I don't understand how can people trust a random app or extension just to have a little convinience. When it comes to big tech people are very privacy conscious. But it's not always big tech may have privacy leaks or would sell your data directly to data brokers most of the time, it's small apps like this.

I'm not saying developer is doing that, but they have power to do so. This app sends every video you're watching to their api, https://sponsor.ajay.app/api/ , and they can do whatever they want with this data. When small apps like this becames popular, they start receiving offers from data brokers/malware business and sometimes developers sell the data or the whole app without even knowing that the data will be used for bad purposes.

> But it's not always big tech may have privacy leaks or would sell your data directly to data brokers most of the time, it's small apps like this.

Do you have any data to back this up

If you're following HN regularly, I'm sure you'd see many issues especially for sold Chrome extensions. Really need data? Maybe check these:

[1]https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[2]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/datas...

[3]https://dataspii.com/

Just a reminder, depending on your installation method of youtube-dl , you may have to manually install ffmpeg globally on your system in order to download/mux highest quality videos.

I also noticed that on my Macbook 16", if I use my left ports for external monitors, fans are going louder sooner.

Good work! People talk about how a webcam cover is essential on laptops but I think iOS side of this exploit is even more crucial. Very few people use camera covers for phones, cause they are ugly and new phones have FaceID etc which makes impossible to use a camera cover daily. More importantly, we take our phones to places more private, like bathrooms. Now that iOS Safari support front facing camera stream, I think this discovery worth more than $75K

Every computer controlled camera and microphone should come with an actual mechanical switch that cuts power.

I only have limited experience with Figma (my prev experience is with Sketch,Zeplin and Invision), but as a Developer, I'm finding it very hard to inspect elements and find margins, paddings and distances between elements. Not sure if our design team is doing something wrong.

You can use Figma + Zeplin. Maybe have your designer export a design to Zeplin and see if you have the same issues inspecting elements there as well.

It's most likely that your designer just has a messy file. I've never had an issue with the Figma inspector.

Some of it probably has to do with the file itself not being clearly organized, some of it is probably how Figma selects groups.

Where I work, we started to mark the spaces with spacer elements, which look like boxes that have the number of pixels on them. It felt like a waste of time after using Zeplin, but it’s just much easier to see the measurements at a glance and doesn’t require the engineers to measure everything themselves. As a designer, it saves me time because I don’t have to answer as many questions or spend as much time on the design QA feedback loop.

In Figma if you select an element and then hold the `option` key when you hover other elements it will show you the distances between them.

Yes I know, but most of the time it shows it wrong, it adds some artificial space or it just does not detect the element under the mouse cursor.

I use my Raspberry pi to proxy any cloud video to my LG Smart TV, at native resolution, using rclone mount and Emby Media server. It's great. I can play 4K 100mbit videos from my cloud drives directly on the TV.

Side note, you can also use cloudflare free for dns, it's easy to setup.

And cloud flare can block some of the mischievous web traffic too

Yes, exactly. Despite the fact that my domain is not listed anyone online, cloudflare dashboard says they blocked 1000s of attempts last month.

Excuses me for being ignorant but why would you need a DNS to stream from a cloud drive?

Sorry for misunderstanding, you don't need to. My comment about the DNS was about OP's use of no-ip.

I completely agree. If prediction algorithms properly implemented, the Uber crash could be avoided.

I think the next step after proper visual prediction is interpreting the noise around. For example, a human can hear the ambulance siren approaching and slow down in a junction without seeing the vehicle. I think sound interpretation is very important especially in city driving.

If Uber had bothered to follow a basic safety protocol that person would still be alive today.

Staying alert on watch is something that nearly every solider, security guard, sailor, will have to do. Where you basically stare into the dark in case someone comes.

There are a number of ways to mitigate the inevitable failure of attention:

* Having a parter;

* Doing short shifts (change with partner);

* Very simple non-distracting tasks - like reading out to your parter a figure at a glance.

You certainly should not:

* Be on your own;

* Have a mobile phone on you (all screens should be locked away while moving).

It's so fucking arrogant that Uber didn't care to implement the most obvious risk mitigation. The cost of an additional person on watch is negligible compared to the cost of their self driving care program. My gut feeling is Uber simply misled regulators with how developed their self driving car program is, so it could continue to mislead investors.

> If prediction algorithms properly implemented, the Uber crash could be avoided.

If they didn't willingly disable safety features the crash wouldn't have happened.

It wouldn't have happened with the shittiest auto emergency braking system that relies on 0 Ai and 0 predictions.

I don’t think accurate prediction is the right long term strategy. It’s edge cases that cause accidents, so a more adversarial approach is safer.

Taken to the extreme this causes problems, but gently slowing down in the case of extreme tailgating is a response to slow reaction times not direct path prediction.

It's edge cases that will leave 100% self-driving unlikely in the near future.

Adversarial approach to driving results in staying at home, because you're likely to be rammed by a bad driver from behind, and you should almost never brake and drive always as fast as possible. Alternatively always stop when you see any pedestrian on the walkway, because they will drive in front of your car.

Driving is cooperative not adversarial, even certain classes of illegal behavior are predictable.

To anyone has a slightly older Mac and thinking about getting a 4k screen: DON'T.

4k is not supported on many older models. Check your official specs. Most Macs has max 1440p@60hz output. 4k is only supported @ 30hz, which is no good for daily usage. And the main problem is, if you get a 4k monitor( to future proof your setup), and try to use it at 1440p, everything will be blurry and pixels will shift and distort.

Just get a native 1440p monitor.

If you have a never Mac, getting a 4k 27" monitor may still be a bad idea. Since 4k is too much for a 27" screen, you will need to use scaling in Mac options, and ideally set it to "looks like 1440p" But this will cause your mac to do 1.5 scaling and create a burden in your GPU and CPU. It will render everything doubled at 5k and try to scale it to 4k. If you're using a Macbook, your fans will never stop even on idle. This is even worse performance than getting a 5k monitor and using it native 2x scaled, which is easy on GPU.

One side note; there is no USB-C Hub that offer 4k@60hz output, technically not possible. You have to get a separate hdmi or dp adapter, or an expensive Thunderbolt 3 dock. But there are some usb-c to hdmi or dp adapters which also offers Power Delivery.

I've already wasted money and time figuring this out, so you don't have to :)

I have a 2015 MBP that runs 4k60 just fine, but I do admit the gpu gets nearly maxed out on the desktop running software like CLion, as the IDE is gpu accelerated. Anything pre 2015 is most likely a no go.

From a pragmatic standpoint you'll need a gpu that supports display port 1.2 or hdmi 2.0 or thunderbold / usb-c, and at least 1GB of vram as many operating systems take up to roughly 900MB of vram to run a desktop at 4k. Firefox and Chrome can run fine on 100MB of vram (even Youtube at full 60fps at 100MB of vram is fine), but they really want around 500MB of vram to breath, so 2GB is a good safe minimum for having a lot of windows open at 4k.

The 2015 MBP has 2GB of vram and supports display port 1.2.

> One side note; there is no USB-C Hub that offer 4k@60hz output, technically not possible.

This is not correct: there is enough bandwidth for 4k@60hz, just not if you also want USB 3 speeds on the USB hub (which I have no need for: USB 2 is plenty fast enough). I am using a CalDigit USB-C hub with my 12" MacBook (which does not have Thunderbolt) with a special version of the firmware (you have to ask their customer support for a copy) that drops the USB ports down to USB 2 so I can connect to a 4k display at 60hz, and it works great.

> If you're using a Macbook, your fans will never stop even on idle.

I have a 2017 MacBook Pro that runs 4K-at-looks-like-1440p fine with no fan noise and without even turning on the dedicated GPU for normal web browser / code editor / document stuff.

Macbooks always turns on dedicated GPU when connected to an external monitor. Maybe you're using it in clamshell mode?

Huh, I guess I was incorrect on the GPU, then, but I've definitely never heard any fan noise for anything less than a game with 3D rendering spinning up.

MacBook Pros since at least late 2013 support 4k @ 60hz. That's a seven year old laptop. I've been using 4k displays with mine for years with no issues, both at native and scaled resolutions without taxing the cpu/gpu. I would highly recommend it. Your info might apply to other models but definitely not the last seven years of mbpros.

I encountered most of these issues, with the additional one that some games would force themselves into 3840x2160 regardless of scaling, and then run terribly.

Eventually I just bought a ~2008 30" Cinema Display and have been incredibly happy with it.

30" Cinema Display is a joy. I used to have one but such a shame that it runs too hot. Living in the UK and working in an office with bad AC, it melted my face :) I let it go.

To anyone planning to use a 30" CinemaDisplay , you will probably need a special Mini DP to Double Dvi active powered adapter. They are not very common so they are a bit expensive. Search for: Tripp Lite Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter Cable with Dual-Link Active USB Power MDP to DVI-D, 6 in. (P137-06N-DVI-DL)

My connection goes:

MacBook > Thunderbolt dock > USB-C to Dual DisplayPort > 2x DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort > 2x Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI > 2x Cinema Displays

Ridiculous but effective.

At which point they would quickly become obsolete.

Android was a hedge against Apple. GCP is a hedge against AWS. I don't see Google putting the brakes on GCP anytime soon.

That didn’t work out very well seeing they are still paying Apple a reported $8 - $12 billion a year to be the default search engine and it came out in the Oracle trial that they only made $23 billion in profit off of Android from its inception until the beginning of the trial.

Apple makes more from Google in mobile than Google makes from Android.

The beginning of the trial was 2010 or so, so if Android earned Google 23B in 5 years, I imagine it's earned multiples of that in the 10 years since.

So not at the beginning of the trial then.

Hello, My accountant does all my Vat submission so I don't understand what is Making Tax digital. Could you explain it in a few sentences, please? and why I may need this app.

Heh, OP's comments history is 3 entries long, 2 of them are comments on his own submissions for similar apps (related to invoicing, a video and a link to the Android app store), but both links lead to deleted content.

This track record... does not convince.

Its a fact that the Android version is currently un available. The arrival of MTD mandated a massive redesign, and having gained zero traction on the Android platform, I decided to focus on Apple IOS where traction for my other APPS is 10 X the equivalent on Android.

This is a BETA, once the bugs are ironed out, and the GUI is finalised, and there is a full release on APpp store, work will resume on the Android version which will be a direct port of the IOS version

MTD is a project by the UK tax office that means they no longer provide a way to submit VAT returns manually and you need to use an app that interacts with their API.

Wasn't it digital before? By saying manually, wouldn't people just use HMRC's website to submit VAT information. Which I understand will be deprecated now?

I believe it’s already deprecated (haven’t checked as I used FreeAgent since long ago and they handled it for me).