cesarb

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by cesarb 7d ago
> Are all of these unsuitable [0]? [...] I looked it up and people had problems selling to Brazil [1] but there are various listings that offer to ship. Do these phones have ANATEL certification? Because if they don't, they will b
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by cesarb 7d ago
> GrapheneOS's goal is privacy for the world and that's achieved through secure devices. Perfect is the enemy of good. What's better for privacy, an old but inexpensive smartphone running Android 11, or the same smartphone
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by cesarb 8d ago
> Heh, in the security world, this shows how your traditional metal key is "something you know" (like a password) because it can be copied and many people can know it at once! If you have a photo of a traditional metal key, you
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by cesarb 8d ago
> Same as traditional physical keys, you don't have a single key, you have multiple ones [...] I have multiple identical ones. > [...] and can go to the local locksmith and get another one in minutes. Can I go to the digital eq
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by cesarb 8d ago
> what good is a phone if it isn't on a network? 1. It might be on a voice network but not on a data network; for instance, if you don't have a data plan. 2. Modern smartphones are actually a hybrid of a traditional cell
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by cesarb 8d ago
> > What if the computer you want to log in on doesn't have Bluetooth? > Only if they’re a bit old. Nowadays WiFi chips double as Bluetooth chips on newer platforms. What if the computer you want to log in on doesn't have
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by cesarb 10d ago
> but what many people do not know is that debugging NPEs in Java is easier now - they carry more information about the source Unfortunately, no, they don't. Not after your application has been running for a while; newer JVMs arbitr
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by cesarb 10d ago
> And another positive point for Java: checked exceptions. It's verbose, but knowing exactly in which ways a function can fail is extremely helpful for building robust applications. Sorry, but no, Java has the worst of both worlds h
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by cesarb 11d ago
> Steam Frame starts at $1059 I see no price in the linked page. I only see "This item is not available for purchase in your region." (Still waiting for the Steam Deck...)
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by cesarb 11d ago
> The Frame's screens aren't good enough for general computing. We did "general computing" in 320x200 screens. I think the Frame's screen is a bit better than that.
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by cesarb 13d ago
From what I recall from the time I still used MS-DOS, even if you only have one floppy disk drive, it's accessible as both A: and B: and it prompts you to insert the other floppy disk when you change the drive letter. That is, it'
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by cesarb 14d ago
> BTRFS in general seems more I/O constrained than ext4 or xfs so it's probably still worse to put a swapfile on a BTRFS partition, AFAIK, on Linux swap bypasses the filesystem. It asks the filesystem for the extents which are
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by cesarb 15d ago
> fallocate / chmod / mkswap Why not "mkswap --size ... --file ...", which does these three things and more? For instance, according to the mkswap man page, "[...] sets the nocow attribute for newly created files
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by cesarb 19d ago
> They couldn't allocate 5 more bits somewhere to let the decompressor autodetect longer window sizes? It's actually 8 bits: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8878.html#name-window-desc... These command li
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by cesarb 19d ago
> It exists to displays pixels from a Linux box, If you're not using the defining feature of a TV (the OTA tuner), why not buy a monitor instead of a TV? (Next time I have to replace our house's TV, I'm seriously consideri
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by cesarb 19d ago
> Naively, I would assume it must perform its normal auto regressive decoding to know what the “correct” token is in order to have something to compare the candidate token with. Yes, but you can do it in parallel. Suppose you predicted t
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by cesarb 19d ago
Perhaps it's different in other countries, but I've never seen anyone use MMS. (Everyone uses WhatsApp nowadays, but even before WhatsApp existed, I never saw anyone use MMS.)
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by cesarb 23d ago
> This is silly question, but is your family managing trust in you as lone guy - cousin, father, brother - having potentially access to all their emails? I believe this is a very common setup: the "computer wizard" kid of the f
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by cesarb 23d ago
That's the reason I avoided ever logging into YouTube: if for some reason they decided that my real name is not my real name, due to the Google+ integration, I could lose access to more important things like Google Talk. Nowadays, with
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by cesarb 26d ago
> Analogously, people can write in assembly, but can you write in assembly when the codebase is frequently altered by someone with an optimizing compiler? Yes. There's an interface boundary in the form of function prototypes and ABI
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by cesarb 28d ago
> We just need more folks to start using them. I would if I could. Which non-Android Linux phone can I buy here in Brazil? Importing from outside Brazil doesn't count unless it has ANATEL certification, customs rejects any non-certi
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> Another key driver of the misaligned behavior was that the agents rarely “gave up” on their evaluation tasks, even when the tasks appeared impossible to solve. Obligatory xkcd: "Zealous Autoconfig" https://xkcd.com
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> rust-rfcbot commented 2 days ago: This is now entering its final comment period I wonder if this is not in part the same situation as we arguably had with the xz compromise: some imminent change would have made the attack harder (in xz
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> Just denying write access outside the build directory and denying network access As the link you posted mentions, you need a tiny bit more than that: you also need write access to the temporary directory (/tmp and similar). Many b
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by cesarb 1mo ago
There's also the time factor. Something you build on your own will not have decades of development and polish behind it.
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> What's stopping me from using a browser to log in to my bank? The "security module" they require you to install on your computer. In the past, when browsers had plugins, this was a browser plugin; nowadays, it's an
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> I feel like the only explanation here is that the smartphone duopoly has worked hard to condition customers into accepting this. This is older than the current smartphone duopoly; IIRC, with a few exceptions like the N900 and the Palm
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> If your app is not too large you can do CI/CD perfectly fine from your laptop. Not if you want to make sure it compiles and works on Windows (which you don't have) or macOS (which you don't have and can't emulate).
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> go hit the gym or walk outside. My mind immediately went to this classic xkcd: https://xkcd.com/303/
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by cesarb 2mo ago
The same that happened when Sun died: it gets bought by someone else.

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