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by acka 3y ago
Radio firmware has been a misnomer for a very long time, because the so-called baseband processor it runs on has access to and can control much more than just the radio. As far as I know, radio firmware on current phone SoCs has full, unlim
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by acka 3y ago
Regarding the example hardwareconfiguration.nix file: why would anyone want to mount a filesystem on a user's home directory as world writable? Maybe it shows my age, I know that most people don't run multi-user systems anymore (I
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by acka 3y ago
You can add CALEA and OMA CP to this list, probably more relevant to the current topic.
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by acka 3y ago
Philosophical Mechanism and other philosophical views with Cartesianist roots would beg to differ.
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by acka 3y ago
Conspicuously absent from your arguments why Wayland isn't controversial: NVIDIA. Trick question long did it take to settle the controversy over which memory manager to use? The answer is indeterminable, as it is still ongoing. The NVI
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by acka 3y ago
Please refrain from replying with what could be construed as legal advice without the proper disclaimer. Different jurisdictions have different laws, and they can be draconian. For example, someone got into legal trouble (and wrote a blog p
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by acka 3y ago
Most consumer grade personal scales are not certified medical devices like the blood pressure meters and scales at your GP's office.
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by acka 3y ago
I don't know if you are being cynical or asking a rhetorical question, but let me ask another question out of curiosity: are there any open source, privacy-respecting, non-data laundering, non-cloud-based, non-SaaS offerings which fit
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by acka 3y ago
Quoted directly from my last session with ChatGPT mere seconds ago: > Limitations May occasionally generate incorrect information May occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content Limited knowledge of world and events after
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by acka 3y ago
Does a piece of software with a bug in it which causes it to produce incorrect output lie or is it simply a programming error? Did the programmer who wrote the buggy code lie? I don't think so.
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by acka 4y ago
OpenAI could have simply named the library up front instead of stressing that it is open source. This would have alerted people who use the library while at the same time avoiding the suggestion that it being open source was part of the pro
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by acka 4y ago
Pretty much par for the course, Linux distributions don't do per user configuration of tools beyond appending to PATH or setting some essential environment variables using scripts in in /etc/profile.d/. They will most ce
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by acka 4y ago
Which is why I find looking at `git blame` (or one's favorite IDE's/SCM's equivalent) output so very useful in case of undercommented code.
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by acka 4y ago
Candidate: "I hope you don't mind me putting on some noise cancelling headphones while I work on this problem, please tap my shoulder if you have any questions." interviewer (thinking: "Ah! Finally we have a proactive se
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by acka 4y ago
if we cannot yet even explain how human comprehension works, how can you be sure that it doesn't exist in current A.I.? For all I know it could be an emergent property of some kind.
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by acka 4y ago
You might want to have a look at USB SD card readers instead of USB sticks. Many (most?) (normal and mini but not micro size) SD cards and adapters have write-protect slider switches. Be careful though, I've found some of these sliders
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by acka 4y ago
For those who are interested in the CS3110 textbook and don't like Google sending them wristwatch shopping instead, here is a link to the textbook{1]. [1] https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/
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by acka 4y ago
Black Mirror material indeed.
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by acka 4y ago
> what you call ads it's actually called upselling. Are you sure you don't mean cross selling? IIUC upselling means trying to sell a customer a more expensive version of their chosen product, while cross selling means trying to
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by acka 4y ago
intellectronica: > For example, if you're paying with card, have at least one extra as backup payment method (which most providers allow and recommend). Please don't generalize. There are many countries where credit cards aren&
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by acka 4y ago
Isn't realizing and dealing with the risk of procrastinating when n-order thinking about a problem then a classic example of n+1-order thinking?
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by acka 4y ago
Continents don't have cultures (and neither do ethnicities), people do. So what is your point again?
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by acka 4y ago
0xbadcafebee: > I have never heard any normal person ever talk about data privacy. It feels like there's this giant bubble that the tech world lives in, and they are the only people who care about this issue. Honestly, I don't
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by acka 4y ago
Ah, I see now that I didn't make myself clear in my previous comment. I am not criticizing the back button functionality per se, but rather the way that many apps have things set up so that it requires more, sometimes a lot more, pre
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by acka 4y ago
The need to press back multiple times to get back to where you were before entering an app seems to be becoming the norm in many apps of late. I'm pretty sure it is yet another 'engagement trap': the app makers don't wan
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by acka 4y ago
This article[1] shows how you can use GCC toolchain along with objcopy to create an object file from a binary blob, link it, and use the data within in your own code. [1] https://balau82.wordpress.com/2012/02/19&#x
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by acka 4y ago
It appears that Google Search has started to add those text fragments onto URLs in search results. Is there a setting or a browser extension that allows me to get rid of them?
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by acka 4y ago
My reply was not directed at this post in particular, but at the worryingly large number of Apple related posts making it to the front page lately. It makes me worry that HN is becoming biased towards favouring news about Apple's activ
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by acka 4y ago
Sorry for the somewhat but not quite off topic post, but can we please prevent HN from becoming yet another Apple billboard? There are more than enough of those already. Thank you. Yes I've heard that there may be some Apple manifestat
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by acka 4y ago
> There aren't any good locally installable cloud platforms. What about Eucalyptus[1] for instance (no affiliation)? it's open source, can be installed locally, and specifically mentions compatibility with AWS. I have personall

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