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* Name: Jake Achée

* Location: Pittsburgh, PA

* Web/Résumé: https://jake.achee.com

* Bio: Network-Engineer-turned-Linux-Admin-turned-SRE, Platform agnostic, not-quite-entrepreneurial. Also: I like python and awk.

* I literally grew up between a trailer park and the landfill. I know my privilege got me out. What's yours gotten you?

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jachee··on Ask HN: Why isn't there a standard network audio protocol?
I don’t understand what you’re saying here.

I listen to my Apple devices on a knock-off add-on Bluetooth for my car with no issues. I’ve sent audio to a vast variety of non-Apple Bluetooth devices. In fact the only Apple-branded BT device I use are my AirPods.

jachee··on A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem
When you really, truly love someone, their desires are more important than your own, in your own mind, too.
jachee··on Raspberry Pi update removes the default user
I guess I should’ve said “Scripts like this…” instead of just “This”.

My entire point being that any client that tries a default account should be insta-banned. That’s what I get from this.

jachee··on Raspberry Pi update removes the default user
Right, I changed the default, and now I ban anyone who tries it.
jachee··on Raspberry Pi update removes the default user
This is why I run `fail2ban` on my pi.
jachee··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
It’s treating basic human needs as financial instruments.
jachee··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
Mine’s super-simple.

https://rlhitboxes.com

It predates Epic/Psyonix updating their FAQ with all the relevant data. I keep it around because people apparently still like it a lot.

jachee··on Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV
Saaaame. And when/if I do, it’ll be with something else with zero network connectivity.
jachee··on MaskerAid iOS App
Why? I’ve never understood this practice. The number plate is already out in public nearly 24/7 anyway, what difference does it make if it’s unobscured in a photograph, unless it’s a stolen car or plate or something?
jachee··on NYT shutting down the Wordle archive
Yeah, he named it after himself. It’s really not a coincidence. :)
jachee··on To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH
“Who cares about all those poors, right?”
jachee··on M1 Ultra Geekbench Score
You got a source on $400 3060ti’s?

I can’t find ‘em for under $750.

jachee··on Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
Isn’t that because of COPPA, which makes it illegal to retain any personally identifying information about or from people under age 13?
jachee··on Apple Mac Studio
You got a source on $900 3090s?

I can't find 'em for under $2000.

jachee··on Apple Mac Studio
> If Apple supported gaming more

You mean if gaming supported Apple more, right? The industry's reliance on DirectX and the frameworks that build on it are largely what keep gaming so PC-centric.

If we saw AAA studios embrace macOS-compatible (or better yet Open Source) graphics architecture, the need to have separate gaming PCs (and the insanely expensive GPUs associated therewith) would evaporate.

jachee··on No_color
If something doesn’t have an option to disable color, I simply pipe its output through `cat`.

This is also handy for `git` commands that insist on showing a pager for fewer than a full screen worth of lines of output.

jachee··on Collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge
Bridge weight ratings are per vehicle.
jachee··on Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far
If you were careful, you could cover 25 of 26 letters in 5 guesses.
jachee··on The weight of the clipboard
I mostly freed myself from that weight with a clipboard manager. LaunchBar[0] on macOS and CopyQ[1] everywhere else. It’s nice to know I can Cut1/Cut2/Cut3, then Paste2/Paste1/Paste3 to my heart’s content with no worries of overwriting the contents of the clipboard forever.

It’s one capability I sometimes miss on my i(Pad)OS devices.

[0] https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html [1] https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

jachee··on United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
Alas most Verizon Fios customers are still out of luck.
jachee··on Google removes Pirate Bay domains from search results citing Dutch court order
Lycos.

Bing.

jachee··on Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern
“Oh Myyyyyy” —George Takei
jachee··on Useful sed scripts and patterns
…and I closed it as a dupe already. I was seconds slower than the other contributor. :)
jachee··on Useful sed scripts and patterns
I just submitted a PR to fix that. :)
jachee··on PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed
Engineers may be human, but they’re often inhumane, cold, calculating, and callous.

For example, being observably irked by insufficiently technical PR copy.

jachee··on Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse”
It wasn’t legally acquired in or transferred to the state in which it was fired.
jachee··on Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
I moderate (but I’m not admin for) a ~5k member Discord server, and the only tool I know of to move conversations is to tell the users to take it to #other-channel.
jachee··on Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap
Not technically impossible, but legally risky, and Apple are very risk-averse, legally-speaking.

Client-side CSAM detection would allow full client-side secrecy unless there’s a pattern of in-violation imagery destined to be sent (presumably E2E encrypted and thus undetectable) to iCloud.

jachee··on Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap
They started making in-roads to making iCloud E2E encrypted, but the tech community lost their minds about it and they backtracked.
jachee··on Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
To further your auction analogy, Zillow was doing the equivalent of offering Buy it Now prices above asking and owners were selling immediately. They had asymmetrical access to the market because they had asymmetrical capital.

They were literally scalping properties. And, like a scalper who has too much inventory, they’re now selling at a loss.

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