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by JeremyNT 2y ago
I have a Samsung TV similarly hobbled. I simply never gave it a network connection and it works fine. For now at least this really isn't an issue. If and when these companies ever start requiring a network connection it's a diff
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Yeah I think it was a huge missed opportunity. The idea was great, the barrier to entry was really low, and it worked really well for stuff like street view / google earth. I showed it to my daughter the other day and she was really im
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Did you follow the whole thread, over to the back-and-forth on reddit? Somebody from Kiwix confirms they did in fact get the email warning. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42387842 [1] https://old.reddit
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Yeah they've been slow to release end-user facing stuff but it's obvious that they're just grinding away internally. They've ceded the fast mover advantage, but with a massive installed base of Android devices, a team of
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
You may have seen it, but they did respond after you wrote this (both here and on reddit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375229
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
And now we do have Hetzner replying here (and on reddit), and it sounds like they did indeed communicate the termination well in advance (but for whatever reason the OP didn't notice it at the time). None of this is to say that Hetzner
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
The only downside is the increasingly onerous attestation requirements that are eventually going to infect virtually all proprietary software for Android. If you only care about running open source code, you're golden.
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
There are plenty of plausible explanations, but it probably wouldn't have been a huge lift to get Thompson's itinerary from his secretary by spearfishing or some other form of social engineering.
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
It's a tiresome bit of pedantry. Try this: when people on hn claim "ah but it's not calorie intake versus calorie expenditure!" you can assume in good faith that what they REALLY mean is "you are correct that it IS
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
I agree and don't think you should be downvoted for this opinion. With only one side of the story it's impossible to draw any conclusions yet. Of course there is usually a bit of a chicken and egg issue with this sort of thing. Ma
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
The amount of money flowing into it has been a real shock. I too played with bitcoin many years ago, mining on my CPU. Like a sucker I got rid of it because it clearly was not useful at its stated purpose. Why have we created an economy whe
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Perhaps we could just "Ship of Theseus" our consciousness? Slowly augment with cybernetics, then replace the meat over time. It's all just hypothetical without knowing what consciousness/qualia really "is," and
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There is another way, of course, which is public radio. It sounds like King just operated his stations at a loss, but maybe a non profit model could have survived? I currently live in Nashville TN and the local public radio music station is
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Am I wrong in thinking this is a huge development? Maybe one of the most important stories for public health this decade? AIDS kills more people than malaria, and preventing malaria has long been viewed as one of the lowest hanging fruits
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Or nitter https://nitter.poast.org/TomHacohen/status/18611374842492520...
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
I do think part of it is how darned long cars last now. I have an 18 year old car that I purchased used long ago and currently has no mechanical issues. I've had a few repairs but nothing terribly expensive. I have no interest in rep
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Bluesky has made a lot of smart choices to both support openness while also retaining the benefits of a monolithic single instance. In reality this makes it easier to use than say Mastodon. So if you take everybody at their word and assume
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If they can curry favor with the incoming (extremely crypto friendly) administration, their problems with the FBI go away. This kind of conspiratorial thinking dominates the Republican party and such a story would play well with the base. T
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I like it a lot too, and my feed is pretty good. Unfortunately adoption is really slow and few of the really famous people I'd like to follow seem to care about it. The network effects of Twitter/X are just incredibly powerful. Ev
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> There are a plethora of reasons she's unpopular, she can's string two coherent sentences together without a teleprompter, she cackles at inappropriate times, she won't talk to anyone off the cuff, she doesn't give
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Trump's a pretty singular personality. He floods the zone with bullshit and denigrates vast swathes of the electorate. His insane ramblings are just considered by his adherents to be part of his allure and mystique. The American people
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I mean, this anecdote only tells us that if something is configured poorly it will behave poorly. If you're working in the embedded space it's surely worth a little bit of time to optimize something like this.
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I can buy my kid a very cheap android phone and lock it down to only run a couple of select apps. The advantage of this is that it is as smart or dumb as I allow it to be. Now that she is a little older (8th grade) I've slowly increase
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by JeremyNT 2y ago
Well as an end user this is pretty much OK right, so long as you are aware of the deal? VC funded companies have subsidized and then abandoned a lot of useful OSS code over the years. Whenever you encounter a VC backed open source project y
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> You're morally and humanly bankrupt if you believe and act this way. Those characteristics are, if not strictly required, at least overrepresented in billionaires. It seems like a reasonable approximation for how Bezos might per
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The catfriend fork works great (I use it) but to be clear, this post is about the official version. The official version will cease all development, it's not just limited to the Play Store.
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"There is no moat" etc. Getting to market first is obviously worth something but even if you're bullish on their ability to get products out faster near term, Google's going to be breathing right down their neck. They
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I think this is a really good take. It all boils down to "if it ain't broke don't fix it." No matter how easy it is, it takes more effort and thought to do an upgrade than it does to not do an upgrade at all, and for m
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> So I agree, no reason to give him any more attention then any of the many other half assed villains which lucked out in human history. I mean that version of the story is pretty interesting too, right? One can see a lot of parallels
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My (least) favorite version of this: there's a state wide alert in Tennessee that happens when a cop is shot. You can't disable it without disabling all alerts. Why somebody in Memphis might care that a cop is shot in Knoxville is

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