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by Zak 1y ago
Blackmail, formally extortion or coercion is a crime only when specific kinds of threats (which may vary by jurisdiction) are used to compel someone's behavior. Threatening to stop offering certain products or services in jurisdict
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by Zak 1y ago
There are several factors that make this situation especially suitable for regulation. The most important is that airlines have the ability and motivation to force passengers to accept unfavorable terms, and passengers have no ability to ne
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by Zak 1y ago
> Apple added that Brussels was creating unfair competition as the rules were not applied to Samsung, the largest smartphone provider in the EU. This is disingenuous. The DMA gatekeeper rules apply to Android and Google Play, and Samsu
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by Zak 1y ago
I've had four overnight delays on three transatlantic trips this year. Fortunately, EU passenger compensation rules applied to three of them; the airline must pay each delayed passenger 600€ or convince them to take a more compelling n
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by Zak 1y ago
> if you're popping in and out expansion cards all the time eventually the ports are going to fail If you're plugging and unplugging USB-C cables all the time, eventually the ports are going to fail, but we generally consider
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by Zak 1y ago
Given the battery specs and the form factor of the products, they could have used a 14500 cell that retails for $5. That's not as much recurring revenue as charging $80 for something proprietary though.
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by Zak 1y ago
I didn't realize Google had gone evil way back in 2012. I don't have a problem with Youtube trying to make downloads difficult, but using its advertising monopoly to bully publications into not discussing software Google doesn&#x2
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by Zak 1y ago
It's fine that a window position sensor might eventually fail on a car. It's not fine that a window position sensor causes the car to limit its maximum speed.
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by Zak 1y ago
When I have driven cars with electronic door poppers, I found them to be a downgrade from traditional mechanical door handles. It's even possible to make the latter sit flush, and cars have been doing it since at least the 1960s. I&#x2
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by Zak 1y ago
Web hosting is, or can be a commodity. An organization that gets dropped by its web host can just get another.
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by Zak 1y ago
When I've rented cars with electronic door poppers instead of conventional door handles, I've found them annoying. Do many people actually prefer them? Purely mechanical flush exterior door handles are possible if aerodynamics (or
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by Zak 1y ago
Much better than the Gnome OSK despite signs that it's early (I got some transparent flickering over the panel). I'd like it to have more punctuation and special characters available as long presses on letters, and for it to have
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by Zak 1y ago
I'll try it out. I have both Gnome and KDE on my tablet, but haven't taken much time to try to customize KDE to be a good tablet experience.
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by Zak 1y ago
I've been a happy KDE user for years, but I recently discovered that Gnome is surprisingly good on a tablet . KDE is usable, but feels about as touch-native as Windows does. Gnome is easily as good a tablet experience as an iPad. Ther
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by Zak 1y ago
I've been unimpressed with Google's commitment to making the fundamentals of Android great. They seem to prefer doing the minimum required there and putting all their efforts into something more sexy, like generating fake photos t
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by Zak 1y ago
I wonder what an alternate history where Google didn't implement remote attestation and actively made it difficult for apps to snoop on user modifications would look like. I suspect the Fire Phone is where things changed. If Amazon had
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by Zak 1y ago
I suppose someone who understands the problem choosing an iPhone in spite of it is very slightly culpable, but it doesn't sound like you helped build any of these systems that deprive end users of their final say over computers they ow
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by Zak 1y ago
> The “you can’t outlaw math!” crowd are kind of right but that argument assumes free and unencumbered end user devices, which, as crazy as it sounds, might not be a given in the particularly awful dystopian futures available to us righ
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by Zak 1y ago
I'm confused by why anybody would buy one of these when entirely reusable versions exist, but then vaping seems unwise to me in general except as a way to quit tobacco.
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07G2LXMDV
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by Zak 1y ago
It's oddly difficult to find solid answers to this with a web search, but it appears that it just needs protocol support, not a mic that meets specific standards. The (discontinued?) JBL 110GA is $40 on Amazon.
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by Zak 1y ago
> But their $60 ANC headphones with cheap audio processing hardware in the headphones aren’t going to be sufficient. Maybe, maybe not. Assuming Apple's motivation isn't pure self-dealing, it's very consistent with Apple&
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by Zak 1y ago
Ahh, it seems I made my comment too short. I don't think that long-form content is always superior to short, but I do think overconsumption of short-form content reduces peoples' ability to handle irreducible complexity.
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by Zak 1y ago
The article offers several options depending on the question's perspective. The commercial answer would be publishers of longer-form content, but the more sociologically important one would be that it is harming the ability of the aver
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> If you were targeted with such a phishing attack, you'd fall for it too and it's a matter of when not if. Anyone who claims they wouldn't is wrong. I like to think I wouldn't. I don't put credentials into lin
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by Zak 1y ago
As an individual, blocking people who tax your mental health is healthy. As an app developer, blocking people who try to report security issues is problematic.
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by Zak 1y ago
I've had a negative impression of ICEBlock's developer since GrapheneOS debunked their privacy-related excuses for not creating an Android version: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lt2pr
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> Apples decision to ban sideloading is a huge part of how they became the most popular phone maker in the us I'm skeptical. A robust permission model limiting the damage an ill-behaved app was surely part of it, as was the existe
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by Zak 1y ago
A modern smartphone is mostly a general-purpose computer designed to run arbitrary software with a couple tightly integrated and/or regulated bits. That's very different from a DSLR, which is designed to take pictures. That said,
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What I find unreasonable is a situation where the owner of the hardware can't back out of the arrangement (while continuing to use the hardware). Someone might initially want Apple as their sysadmin, then learn that Apple is making dec

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