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redsky17··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
Unsure exactly what instance you're thinking of, but this happened in Missouri in the USA a few years ago: https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-is-the-hacking-investig...
redsky17··on Geekbench 7
If memory serves, it has been since version 4 or 5 that they started including real workloads. I agree that it shouldn’t be considered synthetic any more.
redsky17··on Geekbench 7
It looks like they have the workloads for version 7 as well:

CPU: https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench7-cpu-workloads.pdf

GPU: https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench7-gpu-workloads.pdf

redsky17··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
Sheldon Browns website is a treasure trove of information! It’s an old school website, but the content is there.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com

redsky17··on MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
My bet for why they're comparing it to the Intel models: They want to advertise more heavily to the Intel folks so they can more quickly reduce / remove support for multiple architectures. They are trying to convince the Intel folks that Apple Silicon will be much more performant. Also, they probably want people to spend money on their products sooner than they otherwise would have.

That being said, They are still comparing against the M1 chips here. They aren't only comparing against Intel.

redsky17··on Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
Not sure exactly when you had the UDM, but the earlier firmware for both the UDM and UDMP was awful and filled with bugs. It has since gotten a lot better. I haven't had any issues with my UDMP since the newer firmware and my home internet experience is much smoother than with my consumer routers (which would randomly drop connections or refuse new connections until a reboot... full NAT table maybe?)
redsky17··on PinePhone – Beta Edition Linux SmartPhone Preorder
What does the optional proprietary firmware on the type-c Controller get you? Just wondering.. I have the convergence mobian edition from ~January that seems to work well out of the box with the included usb-c hub. Does the convergence edition possibly come with that proprietary firmware?
redsky17··on Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
Well, I'm glad to see this posted here... I was concerned that somehow my phone got infected with some kind of malware after a reboot didn't fix it. It's concerning to me that an update was pushed out that apparently wasn't tested very well.
redsky17··on Google’s Internal Data Show Engineers Found It Harder to Code from Home
The beauty of noise-cancelling headphones is that you don't need to have the volume as loud to block out the sound. Make sure you're not listening too loudly! Ear damage from sound is no joke.
redsky17··on Significant JavaScript projects from 2006 to 2020
Electron is listed as #9 as the entry for 2013.
redsky17··on Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies
Have you considered SailfishOS? It can be run on a number of devices (including the PinePhone if that interests you): https://jolla.com/sailfishx/

And more info about the PinePhone and it's OS support: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone_Software_Release...

redsky17··on GitHub was down again
Gitea has a lot of those features already: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/

Issues with a green 'X' means they link to a feature on their issue tracker.

And, as far as I know, they are working on integrating CI/CD right now. They already have support for other non-integrated CI/CD platforms: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/ci-cd/

redsky17··on Ask HN: Anyone from Apple here? It's impossible to enroll the dev program
This ended up happening to me recently (about a month ago), too. I ended up having to enroll via the app on iOS versus through the website on desktop. I was in contact w/ the support folks and they were fairly helpful. Could be worth reaching out.
redsky17··on Nvidia's $99 Jetson Nano Is an AI Computer for DIY Enthusiasts
If you're not counting physical hardware, it can take even less time than that. I built a MIPS processor in verilog over the course of a month or so back in college
redsky17··on Volvo is introducing a 112mph speed limiter to all its new cars
6th gear is usually an overdrive gear (meant for cruising on a highway to preserve fuel). It's very possible that you'll get a higher top speed in 5th.
redsky17··on Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks
You can generally do this pretty closely digitally by taking the left and right channels of a stereo track and inverting the phase on one of them. Since the vocals are usually panned center (as you said), the inverted phase ends up destructively cancelling them. Depending on how the instrumentation was mixed, usually the instruments are left pretty in-tact.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
The simple answer is that I don't like Spotify as much as I like GPM and Tidal. Tidal is my go-to for high-quality music when I'm listening at home on my nice speakers. I've found that Tidal has the best radio experience, at least for the type of music I listen to (Spotify and GPM have a bad habit of playing the same exact songs / artists when I do a radio for a particular artist/album/song, Tidal varies it more).

Google play music is simply extremely convenient considering how nicely it works with Google Assistant. Additionally, I have tens of thousands of my own music collection uploaded to GPM that I'm free to download whenever I want without restriction. Spotify lets you play music offline, but it's basically cached and still tied to your premium Spotify subscription.

redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
Only one of those is sort of an option for me. USB tokens = disallowed. Accessing personal email at work = disallowed. Using a single recovery code is a possibility, but I would have to rotate through them constantly (see other comments in this thread).
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
That's not a great scenario for me, either. I'm currently paying $7.99/mo for GPM because I've been a subscriber since the beta. If I switch to another google account just for GPM, I will end up paying $2/mo more.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
There's a massive amount of websites that are blocked, so it's not really what I would call 'unfettered.' The reason that phones aren't allowed is related to the fact that they have cameras / microphones. They don't want someone's infected phone spilling company secrets.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
I wonder if there's a way to programmatically re-generate the one-time-use codes. It might be a fun project to set something up that emails a one-time-use code to my work email and then regenerates one.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
That's the thing.. I'm already paying for two music streaming services that I use far more often than Spotify. And my wording isn't clear, but I don't listen to it 'a few hours per day every day.' It's more like 'a few hours when I do listen to music at work, which I don't usually do.' I'd guess that it's less than 10 hours per month that I'm listening to Spotify.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
I had no idea that was an option in the first place. I'll have to look into this more.

All of the services that I know of that let you read texts remotely are also blocked at work. Basically anything that falls under the category of messaging or email.

redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
I should have phrased it differently, but there's a strong emphasis on the word 'tops' there. I'd say that most of the time at work, I don't listen to music at all, and when I do listen to music, it's never for more than two hours per day.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
I could be mistaken, but it was my understanding that those backup codes are one-time-use only, and that using one basically burns it forever. My cookies get cleared every single time I close my browser, so I would have to continually log back in and keep burning more codes. If I'm wrong about this... that would be excellent.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
So the reason for that has more to do with my corporate firewall than anything. I do pay for subscription services that I enjoy more than Spotify (currently, Google Play Music and Tidal). However, I cannot have a phone at work, so I can't log into GPM (2FA requires the phone), and Tidal is blocked for other reasons. So that basically just leaves Spotify. I don't want to pay for a third subscription service that I only use for a few hours per day tops.
redsky17··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
The only reason I use an ad-blocker with Spotify in the first place is that they have an abundance of NSFW ads that play. I'm not really comfortable with Trojan advertisements while I'm sitting in the office plugging away. It's definitely their right to deny service if people are freeloading... but there could be other people like me who wouldn't use an ad blocker in the first place (on Spotify, at least) if the ads weren't such garbage.
redsky17··on Matrix at FOSDEM 2019
There's a fork of nheko that's under active development:

https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko

I'll reach out to the matrix folks and ask about getting the website updated.

redsky17··on Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook
This article in particular is in a section of the Snopes website that is intentionally false/misleading:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/category/lost-legends/

redsky17··on Nheko-Reborn: continuing support of the popular Matrix client
I recently created a fork of the popular nheko Matrix client. It was a shame that such a promising project was left to wither away. I'm hoping to garner community support so that Matrix can live on as a community project. To that end, I've set up a GitHub organization that I hope people will join to keep progress moving forward on the client.

Right now, I am trying to get all of the various accounts set up to migrate the CI portions to accounts that the org can contribute to. The next step will be to start addressing some of the open issues remaining on the mujx repository. I'm focusing on the bugs for now, and then feature requests will follow.

As a long-time lurker on hackernews, I figured this might be a project that the folks here would be interested in contributing to, or at least being aware of.

Come join us at #nheko-reborn:matrix.org on Matrix!