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0942v8653on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/102/

Not available yet, but when it is, it will be at this link.

I'm not sure about snapshots, TM is made to work by just copying the directory structure over, and each backup is a fully functioning hierarchy. But cloning is definitely a big deal.

0942v8653on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

Doesn't SIP cause issues with the TiVoization clause? I guess I'm not an expert on this, but it's possible Apple wants to leave the possibility open of making SIP mandatory.

0942v8653on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

I definitely feel this pain too, but:

They can't upgrade to recent GNU tools (bash is the one most people complain about) because of the GPLv3. And I feel their developer manpower is better spent on fixing OS bugs at this point. These issues are better fixed by developers less encumbered by the closed-sourceness of OS X.

0942v8653on Ruin My Search History

Yes.

0942v8653on SpiderOak Semaphor [video]

I can't believe this. For a professional product. HackerTyper at 0:36 of the video.

0942v8653on KeePass2 v 2.34 to fix update security problem

If it's cryptographically signed and you found the public key from a more reputable place, you are ok. This is how apt repositories work - they use HTTP, but since everything is signed, mitm attacks can't do much other than see which packages you install.

0942v8653on Ask HN: Apple workers of HN, do you really use iTunes Sync?

[Not an Apple worker, but I use a Mac and an iPhone]

Is there an alternative?

Apple doesn't let you simply add a music file to the Music app (you have to sync it from an iTunes library on the computer if you want a file in there), and the Music app, while it is getting worse as time goes on, is something I have not yet been able to replace.

0942v8653on Learn Docker by building a Microservice

When signing up for the beta, there is a required Company field; what do I put there if I am a student?

0942v8653on Ask HN: Good alternatives to screen/tmux to persist long term jobs?

Nevermind, it looks like it doesn't have any buffer space.

0942v8653on How and Why to Log Your Bash History

Isn't this going to be pretty slow? It starts 5 subshells for every prompt. You could at least change $(pwd) to $PWD and switch the square brackets to double square brackets.

0942v8653on Ask HN: Good alternatives to screen/tmux to persist long term jobs?

I can't remember if it has the buffer space you want, but take a look at dtach. https://github.com/djpohly/dtach/blob/master/README

0942v8653on ReactOS now has killer features (0.4.2 is gona be awesome)

Seems you can: https://reactos.org/wiki/VirtualBox

Edit: just tested, and it works.

0942v8653on GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick popen() shell vulnerability via filename

Wow. This is really scary. Especially the SVG issue. Is it common to support xlink:href on servers that use ImageMagick? It seems like that would allow you to read any readable image on the FS anyway, which is a vulnerability in itself.

0942v8653on Indentation TABS vs. SPACES

For a while, I liked spaces. But then I started programming on my phone. The screen is only 36 columns wide. With 4 spaces per level, 4 levels of indentation (not atypical, even for Python) makes that 20 columns. Takes up nearly half your screen. So if I am trying to code on my phone I need tabs so I can reduce the width of indentations and save as much space as possible.

0942v8653on Ask HN: How do you encrypt your laptops?

System Preferences > Users & Groups > Guest User > Allow guests to log onto this computer

"If FileVault is turned on guest users can only access Safari."

0942v8653on Ask HN: How do you encrypt your laptops?

On the other hand, it's quite nice to be on Hacker News where someone will post the definition :) ... now I know what that phrase means when I hear it in another context.

0942v8653on Hyper-Reality [video]

Also see "Sight", another short film with a similar premise: https://vimeo.com/46304267

0942v8653on Chrome removes Backspace to go back

Not at all, it's closed source

0942v8653on Git Reflow

I agree, but here's their reasoning: https://github.com/reenhanced/gitreflow/issues/52

> When it really comes down to it, the only place we care about enforcing a particular style of commit is in the master branch. We don't care if you make a thousand commits to get there, the only thing we care about is the individual features that come in from each (small) pull request.

> And while the history is nice, the biggest advantage of using the squash merge is that over time, git blame becomes way more useful. You get to see for every line of code in your project, not only the person who changed it, but their commit in the full context of why that change was made, including an easy-to-reference link to the pull request and ideally (through the pull request description), a link to the ticket tracker. So we can tie any line of code all the way back to the ticket that caused it's creation.

> And over time, that's all we really care about in the history. Who made this change and why was it made. Squash merging allows us to do that while still giving all of our developers the individual freedom to develop in the way that suits them best. To try and enforce commit styles in branches owned by other devs is to me, micromanagement that will go against the best results.

0942v8653on Ask HN: Why does a pizza app know my location and 911 doesn't?

For 911 only? I seriously doubt it.

0942v8653on The xonsh shell

> I guess it shouldn't be the shell to do that, but the terminal

How would this work over SSH? What if you're using a temporary shell as another user? Also, the terminal really shouldn't have to know what is going on in the shell in order to work reliably. Tools like tmux, screen… should not have to perform directory completion.

0942v8653on Senator Seeks Answers from Facebook on Political Censoring Allegations

You're not wrong. But many see Facebook as a communication medium, rather than a company. They would think it's like a pen which refuses to write conservative viewpoints, just because the manufacturer has a liberal bias. Obviously, that's absurd. But it seems that many fail to realize how scary it is that we have relied so much on a single company's platform for communication, when they have already admitted to manipulating us. Maybe this censorship debacle will be a nudge in the right direction, if publicized clearly enough.

0942v8653on Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy

Google Fonts does see the page you are on, in the `Referer` header. According to mitmproxy:

    host:              fonts.googleapis.com
    Connection:        keep-alive
    Proxy-Connection:  keep-alive
    Accept:            text/css,*/*;q=0.1
    User-Agent:        Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13E238 Safari/601.1
    Accept-Language:   en-us
    Referer:           https://blog.filippo.io/self-host-analytics/
    Accept-Encoding:   gzip, deflate

(I agree with the rest of your comment; the best thing to do is host the fonts yourself.)

0942v8653on Ask HN: AOL – geocities – friendster – myspace – Facebook – who's next?

Why not? It has more users than any of the others ever did.

0942v8653on Refined Twitter

Interestingly, if you have the URL to one it works, but there is no interface to get to them.

0942v8653on Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?

Use the second bookmarklet from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9414599

It will zoom out the slides and make them readable. Weird how that is necessary.

0942v8653on Ask HN: I have no commitments for the next 6 months – what books should I read?

Asterisks turn into italics:

    some *formatted* words

becomes "some formatted words"

If you put a space after the first one it won't be formatted: some * formatted* words

0942v8653on Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition

It's a completely different computer—compare it to your typical web browser/web server model. The media computer can request display the battery information (the browser can get a list of products) but it cannot hit the accelerator (the browser cannot read other users' personal information). Even if you have root on the media center (your laptop), that doesn't make it so you can run any and all commands on the computer that regulates steering and acceleration (the web server).

0942v8653on Most popular links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015

Same with 538 for me, though it's more often a mention of the "$5 wrench" than a link.