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Could this be used on a Loog Piano [1] (not affiliated)? Its specs say “MIDI over USB-C”.

[1]: https://loogguitars.com/collections/loog-piano

No, it is not. In Spain, national and regional administrations support different methods for digital identification by their citizens. One is the certificate embedded into the chip in the national id card, arguably in everybody’s pocket, but, effectively so cumbersome to extract that virtually no one makes use of. That's the one this website claims to supports. Others methods are certificates issued by The Ministry of Treasury among others, downloadable after in-person identification, so used by far more people than the former, but, then again, complicated to use on mobile devices, and lastly specialized official TOTP apps which issue temporary codes for an authentication service that government web pages plug into. The latter, not supported by this webpage, is, I assume, by far the one used most commonly.

ZeroTier just changed their pricing model, and their free Basic tier reduces the number of includes devices from 25 to 10 [1] (their Pricing page [2] still says 25, but I assume that’s a typo). Exactly two years ago they went from 50 free devices to 25 [3], so I guess it’s a trend.

According to their blog post, “current entitlements for our existing free users will remain unchanged”, but I wonder, as I am blocked from accessing the dashboard [4] by a screen that forces me to choose between Basic (free, 10 devices) and Essential ($2 per device after 10th).

This follows the recent news of ZeroTier having just raised $13.5M [5].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240729091309/https://www.zerot... [2]: https://www.zerotier.com/pricing/ [3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220609192036/https://www.zerot... [4]: https://my.zerotier.com [5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41079004

They used colon instead, back in pre OS X days. That’s >20 years ago. Admittedly some obscure cases carried that over and remain but you’ll rarely come across them today.

Transformers do not transform but convert in Hasbro’s marketing and licensed materials, and strictly speaking they’re not even supposed to be Transformers but Transformers robots (which grammatically is wrong, but alas). Except, for whatever valid reason, inside the fiction, where Transformers becomes a perfectly valid noun they refer themselves with and they do transform, not convert, all day long. I don’t get it.

You are but, as of today, reliably, only via the GUI, and therefore, one by one, not in batches via scripting due to a bug[1]. That is the case at least for Type 1 Mac fonts.

[1]: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4668

Panini presented the NFTs from their Megacracks 2022-2023 card collection in a similar way[0], aesthetically, but using video files (MP4) which makes it much less interesting (and even so, the visual effects in those are inferior to this CSS implementation). The fact that this CSS version does not work properly in Safari in unfortunate, though.

[0]: https://paninimegacracksnft.com/token/wnzq

Kasyan Servetsky created a script[1] to compare two documents using a similar technique within InDesign, no intermediate export necessary. It overlays one on top of the other using the Difference blend mode. Quite resource intensive, so only useful depending on the particular document and machine you do this with.

[1]: http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/compare_two_documents.html

I don’t get it. Is this about chargers or charging cables? All news sites seem to be conflating both. What phone maker today ships a charger not with a USB (A or C) female connector therefore compatible with pretty much any other phone?

Dropbox supports xattr transparently and fully AFAIK (Finder icons, Finder comments, Finder tags, legacy Mac fonts… all sync fine from my experience).

Resilio Sync says it does partially [0] but IMHO not to an acceptable level (it keeps Finder tags for instance but loses Finder icons and completely cripples legacy Mac Fonts).

Note that .DS_Store files are another different thing altogether. They are standard files storing the view state of their parent folder (and, incidentally, Dropbox does not sync them [1] and Resilio Sync is set to not sync them by default).

[0] https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754729-Alt-Str...

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/145/en

It does not support [0] (i.e. loses) extended attributes even between systems that share support for them, which in the case of macOS means no support for Finder tags, custom icons, legacy Mac fonts and countless other Mac features, maybe niche to most, but still important to those that make use of them. AFAIK it is not even in the roadmap.

[0] https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#what-things-are-sy...

Similar to sharedrop.io [1] in name, user naming and appearance. The latter does allow sharing between users not in the same IP too, though. I am not affiliated with either.

[1]: https://sharedrop.io

Color component coordinates are meaningless without an associated color space.

Both the link and the article deliberately mix “charger” and “cable connector”, misleading, for clic-bait purposes.

iPhone, iPod & iPad chargers have always had a USB Type A connector with no hardwired cable, like, forever, even before there even was an institutionalized initiative to have all phone chargers be USB. You’ve always been able to use Apple chargers to charge other phones, and use other USB chargers to charge iPhones. Actually many phone makers followed suit precisely after Apple shipped their phone chargers like they did.

You don’t like the connector on their cables being proprietary? Fine. Let’s just first acknowledge cable and charger are two different things, then we can debate.

Now tell me again, how do iPhones and their chargers contribute to “more than 51,000 tonnes of electrical waste per year” by having a standard USB connector?