They mean to have a static single character on the screen and have it change with every keypress. For example, you type "a" and it shows /. You type "b" and it shows "|", etc.

Seems to be an accidental dangling s at the end of the comment. Try this?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Yikes, fixed above now. Thanks to both of you!

That works!

Every time I see a comment on the state of Tahoe I look wearily at my current install of Sequoia. I'll have to update at some point. But I'll hold out as long as I can...

I did it today. It took me thirty minutes to fix the networking because I couldn't get Little Snitch to uninstall since it didn't seem to be compatible. Basically I had to reboot in recovery mode to disable security features (csr) to uninstall Little Snitch (via systemextensionsctl). This is the worst update I've ever gone through on Mac, and I started using a Macintosh SE.

In the past, MacOS has automatically made a folder of incompatible software that it leaves on the desktop. Little Snitch seems like something that could have been tested.

As far as I know Little Snitch uses a user-space Network Extension, which uses a public API added by Apple to the OS specifically to help devs move out of kernel space.

It is a commonly used extension, which was restricted so that I could no longe remove it. What's more odd is that supposedly I was running the latest version.

They've done something with the printer system in Tahoe. Brother removed support for native drivers on certain label printers on Tahoe (!!!) when you go searching you find other printer issues.

Like, why. Why would you need to change the printer system? It works.. has worked for a very long time, there's no reasonable need to change it.

This might've been a side effect of removing support for third-party kernel extensions rather than something changing with the printer system specifically.

I have an old (~10 years old) printer that Cannon stopped supplying updated macOS drivers for several years ago. The installer for the drivers failed so I had to extract the files from the package and install them manually. In the end only the network drivers work, the USB drivers are kexts which won't run.

Oh man! I came here to complain about printing! I just discovered yesterday that you can no longer drag and drop print jobs from one printer to another. Apparently you can move a print job via some command line stuff but it just ended up deleting the jobs entirely. The only reasons I found this out is because the printer which had been working fine moments before just stopped working after replacing toner. No amount of deleting and re-padding the printer or power cycling either machine fixed it. One time the whole OS just froze and I had to force reboot. I spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to get one 3 page document to print. To be fair, I haven’t had problems with this setup for 10+ years but when it went south it also went to the remote frigid corners of Antarctica.

They overhauled CUPS and replaced chunks of it.

I liked the film.

Editing the post to switch five "it's X not Y"s[1] is pretty disappointing. I wish people were more clear with their disclosure of LLM editing.

[1]: https://github.com/andrew/nesbitt.io/commit/0664881a524feac4...

I recsind my previous statement. Also, people have to stop putting everything on github.

Why? To me, hosting previous versions of an article in a public git repo adds transparency. Or perhaps you are talking about GitHub specifically?

That is correct for the collective as a whole, but in his instance, if this wasn't connect to a public github, it would have been substanially more difficult to prove he used a LLM.

You're supposed to also remove the fancy UTF-8 quotes that people can't normally type, the EM dashes, and reorder sentences/clauses because the paragraph level "template" slop is really obvious to people who use these models all the time. (I'm also pretty sure that the UTF-8 shenanigans with LLM responses was done very on purpose by those who have a vested interest in making it easier for mass surveillance of written communication.)

Or, use the "deep research" mode for writing your prose instead. It's far less sloppy in how it writes.

These people are amateurs at humanizing their writing.

This is terrible. So disrespectful. It's baffling how someone can do this under their own name

The SSID (name, like the article mentions) is different than the bSSID (mac address of the access point), so I don't think it would be that easy to spoof.

Minor but important correction: The BSSID is almost never the AP MAC address.

The BSSID is unique per SSID, per AP. The BSSID is usually derived (usually by incrementing the last octet) from the AP MAC address, however.

So an AP MAC might be 77:99:44:EE:C4:11.

It has a wireless network called "Bob's SSID". It will have a BSSID of something like 77:99:44:EE:C4:12.

Then, the AP may be broadcasting another called "Mary's SSID", and it will have a BSSID of something like 77:99:44:EE:C4:13.

Edit: More not-well-written info on BSSIDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_set_(802.11_network)

Looks like the BSSID is derived from the AP serial number by some vendors. Never seen that myself.

I see, thanks. I've definitely seen instances where an AP is broadcasting multiple SSIDs with different BSSIDs. I suppose I just thought nothing of it... but that makes sense.

That would be a fun project. Capture some WiFi geolocation data and rebroadcast it later with an ESP32 that switches its BSSID/SSID/frequency/transmit power to match an existing fingerprint.

And then see if you can be magically transported somewhere else.

Already done: https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/bypassing-airpods-hearing-ai...

Shouldn't be any harder than the name.

Do most consumer APs/routers allow you to just change the MAC address on the fly? I don't think the ones I've owned have ever allowed that. But that would certainly be interesting to try (if you were somewhere without any other address interference that would tip it off)

Pretty sure the laptop I had from like 2012 until 2018 could do that. Haven't tried anymore since (haven't played around with deauths) but I thought this was common functionality

Consumer router firmware UIs, typically owned by ISPs, I'd not expect that yeah. Some don't even let you pick a WiFi band anymore and require other changes to be submitted through an ISP portal on the web somewhere (thinking of Belgium here, not sure which ISP it was)

Some will let you change it but it's almost always static since changing AP MAC Address will cause network disruptions for all connected clients.

Sure, some hacker somewhere will screw with these databases by rotating their AP MAC Address regularly but 99.9% are not going to touch it and 99.9% is good enough for location databases.

I've wanted to make a project w/ a receipt printer for a little bit now. Does anyone have any good suggestions for printer models?

I don't like the baseless LLM accusations, but the code comment

> // Device wants updates! Store that push token like it's bitcoin in 2010

...really had me raising my eyebrows. Along with the mixed em-dash and hyphens and the AI generated images on the page.

I would absolutely write a comment like that in code I was writing for a personal project. I’ve written way worse as well.

I sure hope a few wipes with a paper towel is not good enough for most people who get feces on their hands

don't people typically say to let thoughts pass by when you're doing meditation? seems like bitter medicine to disallow yourself any fleeting thought

the way you are actually supposed to meditate is to keep your mind completely clear. I have been testing this for almost a year now and even I cannot manage more than 5 mins of it but the idea is that as soon as you get a thought inside your head, open your eyes and stop the timer. It doesnt matter if it was 5 seconds or 2 mins but slowly and steadily your times will increase and so will your focus