cywick

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by cywick 1y ago
Do you mean it sounds like it could be a Yiddish word? Because it doesn't seem to be an actual Yiddish (or German) word, as far as I can tell.
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by cywick 1y ago
This is really sad news. MacUpdater is an absolutely fantastic tool for keeping your software current and making sure you are not running outdated versions of apps with unfixed security holes.
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by cywick 2y ago
> I think vibes are underrated. The smart people can easily mislead you because they're smart. So you can cover things up with "official statistics", maliciously or by accident. > For instance, inflation is a big one. I
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by cywick 2y ago
...and Vivaldi had vertical tabs as native functionality before Edge even existed (and about six years before Edge implemented it). The only other browser (to my knowledge) that had native tabs earlier than Vivaldi was the original Opera br
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by cywick 2y ago
> Presumably, Crowdstrike runs on macOS without a kernel extension? That's correct: CrowdStrike now only installs an "Endpoint Security" system extension and a "Network" system extension on macOS, but no kernel e
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by cywick 2y ago
Yes, exactly. There is too much romanticizing of scary fairy tales as useful educational tools. It's important to remember that the pedagogical model behind these stories was the same that lead people to believe that harsh corporal pun
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by cywick 3y ago
Have you tried rebooting your Mac? Because on both of my Macs (a MBP 2020 and a Mac mini 2018, both running Ventura), the involuntary Sonoma upgrade only started once I manually rebooted the machine. Before the reboot, everything seemed nor
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by cywick 3y ago
Exactly. Typically, exfiltrating this kind of information is only the first step. Once enough high value targets are caught in this net, the actual malware is deployed.
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by cywick 3y ago
2b. If you have attached documents in 1Password, you need to manually add those to Bitwaren. This process is pretty straight-forward, though. To get a clean list of all items with file attachments in 1Password, I found it very use
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by cywick 4y ago
> alias rm='trash -i' This can really backfire. Ages ago, I used to have exactly the same alias for 'rm'. After a year or two, I got so used to 'rm' not really being destructive that one late night when I w
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Microsoft will soon push Xbox owners into energy-saving Shutdown mode(arstechnica.com)
4 points by cywick 4y ago|0 comments
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by cywick 4y ago
It sounds like you are unfamiliar with the concept of a protected class. Those characteristics that are protected by (US) law are generally the ones that companies focus on in this kind of data collection. So rest assured, companies won&#x2
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by cywick 4y ago
I find the language itself to be pretty clear, but since it would be absolutely insane* if crossposting the same content was prohibited, you think that they simply must have meant something else with that statement. Hence the confusion. [*]
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by cywick 4y ago
> Ex: we have a pretty clear innocent until proven guilty justice system. The high bar of "innocent until proven guilty" (and "beyond a reasonable doubt") only applies to criminal cases, though, and not to civil ones.
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by cywick 4y ago
It sounds like you have never been a moderator for an online community of at least moderate size. If you've never been in that role, it's easy to not only underestimate the sheer amount of garbage that you need to remove, so regul
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by cywick 4y ago
In this scenario, the server would have already been shut down for maintenance but the company would still be debating whether to hire someone for actually doing the maintenance.
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by cywick 4y ago
With these cheap computers, the manufacturers typically cut corners on things that are not listed on the spec sheet, though, especially the quality of the trackpad. We have a bunch of $400 Lenovos at work and their trackpads are absolutely
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by cywick 4y ago
And you clearly need to use sarcasm in a way that is not invisible to everyone but people familiar with the subject matter. According to the OP, CS:GO is too hard for their new employees to get into, so Eve, which is famous for its brutal l
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by cywick 4y ago
I struggle to understand why you are so sure of this. Traveling by train is already far, far more popular than traveling by plane in most parts of the world, but you don't see security checks there.
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by cywick 4y ago
If you keep your files only on your devices and a home server, you are making yourself vulnerable to scenarios like the one discussed here very recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652650 ("I've locke
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by cywick 4y ago
The main issue is, as the article points out towards the end, that you only receive all macOS security updates if you are on the latest major version. The two major versions prior to that one receive some, but not all, security updates. Onc
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by cywick 4y ago
T2 is indeed "safe", but there is not a consistent pattern with regard to T1 and pre-T1 Macs: The MacBook Pro (2016, 4 Thunderbolt ports, with Touch Bar) does have a T1 chip and is dropped, but the MacBook Pro (2017, 2 Thunderbolt
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by cywick 4y ago
It's really disappointing how aggressively they have started to drop macOS support for slightly older Macs. Big Sur, which was released in Nov 2020, still supported the MacBook Air (2013) and the MacBook Pro (Late 2013). When Ventura i
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macOS 13 Ventura dumps all pre-2017 Macs, including the “trash can” Mac Pro(arstechnica.com)
69 points by cywick 4y ago|48 comments
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by cywick 4y ago
> How many professors are conservative or openly religious? At German universities the answer is actually "quite a number of professors", and being conservative or religious is just as normal and accepted as being on the progre
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by cywick 4y ago
> It is a bold thing to claim that crypto mining is run on stolen power. Stolen from whom, may I ask? It's a bit surprising to me that you that you hadn't heard about this yet. I've come across dozens and dozens of news re
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by cywick 4y ago
Related hint: Instead of dragging the scroll bar slider, you can also just option+click on the place of the scrollbar that you want to jump to.
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by cywick 4y ago
Is there any evidence that "companies, figures, games, movies, etc" have stopped using Twitter to promote their products and/or use Twitter as a support channel? And doubly so that they did this because of their own political
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by cywick 4y ago
No, that's incorrect. Here's an image that illustrates the physical differences between the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max, including their vastly different die sizes: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17019/Die-
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by cywick 5y ago
As a child, I had a $20 plastic submarine that was powered by AA batteries. It could sit at the bottom of a pool for days on end, without water ever getting into the battery compartment of the engine module (which was sealed with a rubber o

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