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Make sure to keep a backup of your Sequoia install

Looks like it checks for the referrer in main.js and adds the uppercase text-transform if you come from HN: let host; if (document.referrer) { host = (new URL(document.referrer)).h…

It seems the suggested solution is to use server credentials that lack delete permissions (and use credentials that have delete for compacting the repo), but does that protect agai…

Yes, its called "hybrid transport", and its a flow where a laptop presents a QR code to a mobile phone, who then sets up a BLE connection for one time use of the passkey. https://w…

Note that this requires native iCloud support on the host machine, so macOS or the iCloud app on Windows (no Linux support)

Does anyone have insight into why Apple encrypts SEP firmware? Clearly it’s not critical to their security model so maybe just for IP protection?

Notably, only the pro models support USB 3. The base 16/16 plus are still on USB 2. This hasn't changed from the 15 lineup when they switched to USB-C.

Could this end up on an embedded smart tv device, like a Roku?

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999

What extensions are you using for C# on code-server? AFAIK the official C# extensions from Microsoft (C# base and dev kit) aren’t licensed for non-vscode use.

IIRC TextEdit.app has options like smart quotes, auto capitalize, and spell check turned on (in addition to being rich text by default), so you have to change all those to be a dum…

Does anyone know of any similar works that instead focus on a common law background (US/UK/others) vs civil law (EU/most of the world), that I am understanding this book focuses on…

$45k per month. Annually it's > $540,000 Also, updates do count. "A first annual install may result from an app’s first-time install, a reinstall, or an update from any iOS app dis…

His original letter to Hans is published here: https://ftp.mfek.org/Reiser/Letters/%E2%84%961%20Fred%E2%86%...

Reminds me of “The Birth & Death of JavaScript” https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

> For the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity. Seems like this video was heavily editorialized, but still impressive.…

For some reason, this page embeds the PDF as an iframe. The actual PDF is at https://19971168.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/199711...