Hacker News: hackmiester

New comment by hackmiester in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

hackmiester — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:44:06 +0000

Drunk driving goes down significantly, for one thing.

New comment by hackmiester in "Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing"

hackmiester — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:12:08 +0000

THAT is intriguing. Which setting makes it do it vs not do it?

New comment by hackmiester in "Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing"

hackmiester — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:51:51 +0000

If this is happening on iOS, then your peripheral is sending a Play command upon connection. (I don't know about Android but I assume the same.) This is often desirable, but I could see why it would piss you off.

New comment by hackmiester in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

hackmiester — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:54:22 +0000

Hell, the switches we’re talking about support OSPF, BGP, VXLAN, the works. THAT is enterprise to me.

New comment by hackmiester in "Starcloud"

hackmiester — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:52:42 +0000

And don’t get me started on the remote hands fees. You thought DigitalRealty was bad!

New comment by hackmiester in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

hackmiester — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:24:49 +0000

All 21,000 ports I administer have 802.3 standard PoE enabled at all times. Incidents of inadvertent powering are at zero. I think this is just a non problem.

New comment by hackmiester in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

hackmiester — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:22:08 +0000

Arista 710P for instance. I don’t see what port count has to do with it, it runs the same OS and has the same capabilities as all their other switches. Cisco has a Catalyst 9k like this too.

New comment by hackmiester in "Wireguard FPGA"

hackmiester — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:08:15 +0000

Do you mean like most vendors have moved onto faster port speeds? Mostly you can still use the slower 10G optics and the ports will clock down even if the nominal port speed is higher.

New comment by hackmiester in "Signal Secure Backups"

hackmiester — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:51:53 +0000

Well, just to be clear, signal for iOS did not support ANY backup before this.

New comment by hackmiester in "TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale"

hackmiester — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:04:17 +0000

This worked all the way up through the iPhone Xs.

New comment by hackmiester in "Repasting a MacBook"

hackmiester — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:09:17 +0000

M-series Macs just turn on when you open them.

New comment by hackmiester in "Applite – A macOS native GUI for homebrew"

hackmiester — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:54:18 +0000

Wait, then what is it? The title says it's a gui for homebrew and that seems to be what it is.

New comment by hackmiester in "Bitwarden Authenticator"

hackmiester — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:57:38 +0000

Or if you are using "iTunes backups" it will store them in there as well.

New comment by hackmiester in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

hackmiester — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:10:36 +0000

Can I pay $20 to keep the version without AI?

New comment by hackmiester in "OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles"

hackmiester — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:44:50 +0000

That method just doesn't work in Manhattan, where due to buildings, you're lucky if your GPS is working, much less the compass to tell you which direction to face.

New comment by hackmiester in "Let the network tell you where you are: a nerd snipe story"

hackmiester — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:51:16 +0000

Almost any managed switch will support it. Netgear does. Ubiquiti definitely does, even their APs do.

New comment by hackmiester in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

hackmiester — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:59:40 +0000

I use `ping -a` so that when the host comes up, my terminal will beep.

New comment by hackmiester in "Show HN: Doggo – A powerful, human-friendly DNS client for the command line"

hackmiester — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:12:13 +0000

This is pretty cool! But what does it mean when something is listed under "Services"? For example, one of my "services" is "52.45.50.190/32", an AWS IP. What does that actually mean? How did that IP get there?

New comment by hackmiester in "Ghosts in the ROM (2012)"

hackmiester — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 05:47:51 +0000

That's why people found his work so amazing.

New comment by hackmiester in "The Light Phone III"

hackmiester — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:29:17 +0000

What is the connection? You don't always have to buy the latest of anything, certainly not the latest Light Phone. And as I'm sure you read, "We have no plans to stop producing or supporting the Light Phone II."