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Incidentally, just replaced batteries in my Apple Watch S6, MBP M1 2020, and iPhone 12 Pro Max during a one-day visit to Shenzhen. A dude in Huaqiangbei did everything in two hours…

They don't need to know that. Your low-entropy seed / private key will be compromised in the brute force enumeration.

A lot of smaller chores look trivial when considered in isolation, but have disproportionate time and mental cost because of how they fit in the flow of life. Sometimes the effect …

Yeah, I measured over 5000ppm in a taxi with two passengers. Showed the driver how to enable air intake (he didn’t know about the feature) and tried to explain this is deadly. Pret…

Exacerbated by astonishing overuse for anything from a 2-minute endoscopy to a 15-minute hand surgery. The pursuit of “comfort” at the cost of fractional lobotomy.

Obviously an LLM and sad Carmack engages with slop to normalize it.

to be pedantic, a maxed out MBP is 90200 BRL in Brazil now before AC+ and software, around 16777 USD

Holding Fallout 1/2 as the best gaming experiences of my life for a long time, just recently discovered Fallout Nevada and Sonora that some kind talent also ported to WASM/Web — an…

decoding state can be bulkier than a key frame and opaque to the CPU if hardware acceleration is used I wonder if caching semi-compressed frames would be more efficient in either c…

you'd have to "rebase" all the other frames to be derived from those

search engines and wikipedia point to actively maintained versions

somewhat related: /rescue/* on every FreeBSD system since 5.2 (2004) — a single statically linked ~17MB binary combining ~150 critical tools, hardlinked under their usual names htt…

once you actually need to configure Caddy, it is an abomination beyond imagination — the docs, Caddyfile, JSON config — all of them lack coherence or sensible design never touching…

Lithium is <10% cost of a battery. Presumably much less now. Doesn't affect the price of EVs that much yet.

discussed here a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424150

oh, interesting; it was ipfilter for ages, and suddenly pf-only now https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60993/pfovw-compa...

Happily running FreeBSD 13 on Hetzner CAX11 since April [1] [2] Great to see OpenBSD is now available as well! [1] https://twitter.com/pandrewhk/status/1649020655558336514 [2] http…

Any of the three major branches are the first choice for lean, bespoke network appliances. For Mullvad in particular OpenBSD or FreeBSD would be the obvious choice.

Not sure the actual authors of the various overlapping Linux network subsystems even know the comprehensive picture "inside and out" for chronic lack of consistent documentation. L…

Not to provoke predictable responses, but I find it interesting that the tech-talented VPN providers are not using BSD in favor of Linux, especially with requirements like diskless…

If you check the profile of the author, Jon Brodkin, https://arstechnica.com/author/jon-brodkin/ — roughly 100% of his headlines are political: anti-Musk, anti-GOP, pro-Biden, pro-…

Without looking, chances are Apple is using the FreeBSD fork of pf, that diverged long ago (mostly to implement SMP to handle much more traffic).

The OpenBSD OS is roughly as relevant today as it ever were. The OpenBSD project has significantly grown in relevance since inception through OpenSSH, LibreSSL and dozens of other …

Layman thoughts: (1) with enough high-quality training data, «AI» models should be able to output H265 / H266 / AV1 directly, can achieve simplicity and reduce artifacts by skippin…

As the old joke goes, whichever platform you're moving to, the average niceness of both X and that will stand to benefit.