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sashk··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Yes. You usually get +1 year to existing expiration date of your domain, at least this is how it works for .com, .us and few other tlds I have.
sashk··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
mix of Cloudflare, porkbun and Dynadot (for olds other two doesn't support).
sashk··on Apple *deletes* your Apple Music library if you unsubscribe
(2018)
sashk··on Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?
I loved Touch Bar. I hated missing functional keys. They attempted to fix it by reintroducing physical escape key, but it was not enough.
sashk··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
we're still waiting for macOS version of The Bat!, which was promised years ago.
sashk··on iRobot Is in Trouble, but Roomba Is Already Dead
A few years ago, I bought a Eufy robot vacuum. Less than a year later, one of the wheels stopped working: a known issue caused by faulty gears. When I reached out to Eufy, they told me the product had been discontinued, no parts were available, and they wouldn’t honor the warranty. So be careful with them.
sashk··on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
You can bring ONVIF compatible camera into NVR, but you won't get any detections unless you use AI Key...
sashk··on Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down
their status page shows there is no problems with it.
sashk··on Show HN: Talanoa – The email client I always dreamed of (people-first, Kanban)
> Do I need a Google account to use Talanoa?

> Yes

No.

sashk··on Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
Reminds me Tot by IconFactory. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2020/02/meet-tot-your-tiny-text...
sashk··on My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide
Learned few new tricks, but...

> Screenshots (to clipboard): CMD + SHIFT + F5

It's cmd + shift + 5, not f5.

sashk··on Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
nextdns for whole network dns if you don't want to host yourself. if you feel like hosting, there is pihole and adguard home.
sashk··on Show HN: Privacy DNS – free, encrypted, no-logs, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSProxy
Sorry, but something which is running on .pw domain doesn't give me any trust.
sashk··on Amazon Pharmacy
been using them for awhile, most annoying part, is that if your doctor doesn't do electronic prescriptions, because it is hard for them to setup, the fallback is to fax and is very very slow processing.
sashk··on Little Snitch 6.0 Released
The price of the app at that time was $45, not $59, if my records are correct.

But price of upgrade went up higher comparing change to the app pricing.

sashk··on Apple MacBook Air 15-Inch M3 Review
> macOS can be inconsistent and lacks some obvious multitasking features

I bet you don't have to use old windows 10 which is not capable to restore windows on proper displays after I reconnect monitors... perhaps it's something disabled by my organization, but in macOS, at least I don't have to do this once twice a day.

sashk··on VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development
In my org, we don't have access to WSL. All I have from "linuxy" things is bash from git installation and few other tools git includes. Not very fresh git. But that limiting factor of my org.

The problem I ran into most using windows, which I never had in macOS - inability sometimes to copy into clipboard, or paste from clipboard: pressing ctrl+c does not change clipboard to the currently selected text in VSCode, I have to press ctrl+c three four times before clipboard changes. I recall having to do this 15+ years ago, but why this is happening is mystery.

Another problem, if I restart my laptop when it connected to 1080p monitor, and then connect it to 4k monitor at home, some apps will not support HiDPI resolution and will show up in tiny font (PuTTY hell)... so no, it is not awesome. It is horrible. Was, is and always will.

sashk··on New Relic Security Incident – Security Bulletin NR23-01
We need to bury the news and we weren't ready on Friday (17th) evening; let's do it Wednesday evening, right before Thanksgiving instead.
sashk··on I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)
This is (2022).

Wondering if anything changed since the original tests...

sashk··on Exim 4.97.0 – SMTP Mail Server – Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
As of posting, the main page says that "Latest Version: 4.96.2".

Perhaps better link would be to the announcement: https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20231104.135832.37148b...

sashk··on MyQ's horrible take on open access to their devices
When my 23 years old garage door opener failed to the point were it wasn't repairable, had to pickup new one. All decent ones comes with MyQ. Instead of using MyQ connection, I got extra 883LMW, opened it, soldered two wires to the button and connected it to my existing wifi door opener.
sashk··on Fcron Is the Best Cron
At $job we are forced to use [Autosys Job Automation](https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/i...). It can handle everything except 5, I think. But that somewhat huge system which hardly can be called cron replacement.
sashk··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
Never liked the Hue ecosystem. At some point I needed a motion sensor compatible with HomeKit. So went and got myself pretty cheap hue bridge and hue motion sensor only to find out (well, I should have done research probably) that motion sensor won't be able to paired with the bridge until at least one bulb is paired, so had to purchase cheapest bulb to get things working. it was still cheaper at the time comparing to other HomeKit only motion sensors.

I never got home assistant working, so got myself Hubitat hub (C7), which supports both Zigbee and Zwave radios and now exports them as HomeKit devices. So cheap sensors easy to pickup now are exposed to my HomeKit setup. That Hue motion sensor now directly connected to the the Hubitat and Hue bridge is somewhere in the box.

But at the time of setup, I was surprised that Hue Bridge didn't have an account. Didn't think about this until recent articles saying that account is now going to be mandatory.

sashk··on Ask HN: Have you seen this eBay scam? I am out $277
Many years ago I ordered what I thought was a 256MB memory stick. But I received 32MB stick. I didn’t notice seller said Mb vs MB. But priced it was in the 256 megabyte price range… it was only time I got scammed out of money. I filed case, provided docs and got some money reimbursed, but not everything.
sashk··on Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations?
they do, the moment I plug them into the ears... :-(
sashk··on Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations?
Wish I could create an automation, which would notify me when battery level in either of my AirPods drops bellow 10%... because sometimes when I put them in, they don't start charging. But nope, I cannot do it.
sashk··on Total Commander
There are couple which will have two panels by default, but in my opinion, ForkLift is very native macOS commander-like app -- https://binarynights.com
sashk··on Ask HN: (How much) do you get paid for being on call?
If I'm working past 5pm, sometime in next few days, I will work X hours less.
sashk··on Git and Jupyter Notebooks Guide
You don't need to commit output into the git. I used pre-commit filter in git, where it will strip all output from the notebook before it was committed into repository. This allowed us to review the code changes of notebooks.
sashk··on Tell HN: Hulu does not allow subscription cancellation
I had the same issue. Turns out it was caused by home network adblocker. Don't know why, but when I tried to cancel using my phone not connected to home wifi, everything worked. I never figured which rule was causing this problem...
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