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1e1a··on Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)
Turn off System Settings -> Desktop & Dock -> Windows -> "Drag windows to menu bar to fill screen"
1e1a··on The European AllSky7 fireball network
I wonder if the temporal noise reduction (evident in the video clips) is being applied before integrating the frames to create the thumbnails.
1e1a··on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
You could use it to heat a tropical greenhouse.
1e1a··on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI
I believe the speed also depends on how many activated dots there are per line in the image, as thermal print heads often have a limit to the number of elements that can be activated at once.
1e1a··on Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI
There's also this which works using a purely physical process: https://www.koehlerpaper.com/en/products/Thermal-paper/TH_Bl...
1e1a··on Building Better Country Selects
At least in Firefox and Chrome on MacOS, you can search <select> dropdown menus by typing.
1e1a··on An interactive map of Flock Cams
Birds tend to be attracted to seeds.
1e1a··on World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
The article says 2.6 gigabits/second which is 2,600,000,000 bits/second, 2,600,000,000b/s * 0.5s / 8 is 162,500,000 bytes, 162,500,000 / 1,000,000 is 162.5 megabytes
1e1a··on Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World
This is awesome! It would be great if there were more sound clips — maybe someone could make an app that lets anyone capture and upload GPS-tagged recordings. Moderation could be an issue though.
1e1a··on World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite
That's ~162.5 MB in transit at any time
1e1a··on Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors
This is great.

Feedback: It looks like geolocation for anonymous "FUBARS" is based on IP, but the weather widget uses the browser geolocation API.

1e1a··on The Xkcd thing, now interactive
It looks like the stroke/border is not taken into account in the physics simulation.
1e1a··on Simple screw counter
In touchpad mode, you can rotate by moving your cursor while holding option.
1e1a··on Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
You can also just use du -hs, eg. to show the size of all subdirectories under ~/Library/Caches/ do:

  du -hs ~/Library/Caches/*
1e1a··on Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
I feel like the fade-in animation when starting/stopping the simulation takes too long. Also, I think it would be helpful if the currently connected row was highlighted when dragging a pin.
1e1a··on Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt
Could allow only the path to the zip bomb for this user agent.
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
I can access the IMU without root on my M4 mac running Sequoia
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
The sample rate is only ~800hz (probably very difficult/impossible to increase)
1e1a··on LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
Did you try exporting it in the OpenDocument (.ods) format?
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
There's lots of noise in the accelerometer readings, even without shaking
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
Ah, after some testing, it looks like these both refer to the same IMU, DeviceUsage=3 is for the accelerometer and DeviceUsage=9 is for the gyroscope. The serial number is also the same for both.
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
On my M4 14-inch MacBook Pro, it looks like there are two accelerometers: One with {"DeviceUsagePage"=0xff00,"DeviceUsage"=3}, and one with {"DeviceUsagePage"=0xff00,"DeviceUsage"=9} - They both identify as Bosch BMI286
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
I've been wondering about this for a while, glad someone's finally managed to access it.
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
I think it's used for the motion sickness reducing feature in MacOS Tahoe that puts a bunch of dots on your screen that react to motion.
1e1a··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
I think there's some sort of motion sickness reducing feature in MacOS Tahoe which would require an accelerometer.
1e1a··on Choosing a language based on its syntax?
I love how it works with units too, eg. c/433MHz or 4 bytes * 20hz * 24 hours
1e1a··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
You can also just drag it to the right.
1e1a··on WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system
If the metal bits are floppy enough it should add quite a bit of noise
1e1a··on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
poor PTZ mount :(
1e1a··on Exposure Simulator
Yeah, it would be interesting and useful to see this across many more cameras.
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