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by Zak 8mo ago
Assuming the rule of law is still functioning, there are multiple protections for journalists who refuse to divulge passwords in the USA. A journalist can challenge any such order in court and usually won't be detained during the proce
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by Zak 8mo ago
This is a misunderstanding. That's the area in which the border patrol has jurisdiction to can conduct very limited searches of vehicles and operate checkpoints without individualized suspicion in order to enforce immigration law. It d
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by Zak 8mo ago
> Except this switch statement is actually not a switch statement at all. It’s an expression. It doesn’t “fallthrough”. It does pattern matching. It’s just a match expression with a different name and syntax. Giving a familiar name to
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by Zak 9mo ago
I was aware of Facebook Lite and had it installed at some point when I was more willing to use Facebook. I (probably wrongly) remember it not having messaging, because there is or was a separate Messenger Lite application.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Highly variable based on load and the specific batteries involved. Alkaline will almost always have more capacity for something that takes more than a day of continuous operation to drain the battery, and NiMH will almost always have more f
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by Zak 9mo ago
Over-discharged Li-ion cells can grow metallic lithium dendrites that result in internal short circuits. Charging them again following over-discharge does create a risk of fire/explosion.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Looking at the discharge curve for an alkaline, much of the energy is below 1.2V even under light load. A device that works with alkaline and not NiMH due to voltage is broken as designed. https://lygte-info.dk/review/b
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by Zak 9mo ago
Alkaline has a tendency to leak electrolyte when stored in devices long-term, especially if used intermittently, even more so if the loads are at the upper end of what alkaline can handle as they are in many modern flashlights. The electrol
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by Zak 9mo ago
Using it for messaging is different. I took "the mobile app" to mean the Facebook app with the timeline, groups, etc... (com.facebook.katana on Android), which also doesn't let you access messages. They really seem to want to
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by Zak 9mo ago
Facebook has a website, and it works inside mobile browsers. When are you finding it impossible to use that way?
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by Zak 9mo ago
I would very much like the option to collect all the notifications that aren't a direct message from someone I know into a digest to be shown to me a couple times a day. It should be inconvenient to open the digest manually, but conven
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by Zak 9mo ago
I'm wondering what adjectives you hope to apply to a phone operating system. I'm content with mine when I don't have to think about it, for which "acceptable" seems about right, and discontent when I do.
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by Zak 9mo ago
> I didn’t realize I was buying a ticket to Disneyland where the seller of the product decided how I interacted with everything the device enabled. If you're the sort of person who posts on HN and you bought an iPhone after they h
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by Zak 9mo ago
Allow me to present LineageOS 23 for the Nexus 5: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unofficial-lineageos-23-0-for-ne... That's Android 16 on a 13 year old phone. It looks to be a little glitchy and it takes some work to
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by Zak 9mo ago
Android Chrome not having extensions is just a build option toggle. It doesn't have extensions because Google doesn't want it to, not for technical reasons.
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by Zak 9mo ago
I think people were highly motivated in 2020 because of Trump, not Biden. The turnout would have been similar for any credible candidate running against Trump. What's weird to me is that a lot of people lost that motivation over the ne
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by Zak 9mo ago
Incendiary ammunition is distinct from tracer, though some projectiles have both functions, and tracers have a chance of causing a fire. Incendiary projectiles usually ignite or explode after impact. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by Zak 9mo ago
The norm in 2016 was that candidates didn't make a serious attempt to do the more outlandish things they talked about in their campaign. When they did, advisers would usually talk them into a saner version of it, or congress wouldn&#x2
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by Zak 9mo ago
Project 2025 did not exist in 2016. We are in agreement about 2024.
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by Zak 9mo ago
Prior to 2020, I usually voted for third parties so I do understand that kind of thinking. The danger Trump represented was not obvious until well after he took office; it seemed early on like congress and institutional norms would restrain
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by Zak 9mo ago
Watching it in real time, I still don't understand it. I could see how Trump won the first time around; Hillary Clinton was unpopular with most people outside of her party's leadership, but the second just seems insane. The kinds
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by Zak 9mo ago
The USA mostly used .50 caliber machine guns, usually with a mix of ammunition including incendiary bullets so that a hole in a fuel tank meant a large fire. Fighters from the other major combatants usually had 20mm autocannons in addition
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by Zak 9mo ago
ANFO is certainly a viable explosive for a truck bomb, e.g. Oklahoma City.
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by Zak 9mo ago
This is a phone with an unlockable bootloader (as they should all be). For such a device, Reasonable: anti-rollback is enforced when the bootloader is locked Unreasonable: anti-rollback is enforced when the bootloader is unlocked Unhinged:
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by Zak 9mo ago
I am not assuming the FBI doesn't investigate random people. I am, however assuming that the FBI does not randomly seize computers and obtain court orders demanding encryption keys for them from Microsoft. Unless Microsoft is lying, th
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by Zak 9mo ago
People shouldn't entrust highly sensitive data to third parties who aren't highly motivated to protect it. That means different things in different situations, but if you're likely to be investigated by the FBI, don't gi
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by Zak 9mo ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect businesses to spend money fighting court orders for customer data, especially if the orders are more or less reasonable. They do seem to be reasonable in the case that brought about this rep
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by Zak 9mo ago
I would guess that the FBI never asks Microsoft for encryption keys without a valid legal order because it knows Microsoft will demand one, and because the FBI rarely has possession of suspect devices without a warrant to search for them an
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by Zak 9mo ago
I had hoped the average person would have a baseline understanding of how computers work by now. Baseline includes things like the difference between a web browser and a search engine, "the cloud" is someone else's computer,
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by Zak 9mo ago
The headline is misleading. It says that Microsoft will provide the key if asked , but the linked statement to Forbes says Microsoft will provide the key if it receives a valid legal order . These have different meanings. Microsoft is leg

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