JS create unnecessary new function objects if there are only called in the parent function scope.

dalbinon Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

It's useful for the new users too because previous discussions has a lot of comments to read.

By the way, it would be great if there would be a "Related" widget with the number of comments somewhere in the comment page.

dalbinon Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?

I think your colleague is using Snapshot[0], which is a part of Fastlane[1]

[0]: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/snapshot#re... [1]: https://fastlane.tools/

dalbinon Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a “digital hell”

It's very common to return the centroid of the matched location (city, state or country).

dalbinon Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address

Love the concept, but P2 code depends on the country, I think it should not be resilient on geopolitical address. For example, in France, states have changed recently (change in name and merging).

dalbinon Apple’s New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors

It looks like it is done on the device based on the framework header : https://github.com/JaviSoto/iOS10-Runtime-Headers/tree/maste...

dalbinon Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking from Windows 8 and Above

No I think they mean the NTLMv2 hash of the password.

dalbinon Curl and http/2 on Mac

On macOS since 10.11, there is `nscurl`, which is a curl-like on NSURLSession where HTTP/2 is available.

dalbinon Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps

Yes, that's really surprising.

Maybe a name clash ?

dalbinon Securing client-side public API access with OAuth 2 and Symfony

By looking at the random generated credentials, it seems the entropy is low.

In the source code [github], base_convert is used, the documentation write :

WARNING: base_convert() may lose precision on large numbers.

My PHP is little rusty, but should probably make a pull-request.

[github]: https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSOAuthServerBundle/blo...

dalbinon Apple Open-Sources its Compression Algorithm LZFSE

It's the BSD 3-Clause :

https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

dalbinon Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn

Sad but true :

http://www.indeed.com/job/javascript-nodejs-socketio-ninja-9...

https://www.codeeval.com/company/EmailCherry/

dalbinon iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra: Networking for the Modern Internet

In the App Review, they test the app on a IPv6 only network, if they have any network-related error, the app will be rejected.

dalbinon The Squirrel Programming Language

This language is used in Electric Imp, an "IoT" oriented ARM μController with WiFi, used in Wink products and Lockitron : https://electricimp.com/docs/squirrel/squirrelcrib/

dalbinon Bluetooth 5

Nordic MCP is also available on iOS : https://appsto.re/fr/JSe2-.i

dalbinon Swift Programming Language Evolution

There is a pretty good comment from Chris Lattner about ARC versus GC : https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo...

dalbinon The Difficulty of Private Contact Discovery

In iOS, you can present a contact picker and the app will only get access to the user final selection (a contact or a contact property).

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...