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watermelon0··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
Why would you need to dynamically change the temperature?
watermelon0··on Passkeys are not a trap
On iOS devices you can import/export Passkeys between supporting password manager apps (including Apple Passwords).

In my experience, migrating between Apple Passwords and Bitwarden worked without issues, in both directions.

watermelon0··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
Strava is an example of a website that's dog slow on Safari. Pages take 10+ seconds before they start rendering.
watermelon0··on Programming Isn't Special
Not sure if the author is reading HN, but there is a typo:

> we take the total likelihood of those moments of greatness to (->from) “definitely sometimes” to “never”.

watermelon0··on An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
Firefox on iOS doesn't support extensions at all.
watermelon0··on Coding is not solved
You can use it without understanding, but this won't help you actually understand how it behaves.
watermelon0··on Platform-independent SIMD in Go
Rob Pike seems to dislike syntax highlighting:

> Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods). I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

He is definitely not alone in thinking this, for example (but for different reasons): https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/

watermelon0··on I said no and Apple said yes
> The cheating is out of control.

There are hardware cheats that are not detectable by KLAC, so it doesn't solve the problem, just improves the situation.

The only way to avoid cheaters is to play with people you trust.

watermelon0··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
They abandoned (or at least postponed) the idea of charging for self-hosted runners usage.

Actions management plane is the most problematic part of the platform (in regards to scale), so they are basically losing money with self-hosted runners.

Scaling of VMs shouldn't be a problem, since that is practically stateless, whereas there are lots of operations performed for every job/workflow.

watermelon0··on Homebrew 7.0.0
Are you implying that a 6 year old hardware is as good as a paperweight? Outside of the Apple fairyland this is just bonkers.

I'm not blaming the Homebrew project/developers here, but the fact that many people are okay with deprecating perfectly fine hardware.

watermelon0··on Astra replicates Adobe Lightroom
It links directly to captcha page.
watermelon0··on Bug Blindness
There is no CSS configuration for text/font on the website, so it's using browser defaults.

Seems like reader mode is needed due to bad defaults.

watermelon0··on Disruption with Some GitHub Services
It very well may be that the paying customers are actually the problem. Those can actually afford to throw enough money at AI providers to significantly increase the number of commits & other actions.
watermelon0··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Forgejo CI is based on act, which allows running GitHub Actions locally.

However, Codeberg offers hosted Woodpecker CI.

watermelon0··on Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx
Works for me in Firefox. It's h264/mp4.
watermelon0··on Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation
https://archive.is/HBaXZ

(Cloudflare says I'm blocked from accessing the webpage, even though I'm using a residential IP)

watermelon0··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Plex app is better, but still inadequate compared to Infuse.
watermelon0··on Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand
I’m quite sure that server set cookies are the norm for authentication, at least where they are set from the server side.
watermelon0··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Wouldn't it be cheaper to only produce 500 items, instead of producing 1k, and throwing half of it away?
watermelon0··on TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
Practically all consumer Zigbee devices only support 2.4GHz. You would need to go for ZWave for the sub-GHz range.

Also, it's not like 860-930 MHz (depending on the country) is without interference.

watermelon0··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
I've been thinking about building my own NAS as well. Mind sharing how much did you pay for those hard drives, and what motherboard did you choose?
watermelon0··on Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
Docker Desktop's memory saver shuts down VM when containers are not running.

Additionally, Docker/Podman/Orbstack start a single VM, where memory is shared between containers.

On the other hand, Apple Containers create a separate VM for each container, which results in higher memory usage due to Linux kernel overhead, as well as the fact that kernel will try to use most of the available memory for file caching.

watermelon0··on Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
FYI Apple Passwords supports exporting of items including Passkeys, which can be then imported in e.g. Bitwarden.
watermelon0··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
The issue here is not that they didn't test on alternative distributions of Android, the issue is that they went out of their way to prevent anything but the officially blessed distributions.
watermelon0··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Can you tell more about their subpar latency?

I've been using Hetzner for many years, both personally and for business use, and I've not seen any noticeable issues regarding the latency.

Granted, my use cases are webapps/backends that are not particularly latency sensitive, and are primarily used from a few European countries.

For what's worth, I've seen cases where download speeds from Hetzner are considerably higher than from AWS eu-central-1.

watermelon0··on Surprise, pay $1000
Technically, here the paying customer experience was the problem, not the free trial one, because they were automatically upgraded.

Generally, you don't want to award people/companies that don't respect you. I'm not saying that you shouldn't re-evaluate them in the future, but they will walk away with the wrong lesson if you just start throwing money at them.

watermelon0··on Surprise, pay $1000
Do you plan to refund all previous free trial customers, who didn't contact the support, and actually paid unexpected overage fees?

Invoices are legally binding documents in many countries, and even if that might not be the case in your country, not everyone might be aware of that fact.

> since it gives their AP team a real cost to work from instead of a ballpark of us vs. GitHub

Same could be achieved by showing the real cost in the web app and/or sending a report via email, without scaring them away, and possibly _extorting_ them.

watermelon0··on Surprise, pay $1000
Why would you want to use a provider, that resorts to shady practices, especially since there are a lot of alternatives out there?
watermelon0··on Surprise, pay $1000
Self-hosted runners make a ton of API calls during job execution, so they might not be completely wrong here.
watermelon0··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
Luckily for them, every OS has (at least one) native way of building applications, and with the power of AI they could easily make 3 different desktop UIs, while reusing the same core logic.
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