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New comment by paxswill in "ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]"

paxswill — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:01:14 +0000

The Adafruit Feather boards usually have built-in LiPo support.

New comment by paxswill in "Hyundai and Kia settle lawsuit worth $200M over vehicle theft due to TikTok"

paxswill — Sat, 20 May 2023 13:39:56 +0000

Because their cars lacked an immobilizer, which most other manufacturers have included as standard for a long time (and Kia and Hyundai only stopped using them recently). Some countries require them in new cars as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser and linked from there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Challenge

New comment by paxswill in "More than you cared to know about PC fans"

paxswill — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:28:57 +0000

Those fans that start at 30% and then allow you to go lower are explicitly allowed by the spec from Intel (linked in the article, sec 3.2 and 3.4).

New comment by paxswill in "FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available"

paxswill — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 03:33:49 +0000

High frequency hearing loss is associated with decreased intelligibility, and some of the harder situations to discern people is in a group or noisy environment.

I had a fairly rapid decrease in my high frequency hearing (basically my ears aged 20 years in a few months), and the biggest indicator to me was how much harder it was to understand dialogue in loud shows. I was turning on subtitles and/or turning the volume up where before I was fine with a fairly quiet volume.

New comment by paxswill in "IPTV Pirate Must Pay £963K or 88 Month Prison Sentence Becomes 168 Months"

paxswill — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:31:59 +0000

Many states in the US allow private citizens to start prosecutions that then get passed to a public prosecutor; some also allow private citizens to attempt to convince a magistrate to issue arrest warrants. There are also a few that allow private citizens to try a complete case (ex: Virginia). It’s rare, and not allowed for federal cases, but is a thing in the US.

New comment by paxswill in "When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX"

paxswill — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:24:56 +0000

> There was a time when Apple has email mailing lists. Here is the MAE User list. And Apple published the archives for people to search. I tell ya. Was a different time at Apple.

Apple still has a handful of mailing lists (they’re mostly dead though): https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo

Unfortunately many of the archives are restricted to members.

New comment by paxswill in "Single binary executable packages"

paxswill — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:48:34 +0000

Rust links glibc dynamically, and can use musl for some platforms. By default most (all?) of the musl targets are linked statically, but they should be able to use dynamic linking for it as well.

New comment by paxswill in "SixtyFPS Becomes Slint"

paxswill — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:04:43 +0000

Integrating accessibility into the tutorial is fantastic, but I’d also attribute it to Apple emphasizing accessibility in their developer documentation for a long time. I remember one of the early Interface Builder tutorials explaining accessibility pretty early on.

New comment by paxswill in "Ask HN: Do you know any computer language where collections are unified?"

paxswill — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 23:05:19 +0000

Core Foundation (Apple’s C library) sort of uses this with its “array” type: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/array.html

New comment by paxswill in "Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users"

paxswill — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:31:33 +0000

Depending on your DHCP and DNS servers, they might already have this built in. dnsmasq will maintain DNS entries for the DHCP leases it hands out, and can also add AAAA records if it sees a SLAAC message for a MAC address it gave a DHCP lease to. BIND’s servers (dhcpd, named, kea) can be set up so that for each DHCP lease assigned, a DDNS update is sent.

New comment by paxswill in "State of netbooting Raspberry Pi in 2021"

paxswill — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:36:43 +0000

The easiest way to perform the flash is by booting into Raspbian and performing the process interactively. Without this one-time process, you can't netboot, as the default setting is the SD card, then USB: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/raspberr...

New comment by paxswill in "State of netbooting Raspberry Pi in 2021"

paxswill — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:25:45 +0000

From my own experience, they're probably flashing the RPi4's EEPROM with an updated bootloader and config to enable netboot. Here's the official documentation on it: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/raspberr...

New comment by paxswill in "Bring back hydrogen lifting gas"

paxswill — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:55:09 +0000

Echoing a sibling comment, that thread goes down the conspiracy rabbit hole very quickly. A few inaccuracies I noticed before giving up:

* "Remember, only 13 deaths out of the 36 passengers on the airship died." This skips the crew deaths (who also died at about the same rate).

* There were a bunch of photographers present at Lakehurst as it was the first crossing of 1937. The audio recording was not scripted, the original disc records a pressure wave which is followed by Morrison exclaiming that the Hindenburg is on fire.

* "Mary Jane" can be a real person's name.

* "Hugo Eckener, former head of the Zeppelin Company, Charles Rosendahl, commander of the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, Max Pruss, captain of the Hindenburg and most of the surviving crew believed the airship had been sabotaged.". Eckener stated that it could be sabotage when he was first told the Hindenburg had gone down. He later backed the static spark theory.

New comment by paxswill in "PC can't be shipped to CA, CO, HI, OR, VT or WA due to power consumption"

paxswill — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 04:21:26 +0000

Hibernation with kernel lockdown on Linux doesn’t work yet. Background post from a few months back: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55845.html

New comment by paxswill in "Debian Bullseye Fully Frozen"

paxswill — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:20:42 +0000

Probably this one: https://db.debian.org/fetchkey.cgi?fingerprint=58B66D48736BE...

Debian uses PGP signing pretty extensively, and maintain a keyserver (and separate search interface I used for this) for their keys: https://keyring.debian.org/

New comment by paxswill in "Halide for iPad"

paxswill — Tue, 18 May 2021 17:48:58 +0000

I feel the issue in this case is more a tablet being used to record a show versus a phone. The larger tablet blocks more of the view of people behind you. This does kind of fall apart with the blurred distinction between large phones and small tablets though, so in this case I feel like their decision was the right way to go (in addition to the other issues like false positives, complexity, etc).

New comment by paxswill in "My Favorite One Liners"

paxswill — Mon, 03 May 2021 15:18:11 +0000

Not a one-liner by itself, but sticking pbcopy/pbpaste into a pipeline is great for quick text processing. Wish you had regency support in a text field? `pbpaste | sed s/needle/NEEDLE/g | pbcopy`

New comment by paxswill in "DIY Camera Using Raspberry Pi"

paxswill — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:27:08 +0000

I briefly used Kerberos.io a few years ago (kind of a difficult name SEO-wise), and it seemed to work pretty well.

New comment by paxswill in "FTP is 50 years old"

paxswill — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:42:56 +0000

The place I see it most is in networking RFCs.

New comment by paxswill in "How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus?"

paxswill — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:57:49 +0000

Ugh, I've been using a datasheet from Panasonic [0] recently, and it's been a trip. The original Japanese is all there, with a lackluster English translation below each paragraph. Plugging the Japanese in to Google Translate for the particularly bad sections usually helps. At least this version is clean, I ran across a few PDFs floating around for this part that looked like they had been run though the print-scan-jpeg cycle a few times.

0: https://mediap.industry.panasonic.eu/assets/custom-upload/Co...