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megraf··on Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it
What did you do?
megraf··on Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
Can epileptics drive to a movie theater and watch a movie?
megraf··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
You're right - I have to move them to Network Framework when I have time :)
megraf··on Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
Apple’s MultipeerConnectivity framework -- phones discover and talk over local wifi / bluetooth via MCSession, MCNearbyServiceAdvertiser, and MCNearbyServiceBrowser in PeerSessionManager.
megraf··on Ghidra by NSA
How interesting.

Anyway, I would recommend YouTube. Find a series you can follow along. Best of luck!

megraf··on China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
保管国家机密。你的社交信用评分下降了。
megraf··on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230
This is common at nightclubs (or was) - a DJ can use their headphones as a microphone, speaking into one channel and listening to another

Example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NNP6AFkpjs

:-)

megraf··on Apple reportedly releasing 'total redesign' for MacBook Pro in 2026
Bingo. It's a nice trick because you get the menu bar space back to.
megraf··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Checkout woodgears.ca :-)
megraf··on McDonald's to extend $5 value meal in most markets as diners return
I don't go to mc'ds very often and wasn't even aware of their coupons. Perhaps you're right
megraf··on Show HN: I've built a child monitoring app with mitmproxy and WireGuard
You've created a monster. You're MITM'ing children. You're giving children's data to {whomever}.

You've cherry picked your own beliefs and inserted / removed them along the way.

This is disgusting

megraf··on Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language
As a 30 something, I completely agree.
megraf··on Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
Of course they did. They have to pay separate licensing for the use of DAS – which is developed by M$ and resold from NYPD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Awareness_System

megraf··on Pack: A new container format for compressed files
Yes, it's horrendous - I thought I was intoxicated
megraf··on MacPad: I created the hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet that Apple won't make
Can't you run UTM (QEMU) on these devices? You should be able to run anything you want
megraf··on The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
I would say Rails is still in its Heyday. I've been writing ruby since 1.8.7 and I'm constantly surprised by the frequency of major releases of rails, and the backward compatibility (Rails 3 -> 5 was hard). I completely agree about the discipline required to keep a large project clean, although I find that true across the board with large codebases.
megraf··on Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?
Network hobbyist here: an excellent home project is to setup your own PBX. Complete with VLAN's, and backups running on your favorite HV. Most importantly, use hard phones with SCCP.

It's a challenge of itself, and will force you to demonstrate your understanding

megraf··on AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro
Likely edible as well
megraf··on The story of titanium
Resting next to me is a titanium ring, it is extremely light, resistant to ambient temp change, and is usually cool to the touch. It cost $15 or so. It wears in a really beautiful way, aging like it's enjoying itself.

On my finger is a tungsten carbide ring, it's extremely dense (that of gold, slightly heavier than uranium), and has a lot of interesting properties. It's warmed quickly by my fingers, and rings the most beautiful tone when I strike it with some bar stock of AI.

Wolfram has been a very nice metal in my life, I wish it was more common, and would love to try to add some knurling to it.

megraf··on First Apple M3 Pro Benchmarks Show Surprisingly Low Multi-Core Gains over M2 Pro
I have a work issued M1 Max, which has an incredible amount of computational power.

I wanted a personal computer, and purchased an identical machine, M1 Max, 64Gig, whatever. I realized 4 days later that it wasn't possible for me to push my personal machine anywhere near this machines limits. I returned it, and bought an extremely cheap ($240?) MacBook Pro, i5 - 2017.

It hasn't slowed me down, and my strategy is to use macOS and not sign in with my Apple ID. No Mac App Store, iCloud, etc. I use App tamer and little snitch to eke out any performance gains possible... it's an excellent machine, and I'm so happy with it.

I want to thank Apple for introducing this express route in the rat race, which has lead to an extremely friendly second market of intel, and 1st generation M's.

I implore you to ask yourself if you really need the next generation, or even the previous one before purchasing

megraf··on The Windows installer of ImageMagick will no longer be signed
Considering the scale of ImageMagick- $629 is a very, very small amount of money considering the value that IM has generated.
megraf··on Ask HN: Is it ethical to sell subscriptions to software without a cloud?
~~~I do not condone online video game cheating~~~

Way back when (2006?), a friend of mine sold wallhacks for online games. It was his software, written in C++, and it was considered to be pretty much on a level of its own.

Anyway, IIRC, Casper had a piece of software wrap his executable which would generate a hash from the purchasers PC, I believe it was hardware- Hard drives, graphics cards, whatever.

It was extremely difficult to determine who was a new customer, and who was a customer who upgraded their hardware. It ended up being a lot of maintenance - but it was cool to see behind the scenes, so to say.

It was also interesting to see another league of players form: dedicated cheating servers. Who had the best hacks amongst the hackers. At first, it was walling (seeing through walls), and then aimbots. Aimbots got better, and finally aimbots which calculated the spray patterns.

He ended up having a baby and taking a professional software job

megraf··on Pixel 8 Pro
I've started thinking about cars like this too. We shouldn't have yearly models, it's an absolute waste
megraf··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
This is an incredible write up. As soon as I saw the steps about patching mitm, I knew this would be special... wow!
megraf··on Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices
Call me a skeptic, but I see this as political theater. If Google themselves wanted to peek-at-you, they would never have to look as deep as the firmware. If a _foreign_ government wanted to, and they could 'poison the well' this obviously helps.

I feel like this is part of Apple's cover story for excessive serialization 'we just want to make sure the parts in your phone are the parts we own'.

megraf··on Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration
I'm currently running a very expensive PoE doorbell that I was able to buy in 'AS-IS' condition to save some money. It's an Axis Communications product.

I really love the ability to listen for ONVIF events; it expands the flexibility of products like this because you can essentially do whatever you want if you consume the events. There are even ways to create custom events (for example, if someone covers the camera lens with their hands, etc).

Home Assistant has excellent ONVIF support - I'd like to create a wrapper of sorts around scripts (Boolean door open, door close stuff) in order to get the native ONVIF events

megraf··on My Overkill Home Network
I've been fascinated by home labbing for a while now, and maintain something with comical simplicity.

ESXI 8.0.1 worked out of the box with the 7090 I was given.

I'm migrating it from 6.7u3, which is running in 14 year old hardware (injecting the drivers was easy btw - finding the drivers was difficult).

ESXi is not managed with vCenter, it's a standalone host. I'm hosting a handful of VM's that do everything I need.

Critical items are never sorted solely on the server; they're stored on three remote sources, with integrity checks , and mock restorations.

Fortigate 140d PoE, which handles a phone system and all of the PoE I need.

Backups are simple. No RAID, again, critical stuff is not solely on the server.

I use enterprise disks, and SMART - I'll get a notification with ntfy if something gets wonky.

Server is consuming 60-160w. 16gb of RAM, non ECC, 5th gen i5, 12TB of storage.

Homebridge, home assistant, scrypted, Asterisk, Samba, Timemachine backups (all containers configured with compose, checked into Git) windows 10 and 7 VM's

All of the hardware is second hand, with exception to the disks. Ambient in the closet is 29, no dedicated cooling.

UPS with cyberpower.

Glad to see you're using solar, and that your hardware too is used. When I worked in the industry they'd toss stuff I could never afford...

FWIW: Proxmox seemed like something new to learn entirely, ESXi seemed similar for me; I don't mind the RAID stance, or the licensing...

megraf··on My Overkill Home Network
Axis communications, exclusively.
megraf··on The Cables That Run the Internet
I read a pretty good book about this, it's title was "Tubes, a journey to the center of the internet" - I would recommend it
megraf··on Kevin Mitnick has died
I snuck into a banking conference in Miami Florida to meet Kevin. I forged my badge, using the previous years design as inspiration. I got in, and met him, and gave him my badge.

He said "that's really cool" and signed a copy of Ghost in the Wires for me.

Really incredible guy. Rest in peace my friend.

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