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by conradev 1y ago
Control over hardware isn’t actually the issue at stake here: many Android devices can unlock their bootloaders in a moderately safe way. Go nuts. It’s a more tricky issue where Google and other parties can restrict access to their servic
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by conradev 1y ago
My understanding is that for Gmail specifically, they keep a record of every email ever received regardless of deletion status, but I'm not able to find any good sources.
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by conradev 1y ago
Tesla recanted its employee’s testimony “after discovering evidence inconsistent with his stated recollection of events,” it said. That’s a fancy way to say that he lied
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by conradev 1y ago
It’s worth noting that companies at this scale are usually the ones purchasing user data, not selling it.
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by conradev 1y ago
WebRTC is another great option: https://snowflake.torproject.org It's used for a lot of legitimate traffic as well, so a bit harder to block.
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by conradev 1y ago
I found Dario’s explanation pretty compelling: https://x.com/FinHubIQ/status/1960540489876410404 the short of it: if you do the accounting on a per-model basis, it looks much better
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by conradev 1y ago
where does an RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell fall in this? I feel like that’s the next step up in performance (and about the same price as two Sparks)
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by conradev 1y ago
Something like 40% of the corn grown in the US is turned into biofuel: https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=1057...
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by conradev 1y ago
It was also the Korean automaker’s best July sales month since launching its first vehicle in 1986. The growth was mainly driven by electrified vehicles, including EVs and hybrids (HEVs). https://electrek.co/2025&
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by conradev 1y ago
Likely referring to EU Chat Control: https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/08/eu-chat-control-law-is-a-s...
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by conradev 1y ago
Interesting: https://techafricanews.com/2025/07/24/smart-africa-calls-for...
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by conradev 1y ago
This is a silly take. The answer to preventing one branch of the federal government from abusing power is to strengthen the other branches, and to strengthen federalism itself. Both are enshrined in the constitution and are the largest chec
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by conradev 1y ago
Yeah, Form Energy exists to basically disprove this: Batteries will still be too expensive to arbitrage these seasonal differences effectively. Thermal electricity storage is orders of magnitude cheaper for storage, but worse at daily c
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by conradev 1y ago
You don’t need fsync at all for that, just WAL. fsync is only half arsed on Apple platforms.
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by conradev 1y ago
This is perhaps my favorite one. By default, SQLite doesn’t actually delete data: The default setting for secure_delete is determined by the SQLITE_SECURE_DELETE compile-time option and is normally off. The off setting for secure_delete
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by conradev 1y ago
One Apple platforms, you also want to use F_FULLFSYNC instead of fsync if you need durability: https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_checkpoint_fullfsy...
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by conradev 1y ago
Absolutely! It’s completely, unambiguously legal, which is why Google allows emulators on the Play Store. Apple, beholden to copyright interests, is wary of software that allows even the possibility of copyright infringement. They just re
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by conradev 1y ago
Sure. I could live in the middle of nowhere in the US and communicate exclusively via written letter… …but the USPS will still use machines with microprocessors to sort that mail.
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by conradev 1y ago
The Internet is made of microprocessors. Maybe we don't need the internet to live, but it seems pretty important these days!
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by conradev 1y ago
Also worth noting that Apple actually defines and decides the lifetime of their own computers using software support, whereas Windows and Linux typically support hardware indefinitely (that might be changing with Windows 11). My sister had
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by conradev 1y ago
So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API. It d
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by conradev 1y ago
It’s not actually about school shootings in the US, as much as that might be cited as justification. Some parents just want to be able to text their kids all day.
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by conradev 1y ago
Not in New Jersey. I visited my parents and didn’t stop for a full three seconds before making a right on red on a deserted road at night and they fined my dad.
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by conradev 1y ago
Yeah, you can give an LLM queries like “make this smaller with libx265 and add the hvc1 tag” or “concatenate these two videos” and it usually crushes it. They have a similar level of mastery over imagemagick, too!
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by conradev 1y ago
R&D tax credits did not “expire". Immediate expensing expired in 2022, requiring companies to split credits across multiple years. Multiple attempts since then have tried to restore expensing (often in bipartisan tax packages), but
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by conradev 1y ago
How about the Auto Train? That one seems halfway competent too
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Fundamentally this is the corporation saying it doesn't have a market-beating way to reinvest this capital Isn’t that the crux of it, though? Running a company into the ground by not investing in growth or R&D? We give tax
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by conradev 1y ago
You will also go to jail. It’s not self-defense: https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-francisco-walgreens-manager-co...
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by conradev 1y ago
Chrome : Chromium :: Zed : ???? I don’t view Chrome and Chromium as different projects, but primarily as different builds of the same project. I feel like this will (eventually) go the same way.
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The story is a lot more interesting than I could have imagined: It’s particularly popular in the northern state of West Bengal in India, where it’s used in dishes such as achaars, a pickled condiment used to add an acidic spice to a wid

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