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minedwiz··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
At least the clients are, it's something.

https://github.com/protonpass

minedwiz··on From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max
Did he get the job?
minedwiz··on Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver
If there's one thing we should never criticise people for, it's politeness and generally being nice. Internet needs more of it.`
minedwiz··on FreeBSD
I thought this was just a link in case one hadn't heard of FreeBSD :)
minedwiz··on The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want
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minedwiz··on Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
It's about https://www.npmjs.com/package/ip
minedwiz··on Lynn Conway has died
Quite disappointing to hear; I know the feeling on discovering unfortunate things coworkers believe :(. I can scarcely imagine the feeling of seeing real progress happen on trans acceptance, only to then see a blowback coming, right at the end of your life. Glad she will be remembered positively.
minedwiz··on Lynn Conway has died
Yep, loss of a prominent HN-relevant person.
minedwiz··on Lynn Conway has died
If this is verified, I think a black band is 100% warranted. As I understand it, she was a real innovator in VLSI, which I think we all agree is somewhat important :)

EDIT: GG, the black band appeared as I sent this

minedwiz··on Launch from inside an Apollo capsule (restored in 4K/30 FPS) [video]
If you liked that, check out the onboard camera of Soyuz MS-09's launch: https://youtu.be/fr_hXLDLc38?t=302

I timestamped that to 2nd stage separation, and it gives a cool impression about what it's like (particularly the astronaut on the left's reaction).

minedwiz··on Launch from inside an Apollo capsule (restored in 4K/30 FPS) [video]
'Tis, and in the video the maker explains what they had to do - telecine 16mm film, stabilise, upscale, and interpolate from 5 -> 30 fps, as well as generate plausible sound from the spectra provided in the original test report.
minedwiz··on Launch from inside an Apollo capsule (restored in 4K/30 FPS) [video]
Found it cool that this has the real sound of the master alarm in it; the movie version from Apollo 13 was dramatised.
minedwiz··on Launch from inside an Apollo capsule (restored in 4K/30 FPS) [video]
Given the date and that it's a Saturn-1B, that would make it AS-202, one of the early test flights. So instruments probably real, but not final hardware.
minedwiz··on [dead]
Hey guys, I have a novel exploit that lets you compromise any Linux system if you have the disk encryption keys, root password, and physical access.
minedwiz··on Review board faults Microsoft for 'cascade' of errors in China hack
The crash dump thing was just a hypothesis, then. Not great that they have no idea where they got signing keys, still.
minedwiz··on Bar exam will no longer be required to become attorney in Washington State
Honestly sounds like the return of reading law, a kind of legal apprenticeship (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_law), as opposed to a new experiment.
minedwiz··on Ask HN: Which skills are least likely to be replaced by AI?
HN moment
minedwiz··on FAA says 737 MAX operator discovered loose bolts in rudder system in December
TBF, the 737 had a bad rudder flaw in the 1990s that led to fatal crashes. After an overhaul it never came back, and the 737 went on to have a great record.
minedwiz··on We've Forgotten How to Use Computers
Article about the death of the mouse has an odd section slagging on gaming mice. Sure.
minedwiz··on Boeing Reinstalled Panel That Later Blew Out of 737 MAX Jet
I remember reading this in the Seattle times first, this morning. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein.... Archive.is link for paywall issues - https://archive.is/uXTSY
minedwiz··on 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in Modern Language [video]
To the extent that English existed in 180 even
minedwiz··on Uniting the Linux random-number devices (2022)
`rdtsc`, you have a very appropriate username for the topic
minedwiz··on Commuting time of more than 30 min one way linked to higher chance of depression
Probably just a person to person thing, but I used to commute on the tube, and I loved tunnels. Way more than riding bus through some parts of London.
minedwiz··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
You're in luck: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953603/signal-username-...
minedwiz··on The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud
Looking over another story on this at https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-unveils-first-ai-chi..., Cobalt seems to be a general purpose ARM CPU.
minedwiz··on I need more USB power
In power-over-ethernet setups, you can have up to 57VDC at the consuming device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#Standard_i...
minedwiz··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
Disclaimer: not American either, but it does seem like the judge does it from what I read. Sentencing is 28 March so seems he’ll have quite some time.
minedwiz··on Bitwarden adds support for passkeys
It's definitely out (https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/releases/tag/browser-v2... just looks like browsers haven't approved it yet.
minedwiz··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
I'm also partial to the Surface devices'. MS put a surprising amount of effort into making them look Windows-y.
minedwiz··on Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel
IIRC ARM64 Windows running in a VM on Mac greatly exceeded performance on native windows hardware with those qcom chips.
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