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lodeon Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site

> Let’s watch the policymakers struggle when they have to explain when you need to upload your drivers license to view /r/cats.

Or maybe you'll need to upload 5 cat pictures (to keep it <33%) to view /r/nsfw

lodeon Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site

> We know that porn is harmful

[Citation needed]

lodeon Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?

Automating my Lego trains was my first introduction to programming, back in the late 1980s using GW-Basic. (When I was about 8 years old.)

I had several stations on a looped track, and controlled the train position by switching on the power to the motor for a certain time.

At first I used a photodiode taped to the CRT monitor (and controlling the motor by lighting up a square in the corner of the screen), later I upgraded to controlling a relay via the parallel port.

lodeon Ask HN: Can I own an IP address and take it with me across providers?

Yes, you can get provider independent IP adresses, and then use one a 'Bring Your Own IP'-type service at your infrastructure provider. Most cloud providers support this:

https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/#Bring_Your_Own_IP https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/network/byoip/ https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Network/Concepts/... https://www.alibabacloud.com/solutions/bring-your-own-ip-add... https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/bring-your-own-ip

It's definitely not going to be as simple, fleible and cheap as getting a domain name though.

Using hard coded IP addresses for this kind of use case is almost certainly going to be giving you unexpected issues in the long run. Is there any chance you can use a hostname instead of an IP address to provide to your customers?

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This should not be necessary.

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Just saw this was already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32575350

sorry for the duplicate

lodeon M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than pricier Dell laptop

VMware Fusion has a tech preview for Apple Silicon at https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?do...

Background at: https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/07/just-released-vm...

(Disclaimer: I work at VMware - but not on Fusion)

lodeon Scaleway price 'harmonization' (mostly increases)

> Only appears in 1 or 2 datacenters and always unavailable since launch.

Tip: After deleting the Stardust instance I had since launch, I indeed wasn’t able to launch another one via the web interface (always showed up as unavailable). However, via the CLI I immediately could start one in both regions where they are available.

lodeon Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did

> it is a religion to believe that cryptocurrencies are inherently better than other assets (outside NFTs)

Why would NFTs be worth anything more than the digital tulip bulbs of cryptocurrencies? NFTs are just as worthless IMHO.

lodeon Show HN: I made an iOS app recording RGBD videos and a web app playing them

I didn't have cat toys nearby, but I give you my yawning cat as another example: https://telegie.com/v26/videos/QyLZsSZ21xp

lodeon “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

Aha okay I didn't know that. That's just plain evil then.

lodeon “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

These days you can cancel yourself via myaccount.nytimes.com.

Go to Subscription overview, and at the very bottom click "Cancel your subscription".

You can also use this to get a better deal. Just start the cancellation, choose "My subscription is too expensive" as reason, click Continue a couple of times and they'll give you a reduced rate to keep you. I now pay 2 euros a month for a digital subscription.

lodeon 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack

Aside from going into an Apple store, probably the cheapest way to try out the M1 Macs is to rent one from Scaleway (€0,10/hour + tax, minimum 24h - https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/ ).

lodeon Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine

At least in Belgium (where there are several generics available besides the 'brand' Truvada), my out of pocket cost is 5 euro for a month's supply.

If you take PrEP periodically (2+1+1) that will even last you a lot longer (depending on the frequency of course). I am very glad PrEP exists, and already optimistic about its impact in reducing transmissions. But if we can replace this with a one-shot vaccine, that would be groundbreaking.

lodeon Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine

Let's not forget the huge success of PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or treatment-as-prevention).

But a vaccine, especially if it is affordable and works for a long time will go even further in ending this pandemic that has gone one for 40+ years.

lodeon Google Cloud products in 4 words or less

It's a full managed (bare metal) VMware environment. Basically you get a dedicated cluster of vSphere hosts, with VSAN storage.

Some use cases are: migrating to cloud (for all kinds of reasons, like not wanting to invest in own datacenters and HW anymore) without having to refactor applications, hybrid applications where the front end lives in Google Cloud but the backend requires a more 'traditional' environment, using the cloud for DR, ...

Similar offerings exist at other hyperscalers:

* Amazon: VMware Cloud on AWS - https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws

* Azure: Azure VMware Solution - https://cloud.vmware.com/azure-vmware-solution

* IBM: IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions - https://cloud.vmware.com/ibm-cloud

* Oracle: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution https://cloud.vmware.com/oracle-cloud

* Alicloud: Alibaba Cloud VMware Solution https://www.alibabacloud.com/press-room/vmware-based-cloud-t...

[Disclaimer: I work at VMware]

lodeon Show HN: Weekend project, shows when the next season of your TV show premieres

Nice work for a weekend's worth of work.

It does seem to have quite some overlap with https://next-episode.net

lodeon Gam-COVID-Vac phase 3 trial results: 91·6% efficacy and well tolerated

> I'm waiting for the J&J results after two-dose immunisation given this vaccine takes a similar (non mRNA) approach and appears to be very effective.

Given the J&J two dose trial (ENSEMBLE 2) only started just recently, and takes 60 days between two doses, this is going to take a while though. (I'm a volunteer. My second those is scheduled for mid-march.)

lodeon Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs

> It does not have to be taken daily. You can take PrEP 'event driven', it is 'approved' this way by the WHO for MSM: https://www.who.int/hiv/pub/prep/211/en/

(Apparently event driven PrEP is indeed not approved or recommended for women.)

> Even in the West, isn't it really expensive?

One datapoint: In Belgium the out of pocket cost is 5 euros per package of 30 pills.

lodeon My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants

Much more readable in Thread reader form:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1334465877153095680.html

lodeon Comparing iPhone OS 1.0 with iOS 14 using tree maps

One really silly bug (can't call it anything else) is the insistence to capitalise Apple product names like in their marketing speak.

When I'm writing in my native language, I might type a phrase like "dit is echt the next best thing" or "ik breng je naar Brussels Airport". My iPhone will 'correct' this to NeXT and AirPort.

lodeon Apple MacBook Pro 13” M1 Review- Why You Might Want to Pass

In my 19 years of using Macs, I’ve never even heard of WinZip for Mac. Sure, I’ve used 3rd party compression tools for formats like 7Zip or bz2, but why you’d want to run WinZip on macOS today is beyond me.

lodeon OAuth 3

Indeed. I miss OpenID, and the promise it had.

lodeon ARM Mac: Why I'm Worried About Virtualization

No. Virtualization (dividing a host into different logical hosts but executing unmodified CPU instructions, like VMware, VirtualBox, ...) and emulation (translating instructions, like Rosetta) are two different beasts.

lodeon Face ID and Touch ID for the Web

This uses WebAuthn (https://webauthn.guide - https://webauthn.io). The video has a great description starting at 1:40.

Here, the iPhone functions as a platform authenticator, like a U2F usb/nfc key would. Why would they need to open source their hardware for this?

lodeon AWS services explained in one line each

Some corrections: AWS Outposts: Run Amazon services in your own datacenter (not on your own hardware)

Storage Gateway: Virtual appliance to couple on-premises applications to storage in the cloud.

(So it's no iSCSI (block) to S3 (object) but Block(iSCSI to EBS), File (SMB/NFS/S3 to S3), or Tape (iSCSI VTL))

Addition:

VMware Cloud on AWS: Bare-metal, automatically deployed VMware clusters on AWS hardware.