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eproxus··on Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML
That’s how TiddlyWiki works for example: https://classic.tiddlywiki.com/
eproxus··on A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
Would be cool if there ever were a product like a large external sensor and lens hardware dongle for phones (essentially all parts of a system camera without the computer) that would use the phone as a software processing platform. They would “just” ship the raw data over to the phone for post processing.
eproxus··on A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
No lens is going to reproduce a perfectly straight line without lens compensation either. Lenses are bending light to distill a moment in space time into a 2D representation which by definition will always be imperfect. What counts as “photography” really?

GP> In the end, this tech just takes control from you.

In the end, any tech is always going to take control away from you one way or another. That’s the whole point of using it, so you can achieve things you wouldn’t otherwise be able to.

eproxus··on iSponsorBlockTV v2: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles
DeArrow is my favorite tool to remove clickbait thumbnails and titles: https://dearrow.ajay.app/
eproxus··on Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage
What could be more prepping than building a whole stone castle? It’s the historical equivalent of a bunker for most part of modern (and ancient) history
eproxus··on Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
I still use Ukulele and a custom Swedish Dvorak keyboard layout without any problems (in fact, the layout I created 10+ years ago still works out of the box, on every release of macOS).
eproxus··on Trains on another level
I find that Transport Fever 2 scratches that itch pretty well: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066780/Transport_Fever_2...
eproxus··on In Germany, 27 are in 'preventive detention' b/c they might do climate protests
Then it seems it is not really a true democracy.
eproxus··on In Germany, 27 are in 'preventive detention' b/c they might do climate protests
Exhaust, noise and particles from road vehicles (even electric) also kill people.
eproxus··on A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions
You probably haven’t seen the Nintendo Online Shop on Switch. It’s filled with so much crappy games it’s hard to find anything of value at all, apart from going on the front page recommendations of first part Nintendo games and other big publishers.

If you browse through the new section it’s full of mostly cheap indie games.

eproxus··on Apple bleee. Everyone knows what’s on your iPhone (2020)
My guess is that the SHA2 of the phone number is used for exactly this feature, so you can accept connections from your contacts only (your iPhone most likely already has a SHA2 calculatedfor each contact phone number) and ignore the rest.

Your phone will probably broadcast its hash in that scenario too.

eproxus··on A glitch in the SEO matrix
Position 1 on Kagi (after a link to Apache Hadoop, and a box with a “discussion” link which happens to be SEO spam).
eproxus··on Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang
I think all modern Ericsson mobile network base stations use Erlang (at least for the configuration part) so most likely just using your phone you come in contact with an Erlang system everyday (depending on what gear your ISP use, but Ericsson is one of the largest providers of telecom equipment).
eproxus··on Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
For number 2 I use Raycast with the shortcut ⌘⇧P bound to the built-in extension Navigation → Search Menu Items. This gives you a command palette in any application (you can exclude apps that have their own built-in version if you want).
eproxus··on JMAP – a modern email open standard
For a long time I thought the spam filtering was not very good, but what eventually led to that was my own mistake of setting "learn as spam" on the spam folder itself. In Fastmail's own words:

> Note: We recommend that you do not mark your Spam/Junk Mail folder to automatically learn as spam. This can create a false positive feedback loop. Imagine an email is incorrectly classified as spam, put in your Spam/Junk Mail folder, and then learned as spam. That means future emails that aren't spam are now more likely to be incorrectly marked as spam, sent to your Spam/Junk Mail folder, and learned as spam. Only mark folders to learn as spam if they're folders you manually move email to.

eproxus··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
I’m looking for exactly something like this. What KVM switcher do you use? Does it support USB-C?
eproxus··on OrbStack Public Beta – A New Way to Run Docker and Linux on macOS
@dang Should probably be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35276784
eproxus··on ARM64 Linux Workstation
There’s a new FUSE implementation that uses this technique: https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t

Worked without problems for sshfs when I tested it briefly.

eproxus··on The limits of "computational photography"
The iPhone RAW mode still does quite heavy processing though.

Here’s a comparison I just made between the iPhone camera’s RAW and default modes, and Halide: https://i.ibb.co/XFMJVjz/9-DD734-F7-CA00-4-E53-85-C7-283315-...

eproxus··on MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock
Well, apparently it’s possible to “hold it wrong” then.

I’d argue if you can wipe it (which requires your iCloud account approval), install it as someone else, login with that new iCloud account, then reset it and it suddenly reverts back to the previous owner, something is wrong or very unintuitive.

The problem on Mac it seems is that there are two official ways to do it. One proper way (the “Erase All Content and Settings”) and one other way (the way we did it, boot into recovery and format it, then go through setup with another iCloud account which apparently just temporarily lets another user use the machine). On iPhone there is no user accessible recovery mode so that can’t happen there.

eproxus··on MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock
That is not enough. You have to remove the device from your iCloud account too.

Source: just wiped and sent back a MacBook Air to my old workspace. My colleague finished the macOS setup and logged in with their iCloud account. After resetting it again (to re-do the setup in the way they wanted) it was locked to my account. So not even installing macOS and logging in to iCloud will bind the machine to you.

Imagine doing that with a machine you bought second hand and the original owner can’t be reached anymore.

eproxus··on Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
That seems to no longer be the case. Toggling Bluetooth on iOS 16.2 on an iPhone 14 Pro replaces the slider with a spinner, and it even flickers when turned back on.

Also, the sliding only works correctly if you press and hold and then start sliding. If you swipe, it toggles regardless of which direction you swipe.

eproxus··on Bumblebee: GPT2, Stable Diffusion, and More in Elixir
Best practice for doing this with the BEAM (the Erlang VM) is to just run two VMs, one for your app code and a “dirty” one that is allowed to crash and be restarted without bringing down your app VM.
eproxus··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
No, but it doesn’t matter how “banned” your are according to the service, they still have to provide all your private data upon request.
eproxus··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
That doesn’t mean the inverse is true though: “if someone else is to blame you’re an asshole.”
eproxus··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
It’s still GitHub’s fault for not communicating this clearly enough.

The problem really is, why does “Sign in with GitHub” grant permissions to act as the user on GitHub? Shouldn’t that be called something else like “Allow nopecha.com to Act as You”?

I would argue that the words “Sign in with X” should NEVER grant any other permissions than needed for being a pure auth proxy.

eproxus··on Amazon shipped fake product, refuses refund until 'correct' item returned
I get that, and would agree if it was a balanced relation. But they obviously have double standards in this case.
eproxus··on Amazon shipped fake product, refuses refund until 'correct' item returned
If I’m the one spending $700 to buy something I should be able to demand the check every outgoing product equally rigorously too. They obviously deem it worth it when they reverse spend that amount.

Why buy something there if the odds are higher retailer is scamming you, not the other way around?

eproxus··on iCloud for Windows downloading other people's photos
They unfortunately forgot to mention that the encryption is “military grade”. So you probably can’t trust them.
eproxus··on Asdf – language tool version manager
The Erlang plug-in does this. It uses the older and well-tested Kerl under the hood, but you the nice UI of asdf on top instead.
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