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josh64

175 karma · joined August 3, 2013

Analyst and Developer based in Sydney, Australia
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josh64··on NetNewsWire Turns 23
Vienna will support older MacOS releases for longer. Our development has been slow the past couple of years due to maintainers having big life changes. Things are about to pick up so keep an eye out!
josh64··on macOS Icon History
I tried to find a site with more examples than the linked post, and I think https://guis.org/macos/icons/ is a pretty good overview for those who may be interested.
josh64··on Ethiopian wolves reported to feed on nectar
you should send off for genetic testing and see!
josh64··on The Cheapest NAS
Could you please share how you went about configuring your Apple devices to automatically switch to VPN?

Thanks!

josh64··on Google urges Android phone users to switch off Wi-Fi calling
Lineage OS https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/walleye/ looks promising.
josh64··on Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (1999)
It's probably not quite the same as you describe but have you tried Good Fortune Roast Duck House? It used to be so good and melt in your mouth.
josh64··on Twitterrific has been discontinued
I'll have a go at building it and if I'm successful I'll let you know. I honestly thought a proper fork would have started by now but that is not the case.
josh64··on Twitterrific has been discontinued
Honest question - I've been using Ivory for the past week but it doesn't seem to do anything that Metatext or the Mastodon app didn't already do. What's so fantastic about Ivory? I feel like I'm missing something because everyone speaks so highly of Ivory.

Thanks!

josh64··on DOE announces breakthrough in residential cold climate heat pump technology
Not quite unfortunately - the new Planning Minister caved to the property developer lobby: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/09/plan-...
josh64··on Roland 50 Studio
Excellent ! Thank you!
josh64··on Signal Is Down
It isn't working for me, and strangely enough the signal Twitter account has no mention of the outage. Their status page also claims everything is operational.

At least there is an in app notification about technical difficulties but it would be nice to see from an official source if it is an isolated incident or not.

josh64··on I interviewed Brian J. Fox, the creator of Bash
I met him too at an Apple store in Sydney. He must travel a lot!
josh64··on Why do printers still suck?
I have this exact printer and I love it. Just bought another toner cartridge (non-Genuine) for it.
josh64··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
I'm one of the current Vienna devs and I want to say it makes me happy seeing that people still enjoy using it.

We have some new updates planned over the next few months and hopefully you (and the parent comments) enjoy them!

josh64··on From Rust to TypeScript
I think because the return type hasn't been specified for the function, so it is inferring the return type from the return statement (which means it is "correct").

Don't forget JavaScript (and therefore typescript) will let you concatenate a lot of random types together without error.

josh64··on Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?
Apple will support thunderbolt https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/macs-with-apple-sili...
josh64··on Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
Not the original commenter but at my place we generally don't clean ours... and they are usually not soiled. Making sure we change out the straw in the nesting box regularly helps a lot.

I also crack the egg on a flat surface so the shell doesnt get pushed inwards.

josh64··on You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open Source? Think Again
Are you thinking of https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ?
josh64··on Ask HN: How to deal with GDPR / cookie notices in the context of a crawler?
We're getting the same issue in our RSS reader (Vienna RSS). Not sure how to deal with it currently.
josh64··on The sad state of RSS on the Mac
Vienna developer here: Thanks for the suggestion - I’ll work on fixing the website this weekend.

We had some issues with Wordpress a year ago and I haven’t got around to finishing the site.

josh64··on Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once
In Australia you bring your own whitegoods but stoves are usually built into the kitchen.
josh64··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
I was thinking part of Office 365 - collaborative dev tools are the missing piece for most businesses.

There wouldn't be a major need for Jira, GitLab, etc for the most part.

josh64··on About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
High Sierra has an option for a Mac to cache updates and serve them over the local network to other macs.

This feature used to only be in macOS Server but is now in normal macOS too.

josh64··on Apple Power Macintosh G5: Flame On
FreeBSD is definitely the best OS to put on the G5. I have a dual core 2.3 GHz model with 8GB of RAM running perfectly on a ZFS installation.
josh64··on IBM Quad9 – A free security solution using DNS to protect against cyber threats
From Perth, Western Australia:

  $ ping 9.9.9.9 -c 10
  PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=1.014 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=1.038 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=1.023 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=0.918 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=0.968 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=1.121 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=6 ttl=57 time=0.946 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=7 ttl=57 time=0.978 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=8 ttl=57 time=1.001 ms
  64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=9 ttl=57 time=1.140 ms

  --- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
  10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.918/1.015/1.140/0.067 ms
josh64··on GitLab 9.4 Released with Related Issues and Web Application Monitoring
The new beta navigation is so much better than the current navigation model. The navigation context is now easier to see and I find the colour quite attractive. :)

I can't wait until it is enabled by default in future versions.

josh64··on Show HN: Javalin, a Kotlin/Java REST API framework (big api changes)
Nice change - it's a shame this got buried.
josh64··on TypeScript 2.4 RC
https://djcordhose.github.io/flow-vs-typescript/elm-flow-typ... compares Flow TS and Elm :)
josh64··on Npm v5.0.0 released
You can do the same thing with npm and yarn as well by referencing the git+https URL and a tag/branch/commit instead of a version number.
josh64··on Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit
I use Autosleep too. Like you said, it's not fantastic but it does the job and it's nice that you can fine-tune it based on how restless you are normally at night etc.
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