AndroidKitKat

Sent one to the email in your HN profile. Cheers!

Agree with sibling, security theater largely. I suspect the logic of banning is to stop recordings of conversations, whereas Bluetooth is just a protocol for sending data. Eliminate collection sensors and mediums for transmit are fine.

I did decide to purchase a Pebble Time Steel and a new battery alongside the Core 2 Duo. I hope that with Eric back in charge, the old Pebbles will be allowed to use the new app and hopefully get modern apps.

Would have been nice to see a model without a microphone. I understand I'm a minoritiy (workplace doesn't allow devices with mics), but being severely hamstrung with smartwatch choices that don't have a microphone is tough. Will still definitely buy one to support the project, and will eagerly watch (heh) for new models!

It does in a limited capacity now [1]. No, it doesn't auto-skip for you and it's not nearly as quickly updated as SponsorBlock itself is, but it works fine enough on the iOS app.

[1] - https://9to5google.com/2024/05/05/youtube-premium-jump-ahead...

If you haven't already, check out Dark Matter, too!

Made one of those silly Bad Apple [1] renditions using NSSwitches with AppKit [2]. I recorded the video with a buggy version, but was still pretty happy with it! [3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Apple%21%21

[2] - https://github.com/AndroidKitKat/Bad-AppKit

[3] - https://youtu.be/yJ6YRInG4tI

I recently took a 3000 mile road trip on 12.5.4.1 on a mix of interstate, country roads, and city streets and there were only a small handful of instances where I felt like FSD completely failed. It's certainly not perfect, but I have never had the same failures that the original thread poster had.

That's what I do. I can program my Go, Python, Java, and JavaScript projects all within IDEA Ultimate by just installing the extension from the marketplace. The only exceptions are C/C++ and Rust that 'require' a different IDE or paid extension and don't work in IDEA Ultimate for whatever reason.

While not quite what you're looking for, Kagi has a "Small Web" feed of sites that are semi-curated blogs. [1][2] I don't know how often it is updated, but I like to poke around every now and then see what's going on in people's corners of the internet.

[1] - https://blog.kagi.com/small-web [2] - https://kagi.com/smallweb

Started using this for a personal project (Java, Spring Boot, Thymeleaf) and found these looking for any way I could add things like Bootstrap without having to vendor it and add it to my repository. From a technical perspective these things are pretty fascinating if you ask me!

The Orion Browser [1] has rudimentary WebExtension support on iOS despite being a Safari wrapper. Apple's policy also doesn't prevent browsers from bundling adblockers in, which both Brave and Edge do.

[1] - https://kagi.com/orion/

Kagi gets part of their index from Google, per the article, so perhaps that's the reason Kagi still works. Wonder if Vlad and Kagi will do (or have done) the calculus to see if buying crawlability from Reddit itself is cheaper than buying results from Google for Reddit search.

My Tesla insurance has gone down ~$30/mo showing that I've been a 'careful' driver or whatever. Perhaps they were overcharging when I first signed up, but I'm not complaining too much.

That said, the anxiety of always being watched when I'm driving and knowing that I'm directly impacting my wallet has made me consider just eating the extra $100 my old insurance provider wanted just to have the peace of mind that I can drive without feeling like taking that turn too fast just cost me $5

Noted for future reference. Thank you for letting me know.

More discussion on a similar article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39104363

I think it is because this new Beeper Mini spoofs a Mac, whereas the older Beeper Cloud used a real Mac in a datacenter to forward your messages to you. Personally, I don't think that Apple would have any leg to stand on if they went after the Beeper Cloud on-a-real-Mac implementation.

More in-depth on how Beeper Mini works: https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

Really good article and it's great to see this come out right after the fiasco of Sunbird / Nothing Messages.

When you move people onto Matrix, what homeserver do you have them use? I've set up a Matrix server for my immediate family and adoption rate has been good so far. I've set up both my parents, and one of my sisters and one of my brothers have signed up, one sibling is being a bit resistant since "I already use a gazillion other chat apps." But, not everyone has a me to set up and maintain a Matrix server, and I'm weary to tell people to just hop onto the main "matrix.org" server since I don't know what kind of experiences there are for people who don't know what they're doing (e.g. Should they put in PII or remain anonymous?)

I was watching clips of LinusTechTips' podcast, and he said that speaking to people who he trusts in the mobile phone space, that SD removal was primarily because SD flash is worse than the onboard stuff and they lose more customers who complain/think the phone is bad because of the SD card being worse, than customers who wouldn't buy the phone in the first place because it lacked it.

Personally, I think it's a little of both. It probably helps that less customers complain about the SD card not working, but being able charge an arm and leg for extra storage is icing on the cake.

When I was in a phase of really enjoying IPv6, I went out and bought one of these: https://ipv6buddy.com

I don't type in many IPv6 addresses anymore, so this doesn't see much use anymore. It does make a great desk nicknack, though!

I wonder why there aren't more "casks" for MacPorts. On my work MacBook, I've got Firefox, Google Chrome, Orbstack, and Visual Studio Code installed via brew casks, and none of them are present in the MacPorts catalog. Maybe I should step up and learn how to package things for MacPorts...

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611191 (231 comments)

Not exactly what you're looking for, but your comment about abusing pings made me remember pingfs [1]. It brings an entirely new definition of cloud computing!

[1] - https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

Thanks for the reminder, fixed!

While I don't agree with everything in the post, I still found it thought provoking. I'll still be serving my sites with HTTPS.

Highly suggest checking out Firefox-UI-Fix [1]. I use it everywhere I use Firefox, and it makes the browser usable.

[1] - https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

Not going to install something that seems so vague, but I do use ExplorerPatcher [1] on my Windows 11 machines to basically re-create Windows 10 UI and fix all of the annoyances I have with Windows 11. I've got the old right click menu, the old task bar, the old alt-tab interface, pretty much the whole thing. Only reason I use Windows 11 over Windows 10 is because Windows 11 seems to handle my triple monitor setup better, especially when waking up from sleep.

[1] - https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

I've been using AdGuard and haven't seen a single ad since I installed it. AdGuard seems to offer a much of the same functionality from uBlock that I enjoyed, like being able to selectively block elements on the page, and choosing what filter lists I want. The only 'downside' is that I believe you have to pay for it, but I believe there is a free version that I use on my mother's MacBook.

AdGuard also offers a pi-hole-esque ad-blackhole that I deploy on my home network and it's got much better UX than pi-hole.

+1 for Orion. Been using it on my work laptop pretty much exclusively (still need to do testing for my work in Chrome/Firefox), and it is hands down my favorite browser.

Now that 1Password natively supports Orion (they had a browser whitelist), I can probably switch back to it on my personal machines / iPhone, but Safari is still pretty sticky for my non-work life.

I believe parts of the French government are using Matrix for their communications [1].

I've been wanting to use Matrix more and more over IRC, but I've never really liked any of the Matrix clients. I think I'm just too stuck in my ways about my favorite IRC clients.

[1]: https://element.io/case-studies/tchap