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scjosh | 3 years ago | on: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

discover weekly is also my favorite, and i was having the same problem with it hopping around. to avoid needing to search for it, you can save it to your library to make it easily findable next to your other playlists. it’ll still auto-update weekly.

scjosh | 5 years ago | on: Master Branch Considered Harmful

I was in the same boat, but in another conversation about this - can’t find the link - a mailing list archive seems to say otherwise: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/....

scjosh | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Someone is trying to reset my email password

I’ve had some password reset mechanisms send me codes without the attacker needing to know much. I believe this has happened with facebook before; my password there is unique and random, and even after changing my password to another random one, I still got a couple of occasional 2FA codes. Not sure if they’ve changed anything there to combat this, but just my 2¢.

scjosh | 6 years ago | on: Spacebook: AGI's near Real-Time satellite viewer

Most of the data is typically in a two-line element format [0]. You can grab it here https://www.space-track.org or here https://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/

(although I believe the celestrak data comes from space-track, correct me if I'm wrong)

The satellite positions are then estimated using an algorithm such as sgp4 implemented in quite a few languages:

* https://github.com/joshuaferrara/go-satellite (<-- disclaimer: this is mine)

* https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-sgp4

* https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js

Check out Dr. Kelso's (he works for AGI now) original work here in Pascal, plus a few links to C++ works: https://celestrak.com/software/tskelso-sw.php

[0] https://celestrak.com/columns/v04n03/

scjosh | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Hacking an Echo Dot?

https://github.com/echohacking/wiki/wiki/Echo-Dot-v2 has some links to resources regarding custom firmware and some great write-ups explaining the OTA updates.

scjosh | 7 years ago | on: Epic Games is killing Linux support for games and software it acquired

This is awesome, thank you so much!

scjosh | 7 years ago | on: Epic Games is killing Linux support for games and software it acquired

Would you mind sharing your VM setup with PCI passthrough? I had looked into this previouly, but guides I saw seemed to only let you pass it through depending on settings at boot of the host OS. From what I understand, this means that if I wanted to pass the GPU through to the VM, I would lose it in the host OS until I reboot again. Does your setup let you hotswap it w/o a reboot?

scjosh | 7 years ago | on: Announcing WSL 2

Having just switched my home desktop from Windows/Linux dualboot, to full Linux, this kind of makes me want to switch back to Windows. My only grievance is nvidia driver support lacking on Linux at the moment.