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moontear··on Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
How does this help me when luggage is lost? I imagine standing at the lost luggage counter pointing at my phone screen: „But it’s there! Look!!!“, and the poor soul at the counter can only say „yes, we will get it to you asap“.

I totally get the peace of mind aspect, knowing where it is. But I don’t believe it helps me getting my luggage back if it is „lost“.

Imagine the worst case: the luggage fell down some escalator somewhere during transit. Or somewhere on the runway. And you then see it lying THERE! I SEE IT! How would the lost luggage counter contact a person picking up the luggage from there? I don’t think there are processes in place for this.

moontear··on How roasted almonds become marzipan (2018)
True. Best marzipan around. Of course there are other copy cat marzipans from Lübeck which are not the real thing.
moontear··on A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response [pdf]
Very much this. I do like that they split the children into "crying-start", "alert-start" and "asleep-start" groups, but ultimately I have had the experience that every kid is different and sleeps differently.
moontear··on Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models
Any way to search by URL / part of the URL?
moontear··on Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach
There are email Alias services such as anonaddy.com or SimpleLogin.io doing the same thing hide my email is doing.
moontear··on The Secretary Problem
Seems like you haven’t found the right secretary yet.
moontear··on Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
I wouldn't consider this a red flag, but a missing feature.

But nothing against keycloak - keycloak is the gold standard. But compared to Authelia, Keycloak is really cumbersome to get up and running and also to maintain.

moontear··on Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
Haven't thought about that and this should certainly be addressed - especially if I'd use Tailscale for business.
moontear··on Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
Exactly my experience. The leaked emails are pretty much always related to hacks/leaks of said companies.

I have a couple of addresses that look to have been sold (e.g. addresses used in cheap kickstarter campaigns), but that is more rare.

moontear··on Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
Less spam. A phone number is a much better deterrent against opening a hundred accounts than let’s say an email address.
moontear··on Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
"allowing them access into my personal network"

In what form? The private keys never leave the nodes, hence there shouldn't by any access per se (see https://tailscale.com/security/). Of course TS has insights into your networks, i.e. what servers it is installed on, what you connect to - so metadata.

moontear··on Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
But don't you want your own OpenID service? I highly recomment Authelia - easy to set up and works for so many services that allow a custom OIDC service.
moontear··on Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
I personally like Sophia Script a lot to initially configure Windows to my liking: https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows

It also does a lot more than „debloat“ which is a loaded term on itself because tastes are different. Someone might like having certain things included in their installation, some don’t.

moontear··on How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb
True. It still thew me off having to estimate metric units from the imperial units and doing that estimation while reading an article about estimation.
moontear··on Show HN: International Legal Dictionary
Impressive and really readable.

I feel this would benefit from a slightly different name such as International Common Law Dictionary or something similar instead of the general term used now.

I believe that many concepts found in common law just don’t translate to other law systems (let’s say Sweden, Spain, Germany) and a translation of the words (which would help in terms of understanding) actually doesn’t do the concepts justice because they just don’t exist in the other systems.

E.g. „Article III judge“. Probably won’t be found in other systems, but easily translatable or the Chapter entries (Chapter 11, Chapter 9 etc) - surely every law has some kind of similar law or code or whatever, but I believe it couldn’t be directly related to these code chapters.

moontear··on CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France
Yes, it has been tested: https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/09/microsoft...

And that’s exactly what it would be like, though the house in Paris would be owned by a company that has a legal entity in the United States.

moontear··on Norwegian Meteorological Institute has an excellent free weather API
I‘m not sure how this is relevant to the post, but just mentioning that the 67,9% just indicates that this much installations are using this integration (met). Since this is the default weather provider in HA and everybody wants weather the high percentage makes sense.
moontear··on Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
Shoutout to ZeroTier, Nebula which essentially do the same thing. Or Netmaker if you wanna go complete open source/self hosted.
moontear··on Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
True, but that is also not what Tailscale is for - tailscale would be me comparable to Cloudflare Access instead of their tunnels.
moontear··on Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
Agreed. I also don’t like the „Chinese junk“ in the subtitle. This is not what the OP was referring though? The article clearly states „space junk“ which I believe is correct.
moontear··on Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
The title does not contain the words junk. The subtitle makes a reference.

The article makes no suggestions of any failure nor a Chinese satellite failure, why are you suggesting it does?

moontear··on Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
What makes you say this? It is supposed to be a spent stage of a Chinese rocket booster - though there is no confirmation yet and this is the prevailing theory.

Right now it is space junk hitting the moon and it would be space junk no matter the origin of the spent rocket booster.

moontear··on FCC proposes record $34k fine for unauthorized transmissions during wildfire
It would be helpful, just not the way he did.

During his transmissions he was blocking any other transmission on that frequency, maybe an important message couldn’t be sent due to his „help“. Those frequencies are for emergency personnel only and it can‘t be used as a public tip line.

Imagine there would be more of his kind on those frequencies, all of them „helping“. Each one thinking that their help is essential, but none of them actually being in emergency response teams, just sitting in their lawn chairs giving helpful advise.

moontear··on How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
Woah that’s even more interesting! „M05 30, Mon“. May I ask where you are from or where that date format is used?
moontear··on So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router
Just chiming in: awesome read! I really love your dedication to get into this beautiful beast.

Up until your post I pretty much had forgotten about T1,T2, Tx lines and how much I wanted one back in the day.

I did not understand why you had to get a different cable line for Netflix etc.? The speed of the like couldn’t have been an issue?

moontear··on How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
OT: what kind of date format is used in the article? It says „M05 27 2022“ and I have not seen that before. Does M05 mean May-05, so basically saying may-may?
moontear··on New(ish) command line tools
It's on the list
moontear··on The Personal Security Checklist
Check out the beautiful start page by the same author: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy
moontear··on Ask HN: Can we ban Twitter links, please?
I don't have any problems with Twitter threads. Why don't you like them? I can consume them easily on mobile and on my desktop.

On the other hand I think apps that unroll threads are the worst. All the spammy answers just saying "@threadreaderapp" or something like that - THAT is the worst in my eyes.

Nothing against blog posts, I'd also prefer a blog post over a Twitter thread.

moontear··on Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
Shoutout for Hedgedoc a fork of CodiMD - Hedgedoc supports Mermaid already next to a lot of other markdown syntax:

https://hedgedoc.org/

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