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by digiown 9mo ago
In this case, the "adversary" evaluates to the manufacturer, and "once they compromise you" evaluates to "already". This is the case with most smartphones and similar devices that treats the user as a guest, ra
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by digiown 9mo ago
Signal doesn't allow you to do that on any platform. The only way I know of to get the data out is via some random github project to extract operate on the encrypted backup from android: https://github.com/bepaald/
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by digiown 9mo ago
I thought the whole point of an EREV is to reduce expense by having less battery in the vehicle.
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by digiown 9mo ago
What's the reasoning for banning the cars specifically at an airport? Don't the airplanes burn way more fuel?
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by digiown 9mo ago
Most of the exhaust fumes your son smells near school is going to come from other people's cars though.
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by digiown 9mo ago
I meant something like, as a deduction from payroll taxes as a proportion of worked hours by the employee if he works on open source projects. Obviously not perfect but I don't think it's much worse than the existing R&D type
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by digiown 9mo ago
On Linux the typical LUKS setup is entirely separate from the login password. You don't lose anything if you forget the login password. You can just reset it with a live USB or similar. If you mean the secure boot auto-unlock type of s
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by digiown 9mo ago
Windows also allows you to reset your user password via Microsoft, which complicates things a little
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by digiown 9mo ago
I assume the use case is that you are an inference provider, and you put a bunch of models you might want to serve in the HBF to be able to quickly swap them in and out on demand.
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by digiown 9mo ago
I wonder if it would work if the governments provide some tax incentives for open source contributions similar to charity donations as well.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Open source is basically sovereign (if Russia can use it), so there do exist functional alternatives for most of these things. It's mostly from inertia and network effects that the American ones are used.
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by digiown 9mo ago
I'm puzzled why there is so little emphasis on prioritizing bikes and other means of non-licensed transport among libertarians. Driving consents you to various things like forced ID checks, drug tests, and sometimes searches, and cars
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by digiown 9mo ago
I'd like to mention that the cat5e cable present in your walls is rated to 2.5Gbps, and would often still work at 5 or 10Gbps over shorter runs in a home. 2.5gb equipment is very cheap nowadays. I got a couple of no-name switches under
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by digiown 9mo ago
It's a good start, but FDE alone is still fairly easy to compromise in many cases. If you ever type the password under a camera, it may be leaked. If the device ever leaves your possession and you don't have secure boot, your boot
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by digiown 9mo ago
A related one is all the various nags on consumer software that won't take NO for an answer. Do you want to rate our app? Later [YES] It is extremely disrespectful as it basically ignores consent. It's the "rapist mentality&q
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by digiown 9mo ago
It works just fine? At least on Linux wayland it works in both firefox and chromium
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by digiown 9mo ago
They don't have to make it illegal. They can just create all kinds of barriers like only allowing government approved OSes for essential services, and then using custom software can become grounds for suspicion and subject you to searc
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by digiown 9mo ago
Be careful about used Pixels. The Verizon and probably other carrier branded versions do not allow bootloader unlock at all, even after the modem is no longer locked.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Slightly off-topic but if you want to buy Pixels for GrapheneOS or similar: never buy the Verizon version. They do not allow bootloader unlock even after the modem is unlocked.
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by digiown 9mo ago
That's some very old data. I'm curious as to how stuff have changed with all the new advancements like helium drives, HAMR, etc. From the stats Backblaze helpfully publish, I feel like the huge amount of variance between models fa
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by digiown 9mo ago
Reading from it requires the read head to move, as opposed to spinning idle where the heads are parked on the side. Moving parts generally wear out over time.
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by digiown 9mo ago
This stat is also complete bullshit. If it were true, your scrubs of any 20+TB pool would get at least corrected errors quite frequently. But this is not the case. The consumer grade drives are often given an even lower spec of 1 in 1e14. F
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by digiown 9mo ago
I think "wired" (really bundles of optical fiber) will win out anyway due to the vast capacities it can provide. There will always be gaps between populations and to have a reliable link, you will need these dedicated mainlines, w
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by digiown 9mo ago
Will the walkie talkies work if there are hundreds in a small area all transmitting data with each other? Besides, there's just not that much bandwidth there.
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by digiown 9mo ago
If you have the government as adversary and no military force to back it up, you might want to reconsider doing that as it makes you very detectable from far away.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Imo I don't trust ANY of these tools to run in non-isolated environments. All of these tools are either - created by companies powered by VC money that never face consequences for mishandling your data - community vibecoded with questi
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by digiown 9mo ago
I meant "source available" I guess. Or am I missing something? https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
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by digiown 9mo ago
I hope we get LLM browser agents that will convert the web back to that state again. You can get sorta close now with adblockers, various "lite" modes, and unofficial client sites, but it would be nice if it were universal.
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by digiown 9mo ago
1.2Gbps down but only 2TB cap? I hope that's really cheap since if I pay for that I'd expect to do stuff like downloading LLMs, etc, all the time.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Exciting stuff, but will this be merged? I remember another similar effort that went nowhere because the company decided to not proceed with it

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