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meroje··on IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks
Have an older z-wave heater valve that seems to be on a version of the protocol no one bothers to be backwards compatible with. Never happened with zigbee no matter the amount of quirks needed from zigbee2mqtt.
meroje··on Trap and test AWS SES emails locally
Can’t use an IAM role to auth to the bridge, it only works with user’s keys.
meroje··on How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?
Routing should not impact the detection, it's usually based on maxmind's anonymous/datacenter database using your IP. Accuracy won't be 100% of course but you have to show compliance.
meroje··on How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?
In the business of media streaming, rightholder will require that you check for vpn and proxies in addition to countries when deciding if a given viewer will be able to stream a given media.
meroje··on Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback
> It's still going to be pretty common for at least a few years, and the now incorrect assumption that it is still broken I'm sure will persist for a decade or more among those who have been burned and thus moved on from Alpine and do not follow it.

I'm still not going back until I can configure for TCP to be the default.

meroje··on Ask HN: Resources to Learn macOS Development?
Was looking at making something that would interact with SystemConfiguration.framework and registers itself on the DynamicStore's callback (something akin to dns-heaven[1]). From the introductory tutorials included with xcode I have no idea what is the equivalent to applicationDidFinishLaunching() where this kind of things would be put. It looked like maybe BackgroundTask is what I'm looking for, but it seems arbitrarily limited on macOS to an urlsession, whatever that is ?

[1]: https://github.com/greenboxal/dns-heaven/

meroje··on LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack
Presumably this would be to ease looking up individual items but 1password has been able to encrypt those since 2012. Nice indeed
meroje··on France prepares for possibility of electricity blackouts during winter months
They had to limit the output of warmer water in the stream because it was so hot already there was no margin left.
meroje··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
It's the nature of the thing, OLEDs can't display perfectly uniform colours. It's most visible on greys.
meroje··on NordVPN Review
How else do you expect to get around maxmind’s anonymous db?
meroje··on Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”
They shut the official forums down to not have to deal with moderation, they created the issue of third party communities
meroje··on Show HN: Arxiv.org on IPFS
links ? everything is a fake js button
meroje··on Remote code execution in Homebrew by compromising the official Cask repository
It does warn about it before sending anything though https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/3e0f14083aa983c136a375...
meroje··on Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
There's a lot of "could" and "will need to change" there, don't see hard facts proving a myth.
meroje··on Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers
Good time to remind everyone that the password prompt from Dropbox (in the screenshots, located right below the "Turn on notifications" from the OS) is fake. They pretend to use the password only to turn on accessibility permissions.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dropbox-responds-to-mac...

meroje··on Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
But I don't need or care about all that, what I need is a hub just like we had all those years that gives usb3 connectivity in a c form factor to 5 devices or more. If I need more there are plenty docking stations available.

edit: I also looked for a usb A hub with usb-c upstream, still no luck and stuck with a hub+power adapter and dinky otg a-to-c.

meroje··on Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users
They removed inactive accounts. And made the handles available to register again by someone else.
meroje··on Replacing a silently failing disk in a ZFS pool
You can partition your drives based on the size of the smallest and make your pool on those partitions.
meroje··on Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup
Nice nsfw frontpage
meroje··on DRAM Prices in ‘Freefall’
No way, you're only getting the ram at that price point.
meroje··on Nobody Cares About OAuth or OpenID Connect
Pretty much the same situation here, we just disabled 2fa today on our aws integration because the web-only flow made it impossible to use cli tools.
meroje··on Wooden bikes
I do, the difference is "woah this thing powers itself" kind of noticeable. Sure I could get the same average speed on my ride, but at the cost of so much more effort on low pressure tires.
meroje··on Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29
macOS does that to me too
meroje··on Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
1password does mitigate it to some extent by automatically copying the code to your clipboard after filling the form, these 2 things only work on the right domain. Of course you can still copy the values from the app but at least it hints at things being wrong.
meroje··on The sad state of RSS on the Mac
I just recently started using Cappucino[1] from the makers of Airmail[2], gotta say it feels like the spiritual successor to Reeder

  [1] https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/902c8f3a570242808ebb00495f5fa04d  
  [2] http://airmailapp.com
meroje··on MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
Pretty sure my 2012 macbook air feels faster than the 13in 2016 mbp only because of the additional cores.
meroje··on Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acquisition talks underway
The format is also openly documented [1] so theoretically third party clients can emerge to consume that data.

> We believe security shouldn't be proprietary. 1Password only uses standard, documented data formats and encryption methods, so you can import and export your most important information at any time.

[1] https://1pw.ca/whitepaper

meroje··on Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app
Are threads still all over the place in wee-slack ? Last time I used it was impossible to follow a channel with multiple threads going on, let alone reply to one.
meroje··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
You should be able to enable the off signal within the Anynet settings, but then for it to stick you also have to disable auto updates.
meroje··on Yarn vs. npm5 determinism
Yes, and install speed too since you're writing the files once
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