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The fact that in the miniplayer you can't display both the album art and the track information at the same time unless the cursor is hovering over the window absolutely boggles my mind. If I'm listening to a station, I want to glance over and see what I'm listening to. And I like the album art showing. This worked until Tahoe.

View menu > Hide Large Artwork will show the track info, but you of course lose the album art.

Of course it's not a major issue, it doesn't make the system unusable, but it was a nice little experience thing.


All I know about modern Apple Music is that it’s always active in now playing when nothing else is playing, and accidentally pressing play sometimes summons an account setup screen.

I never use it, and wish I could delete it.


If it makes you feel any better it doesn't detect activity well even if something is actually playing.

I regularly go to pause Apple Music and the play/pause button on my keyboard instead starts playing a YouTube video in some background tab/window.


From the FAQ:

> You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.


I once bought one of those alarms that brighten along with the pattern of natural sunlight in the morning (and dim in the evening), as I don’t get much natural light in my bedroom. The time display on it was so unbelievably bright at its lowest setting that my sleep was worse until I piled stuff up in front of it. I don’t even bother with it anymore.


A related problem: I do get some natural light, but also a lot of night-time light from the apartment complex parking-lot lamps.

I've been thinking of a time-controlled motor on my window blinds.


Literally same here. Could've written your comment word for word.

That was going to be my DIY project, time to finally do it, I guess.


Renting, I'd want something I can temporarily attach to arbitrary pre-existing blinds. On reflection, there are several types one might encounter but I'm particularly thinking of the "twist stick to adjust horizontal slats" style. (As opposed to "loop of chain controls angle", or "fully unroll from top".)

I think there was a Show HN some months back where somebody 3D printed a mount so that the twist-stick could be slotted in at a slight angle.


Of 60-something Linodes in Newark across a few accounts (we don't use LKE, Node Balancers, etc)

- Many came back up yesterday. Most of the rest came back up this morning.

- All but two are back online. One of those is "Powered off" but can't be turned on because "Linode busy". The other is online but unreachable, same behavior as most of them during the outage.

- Three required me to put them in Rescue Mode and run fsck.ext4 -F /dev/sda to get them back online.


I woke up to a few hundred messages from Icinga - thankfully my phone is on do-not-disturb overnight. Some of my servers in Newark are up and responding, some are not.

Happy Sunday! Cleaning up the automatically-created maintenance/alert tickets generated by this is going to be a fun time.



How did you make that link?


This isn't obvious at all but you can click the star next to an item that's "Linked" on DF (where the title goes to another site) to get a permalink to the item on DF itself! https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/02/18/hp-buys-humane


Oh, wow, that UX is clear as mud. Thanks!


For anyone else trying this, the password is hackernews - without an exclamation point. Tripped me up.

Thanks for setting this up adenta!


From the article:

> The new law doesn’t apply to classified code, national security systems or code that would post privacy risks if shared.


With Icinga, for webservers:

- apt status (for security/critical updates that haven't been run yet)

- reboot needed (presence of /var/run/reboot-required)

- fail2ban jail status (how many are in each of our defined jails)

- CPU usage

- MySQL active, long-running processes, number of queries

- iostat numbers

- disk space

- SSL cert expiration date

- domain expiration date

- reachability (ping, domain resolution, specific string in an HTTP request)

- Application-specific checks (WordPress, Drupal, CRM, etc)

- postfix queue size


First mention of [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ], which is important to ensure security updates have taken effect


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