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hackmiester

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hackmiester··on Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?
That is not true. Everyone uses Gmail. Everyone uses Chrome. This is true with literally less than 2% margin of error in many populations in the US.
hackmiester··on The death and rebirth of my home server
You suspect correctly. Embedded applications are less affected, and mounting the card r/o solves the problem completely.
hackmiester··on Miami, your Waymo ride is ready
Drunk driving goes down significantly, for one thing.
hackmiester··on Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing
THAT is intriguing. Which setting makes it do it vs not do it?
hackmiester··on Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing
If this is happening on iOS, then your peripheral is sending a Play command upon connection. (I don't know about Android but I assume the same.) This is often desirable, but I could see why it would piss you off.
hackmiester··on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
Hell, the switches we’re talking about support OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, the works. THAT is enterprise to me.
hackmiester··on Starcloud
And don’t get me started on the remote hands fees. You thought DigitalRealty was bad!
hackmiester··on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
All 21,000 ports I administer have 802.3 standard PoE enabled at all times. Incidents of inadvertent powering are at zero. I think this is just a non problem.
hackmiester··on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
Arista 710P for instance. I don’t see what port count has to do with it, it runs the same OS and has the same capabilities as all their other switches. Cisco has a Catalyst 9k like this too.
hackmiester··on Wireguard FPGA
Do you mean like most vendors have moved onto faster port speeds? Mostly you can still use the slower 10G optics and the ports will clock down even if the nominal port speed is higher.
hackmiester··on Signal Secure Backups
Well, just to be clear, signal for iOS did not support ANY backup before this.
hackmiester··on TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale
This worked all the way up through the iPhone Xs.
hackmiester··on Repasting a MacBook
M-series Macs just turn on when you open them.
hackmiester··on Applite – A macOS native GUI for homebrew
Wait, then what is it? The title says it's a gui for homebrew and that seems to be what it is.
hackmiester··on Bitwarden Authenticator
Or if you are using "iTunes backups" it will store them in there as well.
hackmiester··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
Can I pay $20 to keep the version without AI?
hackmiester··on OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
That method just doesn't work in Manhattan, where due to buildings, you're lucky if your GPS is working, much less the compass to tell you which direction to face.
hackmiester··on Let the network tell you where you are: a nerd snipe story
Almost any managed switch will support it. Netgear does. Ubiquiti definitely does, even their APs do.
hackmiester··on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
I use `ping -a` so that when the host comes up, my terminal will beep.
hackmiester··on Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line
This is pretty cool! But what does it mean when something is listed under "Services"? For example, one of my "services" is "52.45.50.190/32", an AWS IP. What does that actually mean? How did that IP get there?
hackmiester··on Ghosts in the ROM (2012)
That's why people found his work so amazing.
hackmiester··on The Light Phone III
What is the connection? You don't always have to buy the latest of anything, certainly not the latest Light Phone. And as I'm sure you read, "We have no plans to stop producing or supporting the Light Phone II."
hackmiester··on Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
Just the craziest, wrongest ones
hackmiester··on Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
Sure, why not. Delta Air Lines has a fuel refinery. Large air lines are quite the "at scale" operation.
hackmiester··on Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
> Perhaps for the same reason we only stopped caring about IE 6 after its usage dropped below a tiny percentage.

We did? Half of the sites I find posted on HN literally only work in ONE single browser.

hackmiester··on Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes. (2021)
Oh no! I am on ESR, so I guess I haven't gotten this change yet. How did you fix it?
hackmiester··on MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)
You are correct, but the comment didn't say "fast chargers," it said GaN.

Here is a (very cute) 35W GaN charger. This would be considered fast charging for a phone, but not for a laptop. https://sharge.com/products/shargeek-retro-35-gan-charger

It is just plain inaccurate to state that GaN is the problem, or opens up new possibilities for fast charging. All it does is make the charger smaller.

hackmiester··on Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
I just don't understand what the thing about "downloading everything as .gz" means. It's not like a gz is a rare file format, it seems like a totally reasonable format to download something in.
hackmiester··on MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)
That is not the case. Fast charging is worse for the battery, but a 60W GaN vs a 60W SiC charger is not going to treat your battery any different, for example.
hackmiester··on Wrangling 2000 Git Repos at Reddit
I don't agree, but I'm sure that was clear from my initial comment.
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