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xmdx | 1 year ago | on: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

I'm guessing they were being treated over the phone as the systems went down. I've been through a similar situation, the person on the phone will give step by step instructions while waiting for an ambulance to arrive.

Sounds like with the systems being down the call would have been cut off which sounds horrible.

xmdx | 1 year ago | on: Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS

I had to install one of these tools recently because of the notch on newer macbooks, they hide icons that overflow and you never notice it. For a while I thought my apps were erroring and not opening properly.

You have to manage it yourself with one of these tools otherwise they are lost to the void in my experience.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: The Future of the Vim Project

In the UK you can use something like this: https://www.deathnotificationservice.co.uk/

There are a few of these, one official one for notifying the government and a few private ones.

I imagine this services exists in other countries, if not then might an opportunity to create it.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: The Future of the Vim Project

Had the same experience with my dad passing recently, we had access to everything because we know the passwords he uses and he was ok with sharing those with us.

Will definitely look into the 1password emergency kit, thanks for mentioning it. 2fa is the other big challenge after that.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: Terrible real estate agent photographs

reminds me of reddit.com/r/spottedonrightmove but this one has properties with interesting design decisions

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL

That's what created_at and updated_at are for surely

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: HDR QR Code

Cool, only ever seen HDR on a large screen and the brightness is not as striking as this.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

Even that won't work because there are companies like Pushshift (I think it's pushshift anyway) that are constantly archiving comments, so they have the old comment and the overwritten one. I think you can request pushshift delete your data under GDPR so at least you can remove your data from there, but I believe they are not the only ones doing this.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

Cloudflare is having issues and I noticed HN is going down for me (takes multiple reloads to work) so might not just be them.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy

Surprisingly my random scales off of Amazon do not do this. Accurate both times.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: Passkeys now support external providers

Is the whole idea of syncing passkeys a bad idea? Or at least a less secure idea. Someone explained to me that passkeys are hardware backed, each passkey is stored on device and tied to the hardware, so even if someone managed to get access to it, they would also need the hardware to get it to work. These software based keys that can be synced are less secure as a result. Then it just becomes like a password again.

I need to read up a bit more on passkeys in general tbh.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: I wrote my own smart home software

I'm still a bit afraid of doing updates, I always tend to wait for the first minor/patch release before going for it. Things have changed in a big way since 2017 mind you, far more stable, and fewer breaking changes that affect the entire instance, usually it's specific to an integration. I've been running my system for 2 years now without issues. Any problems I do face are related to not understanding the configuration of something I'm setting up, or a cloud based integration introducing rate limes to their api.

There pretty good with announcing any big changes in their blog, here's the latest one: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/05/03/release-20235

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: I wrote my own smart home software

I feel like the initial learning of getting Home Assistant up and running is worth it over creating your own software. Especially in the long run. That and the other recommended way of setup that wasn't mentioned is to install the OS without messing with any containers. Pretty straight forward. Any problem you have there's probably a solution out there because the community is so large and that is worth it's weight in gold imo.

It used to be quite fragile but these days it's gotten a lot better. Still a lot of learning to do, someone with no experience in yaml or understanding under lying tech will struggle at first. They are pushing for UI setup for most things now so it's only a matter of time before it's far more accessible.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022)

I just bookmarked the website to show others later and realized I just did it again. I will never go to that site again.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: What happened with ASUS routers this morning?

Is there any information on why this started happening in the last 2 days? Without any change to the firmware? Considering flashing asuswrt-merlin to avoid this in the future.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations

Been off work for a month-ish. Everything is as it was I see.

xmdx | 2 years ago | on: First clean water, now clean air

Other than the obvious benefits like avoiding a pandemic this hits close to home. My dad passed away 2 weeks ago from Pulmanory Fibrosis. A respiratory disease without a cure and one where we know very little about the causes. Better air quality would drop cases, relive strain on the health system and just let people live longer. Its something I want to help with where I can. I hadn't even thought about the obvious step of raising awareness about air quality.

xmdx | 3 years ago | on: Apple Passkey

They said in the event that everything is synced on iCloud so all your devices can use the keys, which makes me think no, it's just a password manager, without the password bit. Maybe they create a separate key for each device, but then why mention iCloud syncing at all.

xmdx | 4 years ago | on: Slack System Status

Just as I was searching my slack workspace and found info to help fix a problem, what are the chances

xmdx | 4 years ago | on: Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024

Looks like a complete pass through from one side to the other so washing them should remove most of that. Rocks might even fall out as the tyre rotates.