haxxorfreak
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Comment · 11 months ago
I love the hard drive sound emulation! I find that modern restorations of vintage hardware using SD cards to emulate drives are missing an important part of the nostalgic experience when they just start up completely silently.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, assuming the label of who is a “criminal” is fair.
There is always the risk of a society or government changing that definition after they have the data and it’s too late to go back.
Comment · 3 years ago
Microsoft is doing a surprisingly good job with their Sentinel SIEM. The sweetener is they give you free ingestion on most of your Office 365/Azure logs which can add up if you’re shipping out to another platform.
Makes it attractive for enterprises already on their platform and they throw in discounts for E5 license tier customers as well (gotta keep pushing the “give us everything or pay way more for single feature licenses”).
Comment · 3 years ago
I think they made an error converting cents to dollars, I just checked BC Hydro's rate and it's actually $0.0959 CAD (9.59 cents) for the first 1,350 kWh in a month (Step 1) then raises to $0.1422 after that (Step 2).[1]
[1] https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/el...
Comment · 4 years ago
AADInternals[0] is an excellent set of PowerShell modules for pentesting and performing recon against Azure AD as both an outsider[1] and for someone who has been invited to a tenant.
It has similar functionality integrated for discovering if a domain has an associated Azure AD Tenant and enumerating information about users in the tenant, who the "Owner" is and their contact information. As with many Microsoft products there are many configuration options and plenty of them aren't secure by default.
[0] https://o365blog.com/aadinternals/ [1] https://o365blog.com/post/just-looking/
Comment · 4 years ago
I have it working on an RX 6800, used the scripts from this repo[0] to build a docker image that has ROCm drivers and PyTorch installed.
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as the host OS, didn't have to touch anything beyond the basic Docker install. Next step is build a new Dockerfile that adds in the Stable Diffusion WebUI.[1]
[0] https://github.com/AshleyYakeley/stable-diffusion-rocm [1] https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion-webui
Comment · 4 years ago
If you're running an Apple Silicon Mac you can get an early build of Teams osx-arm64 from the exploration build link listed here.[0]
I've been running a daily build for a few weeks and it's noticeably better than the Intel build on an M1 Pro. It launches in half the time and feels far more responsive (probably due to not needing to use the Rosetta JIT for Electron). That said it's still a daily "exploration" build so YMMV.
[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-m...
Comment · 4 years ago
I recently used the T-Mobile Prepaid eSIM app to setup an eSIM with a one-month pre-paid plan for a trip to the US on an iPhone and it was a surprisingly smooth process.
Maybe the post-paid plans are more convoluted due to legacy billing reasons?
Comment · 4 years ago
If you only need to run Aperture I've had good success using Retroactive[1] on my M1 Max machine running Monterrey to patch it to run under Rosetta. Almost everything works fine except anything tied to iCloud and some of the video and slideshow features. It's been great in letting me access my older photos which have adjustments that I don't want to re-create in Lightroom.
It will copy over the missing frameworks and modify the app so the OS will run it even though it's unsupported, if you're interested there is a technical breakdown that goes into detail[2].
[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive
[2] https://medium.com/@cormiertyshawn895/deep-dive-how-does-ret...
Comment · 4 years ago
I had no idea about this, really handy!
Quick question, is there a reason the -k (--insecure) flag is included? I imagine that https://domains.google.com would use a cert trusted by curl so it seems unnecessary and adds a risk that your traffic could be MitM.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm optimistic and while the constant references to ARM as "Apple Silicon" make it sounds proprietary I see it as an example of Apple following Jobs' goal of "skating to where the puck will be".
Microsoft is toying with the same transition with Windows 10 ARM builds and the Surface Pro X, and the news yesterday about an ARM-based supercomputer taking the TOP500 crown are all signs that ARM is the future. It will take years but I foresee most "general computing" devices making the transition in the future.
Comment · 6 years ago
I use a 15" 2018 MacBook Pro with the six-core i9 at work and Turbo Boost Switcher[1] has been my favourite discovery. It lets you disable the turbo boost function of the processor which means the fans never spin up and the battery lasts longer. I pretty much always leave it disabled unless I am going to be transcoding video or compiling something and can't notice a performance hit even with a couple of VMs running.
The only bad thing is that it requires a kernel extension so will stop working when they are deprecated in 10.16. Hopefully Apple introduces a similar feature as there were rumours of a "Pro" mode coming which would ramp up the fans and clock, my hope is they add a complementary "quiet" mode or similar to disable turbo boost.
Comment · 6 years ago
Aperture is actually a 64-bit app but it depends on some system frameworks that weren't migrated to 64-bit and dropped in Catalina.
It's possible to get it running in 10.15 by removing the references to those frameworks, it breaks some of the features like slideshows but the app will still run: https://medium.com/@cormiertyshawn895/deep-dive-how-does-ret... (the author has also made an app that automates this process, I haven't tried it so I can't vouch for how well it works)