News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

callumjones

Another theory is this was meant to launch with the Apple announcement on Tuesday.
Re:Ubiquiti showing other users' consoles on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:16PM (#38644899)
Wow, I always wondered why the Access Reader Pro had such a weird design - it was just a repurposed product from a completely different catagory.
Re:Changing the Android captive portal page on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:19AM (#36847533)
gstatic.com - the backbone of the internet.
It will be on Game Pass which is for Windows and Xbox. Possibly xCloud too enabling it to potentially run on mobile platforms?
At Netflix’s size with a need for payment processing redundancy I imagine they would store and vault it.
Re:Support of Ruby 2.3 has ended on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @08:25PM (#19687650)
The question should be: how many C extensions does the average Ruby developer have in their Gemfile. And my guess would ranging from a few to many.
Re:Support of Ruby 2.3 has ended on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:16PM (#19661123)
I'd disagree with the upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4:

> Though ISO/IEC 30170:2012 doesn’t specify details of the Integer class, Ruby had two visible Integer classes: Fixnum and Bignum. Ruby 2.4 unifies them into Integer. All C extensions which touch the Fixnum or Bignum class need to be fixed.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-rele...

But we haven’t seen the full report, right?
Re:AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:31PM (#18906722)
It's easier for AWS for accommodate all their customer's needs (MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres) and reduce the cost of switching than it is to convince them to rewrite an application or legacy application to leverage say DynamoDB. The benefit of DynamoDB is great, but it's just one slice of the computing pie.
Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:37AM (#18871771)
Where was the outrage when they implemented the MySQL and Postgres interfaces on Aurora?
It’s also them realizing people are willing to switch to Google for managed Kubernetes over using mediocre ECS.
Re:Raspberry Pi WLAN setup on Saturday November 24, 2018 @02:08PM (#18523482)
Doesn't this just work over Bluetooth for the initial config? The internet isn't useful at this point because it isn't connected to a WLAN.
Re:Raspberry Pi WLAN setup on Saturday November 24, 2018 @01:30PM (#18523316)
But this is just the process of connecting it to a wireless network, which would be the hacker's network? The risk seems pretty contrived?

You could make the same argument for other assisted headless installations: speakers, smart plugs, etc.

Re:Sprint Is Throttling Skype, Study Finds on Friday November 09, 2018 @12:47AM (#18412576)
Do they or is it just indirect via a consortium? Looking at this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_3 it doesn’t look to be directly managed by Sprint.
Re:Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:49PM (#18188256)
This has to be HN at its worst. Reducing a complicated file sharing and collaboration tool to an insecure and highly technical protocol.

Dropbox: I can upload a file super easily and share a simple & secure link with someone who just has a web browser.

FTP: I can upload a file to an FTP server I've either configured on my server or rented online. I'll then provide an FTP url to friend with instructions on how they should login and what FTP client they should use on their chosen device.

EDIT: This could be sarcasm, if I didn't pick up on then feel free to downvote me to hell.

EDIT 2: Thanks to the comments, this is sarcasm. I messed up. Sorry rakoo.

> Like other voice-enabled devices, Portal only sends voice commands to Facebook servers after you say, “Hey Portal.” You can delete Portal's voice history in your Facebook Activity Log.

It’s very much connected to their servers.

Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:58PM (#18096539)
I'm not sure if you can compare upgrading a VM/platform that is usually designed for backwards compatibility to upgrading a framework.
The problem with WS is that is significantly more complex than HTTP when it comes to caching.

With WS you can’t leverage a CDN hosted solution and instead would need some complicated CDN that is aware of state.

I like HTTP because it just works, especially behind buggy corporate and mobile network firewalls.

> always a, er, special place

Can you expand on this? Or is this an east vs west viewpoint?

I’m playing PUBG on a MB Pro Mid-2015 (integrated graphics only) with a Akitio Node TB3 + nVidia 1060. It worked out of the box on Windows 10.

Yes I’m losing some bandwidth stepping down to TB2 but it’s enough to satisfy some casual gaming.

Wouldn't you still have to do "fullstack development" to create the clone?
Re:Archive of Operating Systems on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @12:37PM (#17075234)
Is this a more extensive archive of OS screenshots (especially without all flavors of Linux that use the same DE): https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots
If you're going to do illegal stuff, I don't think carrying around a lot cash if going to weigh too heavily on your mind. You're either going to carry it in a car or have a person carry it for you.
Re:Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @07:02PM (#17035057)
How is this measured? I think the usage of their mobile apps is significantly greater than visits to "facebook.com", you could argue then that more customers are moving to apps only.
Re:Things I’ve learned using serverless on Friday May 04, 2018 @07:20PM (#16999223)
> old-time request-response style of a website with a session managed by the server

Breaking news: your app still does this. You just moved the responsibility of request/response elsewhere.

Re:OpenSimpleLidar on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:16PM (#16758594)
It could be related to the fact that LIDAR tech was supposedly stolen from Waymo.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/07/technology/waymo-v-uber-tech...

Re:Au Revoir on Thursday March 29, 2018 @11:59AM (#16708087)
See my first comment.
Re:Au Revoir on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:42PM (#16701151)
They are a container company, not a scale your blog + scale your database + scale your cache + scale your security company.
Re:Au Revoir on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:41PM (#16701138)
Because a blog at scale is still a complicated piece of software? You need to implement caching, DoS protection, security - something a hosted blog vendor might have experience in.
Re:Au Revoir on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:37PM (#16699902)
I don't understand why companies take on hosting their blog and marketing page (usually the homepage) when it isn't their core competency and a distraction for the engineering team to maintain.

It looks like this is true for Docker which seems to be hosting it themselves instead of using Wordpress.com

» nslookup blog.docker.com Server: 192.168.86.1 Address: 192.168.86.1#53

Non-authoritative answer: blog.docker.com canonical name = blog-1556129762.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.

Older »