jakemauer | 3 years ago | on: MacOS 10.15: Slow by Design (2020)
I wonder if you’re encountering MacOS’ Gatekeeper malware checking being slow to communicate with Apple’s servers. My understanding is it checks the app every time you launch.
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jakemauer | 3 years ago | on: ‘Blade Runner’ at 40
I will second Annihilation, I think it's incredible.
jakemauer | 3 years ago | on: Sega Megadriver Synthesizer in Depth Look (2020) [video]
Woah this is amazing, thank you for sharing.
jakemauer | 3 years ago | on: IKEA Instructions for Algorithms
I really like this idea.
One thing about about the public key cryptography example that I’ve often wondered, wouldn’t it be better to explain the private party’s contribution as a lock that can only be opened with the public keys?
jakemauer | 3 years ago | on: Michelle Yeoh, martial arts and the multiverse: inside the year’s wildest movie
Thanks for that, I didn't think to pre-order the digital copy. Done!
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
I have a collection of mechanical keyboards but yeah honestly the Apple bluetooth keyboard of that era, pre magic keyboard, was great.
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: A neurologist who hacked his brain and almost lost his mind (2016)
I didn't know about Wikiversity, thanks for sharing.
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020)
I used Synology backup for google services to back up my emails and migrated to Fastmail. They have an import tool that seemed to work well.
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
All I see when I go to the Cloud Identity part of the Admin Panel's "Get More Services" page is a happy little coffee cup unhelpfully stating "You're getting the best out of Google. We will notify you when new subscriptions become available."
So I guess I'm not able to use that then.
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: I now have full remote control of over 20 Tesla’s in 10 countries
That’s insane. Wouldn’t this be cause for a recall with any other manufacturer? What if a 2015 civic just lost speedometer and turn signals randomly? You think Honda would get away with saying “eh that’s normal.”
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone interested in an offline version of Stack Overflow?
Another option to consider that I only discovered yesterday is Kiwix: https://www.kiwix.org/en/
You can browse the different packages that the community has preprared, including Wikipedia and a ton of different stack exchange sites: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lWXdwy3OIfZ1Ob2cQR70...
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Nearly two-thirds of Gen Z think they’ll become crypto millionaires
Are we talking about the same smart investors at Softbank that invested heavily in WeWork?
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Wg-access-server: An all-in-one WireGuard VPN solution with a web UI
Does anyone have recommended newbie guides for setting up wireguard when all you have experience with is older L2TP Server/Client setups?
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: U.S. declares more than 20 species extinct after exhaustive searches
White-tailed deer have only recently recovered from over-hunting and returned to their pre-colonization population levels.[1] Do you have a source that frames their growth as exponential?
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer#Population_a...
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: RetroArch 1.9.10 released We are finally on Steam
I know this probably won’t help in your case, but if you both happen to have Nintendo Switches and have a Nintendo online subscription you get access to a bunch of NES and SNES games and can play them online together.
They even have a mode for people to watch and “clap” while one person plays a single player game.
It’s expensive to buy all that from scratch and closed to only the games that Nintendo has put on the service (Zelda is there I believe), however it “just works.”
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Why that Thunderbolt add-in card doesn't work properly in your unsupported PC
As someone who has wrestled with the Gigabyte Titan Ridge card on a hackintosh, including flashing different firmwares many times with a raspberry pi as an SPI tool, this article is so so interesting.
So much of getting this stuff to work feels like random luck and incantation. I really appreciate the author’s research and effort in writing this up.
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Western Digital confirms speed crippling SN550 SSD flash change
I didn't realize that Saran wrap changed formulations. I just did some googling[0] and apparently it was because the original material emitted chlorine and other unspecified toxic chemicals when burned in municipal incinerators.
0: https://journaltimes.com/business/local/ceo-explains-why-sc-...
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
You can turn off iMessages and force the phone to use SMS, however you can't do it on a per-contact or per-conversation basis.
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults
The main 1password extension for chrome stopped working with the standalone app, but the original extension is here under a different name: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/1password-extensio...
I use it dozens of times a day and it works great. It's not as nice as the modern one that works with the subscription/hosted service but it'll certainly be better than what you're currently doing to muddle through.
jakemauer | 4 years ago | on: Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen
Brushless tools, which are increasingly common, absolutely require silicon to manage the pulses of electricity to the winding groups.