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by elahd 3mo ago
Put the TV remote in a drawer and only use the Apple TV remote. With CEC enabled, that one remote will control power and volume for the TV and any connected audio devices. It'll also switch to the proper input when the Apple TV is turn
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by elahd 5mo ago
In addition to changing bar size, would you consider supporting a multi-level bar? This is a Windows (pre-11) taskbar behavior where you can drag the top of the taskbar bar up to add additional rows of windows. uBar supports this, but the
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by elahd 2y ago
This is great, but I'd be more interested in seeing how congestion pricing impacts travel times for buses, specifically, (within and around the congestion zone, including express routes from the outer boroughs), as well as overall tran
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by elahd 2y ago
Keys on shabbat is doable without an eruv¹²³. (It's not considered carrying if it's an integral part of your clothing.) Eruvs are more for strollers/carrying small kids, dessert/wine when invited for lunch, etc. ¹ https:
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by elahd 3y ago
Verizon, actually. Not the mail tubes specifically, but they own Empire City Subway, a 130 year old company rents out sub-street conduit for telecom. Their tubes are visible when streets are dug up for construction. https://www.e
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by elahd 3y ago
They've been connected since 1991[1]. Amtrak runs trains from Canada/Chicago/Vermont into Penn using this connection. Trains run down Metro North's Hudson Line, through a junction in Spuyten Duyvil[2], down the West Side
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by elahd 4y ago
I use ESET NOD32 and am happy with it. It does its job with "dignity" (no Norton-style hyperbolic popups), consumes little resources, and is inexpensive. It does a great job blocking malware and has a nice blocker for "potent
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by elahd 4y ago
I figured this was: 1) An experiment to test the level of familiarity that non-technical users have with two factor authentication. That is, does a person who incidentally enabled SMS 2FA understand that having to enter an SMS code every ti
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by elahd 5y ago
This isn't just a construction phenomenon. The NYC MTA uses trains for collecting garbage and, until recently, money. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-refuse-rigs-collect... https://en.wikipedia
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by elahd 5y ago
You may be able to intercept a firmware update and load a binary poisoned with your own CA cert. (Lots of factors at play here, of course.) I'm working on a similar problem ( https://github.com/elahd/esp2ino/is
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by elahd 6y ago
- Password manager for both password storage and 2FA OTP generation. (Not the best practice, but the convenience is worth the trade-off.) - Password manager for almost all 2FA backup code storage. Both the best place and the dumbest place t
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Medtronic publicly releases ventilator specifications(medtronic.com)
1 points by elahd 6y ago|0 comments
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by elahd 7y ago
We do, but like many things here, it varies from state to state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit... . In New York, where I live, inspections are done by private mechanics (with a state licen
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Patent 8,271,321: Apparatus for building management information (BuildingLink)(patft1.uspto.gov)
2 points by elahd 7y ago|0 comments
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by elahd 7y ago
The telephone network is international. The US is limited in its ability to enforce anti-spam laws against operations running out of other countries. (They also seem unwilling or unable to enforce these laws domestically, but that's a
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by elahd 7y ago
I have a Pi running Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Node Red, and some custom scripts. It uses a parts bin 2.5" laptop hard drive (via a USB to SATA cable) as the sole boot and storage medium. You can set most Pis to boot from USB and totally
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by elahd 7y ago
In the US, at least, the post office is entirely self funded. The junk mail actually subsidizes the “legitimate” mail.
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by elahd 8y ago
The re-logging in problem can be solved via script. Check for the captive portal login page. If present, simulate clicking the log in button.
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by elahd 8y ago
With a few exceptions, paper prescriptions have been outlawed in New York State. Everything is electronic now.
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by elahd 8y ago
Aesthetics are great, but did you make any provisions for airflow? I'd be worried about equipment suffocation.
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Apple CarPlay will add Google Maps and Waze support with iOS 12(engadget.com)
2 points by elahd 8y ago|0 comments
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by elahd 8y ago
Download the YouTube Kids app instead. https://www.youtube.com/yt/kids/
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by elahd 8y ago
.NYC requires that the owner have a physical presence in New York City. In addition to the standard whois owner/tech/billing/etc contact sections, .NYC requires a "Nexus" contact -- basically, a NYC-based address of
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by elahd 8y ago
True. This can by bypassed one contact at a time by editing the contact's text tone. The text tone edit screen has an "Emergency Contact" switch that overrides DND for that contact. AFAIK there's no way to turn on app no
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by elahd 8y ago
This is doable on iOS. Settings > Do Not Disturb with the following settings: - Do Not Disturb: On - Scheduled: Off - Silence: Always - Allow Calls From: All Contacts You'd lose the ability to use Do Not Disturb to silence your phon
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by elahd 8y ago
They still have a couple with wooden treads on the top floor near the bedding section. There are many more in that building with steel treads and wooden "bodies."
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by elahd 8y ago
I prodded unroll.me a couple of years ago about their data retention policy. Their answer was sketchy so I ended up not using the service. Unroll.me users irreversibly hand over all of their emails to an unknown entity -- it's crazy to
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by elahd 8y ago
I've had the same experience with my immediate family (siblings, parents, in-laws). A few years ago, I made pretty clear that if their next phone wasn't an iPhone, they were on their own with regards to support. I set up iCloud ba
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by elahd 8y ago
In addition to the problems related to working around utilities, subways built with cut and cover create a lot of street level noise when operating. Also, buildings vibrate every time a train runs by. Bored subways are imperceptible from ab
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by elahd 9y ago
I wasn't referring to EV certificates, just to verifying simple ownership of the domain for the purposes of MITM and other attacks of that kind. Let's Encrypt would inform you that the page that appears when you visit googIe.com w

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