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tolqenon An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains

> I've intentionally not linked these because burdening the relatively heavyweight source viewers with idle HN readers who are mostly going to glaze over and not read once they discover it's tricky C++ code seems unfair

Seems like a good use case for linking to their respective GitHub mirrors

tolqenon Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

> For example, in the UK our right-wing party is currently in power, which means that arguments that their lockdown rules are illegitimate and exceed their powers mostly come from supporters of the other, left-wing party. The justifications for why they're exceeding their powers actually look similar in many ways to the ones in this lawsuit.

Not convinced you’ve even been following British politics then. The main criticism coming from Starmer is about late decision making and inaction. I haven’t heard anything about abuse of powers or a clamour to reopen from them.

tolqenon Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

  brew install sdl2

tolqenon Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

it seems to compile/run fine for me on catalina but everything is absolutely huge (hidpi compatibility issues?)

tolqenon Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding

At what point will it be “is not GitHub, GitLab, or SourceHut”

tolqenon The 2020 iPhone SE

I've never had an issue with pocketability even with the largest phones on the market. I don't really understand the problem. Do you have really tiny pockets?

tolqenon Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

Newsflash: the Mac is currently quite successful.

tolqenon Cats, lasers and Raspberry Pi

In fairness the Raspberry Pi is only $5 so it’s not like it’s a huge deal

tolqenon Barr Urges US to Buy Stakes in Ericsson and Nokia to Compete with Huawei

In my opinion it is a mistake to thinks that to compete with China we need to become China. It would benefit us greatly in the long run to figure out and fix whatever problems in the market are preventing more companies from competing in this space.

tolqenon iOS 13's Music App Sucks

Library, Radio, Search

tolqenon I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS

A bootrom exploit has been found that works on all pre-2019 iOS devices.

tolqenon Ask HN: Is it worth it to move to London as a SWE?

> expensive, bureaucracy, not so good transport

Compared to where exactly?

tolqenon EU beckons Indian tech talent

you've got some advanced lump of labour nonsense going on here

tolqenon Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

What you said was correct a year ago but Kapten and Bolt exist now, they’re often the same fare or cheaper than Uber.

tolqenon Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet

You should be able to press Cmd+Shift+I and open the developer console.

tolqenon قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic

That sounds a lot like Logo

tolqenon Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy

It’s not Messages only, WhatsApp just hasn’t implemented it yet.

tolqenon Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy

> At least it’s not suggesting messenger contacts from other apps that I contacted literally once ever 3 years ago.

Only because none of the messaging apps have implemented it yet. As someone who uses their phone for messaging 70% of the time, I actually missed it from Android and am happy to see it come to iOS.

tolqenon Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation

Right, they’re working to bring the old non-Chromium Edge’s efficiency to Chromium for the new Edge.

tolqenon The New iPhone Is Ugly

This is an incredibly silly article.

> And amazingly, due to being made of actual metal, the more drops an SE survives, the cooler it looks

Is steel not real metal anymore?

tolqenon Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium

I'm fairly sure even Android has abandoned this type of time picker

tolqenon Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

All current MPBs have a Touch Bar. Apple no longer sells any without one.

tolqenon White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China

> I know the argument is that Chinese companies are just an extension of the state, but you could say the same in reverse about the U.S

What

tolqenon Bird – Internet Routing Daemon

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. To me the computing power and the software support makes it better than a lot of the alternatives, and I don't see anything more powerful without going x86.

tolqenon Bird – Internet Routing Daemon

Do you have any suggestions? I'm in the market for something like this at the moment.

tolqenon Bird – Internet Routing Daemon

Their website says "1.6 GHz dual-core ARM", which sounds decidedly more powerful than an iPhone 3G

tolqenon Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business

Nobody except Apple bought the Intel parts anyway (possibly because they were absolute flaming garbage relative to Qualcomm’s products), which is why we’re in this position in the first place.

tolqenon Galileo navigation system facing service degradation or loss of signal

That frequency not being the same as the one used by the US’s own GNSS system enabling them to block it without blocking their own service.