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unixfg··on Discord is a black hole for information
If it's reliably used as an opportunity to improve documentation, then I can see Discord having a place and forums not being necessary. I wouldn't expect that to happen, though; I know how I feel about documenting even when I'm being paid to do it.
unixfg··on Ask HN: Where can you apply for a programming job when you are a Class A asshole
People skills are skills.
unixfg··on Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features
I say don't change your setup for them; get a dedicated device… consider a tablet. Having two devices is a pain, but it'll improve your work-life balance when you have to actively decide to carry it. You'll also never accidentally send something personal to a coworker.

I use an older iPhone in airplane mode. I get over a week of battery life. I forward calls to my personal if I'm away from wifi and on-call, and they do not get my personal phone number.

unixfg··on “Verified” GAN-Generated Twitter Profiles
They were all suspended/deleted, but were verified suspiciously quickly.

Twitter indicates that their process is Human-controlled:

https://twitter.com/iamb/status/1414645372731883520

unixfg··on YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch
I believe that was the point being made in the comment:

"...competitors could differentiate themselves by providing better moderation policies and whenever some popular account got banned from YouTube that would generate a lot of traffic for alternatives"

unixfg··on Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
If one of the edge cases the author mentions pops up they could deduce from the context of the message that you didn't personally send it at that moment. Short of lying about it and claiming it must have been slow to arrive, I'd say you were caught.
unixfg··on Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
Here ya go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIqK45nxcTo

He even explained it with balls and magnets!

unixfg··on EFF Browser Tracker Simulator
What seems to really get me on this test is having an eGPU plugged into my Mac.
unixfg··on Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button
Check out rss-bridge

I used to have direct feeds from my YouTube subscriptions, but they either killed or moved that feature. This runs on the same $5 vm as my RSS feed reader and works great.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

unixfg··on Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
Whole thing is here: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...
unixfg··on 16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile
A single core being able to fully saturate LPDDR4X bandwidth seems pretty advantageous.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

“One aspect we’ve never really had the opportunity to test is exactly how good Apple’s cores are in terms of memory bandwidth. Inside of the M1, the results are ground-breaking: A single Firestorm achieves memory reads up to around 58GB/s, with memory writes coming in at 33-36GB/s. Most importantly, memory copies land in at 60 to 62GB/s depending if you’re using scalar or vector instructions. The fact that a single Firestorm core can almost saturate the memory controllers is astounding and something we’ve never seen in a design before.”

unixfg··on Clone of the endangered Przewalski's horse is born of DNA saved for 40 years
I wonder if the clone of an endangered species is subject to the same laws protecting others.
unixfg··on Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease
Economy of scale in property managment probably meant that just having the whole thing as opex made sense. I don't imagine they'd be much better off now if they owned it and had to sell it off, might even have to take a comparable loss in such a case.
unixfg··on Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?
If you're honestly appraising costs, the same evaluation would apply to on-prem as well. 3-year refreshes, software updates, support, power, bandwidth, etc
unixfg··on UniFi-Video Products End of Life Announcement
Their solution before they had bigger/faster devices was to run multiple appliances.

The other pretty big problems are no backup solution, video exports limited to 10 minute clips, cloud account and Internet mandatory (at least for initial setup). What drives me bonkers is no support for valid SSL certificates because they don't want you to have to worry about that or something. It breaks the protect app when you don't use their snakeoil default.

I'd still be using Unifi Video, but they broke the iOS app for like a whole year so it was use protect or switch over to something that took in RTSP from the cams.

unixfg··on UniFi-Video Products End of Life Announcement
Protect is their 'hybrid cloud' product. Authentication and remote access are managed by their servers, but the videos are stored locally.

My guess is they managed to re-implement enough features in Protect that, after years of neglect, they could officially kill Video.

It's still not feature complete :-/

unixfg··on Tasks.org – Open-source ToDo app for Android with CalDAV sync
Probably not a huge draw, since the native apps on iOS support CalDAV and CardDAV (For now).
unixfg··on The U.S.'s $13B aircraft carrier has a toilet problem
Wait, what kinda of acid and how much? $400,000 seems like a lot.
unixfg··on Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic
They don't seem to be blocking Linode, maybe they had a problem with that provider.
unixfg··on Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic
I've noticed this before with DNS, too. I have internal names that always get resolved externally despite my VPN. Hoping this all gets fixed eventually :(
unixfg··on ASK HN: How do you justify an iPad Pro?
It's just good enough, with the keyboard cover and Prompt2, for SSH that I feel cut off without it.

Other than the features others have mentioned here, and it having actually pretty good speakers, I don't have a good reason for spending extra over a normal iPad.

I'd do it again.

unixfg··on The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
I've seriously considered making my iPad my only mobile device. The lines are blurred by having a large phone, though.

The 11" is so great for reading, my poor kindle only gets attention when I see the big dead battery image on it :(

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