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da768··on Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks
The dock moves whenever your cursor spends too much time hitting the bottom of the screen
da768··on Endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners
Though for a large amount of HTTP bots, the authors don't even bother changing the default Python User-Agent. I'd assume a large proportion of these bots still can't run concurrently.
da768··on Hackintosh is almost dead
It wasn't too bad a few years ago but right now you can buy two Ryzen 7840U 64G/1TB with OLED display for the price of one similar specced MacBook.
da768··on A broken vintage piano turned into an analog hybrid of 20 instruments
Direct link to YouTube: https://youtu.be/523c7mbkt5Y

The embedded one is annoyingly surrounded by 2 non-stop video ads.

da768··on Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer
Some people like computers but don't like half-assed Control Panel replacements, a task bar/start menu filled with msn.com tabloid contents, Copilot search bars, Microsoft 365 nagware and advertising
da768··on I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
Not necessarily, but reading online you'll quickly find about certain manufacturers frying batteries faster using out of spec charging voltages.
da768··on I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
And after the UPS will inevitably fail to power on, he'll probably want to add an automatic transfer switch to the mix.
da768··on I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows
Vertiv Liebert
da768··on Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 (2023)
It's even more impressive that it's actually connected to a pin on the wifi card rather than just being a key signaling the OS to disconnect wifi.
da768··on Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024
Last thing I heard it's not really clear with the ASRock AM5 boards https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=25026&OB=DESC
da768··on Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024
RDIMMs have buffers on the memory lines to improve signal integrity, this is only helpful when there are many slots on the same memory controller channel. (ex. Servers often support 4 DIMMs per channel)
da768··on Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024
SuperMicro finally got into AMD desktop CPU boards, if they added USB4 and faster networking to this one we'd have a winner

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13sae-mf

da768··on Apple has not fixed the macOS audio left/right balance bug for nearly 10 years
Pretty easy with a global gitignore
da768··on Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
Oh no worries, Canadian gov is pretty good at copying Australian laws. Netflix tax, link tax, etc.
da768··on Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
A CBC article (edited since then) also mentioned the Raspberry Pi. Hopefully it's just bad journalism.
da768··on Plastic bag bans work
Only if said plastic bags are used as trash bags and incinerated.
da768··on Plastic bag bans work
Same, though the "biodegradable" plastic bags stores tended to use lately would end up completely teared apart after a single use.

Also it seems like every store around only has non machine-washable reusable bags. Any meat or vegetable leaks in there and they'll quickly become disgusting.

da768··on How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)
Previous threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23927773

da768··on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
The typical work contract also extends to outside work hours and personal devices.
da768··on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
Nothing a smartphone can't do.

Even companies with these policies preinstall Spotify on work computers.

da768··on Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds
I imagine the 0xFF might be converted to 0x00 due to DC blocking capacitors/high-pass filtering, audio circuits aren't really suited for non-audible content.

He might get better capture accuracy with a digital oscilloscope hooked directly at the chip's audio outputs if he's lucky, but it's still pretty impressive he got a bootable image out of that.

da768··on Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop
you could still hope it's a WAF issue or they're hashing passwords through the database query, though both unlikely
da768··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
A loose gas cap triggers an EVAP leak code + check engine light on pretty much every car made since the early 2000s. Now depending on said car, all traction control and ABS might be half-disabled as soon as the CE light turns on. Usually newer cars will disable more systems to bring you back to the dealer.

ex. my current car had an intermittent O2 sensor issue, which would turn the traction control in lazy mode and try to kill me in snow/ice conditions by reenabling itself at the worst possible moment when detecting slippery conditions. My previous car had traction controls completely independent from engine faults.

da768··on SOGo: Open-source groupware solution to Share calendars, address books and mails
Last thing I know about trying to purchase commercial Dovecot, you had to harass the sales team to get an answer, and a few thousand users with 10TB+ data was "too small" for them.
da768··on Reverse Engineering an LCD Display
Search for universal "TV scaler board", they do exist but I don't know how well they work.
da768··on Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution
Couldn't you still account for offset?
da768··on Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)
On the WD19/22TB it's actually user-replacable/upgradable, but parts aren't necessarily easy to find.
da768··on Simple streetlight hack could protect astronomy from urban light pollution
Why not, just sync them to the AC power grid they're all powered from.
da768··on Show HN: I built a tool to get "Your app was approved/rejected " alerts on Slack
Many companies block forwarding rules.
da768··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
Can something be done using VoiceOver boot mode? I've already recovered macs stuck on 0 brightness after an upgrade with that... Can't find the documentation now, but it definitely exists.
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