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hrrsn··on Hell Never Ends on x86: The Hyperspace Story, Continued, Sort Of
As noted in the post, none of these features are exclusive to HP. Dell will offer you the exact same features in a slightly different form factor.
hrrsn··on NZ’s biggest data breach shows retention is the sleeping giant of data security
The other two agencies to freeze your credit with:

Equifax: https://www.equifax.co.nz/credit-file-suppression

Illion: https://dbcsprodaecdn.azureedge.net/web/themes/cycnz/assets/...

hrrsn··on FBI seizes bot shop ‘Genesis Market’ amid arrests targeting operators, suppliers
The wording ("domains have been seized") implies they went for the TLD. The registry for .market is Rightside, who are US based.
hrrsn··on The new Microsoft Teams, now in preview
I'd guess the majority of large enterprises are using the 365 stack. I've had more Teams calls today than Zoom calls throughout the entire pandemic.
hrrsn··on Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
You can pick up a Wyse 3040 with an Atom X5 for ~$20. It's limited to 2GB RAM, and of course x86, but the processor benches on par with the Pi 4.
hrrsn··on The audacity of Apple Podcasts
It's the iPad app but it works well enough on macOS
hrrsn··on CDC File Transfer
I'm starting the process of shifting to Australia (from NZ), and this is going to be the hardest pill to swallow - I'm paying $83 AU for 900/400 currently!
hrrsn··on Ask HN: What's on your home server?
Check out Proxmox Backup Server - you can install it on top of PVE. My home server backs up locally to it's own PBS datastores, which then get synced over to a $6 dedicated server running PBS in Europe.
hrrsn··on Tesla’s 2022 Collapse Hits 69% After Deepest Selloff Since April
If I was attempting virtue signalling, I wouldn't have bought an ICE over an EV.
hrrsn··on Tesla’s 2022 Collapse Hits 69% After Deepest Selloff Since April
My mother has been in the market for a new car for the last few months. I was keen on a Tesla until the shitposter in chief took the reins. We bought an Audi last week instead.
hrrsn··on Ask HN: Who else is working/on call over Christmas?
I’m on call this week (usual rotation, just happened to coincide). Full change blackout means less humans breaking things, and I get to save my annual leave during the mandated company shutdown + get alternate PTO for the public holidays. So far the phone has only rang twice all week. Merry Christmas!
hrrsn··on Threeuk is blocking Tutanota
Fraudulent ecommerce orders are the only time I've seen tutanota addresses in the wild.
hrrsn··on Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work?
It's most definitely already on it's way out - but it's a slow process :) Most of the switching hardware is significantly older than I am!
hrrsn··on Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work?
I work at a telco. We have many museum-grade Unices in production, mostly AIX and Solaris - we even have a Wang still running in one of our datacenters. It's largely a case of there isn't a business case to migrate it to modern hardware - one day we'll no longer operate a legacy copper PSTN network, but until that day comes, we still need it all. We still have maintenance contracts on some hardware, like our Sun Fires. It's very clear that replacement parts are scavenged from whatever they can find second hand.

I recently rewrote the system we use to push user accounts and passwords to systems that don't support LDAP. It was amusing to write an app using a current-day stack on RHEL 8 that purely exists to handle these very legacy systems.

One of my favourite systems I've had to work on is running Solaris 2.5.1. Users are added to the program by editing the source code and recompiling it. How times have changed.

hrrsn··on VPN by Google One security assessment
Google One is already a paid service. This is just Google catching up to iCloud Private Relay.
hrrsn··on Ask HN: Laid off employees, did the company ask you to return equipment?
Not laid off, but my employer just requests the laptop back, which is either recycled or reimaged for the next user. Mobile phone is all yours - no MDM.
hrrsn··on Apple Music Sing
djay Pro AI has had this feature for a while now - https://www.algoriddim.com/neural-mix

It works pretty well on Mac

hrrsn··on Twitter to start layoffs -internal email
There's an outdoor area on the top (11th) floor of our building - the door is always locked during restructures.
hrrsn··on MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
I chuckled when I read this. Amazing
hrrsn··on Shortest URLs on the Internet
Somewhat related - Microsoft bought corp.com as back in the Windows 2000 days, "corp" was the default/example domain in AD - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-...
hrrsn··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
It's not just on the telcos, Android fragmentation as a whole makes implementing new network features an uphill battle. VoLTE is an absolute mess (on Android) if your build doesn't have settings for your carrier. Google doesn't sell the Pixel in my country, so the only way to enable VoLTE here is to root your device. This is only going to get worse with carriers sunsetting 3G networks - anyone roaming on a Pixel in such a country won't be able to make calls, even to emergency numbers.
hrrsn··on Asus Zenfone 9
The last Android phone I used was a T-Mobile G1, but my employer recently provided me with a S21 FE. My god, the software is so user hostile - two diallers, two messaging apps, two browsers out of the box.
hrrsn··on Ask HN: Is this email from Apple legit?
I've received it on two addresses today, as well as an update about tax in British Columbia yesterday. I've never sold anything on Apple's stores, and haven't had an email from iTunes Connect before this.
hrrsn··on Shouldibuytwitter.com – A tiny takeover arbitrage model for TWTR
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
hrrsn··on 'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over coveted handles
Similar boat here - 3 character handle (my initials), and a constant flood of password resets. I used to get a lot of offers to purchase, the highest being $20k, but those seem to have stopped lately.
hrrsn··on UN registers 'Türkiye' as new country name to replace 'Turkey'
Why is it weird to use the correct name of a country?
hrrsn··on Ask HN: Can Google employees see the search histories of users?
> I heard a story about a programmer searching for obscure keywords related to a specific programming language getting targeted on google for an ad about working at google.

I got the invite to Foobar by searching a relatively common MySQL query. Maybe they're profiling you based on your history.

hrrsn··on Starlink for RVs
I'm going all in on Starlink prioritisation futures
hrrsn··on The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux
"redhat based arch linux distro" didn't?
hrrsn··on Projects for Old Versions of OS X
Modern Hackintoshes have moved to using OpenCore as the bootloader, which is open source: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg

The older standard was Clover, also open source: https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader

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