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Could this be used on a Loog Piano [1] (not affiliated)? Its specs say “MIDI over USB-C”.

[1]: https://loogguitars.com/collections/loog-piano


not OP, but the device claims to have midi over usb-c, "supports both usb and 5-pin midi pianos" from the product home page. So I would think it would.


No, it is not. In Spain, national and regional administrations support different methods for digital identification by their citizens. One is the certificate embedded into the chip in the national id card, arguably in everybody’s pocket, but, effectively so cumbersome to extract that virtually no one makes use of. That's the one this website claims to supports. Others methods are certificates issued by The Ministry of Treasury among others, downloadable after in-person identification, so used by far more people than the former, but, then again, complicated to use on mobile devices, and lastly specialized official TOTP apps which issue temporary codes for an authentication service that government web pages plug into. The latter, not supported by this webpage, is, I assume, by far the one used most commonly.


Mhm, that's interesting. And quite unfortunate. :\


ZeroTier just changed their pricing model, and their free Basic tier reduces the number of includes devices from 25 to 10 [1] (their Pricing page [2] still says 25, but I assume that’s a typo). Exactly two years ago they went from 50 free devices to 25 [3], so I guess it’s a trend.

According to their blog post, “current entitlements for our existing free users will remain unchanged”, but I wonder, as I am blocked from accessing the dashboard [4] by a screen that forces me to choose between Basic (free, 10 devices) and Essential ($2 per device after 10th).

This follows the recent news of ZeroTier having just raised $13.5M [5].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240729091309/https://www.zerot... [2]: https://www.zerotier.com/pricing/ [3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220609192036/https://www.zerot... [4]: https://my.zerotier.com [5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41079004


Thank you for writing this up. I'm an 'existing free user' and blocked the same way from the dashboard.


They used colon instead, back in pre OS X days. That’s >20 years ago. Admittedly some obscure cases carried that over and remain but you’ll rarely come across them today.


Transformers do not transform but convert in Hasbro’s marketing and licensed materials, and strictly speaking they’re not even supposed to be Transformers but Transformers robots (which grammatically is wrong, but alas). Except, for whatever valid reason, inside the fiction, where Transformers becomes a perfectly valid noun they refer themselves with and they do transform, not convert, all day long. I don’t get it.


The decision to avoid use of the verb "to transform" is recent (2000s or 2010s), and probably due to legal troubles Hasbro's lawyers don't want to get into again. Recent Transformers media do eschew the usage of "transform" as a verb, preferring "convert" or "change form" instead. The part (organ?) that Cybertronians have that facilitates changing shape also had its name changed, from "transformation cog" in G1 to "conversion cog" in the War for Cybertron game. And Optimus Prime saying "Autobots, transform and roll out!" has gone the way of Mario saying "Yahoo!" (Nintendo feared trademark suits from the internet company Yahoo!).

The funny thing is, back in the days when Transformers transformed, their rivals the GoBots converted.


You are but, as of today, reliably, only via the GUI, and therefore, one by one, not in batches via scripting due to a bug[1]. That is the case at least for Type 1 Mac fonts.

[1]: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4668


Panini presented the NFTs from their Megacracks 2022-2023 card collection in a similar way[0], aesthetically, but using video files (MP4) which makes it much less interesting (and even so, the visual effects in those are inferior to this CSS implementation). The fact that this CSS version does not work properly in Safari in unfortunate, though.

[0]: https://paninimegacracksnft.com/token/wnzq


Kasyan Servetsky created a script[1] to compare two documents using a similar technique within InDesign, no intermediate export necessary. It overlays one on top of the other using the Difference blend mode. Quite resource intensive, so only useful depending on the particular document and machine you do this with.

[1]: http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/all/compare_two_documents.html


Really similar to one I have already seen on Photoshop. My goal was comparing the pdfs without any Adobe, my editors do not have license for that.


I don’t get it. Is this about chargers or charging cables? All news sites seem to be conflating both. What phone maker today ships a charger not with a USB (A or C) female connector therefore compatible with pretty much any other phone?


It does not support [0] (i.e. loses) extended attributes even between systems that share support for them, which in the case of macOS means no support for Finder tags, custom icons, legacy Mac fonts and countless other Mac features, maybe niche to most, but still important to those that make use of them. AFAIK it is not even in the roadmap.

[0] https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#what-things-are-sy...


I agree this is annoying—but isn't it par for the course? OneDrive does the same thing. Is Dropbox better?

The thing that really annoyed me was that SyncThing synced .DS_Store files, leading to tons of unnecessary transfers and conflicts. They could be excluded via ignore patterns, but those patterns needed to be added to every folder—there was no global option. To fix this, I had to edit the code and create my own custom SyncThing build.


Dropbox supports xattr transparently and fully AFAIK (Finder icons, Finder comments, Finder tags, legacy Mac fonts… all sync fine from my experience).

Resilio Sync says it does partially [0] but IMHO not to an acceptable level (it keeps Finder tags for instance but loses Finder icons and completely cripples legacy Mac Fonts).

Note that .DS_Store files are another different thing altogether. They are standard files storing the view state of their parent folder (and, incidentally, Dropbox does not sync them [1] and Resilio Sync is set to not sync them by default).

[0] https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754729-Alt-Str...

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/145/en


PR for default ignores is in the making: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/7530


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