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gempir··on My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
I have heard good things about Hackintosh on Ryzen does anyone have more Info?

How viable is it? I'm using a 15 inch Macbook Pro but it struggles with 3 1440p monitors but my PC with a Ryzen 3800x and RTX 2080, 32gb RAM runs like a beast on Windows.

gempir··on FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case
I would assume 90% of iPhone users if not more use 6 digit codes. So this is still a big win for the creators of GrayKey
gempir··on Many games are held together by duct tape
Web Development is very different I feel. Web devs iterate on their product a lot more. A game is shipped. There is nothing after its shipped besides minor patches (if we ignore multiplayer online games)

Web developers constantly need to fulfill new requirements so having a good level of code quality is important.

gempir··on iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
I haven't noticed more notification spam in Google apps, but what I have noticed is the way better notification management in recent years.

I can long press on notifications and directly block it forever or finely tune the App sending it what it is allowed to send etc.

Last time I used an iPhone I still had to double swipe to even dismiss a notification, which is super annoying because most are probably spam.

If Notifications on iOS were as good as on Android I would instantly switch.

gempir··on DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
I personally hope DDG is going to namechange soon. I don't hate their name, but if you present the user with a choice of

- Google

- DuckDuckGo

- Yandex

Why would he click the "silly" option besides humor. It's a bad brand name IMO

gempir··on FreeNAS
I'm very happy with Synology aswell. If you still want to use your own hardware there is stuff like this https://xpenology.org/

I have rarely seen such a feature rich software. And all of it works pretty solid aswell.

gempir··on FreeNAS
Yeah 8GB seems excessive. My Synology has 2GB of RAM and does just fine. I run multiple docker containers on it aswell.
gempir··on The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor
They want to make the product appeal to all users and not just techy ones. And If I product managers or CEO or whoever can print his message bold he's happy.

Very few non techy people know what markdown even is. (From my own experience asking friends etc.)

gempir··on Apple Missed Its Chance to Fix Credit Cards
My 5 euro banking app from a 3rd party does this and pretty accurate too.
gempir··on Lack of cdnjs activity
This the normal in open source sadly. Most companies don't bother paying what they use so there are few people who can maintain such projects.

I mean even the Linux Kernel was maintained like that a few years ago.

gempir··on Baking a Better Loaf of Bread
Yea as a german this is crazy. Everytime I go on holiday outside germany I notice how much the bread is lacking. Yes France might have nice baguettes but it's missing the whole grain breads, sourdough etc. Other countries have other strengths but germany has such a giant selection in "dark" breads it's always amazing.
gempir··on Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies
I think this is mostly a problem of the tools used. An anchor tag by definition is an inline element, so it shouldn't really be a giant box that's clickable, so you default back to an onClick.

onClick in popular frameworks just means left click and nothing more, which makes sense, except for that use case of opening in a new tab with middle mouse button or right clicking etc. So you have to add a lot of logic to support all that.

If you break the html spec and make an anchor tag a block element then you have to deal with catching and stopping the event from it otherwise it would work as a normal link but you actually just want to change state in your JS app.

So I think tools like Angular, React, Vue etc. should get a better way to create links on website that just change state .

gempir··on Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
The Art of War by Sun Tzu, 5th century BC
gempir··on DoorDash still hasn’t changed its tipping policy
If you let that play out DoorDash goes out because in reality it isn't feasible to sustainably deliver to your doorstep in minutes.

UPS does it in a 1 day timeframe and not with food which could get cold or something and they deliver to a lot more houses at once.

While DoorDash targets 1 customers house and lets 1 biker drive there. If you want to pay for him to have a fair wage then you probably wouldn't order from DoorDash anymore because it's too expensive

gempir··on Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
Windows Defender and common sense is enough on Windows based systems IMO. And on mac you don't need one.
gempir··on Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records
When I was at school they were using Moodle. And I gotta say Moodle was very solid. The UI wasn't terrible and everything worked.

But the big plus: Open Source and completely free to self-host

gempir··on Spying on HTTPS
Chrome isn't exporting the private key. It's importing the key you give it.

Idk for what that is useful besides Virus Scanners, but personally I would like my browser to make its own key and never leak it or accept new ones.

gempir··on uBlock Origin 1.20
OBS seems so insane to me. The devs do amazing work delivering a high quality product and creators make millions with their software.

I wish someone would campaign a bit for the devs and support the development of OBS with all that money made from streaming with OBS.

gempir··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
It's amazing what people have been able to build because Twitch chose the open IRC standard.

Anyone interested in C++ and Twitch should checkout a project of good friends of mine https://github.com/Chatterino/chatterino2

A crossplatform chat client for Twitch in QT so no electron BS.

Personally I have also really enjoyed developing chat bots for fun tasks or logging. So IRC is definetely a big part why I love programming so much.

gempir··on Stadia Founder's Edition
Nvidia does both. The online product is just called Geforce Now (previously Nvidia GRID)
gempir··on How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
Interesting that you mention music. I just imagined how bad music would be if every label would have their own platform. Imagine you wanna listen to Artist X and have to subscribe to Warner Brothers, now you wanna listen to Artist Y and now you subscribe to Indie Label Z.

I'm interested to see what brings in the most money for studios, getting little money from their own platform (and "suffering" the piracy) or getting paid by netflix.

gempir··on Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?
I wish i would write more, currently not a lot of content on my site.

https://gempir.com

Hosted on github pages and build with Hugo. https://github.com/gempir/blog

gempir··on Ask HN: Do you use a GPG key with GitHub?
No. I started to set it up but ran into some problem I can't remember and I didn't bother continuing. But I certainly see the value in it.
gempir··on DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing
Then why is the license not something Open Source projects usually use like MIT, Apache etc.

This is barely "Open Source"

gempir··on Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
But Chrome does exactly that. If you put focus in the URL bar in Chrome 69 it shows the full domain including protocol so

amazon.de is visible on focus it's https://www.amazon.de

gempir··on GIMP receives a $100K donation
Well in the end the world is not a fair place. Linux Torvalds isn't exactly loaded either, although he isn't poor. But In the end people are gonna abuse your products to make as much money as possible and there is no guarantee, you will ever see a penny of it if you sell it as Free Software.
gempir··on Tell Your Co-Workers How Much Money You Make
Not sure if you are in the tech industry or something close to it. But I've rarely seen someone getting the salery that they deserve.

Mostly it's based on seniority and experience. Even if you do the exact same tasks and maybe sometimes even faster maybe sometimes slower. The salery will not reflect that at all.

gempir··on iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2
Personally I found cmder together with WSL best on Windows.
gempir··on The End of Video Coding?
Could it be you are using an incompatible Browser? E.g. Chrome on Windows works not very good the native Netflix windows app delivers a way better quality
gempir··on Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
Then you could go all the way: Employers: I won't hire you because your black

Doctors: I won't treat you because you're gay.

It can't work that way or we have a lot of discrimination.

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