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mkskmon System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux

It's proprietary but quality software. LuLu is cool but doesn't offer the same functionality.

mkskmon System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux

AdGuard for Mac is the same offering (not to be confused with AdGuard for Safari, which is a browser extension):

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-mac/overview.html

There's also Little Snitch Mini:

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/index.html

mkskmon My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

They're complementary.

mkskmon Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor

Here's another one on Adafruit (more time intensive but includes a VOC sensor) https://learn.adafruit.com/air-quality-sensor-silo-house

mkskmon Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record

Direct link: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a445809...

mkskmon Hacking my “smart” toothbrush

Yeah, then on top of plastic pollution we can have more e-waste.

mkskmon Hacking my “smart” toothbrush

They make third-party compostable bamboo brush heads for Philips now, e.g. https://thesustainabletomorrow.com/products/bamboo-heads-phi...

mkskmon Court strikes down Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction

> No it's not, especially if you replace natural gas with burning coal for electricity.

Berkeley has been transitioning businesses and residents to majority and most recently 100% renewable energy for years.

> Until the last coal plant shuts down, it makes zero sense to ban natural gas.

This is nonsense. Every year the % of renewable energy increases it makes more sense to electrify than it did previously. It's a lot easier to change the energy source for a power grid than it is to rip out all existing gas infrastructure.

mkskmon On ‘Plant-Based’

The example in the parent comment is also wrong. Almond milk produces way fewer emissions than dairy. It just uses a surprisingly large amount of water, which is still roughly half that of dairy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46654042

mkskmon iOS 16

Do you mean the Control Center? You can customize it under Settings > Control Center and remove or move the flashlight.

mkskmon Microplastics found in live human lung tissue

It's slowly happening. Several countries have started to issue bans like Canada and Australia in addition to the EU and recently China, although a lot of plastic pollution in the ocean is from fishing gear. The California Plastic Waste Reduction Regulations Initiative proposition qualified for the 2022 ballot, and SB 343 was recently passed. There's also a federal bill in the US, S.984, but that's unlikely to get past the Senate filibuster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pollution#Reduction_in...

mkskmon Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”

What's the advantage of this over running WireGuard directly on your phone?

mkskmon US Should Create Strategy by End of '22 to Reduce Increasing Ocean Plastic Waste

Proposed initiatives / advocacy orgs

https://www.beyondplastics.org

https://www.plasticfreepresident.org

https://camustlead.org

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5845

mkskmon Signal devs don't intend to support Apple M1

Rosetta has performance parity with Intel Macs but uses more power. Nearly every app has native support for Apple Silicon now.

mkskmon Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping

There's this one:

https://privacy.com

Apple Card does as well (and Apple Pay in general with any other card).

mkskmon California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being

The top source of greenhouse gas emissions in California is passenger vehicles.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/CkDmyLFljut4y3amem_3slBySxw=...

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/22/1617782...

mkskmon M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU

Alternatively, there's a Hammerspoon package that supports this.

https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette

These bindings match Spectacle but you can map to Rectangle's instead.

mkskmon M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU

There are also some frustrating bugs with USB-C / thunderbolt connections like the LG UltraFine 4K monitor that have been improved but not yet fully resolved. This isn't unique to M1, but does seem to be new to the more recent MacBook models (possibly related to the T2 chips).

mkskmon Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

Here's another function in Fish that incorporates the other suggestions offered in this thread.

    function sudo --description "Execute a command as another user."
        if [ (uname) = "Darwin" ]
            set --local needle "^auth\b.*\bpam_\(reattach\|tid\|watchid\)\.so\$"
            if ! grep $needle --silent /etc/pam.d/sudo && \
                [ -f /usr/local/lib/pam/pam_reattach.so* ] && \
                [ -f /usr/local/lib/pam/pam_watchid.so* ]
            command sudo sh -c "
            cat << EOF >/etc/pam.d/sudo
    auth optional pam_reattach.so
    auth sufficient pam_tid.so
    auth sufficient pam_watchid.so
    \$(grep -v '$needle' /etc/pam.d/sudo)
    EOF"; or return $status
            end
        end
        command sudo $argv
    end

mkskmon Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

`sudo --edit` also works

mkskmon Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

That's correct, which typically defeats the point of using it since in that case you still have access to Touch ID. The above link works in both scenarios, and can be used as a fallback for pam_tid.

mkskmon New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped

Another option is Lingon X. It provides a GUI for launchd and includes a notification setting under Preferences > Notifications for items being added/removed.

https://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/

https://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/#preferencesnotificatio...

mkskmon New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped

The same devs also make LuLu, an application firewall similar to Little Snitch:

https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

mkskmon Dropbox Passwords

Wasn't Dropbox planned to be part of the NSA's PRISM program back in 2013?

mkskmon The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook

I'm running Emacs natively on M1 and it works great. The biggest missing piece is certain static analyzers like shellcheck aren't available for ARM yet since ghc is still working on support, although you can probably get it working with Rosetta. See this thread for a list of most tools:

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10152

gccemacs isn't available natively yet and probably won't be until later this year, but Emacs running on M1 is very snappy and faster in my experience than a nativecomp build running on an Intel machine.

mkskmon The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook

I'm successfully running Emacs natively on M1 using the Yamamoto fork. It just needs to be installed via the formula on Homebrew currently rather than the cask.

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/issues/2...

Haven't run any benchmarks yet, but general usage is snappier and startup time is around twice as fast as a gccemacs build running on a 2020 Intel MBA.

mkskmon Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble

The respiratory aerosols containing viruses such as COVID are typically ~3 um. See section 10.4 on this page:

https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols