Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.
I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours
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hackeman300 commented on Disrupting the largest residential proxy network cloud.google.com/blog/top... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
Try browsing from any Mullvad vpn. You will be "blocked by network security"
hackeman300 commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
.\setup.exe /product server /auto upgrade /EULA accept /migratedrivers all /ShowOOBE none /Compat IgnoreWarning /Telemetry DisableWhat's this?
hackeman300 commented on iCloud Photos Downloader github.com/icloud-photos-... · Posted by u/reconnecting
Yes — in Apple Photos the manually edited date/time is not written back into the image or video file. It’s stored separately in the Photos library database, which is why tools like Immich usually fall back to the original capture date in EXIF / QuickTime metadata.
Photos Backup Anywhere does handle this case: it reads the adjusted date from the Photos library and stores that modified timestamp in its own SQLite database, linked to the backed-up file, so the edited date isn’t lost even though the file itself isn’t rewritten.
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. Does Apple provide any APIs for interacting with this metadata or was this something you had to implement yourself with lower level DB lookups?
hackeman300 commented on iCloud Photos Downloader github.com/icloud-photos-... · Posted by u/reconnecting
HN disclosure: I’m the author of Photos Backup Anywhere, but this thread mirrors the exact issues that pushed me to write it.
One thing that surprised me when digging into Apple Photos is how much state isn’t represented by just files-on-disk. Albums, Live Photos (paired assets), bursts, slo-mo, edits, and even “simple” things like adjusted capture dates are all tracked separately, and most export/backup tools end up flattening or partially reconstructing that on restore.
The approach I took was to treat Photos as the source of truth and verify restored items against it, rather than assuming filesystem metadata is enough. As far as I know, this is the only tool that restores albums and correctly round-trips all Photos item types while preserving location data, creation dates, and modification dates when restoring back into Photos.
Project page is here if it’s useful: https://photosbackup.app/
Happy to explain details if anyone’s curious — there are a lot of sharp edges in Photos once you go beyond “export originals”.
If you manually edit the date on a photo, is that also stored separately from the image file itself? Wondering because I've noticed photos I've backed up to Immich from iOS photos don't respect that edited date and reflect whatever the original date was.
I've been thinking about looking into a fix for this since it's bugged me a bit.
Another day, another evidently AI-written article about AI on the front page of HN...
Yup, closed as soon as I saw the classic "it's not x, it's y" pattern.
It doesn't hold true across the universe? I thought this was one of the more universal things like the speed of light.
Gravity isn't 9.8m/s/s across the universe. If you're at higher or lower elevations (or outside the Earth's gravitational pull entirely), the acceleration will be different.
Their point was the 9.8 model is good enough for most things on Earth, the model doesn't need to be perfect across the universe to be useful.
hackeman300 commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard
strongbox is a reasonable app for iOS and you can set it up for sftp to your main self hosted server.
Unfortunately strongbox was sold a few months ago to a somewhat notorious app firm that has the nasty habit of buying popular apps and adding a whole bunch of telemetry. Not something I'd want in a password app.
I've switched to KeePassium. Not quite as polished UX, but works for me
hackeman300 commented on Poison, Poison Everywhere loeber.substack.com/p/29-... · Posted by u/dividendpayee
Equally as large and interesting is the industry of targeting and subverting consumer watchdog groups. Wirecutter's infiltration and takeover is a fascinating example.
Where can I read more about Wirecutter's infiltration? Disappointed to hear since I largely trusted their reviews
hackeman300 commented on New #1 open-source AI Agent on SWE-bench Verified refact.ai/blog/2025/open-... · Posted by u/laxyz
Reality is here whether we like it or not - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1DEP0
Surely there are no other macroeconomic factors that could have played a role in this decline too