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trevcanhuman

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"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Mahatma Gandhi

Wu wei

CONTROL your vices

vice (Merriam Webster) \ ˈvīs \ Definition of vice (Entry 1 of 4) 1. b: a moral fault or failing 2. : BLEMISH, DEFECT 5. : an abnormal behavior pattern in a domestic animal detrimental to its health or usefulness.

carpe diem

I am trevor. I am a doer and a coder. I blog too.

https://blog.thetrevor.tech

My website:

https://trevcan.github.io

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/trevcan; my proof: https://keybase.io/trevcan/sigs/gaGODiC5XmrRYXSbvMfTz5vWjr5Jeoyg21fWDgR8x-I ]

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trevcanhuman··on Show HN: RootMy.TV
Thanks for the reply, although unfortunately my TV is pretty recent, bought it new about 3 years ago and has been updated less than a year ago. I’ve looked through guides but I honestly haven’t found any good websites that explain any know vulnerabilities to recent Android TVs.
trevcanhuman··on Will you write HTML with us tomorrow?
Hello, very interested in this, thanks for making this event. Maybe I’ll join tomorrow.

This is one of the few websites that don’t force you to use https even though it does have it! Impressive.

In the spirit of keeping things open and without a user account, I’d recommend setting up some jitsi [0] conference rooms that don’t require an account.

[0] https://jitsi.org/

trevcanhuman··on Will you write HTML with us tomorrow?
Maybe even an IRC chat with SSL support. There are discord bots that can sink the conversation between IRC/discord afaik.
trevcanhuman··on Show HN: RootMy.TV
Nice, I’d love to install software such as rpiplay [0] to mirror my iOS device, also would be nice to maybe gain some kind of low-latency wireless Linux-compatible screen share server.

[0] https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay

trevcanhuman··on Show HN: RootMy.TV
How do you root and Android TV ? Please help, I have a Sony Bravia TV.
trevcanhuman··on Show HN: RootMy.TV
Yeah. Anyone know how to root a Sony Bravia TV ? It’s running Android TV. But it’s slow and lags and don’t know why.
trevcanhuman··on Gas Pump Golf
Indeed, you are correct.

It is a Volvo S60, 2016 or 2015 I think. So this shouldn’t be a problem, yet, it is. Even if you’re pushing it with your own finger, it pops out less than half of the tank full. Pretty weird. Does this at every gas station I think.

trevcanhuman··on Do You Speak the Lingo?
Cool. Nice story. Was expecting something completely different from what I read in the title. To be honest, I expected something weird and awkward. And I got some of it. A random lady game in which she gets tired from reading a long boring book? And then you enter into a weird lucid dream with creatures? sounds fun!

will probably check out the game.

trevcanhuman··on Gas Pump Golf
Also it automatically pops if you have a Volvo, at least that’s what happens whenever I pump it.
trevcanhuman··on QR code scammers hitting on-street parking in Texas cities
Anyone else thought the title said scanners instead of scammers? Was a little surprised when I reread the title.
trevcanhuman··on Show HN: The Scale of Wealth – a 3D interactive webpage side project
It’s broken on iPhone 6S, I am able to see some dollars in the back, but I can only swipe left and I only see from 100 to 10 to 1, if I swipe right it brings me back to the page where you’re promoting other projects at your site.

Edit:

I don’t know if it’s the way you set up website interactivity, but Safari iOS seems to be messing with it. Closing the tab and opening a new one does not seem to solve the problem, *but seeing it in incognito in Safari works! *.

trevcanhuman··on OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
Do you have a Linux machine ? If so, use libimobiledevice to connect your phone with a cable. the Arch Wiki walks you through syncing your pictures [0] from an iOS Device to a Linux machine.

For wireless / through LAN:

If you want to transfer pictures/files/practically anything that can be uploaded through a web browser, you may use something like [1] snapdrop, it allows you to transfer files securely on a LAN Network, using WebSockets.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS

[1] https://snapdrop.net/

Edit: specified (not)wireless

trevcanhuman··on Ask HN: Is This Parenting or Scrum?
Take my opinion with a grain of salt as I’m a teenager, not a father (yet) but am indeed a son of two wonderful parents. I’d say track up to whatever you feel comfortable, maybe set relatively small and spaced out milestones for your child. I think the most important thing would be to be comfortable with your partner and of course have a happy child.
trevcanhuman··on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
Hey guys I think that maybe this has to do with an exploit in the web browser LastPass extension about 5 years ago: HN POST: [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171547

trevcanhuman··on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
Not OP commenter but I personally would recommend using pass (https://passwordstore.org), I’m a little paranoid about all this fuzz, plus did you see the news in HN a few months ago about a password manager web browser extension having an exploitable vulnerability? Not sure if it was lastpass but I’ll try to search for it…

Edit: I found an old post from about 5 years ago on a vulnerability in LastPass’s extension [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171547

trevcanhuman··on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
I feel like this sounds more like a zero-day exploit being used to target the LastPass login servers.
trevcanhuman··on Wish HN: Happy Holidays
Seems like they changed the CSS, I thought my network was bad or something but they put on a tad bit of Christmas colors.
trevcanhuman··on My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
For anyone wanting a FOSS alternative, cryptpad [0] exists.

[0] https://cryptpad.fr/

trevcanhuman··on Against 3x Speed
Read 1984 (Orwell)
trevcanhuman··on Unbreakable phone screens could be made with a new material
This sounds like you’ve bought baby-proof bowls [0] for your kid and have unfortunately failed.

[0] https://youtu.be/wfWMs_0wd_g

trevcanhuman··on We will be retiring Alexa.com
Oh, now I’m confused. I thought this was about the Alexa assistant product. Seems from other comments that this company provides web analysis.
trevcanhuman··on Goodbye Brave
Interesting spyware website, thanks. I see that some of the stuff that I saw on Reddit is actually true. I’ve stopped using Brave for about 6 months now, so far so good.rn I’m on chromium.

One of the reasons why I also quit this was because some problems with their rewards crypto programs. Basically, this content creator Tom Scott, makes great videos, tweeted some stuff about Brave explaining the issue. He says that Brave users who watched him or visited his website were encouraged to donate to him through the Brave rewards program, when in fact, Tom Scott had not signed up or agreed upon it. Several people donated misunderstandignly and Brave didn’t even say that Tom Scott was not on their crypto platform, refused to either refund the people who donated and thanks to this issue now any content creator who isn’t on their crypto platform has a small text below the crypto payment.

trevcanhuman··on How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers
Hey glc, FYI the GitHub repo [0] with the OS Code from Coen is not available, the url is probably broken.

[0] https://github.com/monzo/coen

trevcanhuman··on How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers
Yes. I was amazed by this. No ‘more options’ thingy which has the size weird when in phones, no scrolling to ‘save cookie changes’ etc. This is how companies should treat customers if their business is not harvesting their data.
trevcanhuman··on Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
Nice, didn’t Know about any of these two. Both are surprisingly responsive and fluid. Still not sure what I’d use this for; maybe explaining some math stuff.
trevcanhuman··on Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
His family/friends probably changed it.
trevcanhuman··on Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
Such a great documentary, also available on yt iirc.
trevcanhuman··on Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
I use it to check some results from derivative exercises for my calculus class.
trevcanhuman··on From macOS to Arch Linux
I’d recommend going for it, and as others have said, be prepared to read the Arch Wiki, a lot. I think what’s most important would be to simply have the guts and the inspiration to keep going, even if you think you’ve lost all hope. Personally, I started out my Linux journey with Ubuntu, then distro hopped and tried PopOS, and Ubuntu-based distro with extra things here and there. Then, I took a Linux course online (for free) and gave me general fundamentals, it advertises as the “The Start from scratch Linux course”. After that and spending tons of time on Reddit and seeing post after post and the memes about ‘I use arch btw’ I decided to try it out. It was definitely fun and a tad time consuming at first, but after that I’ve learned a ton more about Linux and how things work. I’ve only had a broken system a couple times. Again, the ArchWiki is your friend.
trevcanhuman··on FDA advisory panel recommends Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine be authorized for children
> Do you have children? Public schools have had vaccination requirements going back to the middle of the 19th Century.

No, I’m a teenager. I didn’t know vaccination requirements were that strict/common. I vaguely remember being asked about it maybe in elementary school but right now I’m in high school and I wasn’t asked any of that to enter (for context, I go to a private high school in Mexico).

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