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Meph504··on Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
Twitter is where his link points...
Meph504··on Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor
This would be far more interesting if you shared how, and did it on a platform that wasn't meant for short form content.
Meph504··on Ask HN: Making Microsoft Teams Bearable
One of the first options that open many doors is power automate, you add a lot of functionality that might make the transition easier.

we have one client that uses teams and basically uses power automate to repost all the messages to slack. So the MS side and the slack people both get what they want out of it.

There is a vast array of prefab templates

You can also do most of this via graph if you would rather, but I find both to be bit painful to deal with, with power automate the infrastructure is provided so there is that, but its largely designed to be a no code drop block style environment which limits its functionality.

Graph will give you a lot of control, and allow you to create things in a consistent manager, but the management of it, and time to develop often out way the value of the functionality.

Meph504··on US Supreme Court lifts ban on gun bump stocks
The problem is the process you describe is the same for all laws, if that system doesn't work, fuck it, appoint a head of agency that has the current leaderships opinion to reinterpret the meaning of a policy, and change the policy without requiring the law making body to play any role in that.

If we set that sort of precedence, and the wrong people get appointed to say the department of health, or the department of education then suddenly what is legal and what isn't shifts quickly, and with no recourse.

I don't care about bump stocks, they can make them illegal tomorrow, but it should be done through the same legal channels that our government is based on. And not as a work around because they couldn't get it done in the framework that is agreed upon.

Meph504··on US Supreme Court lifts ban on gun bump stocks
I don't imagine they will, there have been several cases now where bans have been repealed in similar fashion and no agency has been required to make any sort of restitution for those who complied.
Meph504··on A judge ordered us to turn over privileged documents
Almost no courts in the US have recognized "citizen" journalist, simply claiming you are press or a journalist doesn't mean you are. Claiming to be a member of the press is a bit of an odd thing, because they requirements for what is acceptable vary so greatly from one instance to the next. Some online agencies will send you a "press pass" for as little as writing a few articles on your own site, or publishing a pod cast. (these are about as valid as the service dog passes you get online)

Meanwhile more traditional agencies will require you be employed by as a full time journalist and require the agency you are reporting for to submit on your behalf.

In general the only people who are afforded reporter's privilege are media companies large enough to have lawyers versed in its nuance and able to defend it.

And the only people consider press are those acting on behalf of a recognized and respected new agency.

Meph504··on Own a weather station? We want your data
Hey thanks for the reply, this seems like a really nice option for me!
Meph504··on Own a weather station? We want your data
So for all those with weather stations at home do you have recommendations for a all in one physical weather station?
Meph504··on I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine
The problem is that most XP that is still in active use doesn't have modern updates, are using IE, and are still on.

And showing a single contraindication doesn't mean it's "crap" just means you haven't been exploited yet.

But it isn't like you are paying bills on it, so enjoy.

Meph504··on Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
I honestly at this point, don't feel the need to have anything auto play, if I want video, or audio, I'm well on able to click a button myself.

Auto play = auto advertisement in most cases I encounter it. I can't not see why at this day in age we are prioritizing anyone but the user making the choice of when to play something.

Meph504··on Technical Skills Are Overrated. Focus on Your Attitude
Focus on both, this hire for the vibes non-sense doesn't get the best product build, I will hire someone who has less social skills, than I am likely to hire someone with low technical skills but a good attitude fore most technical positions.
Meph504··on Re: You can't be a good .NET developer (2016)
Anyone making such silly statements as you can't be a good <Language> developer is just silly, and not worth the time or effort to bother with.
Meph504··on Amazon Prime's ad-free isn't ad-free
I can not duplicate this behavior on a firestick, during a trailer you have to pause the trailer (which is an ad) and then press down, then it brings up the menu press right then click center button.
Meph504··on Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World
what is the deal with the horrible iterative zoom of the background
Meph504··on Master tapes of the TV series 'Reboot' found but no playback device exists
Feels to me, like a either click bait, or the author was unaware of the reality of the situation and didn't do any research before hand.

At this point several youtubers with the equipment have offered to do a transfer for free.

So it seems like a solved problem.

Meph504··on Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
Any documentations to support this?
Meph504··on Broadband Consumer Labels
Christ must everything be a subscription service.
Meph504··on Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
At a server side I would agree but from windows desktop it feels different, I should have clarified that.
Meph504··on Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
I'd be happy to see Edit come back, but honestly I think MS wants people doing as little commandline as possible.

In fact, there newest tactic is to hide configuration changes they don't want users to mess with in commandline only powershell options that are typically poorly documented, and have odd syntax.

maybe isn't malicious, but it feels like it.

Meph504··on Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
powershell doesn't expose everything by default, there are insane numbers of modules that are community created though.
Meph504··on Santa Cruz plans high-rise living as a fix for sky-high housing costs
I think more accurately is that you are applying your perspective which does not match that of what is by definition and regionally acceptable as a high rise.

I mean what kind of ridiculous non-sense is this to try to gate keep the word high rise. The literally definition is multiple floors with an elevator.

Do you think this will be a 12 story walk up?

Meph504··on Santa Cruz plans high-rise living as a fix for sky-high housing costs
I think if people do this, it is only out of desperation, and won't result in long term residence. Nothing about Santa Cruz says "high rise living."
Meph504··on QR codes are for suckers – it's time to break them for good
QR codes aren't just for URLs, there is a large array of common formats, but really it is up to the device reading it, and how it processes it.

To me, QR codes are fine, and actually have a lot of good uses, what is the problem is camera software parsing them.

I use a program called binary eye on android, it decodes the whole QR code and displays its value before attempting to do anything. I was this was the standard action.

Meph504··on The .ing top-level domain
Honestly at this point, because there are SO many tlds do people even care at this point.

It's just a money grab, and one that is designed to strong arm brands into protecting themselves by buying up all this pointless tlds to avoid brand delusion.

At this point, it seems its likely cheaper to just buy the .com, and let lawyers handle anyone else instead of buying endless pointless tlds, even more so now they are trying this auction/bidding war crap.

How about we put a freeze on all TLDs. and we create rules that require they all go back to a standard fee structure, no auctions, no reserving, etc..

Meph504··on Bypassing Windows 11 Account Setup
for those that don't want skip the oobe experience and have to bring up the commandline, you can literally just go to the sign in screen, tell it you want it to join a domain, it doesn't actually join the domain at that point, it creates a local account, and after windows is up and running offers joining a domain.
Meph504··on Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
vb didn't die, it evolved into vb.net, but the market place has shifted to C# for the most part.

What has died, is the maturity of microsofts tool set, they keep changing their concept/design/platform.

silverlight/wpf/uwp/winui2|3/etc..

vb was around for nearly 2 decades and had a very mature tool set, everything since then hasn't gotten nearly that sort of life span or dedication to tool sets.

Developing in visual studio now, is more like web dev in the 2000s, I can't tell you how often you have to go to the xaml and make correction or adjustments that the UI just can't get right, or just goes bonkers and can't render the UI at all until something is fixed.

It is really sad, because the power of those old drag and drop builders that just worked meant that prototyping and mocking up applications was much much faster.

now standing up a UI based project takes ages, I'll usually do a console application now, and are dumping results to a API or console.

Meph504··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
this is true but the build quality of the appliances today are unquestionably worse, I as a side job in my youth did a lot of appliance maint/repair. And now working on my modern high end appliances it just makes me sad. plastic gearing, metal housing with so little ferrous metal magnets have trouble sticking to them. compressors made of such thin material its a wonder they ever survive the pressure they are under for 10 years.

Washing machines whose outer clading is the only thing that holds it together, so they strongly flex as they run, wearing the barrings and belts out.

the water sensing tech that is required by law is built with so many easy to fail parts that it probably has caused more waste than has ever saved water.

Meph504··on Free prison phone calls boost family ties, rehabilitation
The prison lobby is very strong, and there is a massive money making machine ($3billion/yr in the US alone) that keeps the paywall that is access for prisoners, and for families intact.

groups like https://www.ameelio.org/ have been for years trying to make a dent in this, but I think they are only in 3 states currently. I do think it really says something when communicating with those in prison is so hard that the IRS has to use a non-profit to do it.

Like some much in this world, it is a cancerous greed that consumes makes everything worse for everyone.

Meph504··on Selling Charlie’s Sunset
ugh came to say the same thing, no thanks.
Meph504··on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
> I have done contracts back to back for 4 or 5 years for the same company, which should show that I don't just jump ship all the time and am able to commit for a long time.

The harsh reality is right now, there are a lot of applicants were for many recent years hiring meant active recruiting so resumes aren't getting the attention that they once did. People aren't going deep dive your history unless you seem like the perfect candidate.

So short stints even mixed with a few long stints aren't going to balance out as you are suggesting in many situations.

What I can recommend to try and soften this, is be more generic, don't list ever single job, but something along the lines of "Various contract based projects from yyyy to yyyy" and bullet point detail the more juicier bits of the contacts.

but admittedly I base this solely on my own experience, so take it with a grain of salt.

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