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isomorphic··on Ted Turner has died
All restoration choices are at least a little bit subjective.

That said, I agree with you!

isomorphic··on AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
My interpretation:

First, they can't attack a WiFi access point for which they do not know any password(s). Thus your multi-SSID access point with multiple passwords is "safe" from this particular attack.

However, second, they can attack an access point for which they know any password, gaining access to clients on the other SSIDs. This means your security is now effectively only the security of your worst SSID's password. It also may defeat your purpose in having multiple SSIDs/passwords in the first place.

isomorphic··on Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)
The "We" is short for Westinghouse, or at least it was: Westinghouse Steered Stabilized Camera Mount, thus WESSCAM. Then they dropped an "S".

Granted pronouncing the name is ambiguous, Wes-cam or We-scam. But they're known well enough in the industry at this point that it's not a problem for them.

isomorphic··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
What? You don't want travel tips from an itinerant swinger? Or for itinerant swingers?
isomorphic··on The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2012/06/14/why-the...
isomorphic··on I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can
Colima is great. However, in the upcoming macOS 26 Tahoe, and mostly in macOS 15 Sequoia, Apple is beginning to provide a first-party solution:

https://github.com/apple/container

I've been experimenting with it in macOS 15, and I was able to replace Colima entirely for my purposes. Running container images right off of Docker Hub, without Docker / Podman / etc.

(And yes, it is using a small Linux VM run under Apple's HyperKit.)

isomorphic··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Right. Define "safe."

Personally I consider Chrome to be one of the least-safe browsers available, because it sends my data to Google. Also it perpetuates a monoculture. However, others may define "safe" differently, excluding such considerations.

isomorphic··on Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal
https://x.com/thdxr/status/1933561254481666466

ETA: The above link is at the bottom of the original submission's README. (https://github.com/sst/opencode) I posted it without context, and I have no opinion on the matter. Please read theli0nheart's comment below for an X rebuttal.

isomorphic··on Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
This line in the article is horrifying:

> The researchers were surprised that when they activated VTA dopaminergic inputs into the aBLA they could reinstate fear even without any new foot shocks, impairing fear extinction.

That... seems like the first step in being able to literally induce fear without having to bother with pesky things like finding the subject's triggers. Although I suppose if one has direct access to the subject's amygdala, the point is somewhat moot.

Still, it's sort of like a reverse wirehead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)

isomorphic··on Show HN: yknotify – Notify when YubiKey needs touch on macOS
Portability. I use YubiKeys with desktop Macs, MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones. The alternative would be to create (Secure Enclave) keys in each of those devices and register each of those keys with each thing requiring authentication... which could take a while.

I guess the alternative is something like Passkeys synchronized via iCloud Keychain. Hopefully Apple is encrypting the Passkey key material within the Secure Enclave using each other Secure Enclave's public key. Otherwise it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a Secure Enclave. (If I remove a YubiKey from a computer, I have some assurance that computer can't authenticate with YK-controlled accounts.)

isomorphic··on Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
"We have no moat. But we are well-capitalized, so in classic early-mover monopolist fashion we'll try to pull the ladder up, then use funds to bri--er, lobby--the government into smacking down climbers."
isomorphic··on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones
The last time I checked (this may have changed), Firefox also tags the default search engines with URL query parameters indicating that the search came from Firefox. When I tried to change this it would not let me edit the default URLs. I had to add entirely-new versions of Google and DuckDuckGo, with custom names and stripped-down URLs in order to avoid the tagging.

No doubt it is revenue-related, but it's also a privacy problem.

isomorphic··on 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite
That particular passage, perhaps; however one can certainly believe growers destroying an abundance to control prices. It certainly doesn't sound like the purported overabundance of food was evenly distributed:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/02/johnsteinbeck....

isomorphic··on Google shares update on next step toward phasing out third-party cookies
We'd love to believe that you care about privacy, Google--just stop sending any non-user-requested data from Chrome to any Google property.
isomorphic··on Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro
Also, just to muddy these waters, Apple has the ProRAW format--which isn't a video format at all, it's a still-picture format.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211965

isomorphic··on Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews
Ars Technica still puts this blurb at the end of their Reddit-related articles:

> "Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/the-reddit-protests-...

(That article is a day old now, and I still don't think it includes everything that's happened late this week.)

isomorphic··on Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage
The thing is, if I was somewhat interested in a Mozilla VPN service, this spectacularly idiotic decision to deploy full-page intrusive advertising into Firefox makes it 100% certain I will never buy the Mozilla VPN service--because, how can I trust that they won't do the equivalent to that service? What's to stop them from blocking certain sites (on the other side of the VPN) as part of some promotion? Or worse?

They've made it clear they don't believe their own language about privacy and user choice. They've compromised one product to advertise another. And perhaps worse, they doubled-down about it in Bugzilla with corporate doublespeak, which to me is the tell that they'll absolutely do it again.

It's amazing how apt the trust-thermocline analogy is.

isomorphic··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
Bitwarden is cloud-based with synchronization to local caches. If you want total control over your data with Bitwarden you will need to run the server/cloud side. I'd caution that running a Bitwarden server is not for everyone, as one could make the security worse than the Bitwarden-company-hosted cloud service.

I run Vaultwarden on my LAN, with no public/Internet facing service, and sync only on my LAN.

isomorphic··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
Same. I think here is a good place to shout out to Vaultwarden:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Your password data, back under your own control.

isomorphic··on Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after frantic search
The best part of the article: "The Australian Defence Force has been asked to verify the recovered capsule by checking its serial number."

So they're not certain they have found it, yet.

They could have found one of the other radioactive capsules lying about the Western Australia outback.

isomorphic··on Mercedes is the first automaker to offer Level 3 self-driving in the US
Real value to the people that sold Twitter, certainly.
isomorphic··on Ruby delights built into the language
If you're looking for IDE-level language assistance, I can't help you, but since you mentioned nvim: I use regular vim with CoC / Conquer of Completion (vim plugin; LSP server, may not strictly be necessary for nvim), Solargraph (Ruby Gem; language server), and Rubocop (also a Gem) for linting. I previously/still use ALE (vim plugin; Asynchronous Lint Engine) because I haven't gotten CoC+Solargraph to play nice with Rubocop, probably due to something silly.

https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

https://solargraph.org/

https://rubocop.org/

https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

My impression with all of this running under MacVim... it's plenty responsive. It can take a while for Solargraph to index everything on startup if you're working in a big project; once it loads, it's snappy. (There's probably a way to cache that startup scan.)

isomorphic··on Username cannot contain 'clyde'
I have a dreary theory of which Siri is leery.

(I'm available for QA testing.)

isomorphic··on Swarm – Low cost, global satellite connectivity for IoT
I'm speculating, but certain FCC licenses require you to transmit without significant gaps on your licensed frequencies or be fined. (The theory being that others could be making better use of your frequency since you aren't using it.) If your transmission gear goes down for whatever reason, you want to notify the FCC before others do. E.g.,

https://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc-slaps-birach-broadcasti...

isomorphic··on Show HN: VoxelChain – An Experimental Voxel Engine
I get "WebGL is not available" on an Intel Mac Pro, macOS 12.5.1, Firefox Developer 105.0b8. ("Intel Mac Pro" is redundant at the time of this writing, but hopefully not for long!)

On the same Mac, I get "Your browser is not supported" for Safari 15.6.1, and Safari Technology Preview R152 (Safari 16.0) with "WebGL 2.0" and "WebGL Draft Extensions" enabled under "Experimental Features."

Using Ungoogled Chromium 105.0.5195.102 (I refuse to use Chrome), the site actually seems to leave the GPU in a messed-up state, going on to cause severe rendering problems in other applications. I'm not sure if this is a Chromium bug or a macOS bug or both.

isomorphic··on Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
People also forget about Gitolite, which provides lightweight shared access control around Git+SSH+server-repos. For me it's a much simpler alternative than systems with a heavyweight web UI. Although to be honest I don't know whether Gitolite handles SHA256 hashes (I've never tested it).

https://gitolite.com

https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite

isomorphic··on Show HN: Contribution Graph as a Git Command
Thank you for the utility.

In order to get this to work on macOS, I needed to use Homebrew bash (5.1 instead of macOS' native 3.2) and the GNU date utility from Homebrew's coreutils, since macOS' native date binary uses different arguments.

Essentially, change the shebang to "#!/usr/bin/env bash" and use "gdate" instead of "date" wherever "date" is used.

isomorphic··on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022
It looks like the data does contain SMART 241, total LBAs written, for at least some drives.

Someone with some time could correlate that to failure rate. My hypothesis is of course it's correlated--but by how much?

isomorphic··on Isomorphic Labs: Reimagining drug discovery with an AI-first approach
> [...] there may be a common underlying structure between biology and information science - an isomorphic mapping between the two - hence the name of the company. Biology is likely far too complex and messy to ever be encapsulated as a simple set of neat mathematical equations.

...uses a neatly-defined mathematical term to name the company, then rejects the idea of neat mathematics in practice.

isomorphic··on Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon
/s, I know, but: A platform is a mechanism to obtain power, not a prescription for how power is practiced.
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