hk1337's comments

On: Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]

[hk1337]

Installing LibreWolf on Apple Silicon seems to require disabling the macOS Gatekeeper.

[JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B → hk1337]

No, remove the quarantine flag on the command-line (find how on Google).

[fragmede → JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

You don't remember

    xattr -d com.apple.quarantine the_file

off the top of your head? What do you mean the command line is obtuse and hard to use?

[hk1337 → JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

Remove it or use it? If I don't use it, it will not work.

[zitterbewegung → hk1337]

You can go into system settings and then privacy and security to allow the app to run also. Attempt to start the App once and click cancel and then go into system settings.

On: Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]

[hk1337]

> Video unavailable

> This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions.

Not really sure why but I cannot load the video.

[Waterluvian → hk1337]

Are you trying to watch from a corporate managed account? That happens to me on occasion when I forget I’m in work mode.

On: Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees

[hk1337]

I key difference and qualifier is a private company CAN have the same amount of waste but not necessarily and like modeless mentioned, private companies can fail and we can move the services to another.

It's guaranteed the federal government is going to have waste and be very difficult to change because you cannot let it fail.

[LocalH → hk1337]

Why do we need to stamp out "waste"? A bit of waste is inevitable, and is human. Excessive waste, sure. But I think Musk's DOGE goal is to stamp out all waste to 0, and that is simply impossible.

For example, the only way not to waste any food whatsoever, is not to eat. It is inevitable there will be some small portion of food wasted.

Chasing perfect efficiency is a fool's errand, since humans are not perfect.

[shinryuu → LocalH]

Also where some people see waste, other see redundancy and slack in the system, which creates resilience.

On: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust

[hk1337]

I went a different route and use different branches for different OS environments. macOS, macOS-arm, Linux, Windows (wsl)

The environments are basically the same in each but there’s some functionality I can do I one that I cannot do in another

On: Show HN: Paste a Zillow URL and get a property analysis

[hk1337]

I wouldn’t say it’s sketchy. They want people logged in to get the analysis.

It’s a horrible UX pattern. At the very least, it should be obvious that I have to login to get the analysis, not immediately shoot over to a google login.

Ideally, it’d be nice if they did a basic analysis of the property link and required login to get more details.

[giulioco → hk1337]

Good idea, thanks.

Didn't know people would get this triggered by this UX pattern tbh. I had it before with a modal that prompted the user to login but figured this might just be easier / faster?

I'll readd the modal though.

On: BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English

[hk1337]

The British Empire ruined the English language.

On: A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec

[hk1337]

macOS Keychain used to have a password generator similar when you chose the "memorable" option. Back when it was OS X instead of macOS.

It only did two words and would sometimes include a number or symbol.

On: Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate

[hk1337]

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[dec0dedab0de → hk1337]

if the cops cant question kids at all, then what would they do if a group of kids are acting suspicious?

[krapp → dec0dedab0de]

Nothing. "Acting suspicious" isn't a crime, it's a pretext. Usually to shooting some unarmed black kid in the head.

[ARandomerDude → krapp]

"Acting suspicious" is a grammar crime.

[bryanrasmussen → ARandomerDude]

They were acting as if they were suspicious of me! Why would anyone be suspicious of the police!? I had to shoot them!

On: Pi-hole v6

[hk1337]

This actually seems rather nice. Not the same as PiHole but I can see its upsides.

One upside I like about PiHole is that I can set it up to distribute the DNS to all my devices. This seems like I have to manually configure each device?

ATT doesn't let you set the IPv6 DNS, so I either have to disable IPv6 on the network or setup PiHole to pass IPv6 and the DNS I want to the device.

[CharlesW → hk1337]

> This seems like I have to manually configure each device?

You don't have to (and I assume most users don't), but you can if you want per-device reporting. You just set your router's DHCP server to hand out NextDNS's DNS servers.

[hk1337 → CharlesW]

That’s a good point, assuming your router allows you to do that.

ATT apparently removed overriding the DNS for IPv4 and IPv6. I had to double check because I thought I could do IPv4 but no.

There’s supposedly several options around it to use your own router but it’s not really worth setting up and my speed is slower using a second router.

[malfist → hk1337]

The routers provided by your ISP are almost always budget crap. Use your own router if you care about your network

[hk1337 → malfist]

I know it’s crap. The network performance is worse with my own router because I cannot just completely ditch the ATT gateway.

On: Pi-hole v6

[hk1337]

I have had many times click an article link on reddit where everyone in the post comments complains about how the site is riddled with ads that it makes it unreadable and all I see is the article with a lot of whitespace.

[martin_a → hk1337]

IT department does not like that, but I had them install Firefox on the machines of my team, so we can install uBlock Origin. People are _amazed_ how the internet does look without ads.

[ed_mercer → hk1337]

Can’t you just use uBlock for this?

[saltymug76 → ed_mercer]

Pihole catches a lot of the trackers and crap coming out of my android tv. On my pc I see it as an extra line of defense after ublock.

[mistyvales → saltymug76]

Hulu stopped working properly on my Shield after using Pi-Hole, so I guess it was working?

[saltymug76 → mistyvales]

On the pihole subreddit there's a wiki with lists of domains you can whitelist for certain services. I had to whitelist something for xbox live to work.

[dmajor2 → mistyvales]

Yeah, even the paid (non-ad) hulu has trouble if you block its telemetry servers.

[alimbada → ed_mercer]

You can't use uBlock everywhere, .e.g phones, tablets, TVs.