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utf_8xon Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E encrypted)

The post has been deleted, here's an archive link...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210827045159/https://old.reddi...

No, y'all just crashed it :)

utf_8xon Going forward, Unity devs will need Unity Pro to publish on consoles

Lumen is the lighting system. Nanite is the technology allowing you to use much (like, orders of magnitude) higher polygon counts in a scene (basically an infinitely dynamic LOD*). You can download the early access UE5 now and I've got to say, they are lightyears ahead of Unity, technologically.

Considering how beginner friendly UE is (visual scripting, graph based material editor, etc.), and their (IMO) much better pricing scheme**, I think UE will eventually replace Unity as the go-to engine for indie devs unless Godot really step up their game.

* This is an oversimplification. I don't really know what I'm talking about

** completely free until $1M in revenue, then 5% royalty. You also get free access to Quixel Megascans and Mixer (which are normally quite expensive) and full access to the source code. Not to mention MetaHumans which is a game-changer in itself

utf_8xon Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December

If you have an ad-supported Kindle and talk to customer support, they will disable the ads for you, for free, no questions asked.

utf_8xon Show HN: Website changes design each time you blink

Doesn’t work in Firefox on iOS. It asks for camera access and says it’s running but nothing ever happens…

utf_8xon Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS

> fail-deadly versus fail-safe

Speaking of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUKQfMFKfjk

utf_8xon MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT

Microk8s is great if you're lazy. I've recently built a small-ish 3 node cluster hosting internal apps for a few hundred users and pretty much the only setup I needed to do was: install it with Snap*, enable a few plugins (storage, traefik, coredns), run the join command on each node and set up a basic loadbalancer using haproxy** and keepalived***.

* I don't like Snap. Like, a lot. But unfortunately there aren't any other options at the moment.

** I have HAProxy load-balancing both the k8s API and the ingresses. Both on L4 so I can terminate TLS on the ingress controller and automatically provision Let's Encrypt certs using cert-manager[1].

*** Keepalived[2] juggles a single floating IP between all the nodes so you can just run HAProxy on the microk8s nodes instead of having dedicated external loadbalancers.

[1] https://cert-manager.io/docs/

[2] https://github.com/acassen/keepalived

utf_8xon Valve Steam Deck

> SteamOS 3.0 (Arch-based)

nice

utf_8xon Why Europeans Don't Refrigerate Eggs but Americans Do

As a European, we absolutely do refrigerate our eggs.

utf_8xon Windows 365 Cloud PC

Yeah... Makes sense for corporate use. But for a personal computer - fuuuuuuuuck no.

utf_8xon Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements

https://www.protondb.com/

This should give you a pretty good idea. For example, Cyberpunk seems to run pretty well which is impressive considering how buggy the game can be even on Windows. Proton has been an excellent experience for me so far... And you can use it for non-steam games. It's just a fork[0] of Wine with DXVK and some other Wine "extensions" baked in.

[0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

Also good luck buying a new GPU in the next 4 years :)

utf_8xon Introducing Windows 11

Even if they do (and they won't), it will be very easy to disable that requirement...

utf_8xon The Cerebras CS-2 wafer-scale engine (850k cores, 40 GB SRAM)

It's one of those products where if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

utf_8xon Fastly Outage

Wonder what the story is behind these two...

    User-Agent: bender
    Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass
    
    User-Agent: Gort
    Disallow: /earth

utf_8xon Coinbase Account Hacked

Who in their right mind still uses SMS as an authentication factor? Use TOTP or even better a hardware key (of which you should have a second copy stored somewhere safe). SMS is insecure. We've known that for years.

utf_8xon Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?

My shitty PID controller code left me with a 2nd degree burn on my hand... Does that count?

utf_8xon The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta

Absolutely this. I'm nowhere near 16 anymore but if my first encounter with Arduino involved setting up PlatformIO or even CLI tools I would've moved on very quickly to something else. The whole point of Arduino is to be as beginner (and lazy people) friendly as possible.

utf_8xon Italian towns will pay you to work remotely

Depends on where you end up. In bigger cities and more touristy areas you can get-by with English just fine, in smaller places it's gonna be a problem and you'll want to learn at-least basic Croatian.

The younger generation usually do speak some English even in smaller "non-touristy" places.

The Croatian language seems fairly easy to learn to me but I'm biased on this being a native speaker of a Slavic language so your mileage may vary.

If you do decide to visit, I would recommend the Istrian peninsula around Pula, a beautiful Roman-style city. You won't have any issues with English there and you're gonna see much less tourists than you would in the more "traditional" vacation places like Zadar.

You can get reasonably priced accommodation in the surrounding towns and there is a huge nature reserve with beaches (cape Kamenjak). They charge a fee for entry but IMO it's quite affordable. The point of entry is the Premantura town but I would recommend against getting accommodation there as it's gonna be more expensive.

Personally I'd recommend looking for a BnB in Pomer, a small town 2-ish kilometers from Premantura. If you're a more "posh" traveler, Pula has nice and more-less reasonably priced hotels.

Also, you will want to rent a car there, the public transport is OK but won't get you everywhere...

utf_8xon Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

It's a satirical article from 2001, calm down

utf_8xon Java for Everything (2014)

So here's a controversial opinion: use whatever language you're comfortable with and use the time you'd spend in flame wars about Java to make something useful instead.

utf_8xon Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols

Why the hell not... Unicode already has thousands of symbols, unlike many these might actually be useful.

utf_8xon Ask HN: No Adsense/Admob, what options do I have for generating ad revenue?

Just a heads up, Carbon won't even talk to you unless you already have thousands of visitors per day...

utf_8xon Czech PM claims Russia played major role in 2014 ammunition warehouse explosion

Rosatom has been excluded from the selection process since.

utf_8xon Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

I'm starting to hope that crypto is a bubble and will burst soon... Massive environmental issues aside, I'd like to be able to buy a GPU at MSRP sometime in the next 5 years...

utf_8xon Renaming Coq

Pretty much, yeah.

utf_8xon Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

True in theory but Facebook is one big GDPR breach and nobody with the power to fine them seems to give a shit...

utf_8xon Renaming Coq

Coq means rooster in French. Unfortunately it also sounds like "cock" which is a word people apparently can't handle in 2021...

utf_8xon Ask HN: There's multiple wget Docker images with 5M+ pulls. Why?

https://xkcd.com/927/

utf_8xon Wix and Their Dirty Tricks

Strange, I've never had a bad experience with Bose support. On the contrary, when my QC35ii suddenly died, they replaced them (after warranty!) without questions...