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egb··on Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts
I've got that in place and still get the Tahoe popups, so there's some other mechanism here.
egb··on How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)
Is there any good template/library for modern multiplayer netcode for Unreal or Unity or anything else, or is it truly everybody rolls their own as the secret sauce in their AAA games?
egb··on Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16
No, they forced iOS16 by only backporting security fixes for devices that can't run iOS16

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/apple-releases-ios-1...

egb··on Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea
Cringely has some columns about this:

https://www.cringely.com/2021/03/26/10-years-later-fukushima...

egb··on Apple won’t force developers to let users opt out of tracking until next year
most conversation seems to be here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366731
egb··on Family turned a former Freemason temple in Indiana into a home
"It’s not bad at all!! We have 6 separate central a/c units and 8 separate central heating units. We can pick & choose what parts of the building to heat/cool and to varying temperatures. Our highest gas bill this past winter was $330 and that included almost an entire month of subzero temperatures. The building is incredibly well insulated."

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/e4r2ap/m...

egb··on Chrome 64 Out – Spectre Mitigations Not Visible
I forgot to test Chrome 63 with https://xlab.tencent.com/special/spectre/spectre_check.html but 64 says Not Vulnerable. Anybody got 63 and want to check?
egb··on If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
Correct - snow leopard to sierra would be the goal.
egb··on If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint
I so wish Apple had not removed the older Sierra installer from the Mac AppStore... I need to update some machines but High Sierra does not seem ready for reliable use yet.
egb··on Showtime websites secretly mined user CPU for cryptocurrency
What if there was a spec that web browsers could submit small amounts of mining work as a micropayment system for web content? (amount determined by content provider per-page or per-session or some other better granularity, only sent if user approves)

Browsers could pre-mine/cache some amount of work so that page load times would be relatively unaffected.

Browsers could ask about payment similar to pages requesting location (yes/no/always/never) so future payments are automatically applied or denied.

Thoughts?

egb··on [dead]
You should visit the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

http://woodtype.org/

egb··on Panama: The Hidden Trillions
What's your citizenship though? US citizen or did you switch to Panamanian?
egb··on Tom Hanks on Typewriters
I think that may have been Chris Hardwick's inflection point for going mainstream. At least that's when I first heard about him...
egb··on Is Facebook eavesdropping on phone conversations?
I had this happen to me a while back and came up with a fairly simple possible explanation/implementation. Facebook could look at the time and geo stamps in uploaded photos to determine who was in the same place at the same time, and offer those people up as potential friends to add.
egb··on A history of the Amiga, part 9: The Video Toaster
Anybody want to buy one? Let me know :-)

(edit) To clarify, my Dad still has one, and with all the VHS decks and monitors and mixers and such it's kinda like a mainframe and takes up a huge amount of space. But could be fun for the right, uh, museum? :-)

egb··on Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
VeraCrypt https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Downloads seems to have Linux and OSX as well as Windows - or is there something else going on?
egb··on A Developer’s Guide to the Wild West of App Discovery
How did you get your Apple rep? I have never quite found out how to "apply" to get one, or if it's all self-selected from within Apple...
egb··on Ask HN: Why does Facebook require 2 admins to add a Company, even if sole prop.?
Not a company page, a company entity as part of the facebook audience network, in order to get paid. It's on app details for the app you're trying to get into FAN.
egb··on Encrypt your e-mail with PGP and random profanity
What kind of a box do you really need for that, though? The requirements seem to say 4G of RAM, which seems to demand a big VPS or a dedicated box... (would be $40/month for a 4G RAM VPS at digital ocean or Linode)
egb··on Ask HN: Your recommendations for Windows PC backup software solutions?
Another happy Crashplan user. Restored 100+ gigs and saved my bacon a few times. Do it!
egb··on Aspirin could dramatically cut cancer risk, according to biggest study yet
Most people are allergic to wheat? Can you please share some references on that?

This is a good read about the reversal of the gluten sensitivity study, "Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn't Exist" http://www.businessinsider.com/gluten-sensitivity-and-study-...

egb··on Why I don’t eat on Mondays
Quote at the end of that article contradicts your statement...?

"Current medical opinion is that the benefits of fasting are unproven and until there are more human studies it's better to eat at least 2000 calories a day. "

egb··on DDOS on Free DNS Servers (NameCheap)
Anybody know why NameCheap is getting hit with lots of DDOS lately?

Unfortunately I didn't realize this when I just started moving my domains there, as I can't even log in due to two factor auth from namecheap not working, possibly as a side effect from the DDOS...

egb··on Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
Answering my own question:

CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko). It eases the process of defining a full navigation scenario and provides useful high-level functions, methods & syntactic sugar for doing common tasks such as:

    defining & ordering browsing navigation steps
    filling & submitting forms
    clicking & following links
    capturing screenshots of a page (or part of it)
    testing remote DOM
    logging events
    downloading resources, including binary ones
    writing functional test suites, saving results as JUnit XML
    scraping Web contents
egb··on Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
"PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API", so it's a browser.

Is it also a webscraper that can pull data out of a page for me?

egb··on Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
Anybody know of any tools that would work with JS-rendered sites, and not have to "parse the JS"?
egb··on CandySwipe Open Letter to King regarding trademark
Here --> http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1xq1k6/candyswipe_op...
egb··on Apple Rejecting Apps For Not Showing Ads
After emailing in, my app got approved, but no information as to why the rejected me in the first place...
egb··on Apple Rejecting Apps For Not Showing Ads
I got rejected, but I _do_ show ads. My guess is Apple is targeting particular SDKs/libraries, and so that even apps that are showing ads are getting flagged. Not sure what the resolution is going to be - still waiting on an Apple response.

I've got a whole bunch of libs included, several of which use AdSupport. Arg.

egb··on Honest Android Games
A short list by someone, with the same intent as this android list: http://www.initialsgames.com/winners/
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