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The_SamminAter··on Anakin – Automatically Kill Orphans
I had the same thought. My current solution is to just run ‘wineserver -k’ after I’m done with the program.
The_SamminAter··on Trump joins Bloomberg's 500 wealthiest after Truth Social merger
Great. Raise the bond back to what it was.
The_SamminAter··on General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers
They claim, currently.
The_SamminAter··on Surveillance Through Push Notifications
I believe the issue has more to do with identification of an individual, rather than locating said phone. In which case, no, a VPN wouldn’t help (plus, using a VPN doesn’t obscure your location from GPS, which our devices both use and transmit to the manufacturers [FMI, Google ‘find my phone’, third party ‘tracking’ apps that are known to sell precise location, etc.])
The_SamminAter··on Show HN: A talking board game in a 2k program and 128 bytes of RAM
It doesn’t (Safari, iOS)
The_SamminAter··on Investigating a vanishing BIOS on the Fujitsu Lifebook AH532
I have tried to use a generic usb CH341A previously, and ended up seemingly frying the chip. By chance, would you happen to know the pin out on the ch341a, or something else that may be useful? I’ve stayed away from using it since, out of fear of frying a more expensive/important device.
The_SamminAter··on The Infinite/Eternal Jukebox has been revived
Interestingly enough, both results for In & Out by Sonic Youth, which I think would work well with this, seem to play Sugar Cane (by the same artist) instead.
The_SamminAter··on More fun with Apple's internal tools: creating a PDS card
Some of their tools are definitely interesting to poke at, but many are locked to internal Apple use by requiring resources only available on their internal VPN. Some more recent samples are available here: https://archive.org/details/apple-home-diagnostic-pkg
The_SamminAter··on You can now track NYC subway rats with an app
The quality of PopSci’s content has gone the way of the dodo. Which is a shame, as years ago it used to be quite good.
The_SamminAter··on Ask HN: Anyone else getting continuous adverts from YouTube?
DDG being similar to Bing does make some sense, as I seem to remember that it’s one of their major sources? As for ads, DDG kindly lets you disable them entirely under the settings menu.

I personally find Google to be almost unusable now results-wise, and DDG has been better. Not always great, but at least consistently better.

The_SamminAter··on “Those Disturbers of My Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)
What are the conditions required for the letter s in words to be replaced with f (in the document)?
The_SamminAter··on FTC prepares “the big one,” a major lawsuit targeting Amazon’s core business
While I agree, I doubt it will be the FTC who does this. They are better know now for charging paltry fines for major issues than actually doing anything to stop bad behavior.
The_SamminAter··on Bike parts, a crash, a journeyman catcher: How Lizard Skins conquered baseball
https://archive.is/Q1VGd
The_SamminAter··on Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet
Do you have any sources/links?
The_SamminAter··on Google $23M settlement: How to apply, how much you could get
Got any links for information about the Zoom settlement?
The_SamminAter··on Louis Remme’s horse race against a steamship for a fortune
This lead me down a wormhole. Thanks for the interesting links!
The_SamminAter··on The Framework Laptop 13
Framework will mail you new hinges if you follow the support form on their website. I had this issue (as well as a warped laptop bottom), and they replaced both for free.
The_SamminAter··on Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen
Oh, so that’s what those are! I’ve got a few USB-mini cables (that I think came with a PS3) that have those.
The_SamminAter··on Viewfinder, brain-melting Unity demo of 2020, finally a playable game on Steam
This reminds me of Superliminal
The_SamminAter··on Git bundles of Eaglercraft repositories disabled due to DMCA takedown
I can play multiplayer and on servers though (as long as they’re <1.17, as I’ve only been able to get the Java launcher to run up to 1.16.x).

Does PolyMC still let you log in with a Mojang account? I know that MultiMC doesn’t.

The_SamminAter··on Git bundles of Eaglercraft repositories disabled due to DMCA takedown
Some of us still haven’t migrated. The legacy Java launcher still honours our Mojang logins.

I refuse to migrate my account, until the day they shut the Mojang servers down. Which I fear may be soon.

The_SamminAter··on Renewed HGST 14 TiB drives are available for $120 USD now
Likewise.
The_SamminAter··on Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst
{TrollStore, ESign+certificate, jailbreak}
The_SamminAter··on Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst
You already can. However, if you’re asking if they’ll bring down certificate-less sideloading, the answer is no.

It should be noted TrollStore does also enable this in certain versions of iOS, and jailbreaking enables this in older and newer, up to 15.x on arm64e devices (iPhone 11 and up), and up to 16.4.1, the latest version, on older arm64 devices.

The_SamminAter··on OpenWRT 22.03.4
Edit: nope, actually I forgot I needed luci-app-adblock. Please ignore me.
The_SamminAter··on OpenWRT 22.03.4
Another warning, I’ve noticed that this update breaks the adblock package.

Not as significant, but annoying on Netgear hardware that’ll (soft-)brick itself if you reflash it with a different or lower version.

The_SamminAter··on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
RESTRICT Meta
The_SamminAter··on Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)
https://archive.is/k3Miw
The_SamminAter··on EasyOS kirkstone 2.0 release – lightweight Linux from the guy behind Puppy Linux
Can I ask how you would go about doing this starting on a system where the home dir and OS are on the same partition?
The_SamminAter··on Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)
I’m about to attempt to do something similar on Deco routers, using [this](https://blog.keane.space/tp-link-deco-m5-hardware-hacking.ht...) as a base, but have never wired serial to usb manually before. My main question is how do you use a multimeter to tell which pad is which?

Great article!

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