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joombaga··on Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale
I think you can just block Google's servers and it'll use the DHCP-configured DNS server.
joombaga··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
I use MS Authenticator for work too. It doesn't do standard TOTP, at least not for Entra. The QR codes don't contain the secret. IDK that anyone has been able to exfiltrate a secret and generate codes with a third party app.

I personally use an Android emulator on my laptop, which achieves the same goal. It saves and restores state automatically for quick startup.

joombaga··on Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update
Right page, wrong anchor. They removed all but the latest firmware for the "sunfish", i.e. the non-5g Pixel 4a.

https://developers.google.com/android/images#sunfish

joombaga··on The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess
The archive link is also paywalled.
joombaga··on We are shutting down Ondsel
You can export locally. I'm pretty sure you could a few years ago too. They really push you to the cloud, but I use Fusion360 completely locally.

Really wish there was a non-subscription Solidworks though.

joombaga··on Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
Maybe! Is the XP version 32-bit? 64-bit windows never supported 16-bit programs.
joombaga··on Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting
That's not quite the same. With DeskPad you have to move the window to the virtual monitor. clipscreen allows you to select a portion of your screen without moving any windows.
joombaga··on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
Sounds cool. I'm definitely interested.

Were you procrastinating when you wrote this?

joombaga··on Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker
I use my Signal account on more than one device. What's stopping you?
joombaga··on S3 is showing its age
This doesn't really help Rowan. You cannot edit an individual part after completing the upload.
joombaga··on YouTube addiction, one month sober
I always appear offline, and only open it a few times a day, or when needed to send a message or start real-time collaboration. Ideally I'd always appear online, but there is no way to do that with Slack. Basically I don't want my perceived presence to be a signal for others to message or avoid messaging me. I've explained my usage to my team, and expressed a preference for scheduled synchronous communication over asynchronous communication.
joombaga··on Solving the darknet riddle (2022)
> The ‘get‘ word was chosen purposely and it referred to a http GET request.

This never would have occurred to me. What can one do for their brain to make this kind of lateral leap? Seems like it would be helpful in the debugging and comedy parts of my life.

joombaga··on A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715
Right, but you also have to account for density when calculating surface gravity.

TOI-715 b has a log g value of 5.0 +/- 0.2. Earth is 2.992.

joombaga··on Hearing aids slow cognitive decline in people at high risk
May I ask what the huge warning signs were?
joombaga··on Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
When they opened the Control Panel and didn't immediately Switch to Classic View, I had a surprisingly visceral reaction.
joombaga··on The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived
I'm using uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and it was working for me until a few minutes ago.
joombaga··on Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?
It checks again unless the user cripples the service (which requires access to disable System Integrity Protection), and even if they do it will be undone after am update. But it requires the user to accept the enrollment (just a couple clicks on a pop up). I don't know that that can be changed.

During OS install the enrollment will just happen; the user's acceptance is not required.

joombaga··on Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?
I don't have any special MDM creds, but I do have an admin account on my OS.

Probably not the avg user or engineer (though giving engineers admin account on their local OS is common). But that's hard to predict because usually you'd want to enroll, so I don't often see people trying to avoid it. Usually it's because of a bug. In my experience if the MDM process is buggy then it's more likely to be bypassable.

Setting a firmware password and blocking boot to external drives makes it harder, but a lot of orgs don't do it.

joombaga··on Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?
This was not experience when I installed Sonoma on an M2 MBP a few months ago. Enrollment was easily skipped by blocking connection to the enrollment server.
joombaga··on Link's Awakening DX HD
It's not password protected. It also contains a source.7z that is not password protected.
joombaga··on Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
A lot of popular terminal apps support mouse clicks. Off the top of my head vim, emacs, htop, and links2 all have mouse support.
joombaga··on Bring code from other platforms into the browser
It works in Firefox.
joombaga··on How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools?
I do the same, but over 30 years instead of 3 months. I turn 36 this weekend. It's not going well.
joombaga··on LogoFAIL: Secure Boot bypass with manipulated boot logos
Right. I was more curious about if the image parsing code was still vulnerable while boot logos are disabled.
joombaga··on LogoFAIL: Secure Boot bypass with manipulated boot logos
Is this completely mitigated by disabling boot logos?

Edit: What I mean is, do the image parsers still run if boot logos are disabled?

joombaga··on Dietary fiber intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality
You can get the full paper here

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026156142...

joombaga··on CA commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian
The linked article does not suggest she did.
joombaga··on Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)
The first name and last name with each middle initial e.g. if you know they're John Smith then search for johnasmith@gmail.com, johnbsmith@gmail.com, etc.
joombaga··on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads
PlutoTV is the same. I used to put on the Geek & Sundry channel and get ads from my employer.
joombaga··on Ask HN: Where do you sit?
The benefit of chair recommendations is that you've likely spent longer timespans in your chair than I can reasonably spend in a store. In my experience, recommendations tend to yield better comfort long term than my own opinion in a store. But maybe others are better able to extrapolate. Honestly I've never found an office chair that I'd call comfortable.
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