anfilt

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by anfilt 5y ago
Lol made me laugh, that is one way to say it.
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by anfilt 5y ago
I went to school for computer engineering. It's a hybrid of EE and CS. It's not a not a programming only degree.
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by anfilt 5y ago
Unless batteries get easier to change in an EV, I am not sure that this is a good idea. It's just gonna put extra cycles on the battery chemistry which is finite to begin with.
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by anfilt 5y ago
Seems like it was spelled that way looking at the etymology to differentiate kurb and curb. Seems like when horses were still prominent curb referred to a strap used on horses. https://www.etymonline.com/word/kerb#etymo
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by anfilt 5y ago
While this might have niche uses, I will say no thank you. Last thing we need is more tech for device attestation and DRM diminishing the property rights of buyers.
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by anfilt 5y ago
20k is grand theft which is a felony. I am surprised they did not take it more seriously. I had 2000ish dollar bicycle stolen, the police where I live took it very serious because the value. They ended up arresting the guy. They also find d
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by anfilt 5y ago
You do realize that law is using force. Law enforcement will uses physical force if the person they are arresting is violent or physically resisting. This delegation is still force/violence is some form. Now unlike a private individual
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by anfilt 5y ago
Yea, I am in the same boat I find diet sodas taste disgusting.
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by anfilt 5y ago
I can't stand diet soda's they always taste off. I a lot these artificial sweeteners gross/disgusting.
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by anfilt 5y ago
Considering, when reading about this station it has been taken down intentionally before, had periods of being offline, and also offline when the station was moved once before it's quite unlikely.
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by anfilt 5y ago
Found a post about it on HN few days ago here. Not much was said though. Although the twitter thread does show more than this vice article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061543
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by anfilt 5y ago
A companies brand image does not give them the right to effectively infringe/diminish property rights of people who now own the hardware.
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by anfilt 5y ago
Understood.
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by anfilt 5y ago
Like in theory Facebook could try something like that. This is a what if scenario still. If we look at android they have not pulled their Apps from googles store. So what is the basis they would do this for iOS? Moreover, depending how appl
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by anfilt 5y ago
It is extralegal though. The boot-rom will enforce these restrictions, and you don’t have to agree to the iOS TOS to buy an iDevice. Further, one may want to use the device without iOS. Extralegal just means outside of the scope of law or a
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by anfilt 5y ago
Apple is not under obligation to help you yes. However, that is no excuse to limit your property rights of your tangible property via extralegal means. Nor is it okay either. A sale of tangible property generally means the the transfer of a
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by anfilt 5y ago
You can buy the device without agreeing to any terms of service. Now you may not be able to use iOS without accepting the TOS durning setup. However, the fact is the hardware is still a separate entity from OS and is still locked down. The
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by anfilt 5y ago
It eventual comes to point where people have to take personal responsibility for their actions. If you have effectively informed the user of something and they still proceed its on them. Especially, at the expense of everyone else's pr
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by anfilt 5y ago
The thing is with the facebook event was apple signed their app so running it was relatively painless. Take the instance of epic trying to sideload on android it flopped because the friction from prompts to enable the feature. Although, I a
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by anfilt 5y ago
Well the term computing device predates all this silliness that has come up surrounding portable computers. Device is a more generic term though. Like calling a separate piece of hardware that also likely turning complete in multiple ways i
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by anfilt 5y ago
Yes my scope is mainly tablets and phones, but still applies to other devices with locked down boot-ROMs or boot loaders where the device has no means for the owner to disable it or load their own signing keys. The right I am talking about
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by anfilt 5y ago
Fair point, made me think for a second. Sadly these locked down devices which infringe on our property rights have even started changing language =( when it comes to software.
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by anfilt 5y ago
I agree that malware and such should be dealt with but at the expense of your own property rights is far too far. Secondly, if apple just allowed loading your own signing key it’s not like malware writers can sign their crap with their own
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by anfilt 5y ago
Epic tried it on android but the law of defaults are strong. Too much friction for an average user but at least on most android devices users can enable developer mode or even root if they want. So google here is not trampling over device o
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by anfilt 5y ago
If its optional dont enable it/use it. I would be more concerned with companies using extralegal means to effectively infringe your property rights...
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by anfilt 5y ago
You really like the idea of a company controlling property you own after you bought it??? Like if its optional don’t change the defaults. The issue is starting from the boot-rom and up apple is effectively using cryptography to retain the p
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by anfilt 5y ago
I agree that not seating the person who won their local election is a big problem. You mentioned you don’t want their politics to succeed. I just was saying this is a non-policy position. Further, when it comes to how tax money is spent a L
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by anfilt 5y ago
Just allow people to put their devices in a mode that allows side loading or let people load their own signing keys. The fact Apple keeps such a tight grip on hardware they don't even own needs to be cracked down on.
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by anfilt 5y ago
Without getting too much into politics, I am pretty sure most libertarians would be pretty decent in an auditor position. (assuming the person has a least basic understanding of accounting). An auditor is not a policy based position. While
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by anfilt 5y ago
Still BLAKE3 still is not a ton faster for short data inputs especially if your implementation has a lot overhead for parallelism like threading like you mentioned in a rust implementation. Good for files and similar if your data stream is

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