Hacker News: summadat

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: How do you prepare a MacBook Pro for intensive testing in Apple Store?"

summadat — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:33:08 +0000

Create a backup and wipe the SSD before leaving with Apple.

New comment by summadat in "Systemd by Example"

summadat — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 23:14:45 +0000

New comment by summadat in "Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person"

summadat — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:52:59 +0000

Ok, can I see your credit card statements for the last 5 years? Can I listen to all of your phone conversations? Can I watch you shower and use the bathroom? I mean, you sound like an average person with nothing to hide...../s

New comment by summadat in "Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person"

summadat — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:50:58 +0000

What if a trade-off was that your Echo was actively recording and indexing every single word you've said within its range?

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: Home Wifi Routers"

summadat — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:46:13 +0000

To each, their own. In my case, the ease of use was worth every penny. If I take my hourly rate and apply that to how long I spent trying to setup a controller on a raspberry pi, then I could’ve bought 2 or 3 CloudKeys.

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: Home Wifi Routers"

summadat — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:06:03 +0000

What you’re looking for is the CloudKey. It is the local Controller and can be accessed via “the Cloud” if needed, but not mandatory. I tried running the Java controller on my Mac, it worked but sucked. Having an independent dedicated piece of hardware is worth every penny IMO.

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: What is the one quote that you carry around in your head all the time?"

summadat — Tue, 29 May 2018 13:49:03 +0000

"If you keep doing what you have been doing, you're going to keep getting what you've got"

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: Which VPN?"

summadat — Thu, 17 May 2018 20:12:05 +0000

Algo all day every day, good stuff, use it.

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?"

summadat — Mon, 07 May 2018 19:06:46 +0000

2nd'ing fail2ban, it's simple and awesome.

Beyond that, tripwire or it's modern equivalent. Traffic monitoring, "deep packet" inspection on the network side. Run all outbound through a proxy.

New comment by summadat in "The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet"

summadat — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:10:25 +0000

This is nice, but..the iPad Pro starts at $636, pencil is $99 extra, not much more than this $600 device.

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: what is a good dev setup with an iPad?"

summadat — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:25:12 +0000

Yes, I do for Python. Side-by-side apps and drag-n-drop make programming and many other tasks possible on iPad.

Bonus: no fan noise, ever.

Apps: Pythonista Working Copy (git client, I use BitBucket) Blink (ssh and a few extras)

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: What Is the Absolute Cheapest Car to Own and Drive?"

summadat — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:18:48 +0000

Honda. New or "CPO" certified pre-owned. Spend the money up front for new or CPO, save the hassle later of buying used and the previous owner never changing the oil. All of my (3) Honda's have never required anything more than gas and maintenance, brake pads, tires, etc.

New comment by summadat in "Thoughts about developer laptop 2018"

summadat — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:34:38 +0000

The regular Macbook, aka "Macbook Adorable". Yes, 8GB RAM, but..NVME storage, awesome little machine. I would keep it in OS X since Linux may not take full advantage of the screen. Linux definetely won't be able to pull of the per-application DPI scaling that OS X does.

New comment by summadat in "A Guide to Minimalist Web Design"

summadat — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 01:54:09 +0000

In other words...http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

"You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow. Wrong, motherfucker. Let me describe your perfect-ass website:"

New comment by summadat in "Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web"

summadat — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:44:21 +0000

"Apple's refusal to support my chosen development platform means that Apple is holding back the entire web" ...really?

New comment by summadat in "NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars"

summadat — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:16:24 +0000

If memory serves me right, Warp speeds are x^3 faster for each step. Warp 1 is 3x faster than light, Warp 2 is 27x faster, etc

New comment by summadat in "Ask HN: Are great old games more immersive?"

summadat — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 21:08:55 +0000

Half-Life 2, immersive storyline with good pacing, action/tension and puzzle/problem solving.

New comment by summadat in "I have no side code projects to show"

summadat — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 04:45:59 +0000

"fuck the game, don't let the game fuck you"