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niteshade··on I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions
I bought an 800w GaN USB-C charger from AliExpress (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009093660588.html) and a handful of USB-C to barrel jack adapters. They're powering 2 EliteDesk G2s (35W) and 2 EliteDesk G3s (65W); not had any trouble so far though the GaN charger does run a bit hot (which I resolved by putting a fan under the charger).

Admittedly I can't be sure of the long-term reliability of the GaN charger, but its been running problem-free for over a year now.

niteshade··on Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing
Link to the paywalled paper: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214023
niteshade··on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
Seems to be this: https://github.com/apple/containerization
niteshade··on Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data?
Something that might be useful to know with these devices is that they're quite liable to bricking during updates.

If you do install an update, make sure you reopen its' web portal and confirm the version number is different to what it was before. If it hasn't changed from before, you'll have to wait a while as its still flushing bytes to its flash memory, and if you accidentally trigger an update again here, you'll be left with a brick (speaking from experience).

Depending on the device you bought, you might also be able to flash custom firmware on it: https://github.com/ludwig-v/wireless-carplay-dongle-reverse-...

niteshade··on Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data?
> Does it hand along an encrypted stream that it can't decode or does it decode/re-encode?

It definitely does decode/re-encode audio streams, as music playback quality suffers quite a bit (both latency and quality).

niteshade··on Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust
> Dioxus is similar to modern React Native in architecture. Your rust code is running natively and you can call into JNI and Objective-C freely without a VM in your way.

Given the similarity, would it be feasible to add a compatibility layer to bring in React Native Turbo Modules? (Fabric support would be unlikely I'd imagine)

niteshade··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
I don't believe people have used buttons in their cars specifically to control their phones, though.

I do agree that it would be nice to know whether voice control is safer, but unfortunately I can't find any studies that compare voice vs tactile control (all I can find is studies on touch vs tactile)

niteshade··on Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?
Not GP, but I recently attempted to migrate a single-node Docker Compose setup to Docker Swarm and ran into the following issues:

- No ability to use secrets as environment variables, and no plans to change this

- Cannot use `network_mode` to specify a service to use for network connections a la Docker Compose

There were a few other minor issues which resulted in ditching Docker Swarm completely and moving to a Nomad + Consul stack instead.

niteshade··on Hackintosh is almost dead
I remember reading (perhaps here on HN) that Apple does weird/nonstandard things to wifi packets to enable Continuity/Handoff features, so it could be related.
niteshade··on Ask HN: Who is using 1Password for secret management?
We use both the 1Password CLI and 1Password Connect.

The CLI tool is handy for retrieving secrets from your vaults in the CLI, handy for one-off uses like scripts etc.

The Connect server is more suited for infrastructure secrets and allows you to whitelist which vaults are available through it. You can then use secrets exposed from Connect as part of your Docker image build process on CI, for example.

niteshade··on Show HN: CodeMate – The Revolutionary Search Engine for Developers
I got some partial/incomplete answers on Fast mode, but changing it to Smart mode immediately improved the quality of the output.

Would be nice if you could +/- the output, just my 2c.

niteshade··on JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface
Do you happen to know how to configure this in iTerm? It's the one feature I miss the most from Warp.

EDIT: Found some more info

iTerm calls it "prompt marks": https://arc.net/l/quote/muwfagqi

If you're also using Starship (https://starship.rs/), then you might want to look at this issue: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/10537#note_15803...

niteshade··on Apple Sports
Unclear why this gets its own app instead of being a tab in the News app
niteshade··on I bought my own game from a reseller – Here's what happened. [video]
Definitely true back in 2008
niteshade··on Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32
Two other really interesting projects for the same brand:

- https://github.com/feedernet/petnet-feeder-service

- https://github.com/odya/esphome-petnet-feeder

niteshade··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)
SEEKING WORK | London, UK | Remote, can overlap with US timezones.

As a multidisciplinary development agency with decades of experience in the industry, we've worked on everything from small MVPs to large scale enterprise applications, and we're here to help you with your next project.

PAST EXPERIENCE: Marketplaces, Media, eCommerce, SaaS

RECENT TECHNOLOGIES: Rust, TypeScript, Next.js, Nest.js, AWS, Azure, Pulumi

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niteshade··on Rekt.network
Ah that's a shame, thanks for replying nonetheless :)
niteshade··on Rekt.network
Any chance of seeing Rekt on Apple Music? Would love to be able to use it as a radio station when I'm driving
niteshade··on Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code
Any chance of making Evidence available as a Remark plugin? Would love to be able to use it as a tool for interactive documentation
niteshade··on UK supermarkets run out of turnips
Try getting meat from Donald Russell or Tom Hixson, its not much more expensive but there is a world of difference between it and supermarket meat.
niteshade··on MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
Are they on the dark web? Perhaps I've just been (un)lucky, I've never seen any.
niteshade··on Render Price Hike
Apparently they've had this post on their forum since November: https://community.render.com/t/pricing-update-nov-2022-reque...

It's mind-boggling that they didn't think it necessary to surface this in the Render Dashboard, where users would actually see it.

I've been thinking about moving to fly.io, the only thing keeping me on Render right now is their Preview Environments.

niteshade··on Render Price Hike
The cost per team member seems particularly egregious; I can't think of any other PaaS that does this OTOH
niteshade··on Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing long-term illness
One could argue over semantics, but the overall analysis is largely correct in my view (as a British born-and-bred citizen). Is there something you particularly disagree with?
niteshade··on Katana: A crawling and spidering framework
For "a next-generation crawling and spidering framework", it's a little surprising to see no support for the WARC[1] format.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive

niteshade··on Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?
Hard disagree, a couple of years back my team was running mobile game services connecting users in the millions (at peak).

We were hosted on AWS, and pretty much only used Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB.

niteshade··on Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?
I've done similar, works great for Node, Python and PHP apps.
niteshade··on Dark mode support in the AWS Management Console
Its the same with Dvorak, HN loves it but empirical evidence for it being a better keyboard layout is flimsy at best.
niteshade··on Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams
Even weirder than that, Microsoft is the maintainer of React Native for Windows and macOS. Why do none of Microsoft's other DevTools teams seem to know this?
niteshade··on Ask HN: How do you handle IT / user's computers at a small startup?
Do you have any recommendations for UK-based services? Thanks in advance
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