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eemil··on Your Company's Problem is Hiding in Plain Sight - High Work-In-Progress (WIP)
Somewhat related. I'm annoyed when people complain about their workload.

Staffing is a management problem. If you don't have the budget to hire people, just do your best and let the work pile up. It's literally not your problem.

The worst thing you can do is to go "above and beyond", not only do you burn out but you're signaling to management that your workload is fine. Because all most people see is the bottom line -- is xyz task done or not.

eemil··on How to get stuff repaired when the manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court
It's more of a triangle really. Size/packaging being the third corner.

Plenty of devices are indestructible and repairable, they're just bulky.

eemil··on Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
More of the same, that's the solution right? When what you're doing isn't working. Brilliant.
eemil··on Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Zero-Day Exploitation
Modern L7 firewalls do a lot more than just MITM, and they can do it without MITM.

Take a look at Palo Alto's applipedia[1], it has 4419 protocols/services that you can detect and write security policy for without decrypting anything.

One example, last week our firewall blocked a suspicious (but but in this case legitimate) site using DNS sinkholing, because the domain seemed suspicious (uncommon TLD + recently registered domain).

[1]: https://applipedia.paloaltonetworks.com/

eemil··on Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu
Many sites block EU users because they don't want to deal with GDPR.

Seems to me that Gitlab could just block US users from DMCA'd repos.

eemil··on What to do if your car is submerged in water
Crack as in roll down a bit :D I edited my comment after realizing the potential confusion.
eemil··on What to do if your car is submerged in water
Given the sensors in modern cars, would it be possible to detect submersion and roll down windows automatically?
eemil··on With Unusual Speed, Hong Kong Pushes Strict New Security Law
It's only going to get worse.

Being an economic powerhouse, China didn't want to mess too much with Hong Kong's winning formula in the past. But with China's explosive growth the past two decades, Hong Kong is less and less important in the grand scheme of things. No reason to give "just another Chinese city" any special treatment.

> Hong Kong's share of China's GDP has been shrinking over the past 25 years. In 2021, Hong Kong's GDP was equivalent to 2.1% of mainland China's, down from 18.4% in 1997 when it reverted to Chinese rule. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/graphics/HONGKONG-ANNIVERSARY/klpykr...

eemil··on Home Lab Beginners guide
> For my home lab, I won’t be needing CAT8 or CAT7 anytime soon

Has anyone ever needed CAT7 (or better)? CAT6 works for 10 GBit at a short distance, but in my experience (in corporate IT) I've literally never seen a 10 GBit Ethernet port! SFPs are the shit, direct attach SFPs are cheap as chips and fiber ones aren't even that expensive anymore. And of course fiber will handily beat twisted pair in signal integrity at any distance.

eemil··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
I wish people would hold Nintendo to the same standards as Sony and Microsoft. But because they make the best games, everyone looks past their anti-consumer BS and permanently-stuck-in-the-90s corporate executives.
eemil··on An Executive Bought a Rival's Stock. The SEC Says That's Insider Trading
It's not a question of morals, but a fundamental requirement for the publicly traded stock market to function.

If insider trading is allowed, the market will turn into a game called 'who has the best insider information'. No one will buy or sell stocks based on public information alone, because they will always be at a disadvantage.

eemil··on Tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything
What prevents you from scanning & reconstructing a bucket of rice? :)
eemil··on Saving Electricity (1998 – 2023)
What's with this all or nothing attitude?

Just use both! A ceiling fan will certainly reduce your dependence on A/C, if it doesn't eliminate it.

eemil··on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"
I think Youtube's policy on purchased content[1] is somewhat reasonable. I still disagree with the word 'Buy', when they don't offer a way to download the content, but it's probably the best we'll see from any major marketplace short of buying physical media.

> 7.2 Removal or Unavailability of Content > For purchased content: (a) if the content becomes removed or unavailable during the first five years after your purchase, you will be entitled to a refund or a reasonable replacement; or (b) if the content becomes removed or unavailable following such five year period, and you are not able to download a copy of the affected content before it becomes unavailable (if applicable), then we may, at our option, offer you either a reasonable replacement of the content or a full or partial refund of the price of the content.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/t/terms_paidservice

eemil··on Working in the Vision Pro [video]
I like the idea of having presets in specific locations, like your grocery list next to your fridge. Or specific productivity apps near your desk/keyboard.

Any idea if visionOS supports this, or if you have to set up the apps every time you come home?

eemil··on Google's layoffs in Korea has hit a snag as some employees are refusing to go
I wonder what kind of resignation package Google is offering, in these countries where it can't just arbitrarily fire people.
eemil··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
I doubt there is any sustainable alterntive to a privately owned two-ton vehicle that is also a privately owned two-ton vehicle. They're all just incredibly inefficient, and pollute in their own way.

> Hybrids can be smaller, cheaper, lighter and gentler on the grid. Each of these matter.

EVs do not affect the grid as much as you would think, and might even benefit the grid once vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home technology (+corresponding economic incentives) becomes more common. Think about it: right now we have enormous amounts of battery storage, sitting idle most of the time, that has already been paid for.

Most people do not charge their EV from empty to full every day, most people aren't using DC fast charging and not during peak hours. Most days the average EV owner probably drives 30 km and charges that amount at home, overnight.

There are probably millions of electric ovens/stovetops in any given country. If they were all turned on at the same time, it would definitely overload the electrical grid. But this doesn't happen, because of their sheer number. We can safely assume each oven will use a fraction of its rated power on average, possibly with a small peak when the average person gets off work.

eemil··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
Absolutely. I drive a small two seat convertible, and I could just as easily go without it on account of taxis, friends cars, rentals, home delivery, etc. And in many cases, I do rely on those.
eemil··on Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
Survivorship bias
eemil··on Blueprint health protocol
To be fair, Bryan started Blueprint just a couple years ago as an overworked, overweight 40-something. Damage done.

What remains to be seen, is how his brain markers develop 5-10 years down the road. I'm not sure he can reverse aging in many areas. But slow it down noticeably? Sure.

eemil··on Police get medical records without a warrant
...in the US.

Jurisdiction please.

eemil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
Had? He still has that option.

Just buy 48 seats of Google Workspace Business Plus to get 240 TB pooled storage.

237 TB is a lot of storage, 864 USD/month is actually pretty cheap to store it all in the cloud. For comparizon, Backblaze B2 costs 6 USD/TB which works out to 1422 USD/month.

As much as I despise Google, this is simply a case of RTFM.

eemil··on Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages
(Washington, US)
eemil··on Apple supports right-to-repair bill
This is my interpretation as well. The market/legislature largely determines what types of products a company can afford to make. Even a private company, that doesn't have to maximize shareholder value, still has to compete with publicly traded companies and those with looser morals.

You can't go against the flow, you can only try to change it.

eemil··on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
I'll buy it once it's playable on Yuzu/Ryujinx. Not going back to 1080p 30-ish FPS like BOTW was on the switch.
eemil··on Ask HN: Do you measure and/or mitigate CO2 in your living space?
I have a ZyAura sensor connected to Home Assistant with ESPHome [1]

I've found that I need to keep my bedroom door open at night, to keep Co2 levels below 1000 PPM. Also, I need to increase my apartment's ventilation by one or two levels for board game nights (or whenever there are 4+ people present).

[1] https://esphome.io/components/sensor/zyaura.html

eemil··on How to estimate an SSD’s working life
I don't care about SSD reliability (and failure modes) on laptop/desktop computers. I even run my desktop with two SSDs in RAID 0.

Even if you have a RAID 1 setup (two SSDs operating redundantly), there are plenty of points of failure, many of which are more likely than a modern SSD failing:

* Theft

* Physical damage

* Water damage

* Data corruption

* rm -rf

You need backups in any case, even if SSDs were 100% reliable.

eemil··on Robertson vs. Torx screw drives (2021)
In my experience, Philips is not really that bad as long as you're using the right sized driver.

I've come across a lot of screws that look like they should take a #1 bit, on account of being so small. But they actually have a #2 head, which can be driven with a #1 driver, with a lot of effort and damage to the screw head.

For such a common tool, this is a pretty major flaw in usability.

eemil··on Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k
Love it. Personally, I've been looking for a beaten up (non-working) Sun Ultra 20/40 to build a PC in.
eemil··on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux
I use it. It lets me keep my hands on the home row, which is great when I need to alternate between clicking and typing. And the pointing stick is great ergonomically, if you're using your laptop in any kind of mobile setting. You don't have to contort your hands to reach the touchpad, which can be difficult if your laptop is, you know, on your lap.
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