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nonninz··on About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1
According to my phone is 139.8 MB
nonninz··on Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
I've been using QC35s with a Macbook for a long while and thanks to your comment I finally understand why sometime the headphones would switch to a different "mode" where there is a lot of hissing in the background and the button (which I have configured to switch NR levels) wouldn't do anything.

Super interesting, thank you!

So apparently this "mode" comes from the headphones switching to HFP. Interesting that in this mode the left button presses are ignored...

I'll try to notice when it's doing this. I have the feeling it's when I am on a call but not all programs do that. I use Slack, Facetime, and sometimes Google Meet via Chrome. I'm pretty confident only some of these trigger the switch, and whenever the call ends the phones go back to A2DP.

nonninz··on Open source “split-flap” mechanical display
A nice coincidence, this was on my homepage of Reddit this morning: Smart flip clock with weather tutorial [1], [2]

It looks like in this other project they just 3D print everything?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/comments/mtq0k8/sma... [2] https://github.com/barlowtj48/flipclock

nonninz··on Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision
I think closed captions include description of noises, music cues, etc.

CC subtitle tracks often show up with the name "English (SDH)" (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of hearing).

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

nonninz··on USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)
So THAT's why plugging any USB3 external HD to my "factotum" home server breaks immediately all my home automation working on Zigbee.

And I thought the motherboard was defective...

nonninz··on Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?
Do you keep a journal though?
nonninz··on TV Size-to-Distance Calculator and Science
So does this essentially mean that all those people who say things like "You don't need/can't distinguish 4K if your nose isn't touching the screen()" are wrong?

I have always thought it was a strange thing to say. I can definitely see the difference between a 4K stream vs a 1080p one, even when the screen is much more far away than the recommended distance...

() An hyperbole, obviously.

nonninz··on Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
Wow this thread made me realize there are so many tools for this.

Just to throw in another one, at my company we are using git-crypt [1], and it works pretty well in our case

[1] https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt

nonninz··on This is how I git
Try git add -uip
nonninz··on APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS
There is a long standing bug that AFAIK it was never fixed, that it corrupts the backups if you close/disconnect the laptop while it's doing a backup it will leave the disk in a corrupted state.

It's not the NAS fault usually.

I've switched to an external HD always plugged on my "docking station" as Time Machine backup for this reason. Although it's annoying to remember to unmount the HD (and check if a Time Machine backup is in progress) before disconnecting the laptop :/

nonninz··on Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads
I have also a LG TV, and I used to keep it disconnected at all times as all my streaming comes from the nVidia Shield anyway.

However recently I wanted to setup my home automation system to automatically turn the TV off when I go to bed or outside, and for that I needed to connect it to the home network.

I solved this by confguring the router firewall to drop any package from the TV to the internet. It works!

nonninz··on Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
It seems that Kodi[1] would be your perfect choice, and that is indeed what I'm using in a very similar setup.

Setup your media (local or remote) library, and the scraper will enrich it with posters, synopsis, actors, etc.

[1] https://kodi.tv/

nonninz··on On WD Red NAS Drives
Looks like my RAID NAS at home is safe (from this at least) then. Thank you :)
nonninz··on Show HN: A programmable tooltip on Mac OS
This is fantastic, thank you.

I have two questions:

1. Did you decide against including any script in the app bundle for more privacy? It looks like it.

2. So all scripts must be appended in that same file? Have you thought about a behavior like a ".d" directory in the recent "Unix world", where each file can add configuration options? That would enable using different scripts and different languages.

nonninz··on Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health
If I buy an used iPhone I want to make sure all the parts inside are original.

The warning is there for that reason. The phone still works with 3rd party batteries.

nonninz··on Trolls break into meetings on Zoom
> 720p would be too much IMHO.

I may be spoiled with a good real 50/10 Mbit connection but for me in 2020 720p is the bare minimum. Expecially when screen sharing.

nonninz··on Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
Just my 2 cents: I tried using Couchpotato for a while and it was one of the worst pieces of software I have ever tried to use. Confusing UX/UI, I never could understand how and when it was actually searching for movies etc.

I switched to radarr[1] and I never looked back. Although I hate having mono installed in my server, at least I can manually perform searches to check if it works until I was satisfied that the "Monitoring" feature actually works. And I find the UI much more understandable too.

I also use sonarr[2], which is also pretty satisfying for me. Although SickChill looks much better and more feature complete; I will look into it when (if?) I manage to get back home.

[1] https://github.com/Radarr/Radarr [2] https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr

nonninz··on Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?
That wasn't introduced by Catalina though, it has been there since forever.

For what I understood it happens when the macbook is forced to go to sleep/loses connectivity while in the middle of a backup. It doesn't cleanly unmount the remote file system and it causes data corruption.

There are some ways of "restoring" the remote FS but they may or may not work, are very slow, opaque (what actually was fixed?) and flaky.

I just switched to an external USB drive for Time Machine and not looking back

nonninz··on OpenSK: a fully open-source security key implementation
> nRF52840 (does latter require blobs for radios?)

Yes it does ([1]).

But honest question are there any chipsets out there which doesn't? Maybe some open source projects? The radio protocols are incredibly complex so I would be (pleasantly) surprised if there was.

[1] https://www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-tools/Software/S140

nonninz··on Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
So not even photos are E2E encrypted? Nor Voice Memos, notes... nothing that is not written in the second list?
nonninz··on Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
Germany.

And thank you again :)

nonninz··on Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
This.

In Europe each country (with an Amazon presence ofc) has its own website, each with its own stock and sellers. Buying from the US website is often a no-go, because of the shipping times and the customs fees, and also buying from other european countries is often bad as you forego free shipping and returns.

But anyway thank you for your product, it's already pretty useful for brand products. :)

nonninz··on Cock.li server seized again by German prosecutor, service moves to Romania
Excuse my ignorance, but how does full-disk encryption work if you don't have console access to it?

How do you enter the password after, say, a hard reset/power outage?

nonninz··on Show HN: Drov.io – plug-and-play user authentication and management platform
A quick remark: you may want to lose the autofocus on the call to action input field.

On mobile (tablet) it automatically pops up the keyboard, between that and the cookies disclaimer it hides almost the whole page.

nonninz··on Why are free proxies free? (2013)
Well ZenMate is a VERY well funded startup offering a freemium service.

While their desktop proxy service is free, they also offer a premium account for their VPN services for mobile.

See: http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/01/zenmate/

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