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iddqd··on Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them
It works until it doesn't.
iddqd··on Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order
To be fair, it kind off started off as a large iPod Touch. It took a few years for iPad to really differentiate itself from iOS devices.
iddqd··on European Power Prices Go Below Zero Again as Solar Output Surges
Yes there are different energy retailers in different markets offering hourly priced tariffs, Tibber being an example. The deployment of the required smart metering varies widely between countries.
iddqd··on Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account
The Unifi Dream Machines allow you to set them up without a cloud account since the latest update: https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-OS-Dream-Machines-1-...

The Dream Router falls within your price range but is hard to get ahold of right now: https://eu.store.ui.com/products/dream-router-ea

Should be able to set it up and manage it over the local network via their mobile apps or via browser.

iddqd··on Cornell McRay T'Racing
How I wish it had native Vulkan support.
iddqd··on Terraform is not the golden hammer
It usually takes 1-2 years for AWS to roll out their latest updates to the regions I use and by then Terraform is stable.
iddqd··on Newline Delimited JSON
Line separated JSON has its uses, for example when streaming data.
iddqd··on Corrupt Signal DB issue crashing App and losing data
https://signal.org/donate/
iddqd··on McKinsey Settles for $573M over Role in Opioid Crisis
They were probably promoted a few times for hitting their targets then exited to join executive teams in various companies.
iddqd··on I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
I agree. I have run quite a few Raspberry Pi over the years and so many of them died because of SD card corruption. Eventually I got a NanoPC T4 with built in eMMC and it’s been tugging along for a good 2 years with zero issues.
iddqd··on macOS Big Sur
FWIW, iCloud syncs quite well with Firefox on Windows.
iddqd··on Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus
Do you think Apple would approve a client app to such a chat network?
iddqd··on Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
I hope as soon as EYES_CLOSED trigger loud alarms go off and the car slows down carefully, with or without autopilot enabled.

You should probably stay off the roads if you’re having these issues and/or seek help to resolve them.

iddqd··on How to blur your house on Google Street View
I saw a Street View car driving around in Berlin very recently, maybe they have started again?
iddqd··on Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
Check out the Apollo app.
iddqd··on Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawit_Isaak
iddqd··on Q2 2020 Update
Their mission statement is “to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy”, not “make nice cars”.
iddqd··on Now Resolved: FB iOS SDK Outage Causing Disruption to 3rd Party iOS Apps
> If your audience is developers who implement the SDK

I believe the audience is marketing and management.

iddqd··on GitHub was down
I haven’t used their new features but am heavily affected every time they go down. I wonder if they are making the right trade offs here.
iddqd··on DigitalOcean VPC

  External outgoing traffic
  First step up to 75 GB: 0 € per GB
  From 75GB to 499TB: 0.01 € per GB/month
Am I missing something?
iddqd··on Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app
Germany flips to Apple-Google approach on smartphone contact tracing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe...
iddqd··on Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds
You plan on supporting videos as well?
iddqd··on Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster management fee on June 6
For now.
iddqd··on Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’
Don’t know much about Lyft in particular, but with the amount of reports and cancellations you get with a name like that you’d get booted of the platform pretty quickly, no?
iddqd··on Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries
I ordered an inventory car on the 20th of December and Tesla's delivery people hasn't even gotten in touch yet. So yeah, the cars might be available in EU but the delivery process is overloaded.
iddqd··on Tesla Q4 2019 Vehicle Production and Deliveries
Starlink is done by SpaceX, not Tesla.
iddqd··on Tesla Cybertruck
I would love to see the frowns of the EU regulators when they wake up and see this.
iddqd··on Duck Curve
I drew a duck graph on a whiteboard the other day. Wish I had known it had a name, could’ve gotten an easy chuckle from the room.
iddqd··on BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers
Best protest is to not attend, offline or online. Ignore the news they share.
iddqd··on UN Security Council Holds Closed Hearing on Turkey: Syria Update
If Turkey got kicked out of NATO on bad terms, who do you think will step in to fill the power vacuum?
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