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lhaussknecht··on Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
Cool project! For a DIY beginner, what would be a good starting point for a "normal" drone/octocopter project?
lhaussknecht··on MinIO repository is no longer maintained
We are using ruftfs for our simple usecases as a replacement for minio. Very slim footprint and very fast.
lhaussknecht··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Sure, it's doable, and I'm on Linux desktop as well and not missing anything. She never had a computer other than her iPad. So it's hard (for me) but for her it's the best solution right now.
lhaussknecht··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
I'm using Debian an when working for a client that requires Windows, I'm working in a VirtualBox with Windows Server 2022 as my desktop OS. It works really well (running mainly Visual Studio) and licenses are pretty cheap. But the best part is, that there are no ads and other Windows 11 Copilot nonsense.
lhaussknecht··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Picked up a Framework 13 for my daughter for Xmas. She’s a politics student, so she needs a solid keyboard. I hate installing Windows on this hardware, but she absolutely relies on Office and Citavi. Plus, proficiency in Windows is a standard requirement in her field. Maybe she'll discover Linux eventually!
lhaussknecht··on Monkeytype – A Minimalistic Typing Test
Looks like https://monkeytype.com/ is driven by monkeytype ;)
lhaussknecht··on Chrome browser for businesses
We already deployed chrome in the enterise to run our Chrome packaged app. Too bad Google EOLed packaged apps....
lhaussknecht··on Show HN: FIND – an indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops
As far as I understood, it's not using triangulation. It's using machine learning to classify wifi fingerprints.
lhaussknecht··on Show HN: FIND – an indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops
No, you don't need beacons here. It works using "fingerprints" (and machine learning) of nearby APs.
lhaussknecht··on Show HN: FIND – an indoor positioning system for smartphones and laptops
They claim a typical accuracy of 10 square feet (< 1 square meter) which would be really really good. Even systems with beacons are not better.
lhaussknecht··on Acceptance of FIDO 2.0 accelerates the movement to end passwords
There is an native U2F implementation for Android by yubico: https://github.com/Yubico/android-u2f-demo. Also take a look at this webinar https://www.yubico.com/2015/10/u2f-webinar-from-concept-to-i.... The client data part is what you have to send to the authenticator.
lhaussknecht··on Acceptance of FIDO 2.0 accelerates the movement to end passwords
AFAIK yes. The spec defines the high-level API you use withing the browser.
lhaussknecht··on Acceptance of FIDO 2.0 accelerates the movement to end passwords
I just tested exactly this with this sample app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webviewbro.... But it isn't working. I think the FIDO API is not implemented in the WebView right now.
lhaussknecht··on Acceptance of FIDO 2.0 accelerates the movement to end passwords
Why do you think PayPal is involved when you do a U2F login?
lhaussknecht··on Acceptance of FIDO 2.0 accelerates the movement to end passwords
I was suprised that when signing in to my Goole account on my Android device with Chrome Beta, the Google Authenticator App pops up to do U2F with my YubiKey NEO via NFC. That was really seamless!

Does anybody know, if it would be possible to use this within a WebView in a native app?

lhaussknecht··on Twitter Web has been down for over 20 mins. Are you affected?
Germany too.
lhaussknecht··on OpenALPR: Automatic License Plate Recognition Library
My experience with other (commercial) NPR is, that it's better to narrow down your expected search results to those countries you are looking for. The whole EU would be too wide...
lhaussknecht··on OpenALPR: Automatic License Plate Recognition Library
Yes, that are common plates. But there are also special ones. Look at the personalized plates in austria.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
lhaussknecht··on OpenALPR: Automatic License Plate Recognition Library
Most cameras offer a HTTP interface to acquire images. You can feed those to the LPR. Some LPR stacks offer recognition of license plates directly from video streams (MJPG, H.264).
lhaussknecht··on Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2
Sad that they showed a node example. What about asp.net on .net core?
lhaussknecht··on Is It Time for Germany’s Doorless Elevators to Move On?
We have four paternosters in our office here in cologne and I'm using them every day. It's really cool, because you have mostly no wait time to get into it.

Two of them are out of order at the moment. I heard, that fixing one would cost about 900k €.

lhaussknecht··on Windows on Devices
I'm still doing Windows CE 6.0 development on Motorola Business Handhelds. Sadly MS abandoned Windows CE (.net CF) from their IDEs since VS 2008.
lhaussknecht··on Amazon Kinesis Available For All Customers
Looks similar to my logstash -> elastic search -> kibana workflow.
lhaussknecht··on Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server
Take a look at how the Leap Motion works. You connect the Leap Motion to your usb port, a demon/service interacts with the Leap Motion and opens a websocket server on localhost so that websites can interact with the hardware device without browser plugins.
lhaussknecht··on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Hehe, never mind. It's the first of the offered features...
lhaussknecht··on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Are add-ons such as PostGIS supported on RDS?
lhaussknecht··on How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
Reminds me of a colleague who RDPed into each of our 140 subsidiaries to change a config file. He had a list of servers on his desk and ticked off every server. Took him the whole day to apply the changes.
lhaussknecht··on Frequency-shaped background noise generators
Go to White Noise and pick Pink Noise as a preset.
lhaussknecht··on A new breed of Chrome Apps
I'm also interested in distributing my app offline to my customers, but I didn't find a solution for that yet.
lhaussknecht··on Stripe launches German beta
Does Stripe deal with scoring and fraud prevention etc. or do I have to implement my own countermeasures?
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