QuiEgo

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by QuiEgo 2y ago
The government needs to mandate cell base stations geofence off service to schools during school hours, with a provision for first responders and school admins to turn it back on during emergencies. Or have cell jammers in schools.
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Very afraid we will get to the point where new TVs will refuse to boot and let you use external inputs unless they have network connection. I’ll live with watching Plex on my phone before I buy a TV like that.
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Nothing stops you from opening signal in a bar and having a guy sitting behind you from the KGB reading the texts. Or say, adding a rando to the group. In their context, that means it’s unsecure. The cryptography of Signal is not the issue.
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Think of the risk of getting caught in gun violence like the risk of mass stabbings or vehicles being driven into crowds. It can and has happened, but the odds are staggeringly low. Most gun violence is between people who are known to each
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Exactly the same experience. My AP Physics teacher in high school was incredibly better than university. UT is research focused. Depending on the department, they make the professors teach classes, which is often not aligned with their inte
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
> How long do you think for governments to make it illegal to self host or backdoor Linux builds? Probably never, it won't be worth the trouble because it's always going to be a fringe thing for the reasons you say :). One can
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
The cloud is just someone else’s computer. If you really, really care about privacy, self host.
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Behind the scenes, it'd probably decrypt it locally piece-by-piece with the key in the Secure Enclave, and then reencrypt it with a new key that Apple has a copy of when you disable ADP.
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
I just use tiered notifications. Messaging apps or things I should respond to immediately have push notifications on (interrupts). Things I don’t need to reply to urgently like email only have badge icons (red counter) (so, polled). I go ze
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
I would add: learn how to say at least “hello,” and “thank you” in the local language, and a few other phrases. Even if you butcher it, the fact that you tried goes a long long way.
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Apps: Airline, hotel, rental car company. TripAdvisor. FlightAware24, Loungebuddy, Terminal Buddy, At Your Gate. Microsoft Translate with offline language downloaded. Kindle, Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, plex, etc. with offline down
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
I have nothing but gratitude for having a whole OS given to me for free. But I’ve gotta say, the “what distro is cool nowadays” game is exhausting. I’m very happy to pay Apple money and have macOS. It’s the “user friendly” Unix experience i
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
On macOS, I've seen a few attempts like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/12n7162/part_3_fin... but it ends up being very user-workload-specific. Every webpage is different - e.x. Pint
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
I find this whole thing frustrating. Chrome is going full on user hostile. But, most people use it, so webpages "just work." It's also reasonably good on battery use and memory (as of late 2024 - it's come a long way). S
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
AI has to be trained - if you’re asking it to grind leetcode or take a standardized test or make the millionth version of a shop webpage, it will rock it. If you’re asking it to do something novel, good luck. The kinds of things AI can do w
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
It’s so refreshing after the normal “here’s today’s enshitification of this thing you used to love” threads to read threads like this.
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/128271 This one was fun too: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html Basically, anything that gets a .1 or .2 type rele
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Rust is interesting but still has some pain points. - Compile times. This, above all else. - As an embedded dev: no_std is still rough around the edges, which the original Google blog post captured pretty well. They didn’t talk about PACs -
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
If the goal is to have students have experience that will help in real world jobs, use standardized tool chains they will see there. WSL2, VS Code, git. Or a Linux VM. Having to code for a Linux environment on a non Linux machine is super c
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by QuiEgo 2y ago
Screening questions to them: - how many hours a week does a typical dev work? - what source control do you use - what ticket system do you use - how long does a typical, at-desk incremental dev build take? - do you have automated builds (CI
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by QuiEgo 3y ago
Austin, TX, USA Pros: - “silicon hills” - lots of tech jobs, second only to the Bay Area if you do embedded software or hardware. - Chill vibe. Friendly people, low crime, thriving LBGTQ+ community - World-class tacos, BBQ, and beer - Lots
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by QuiEgo 3y ago
This is already true for the cables that come with iPads and the ones that came with macs before MagSafe returned, so… yes?
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by QuiEgo 3y ago
Also worth noting this is super common on devices designed to have a micro USB-B port, which then are later switched over to USB-C; they just hook up the pins from USB-B and don't bother with the new pins from USB-C. The spec is specif
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by QuiEgo 3y ago
For the curious, there's a hierarchy defined by the USB-C cable spec. Table 4-17 Precedence of power source usage https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/USB%20Type-C%20Spec%... - Baseline: it behaves li
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by QuiEgo 3y ago
As someone picking between C and Rust for a new codebase, this is going on my list of "cons" for Rust. I'm supposed to build a product above all else. Will the drama get in the way of Rust surviving down the road?
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by QuiEgo 4y ago
AI has to be trained. So it’s good at doing things people already have done many times. It’s not awesome at design for novel things. So, I may get an AI that’s like a new college grad level of coder. As a senior, I’m mostly giving work to m
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by QuiEgo 4y ago
The real question here: does it even matter? As far as I know I did everything right, and someone called my bank with info we both believe they got from stealing from my paper mail and got access because they convinced some human at a bank&