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dpron
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dpron is a personal blog at dpron.com about programming and culture. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “How to Fix Slow SMB File Transfers on OS X 10.11.5”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link dpron's posts on macOS and security fixes: disabling access-time updates on SSD volumes, recovering Google Authenticator keys, and slow SMB on OS X 10.11.5. Comments cite them as sources or workarounds.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writings on Tech, Cars, and Travel
Most-linked posts?
- /recovering-google-authenticator-keys-from-ios-backups/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-13
- How to Fix Slow SMB File Transfers on OS X 10.11.52 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-05
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps setting the noatime flag might help? Reducing Disk IO By Mounting Partitions With noatime https://www.howtoforge.com/reducing-disk-io-by-mounting-part... OS X - Setting No-Access-Time on OS X SSD Volumes https://dpron.com/os-x-noatime-multiple-ssds/ Optimizing MacOS X Lion for SSD http://blog.alutam.com/2012/04/01/optimizing-macos-x-lion-fo... Mac OS X SSD tweaks https://www.icyte.com/saved/blogs.nullvision.…
Comment linking /os-x-noatime-multiple-ssds/
on “M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time”Submitted Free SSL with Amazon's AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionit's not. cursory search: https://dpron.com/recovering-google-authenticator-keys-from-...
Comment linking /recovering-google-authenticator-keys-from-ios-backups/
on “Using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH”Submitted How I Cut My Comcast Bill in Half as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLooked again and it seems like things changed sometime around 2015-2017. Sorry for the misinfo. https://dpron.com/recovering-google-authenticator-keys-from-...
Comment linking /recovering-google-authenticator-keys-from-ios-backups/
on “Getting 2FA Right in 2019”Submitted Why Hotel Wi-Fi Sucks, and How to Make It Faster as a story · 2 points
HN discussiontokenizerrr | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105616 Even without root. Just run a backup and extract it from that. You can do it with just adb or helium. -- I can't quickly find any examples online that don't specifically mention requiring rooting the phone. Just this anecdote: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/465582-google-authent... If you do a backup (even if not rooted you can use ADB to backup you…
Comment linking /recovering-google-authenticator-keys-from-ios-backups/
on “Adding a security key to Gmail”Submitted How to Fix Slow SMB File Transfers on OS X 10.11.5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>No sysadmin should be using SMBv1 in the first place though. Oh, I guess you need to talk to apple about this. https://dpron.com/os-x-10-11-5-slow-smb/ I got bit by this last week. Got a new NAS. Windows clients work fine, OSX is slow and error prone. Solution? Disable SMB2/3. Apple needs to get hammered for this.
Comment linking /os-x-10-11-5-slow-smb/
on “Microsoft fixed security gaps allegedly used by spies a month before they leaked”Submitted Troubleshooting High CPU in Outlook 2016 for Mac as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Multiple Accounts in the AWS CLI with Direnv as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uber's "Last Block" Problem as a story · 1 points
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