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They couldn't find a stock photo for the selfie cam instead of using AI slop?

8GB RAM and no active cooling would be miserable.

Mac Mini is the best bang for buck at the moment. I have an M1 Air as well, but if I'm away from my desk and doing anything that would push the SOC hard, I remote into my Mini.

Do you think the billions spent disappear into space? It pays the salaries of everyone involved so they can eat.

Love it when it forgets the Mac apps exist, and launches Maps or Calendar in phone mirroring. I use mirroring a fair bit, but never for anything where I have the Mac app installed.

Ye some of the weirdest issues I've fixed have been PSU related.

I had a PC come to me that would boot fine, but if you opened the CD drive it'd shut off instantly.

Ye, kick off into some higher-level language instead of being at the mercy of your CI provider's plugins.

I use Fastlane extensively on mobile, as it reduces boilerplate and gives enough structure that the inherent risk of depending on a 3rd-party is worth it. If all else fails, it's just Ruby, so can break out of it.

Why is it push to enter, pull to exit at all?

So that in an emergency your escape route can't be blocked. Also having doors swing out into corridors is bad practice as you're more likely to open it into someone walking past.

And those stupid stylised "fonts" that create problems for screenreaders by using obscure Unicode characters.

I thought that as we're seeing issues with LON, but their Manchester POP is also down and that didn't have any maintenance this morning.

My guess would be those are going into the rumoured OLED models coming out next year.

You can't put one app on top of another, so that mitigates at least the 1st stage of this kind of attack.

USB4 is supposed to have proper labels: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2602229/better-usb-labels-ar...

I don't know if that necessarily helps though, because I've seen USB3 cables that seemingly have the bandwidth and power capabilities, but won't do video.

And again in 2010, although as far as I'm aware this was just based on speculation and it was never proved that it was intentional, or that the optimisation would have netted the gains the author said: https://web.archive.org/web/20250325144612/https://www.realw...

Yeah there was this the other day, although I'd expect the hardware for this is much smaller than is shown in the photos in the OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294766

They are getting rid of comingling which should reduce some of the counterfeiting problems: https://www.geekwire.com/2025/after-years-of-backlash-amazon...

I'd say it's a mixture of chaos engineering and load testing. They know what performance they need for a safe flight, but they want to know how much margin of error they've got (and how close their simulations are), and what they can do to optimise.

It's a different apporach to say the Apollo program, where they did heavy up-front analysis, at the expense of cost-efficiency, speed, and innovation. They had one-shot for a flight, otherwise that's several $bn up in flames.

Even with the last few mishaps, it's an approach that seems to be working. If you look at Starship and Falcon's journey in comparison to SLS and Blue Origin, they have done so much in such a short timespan.

It's in the Apple PR https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/08/an-update-on-blood-ox...

sensor data from the Blood Oxygen app on Apple Watch will be measured and calculated on the paired iPhone

They've borrowed the name from the CloudKey/Dream Machine to make it clear that this will have parity, instead of what we had previously where you could only run some of the apps in isolation that would normally be bundled in the full system image for the CloudKey.

The criminals will just use something that hides in plain sight.

I think it was Encrochat devices that booted into a fairly vanilla looking OS, and there was another platform where it was hidden in something like a calculator app.

Does the Yandex HTTPS one mean they're shipping the private key for their cert in the app, therefore anything running on localhost (or on a network with poisoned DNS) can spoof the yandexmetrica site?

There is a cert for it in the logs: https://crt.sh/?q=yandexmetrica.com

I thought they did for resources and JS, which is why Meta have to use WebRTC instead?

I think the Yandex one slips through because CORS does a naive check against just what's in the header, not what it resolves to?

If you go into System Preferences and disable "Displays have separate Spaces" it'll keep the dock and app switcher on your primary display.

I'm not a Spaces user so not sure what impact this has outside of the dock behaviour.

I wish I could block any IP that runs CPanel and Wordpress.

Every time a server is hammering our corporate firewall, I know that if I put it into Shodan, it's going to be running out of date versions of those two. It's rare they come from the same IP block, so at best I can block a /32 if they're a persistent offender.

For the longest time Authenticator was almost abandoned by Google, so it's not surprising the team responsible for the bundled Android apps swerved it.

It didn't need bells and whistles and constant security updates, but it took 13 years for it to get cloud-sync support so you could backup your codes.

What do you use to interface with Qwen?

I have LMStudio installed, and use Continue in VSCode, but it doesn't feel nearly as feature rich compared to using something like Cursor's IDE, or the GitHub Copilot plugin.

I had to do it on either Atom Bank or Starling (signed up for both at a similar time).

Monzo also have you recite something but it's something far less exciting like "My name is X and I bank with Monzo".

Yeah the commit messages suggest all the heavy-lifting was done on kernel.org's server. It's just matched his GH user to the email in the commit.

Wouldn't surprise me if they had something like this in a few cities with big production teams. There must've been pipelines in place from when 35mm was the standard for movies, and crews needed to get hours of footage developed and over to various people for review each day.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-physical-aws-data-trans...

I don't even know what these big flashy features are anymore. Every year I get asked by staff "Can I upgrade to <latest major Mac OS>" and every time I tell them they can, but they won't see anything different. There's not even big architectural changes under the hood to improve stability or performance.

Short of it being a requirement to use the latest version of Xcode (once they bump the minimum in the following Feburary), and security updates stopping, there's been very little reason to actually upgrade.

It was quite jarring in Amazon's Citadel Diana. The voices were ever so slightly out of sync with the lip movements, and the audio sounded like the studio recording hadn't been processed to match the environment.