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nuker··on My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage
Offtopic, but I built a 486 PC, to remind me my first computer. 16MB FPM SIMMs, AMD Am5x86 133MHz CPU, Matrox Millenium + 3dfx Voodoo II. Win95. And a fkn external modem. But there is no dial-up ISP left in AU :)
nuker··on Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
Ha ha! I get it. But today’s FF is slipping to being worse. Lets see if uBO survives Manifest V3. And don't use DoH, I have a bad feeling about it, http cookies inside DoH are undefined thing.
nuker··on Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
> annoying after every launch causes me to use all of the various 2FAs

In Mac, KeyChain passw manager can store TOTP secret too, so its just three clicks instead of one/two :)

Why not using Safari? There is Wipr, not uBO but good enough. And you will get Private Relay.

nuker··on Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
Apps outside official app store may force you to enable permissions it does not really need, refusing to work without it.

Apps in official store should work with the permissions approved by the store. The “should” is enforced by the store.

nuker··on Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
My default for all browsing is to use Private Safari window and never stay logged in for longer than needed.

Btw, there is hidden Safari setting in iOS, under Advanced at the bottom, “Privacy Preserved Ad Measurement” that was on, for some weird reason. And check and purge Website Data periodically.

Oh, and use iCloud Private Relay. A must.

nuker··on Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
> Personally, I am on the record wishing that Apple would allow some sort of “expert” or “developer” mode — chock full of warnings

Next morning Facebook removes its app from Apple Store and directs users to sideload the app, because it needs those sweet permissions that were denied before.

nuker··on Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?
It also means Cloudflare sees HN traffic in plaintext, including login/passwords
nuker··on VLC does not have Open Folder menu item
> and it's really just a list of file names in the order you want them

I want the user to see what albums are there and be able to play individual albums because I separated each album per folder.

m3u playlist is a all-in-one-list thing, right?

nuker··on VLC does not have Open Folder menu item
Like a good boy I thought I'll create an Issue on GitHub. No dice, the VLC project has no Issues tab :)
nuker··on VLC does not have Open Folder menu item
I'm trying to share music using a zip file with a bunch of folders, per album.

I need to tell the recipient how to play it. Obvious instruction will be to use VLC app.

But when I try to replicate the usage on my Mac, I do not see Open Folder action. If I "Open File" and select the root folder, VLC populates playlist with songs from the first subfolder (album) and user does not see any other folders (albums).

Who designs software like this? I do get it is free, and I'm not entitled, but question still stands... Is there a better standalone music player, that shows actual subfolders in GUI?

If I open a folder, I expect to see in the left panel my opened folder and expandable tree with all subfolders. So I can click-select any subfolder and press Play button.

nuker··on Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
> But tacking on "in plain text" to it just creates confusion.

Today, when the context is service provider and customers, "plain text" is used to say that service provider has the data unencrypted.

nuker··on Let me repeat that back to you
Oh sweet summer child …
nuker··on Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
Interesting. Reminds me newspeak language.
nuker··on Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
> Common sense is more valuable

You assume that people with high income/education have less common sense. Correct?

nuker··on Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
There was no correction in your post, it is same as what I said.
nuker··on Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
And all of those "brainwashed mids" just randomly happen to live close to cities, where housing is more expensive, meaning higher income, which means higher education levels.
nuker··on Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
Summary: We have no real engagement data, so no idea whats going on.
nuker··on Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
In my case (below) ACCC said they dont engage for individuals, its an industry level org. Quote: "The ACCC is not a complaints handling body, so we are unable to help you resolve your dispute"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691458

nuker··on Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
I believe my letter to Tim Cook worked too!

MacOS Big Sur broke support for high refresh rate external displays for Intel Macs. It was the DSC feature of HDMI/DP protocols, 4 years ago. Everyone that had it working at 4k@144Hz in MacOS Catalina, got only 60Hz in Big Sur and later.

Apple Support / Engineering department had me to install Catalina, show that 4k@144Hz actually works, got a ton of diagnostic data and came back with "you may downgrade to Catalina as a solution" LOL

Wrote to Tim Cook, with case number and, wait for it, MacOS Sonoma had it fixed!

nuker··on Tesla Has the Highest Accident Rate of Any Auto Brand
But range is less… we need more data before making assumptions.
nuker··on Tesla Has the Highest Accident Rate of Any Auto Brand
But is it not reasonable to assume that all consumer car makes drive similar distances in average?
nuker··on Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
> The marketing on the website just informs you what you can use any cloud you want.

Disagree. The message says “fault tolerance”, meaning you deploy same things in different clouds. Which brings back to my original post - TF does not help with this, as jen20 said - very different resource models.

nuker··on Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
Another point - you can jump on AWS support to help you with Cloudformation. They'll wash their hands when its Terraform :)

And chasing where the var value actually came from in TF drove me mad few times!

nuker··on Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
> Doing the same infra, across multiple clouds, is a different thing, it's not a Hashi thing.

Not sure about this. Here is what official site says:

"Provisioning infrastructure across multiple clouds increases fault tolerance, allowing for more graceful recovery from cloud provider outages."

https://www.terraform.io/use-cases/multi-cloud-deployment

nuker··on Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
> There is real value in being able to use the same tool to manage AWS/GCP/Azure/etc., Cloudflare, GitLab, VMware

My bad, I did not define meaning of multi-cloud. I meant using AWS and GCP at the same time, doing mostly the same things, for redundancy and no lock-in.

Still I prefer native IaaC tools, it is simpler, faster and more reliable. I'm AWS guy, so Cloudformation for all things infra. It irks me when I see Terraform doing AWS infra. I jump in to rewrite it as first matter of business, lol

nuker··on Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
Just a side thought, with all due respect:

> The controversial worldviews such as multi-cloud that we founded this company on are now mainstream and broadly accepted.

Emm .. no. It is not mainstream. Multi-cloud may be forced choice for some regulated fintech, but no sane project will double the infra codebase just to get from "lock-in". I see no other benefits. And double the codebase is quadruple the bugs. This is main Terraform's sales pitch, and it has to die. IMHO.

nuker··on Sally Ignore Previous Instructions
Penis
nuker··on Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search
This.
nuker··on 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account
Run
nuker··on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription
https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media.html

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts/r...

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