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by drnick1 2mo ago
> I heard month ago Volkswagen banned graphene, hopefully we we will see moving things in opposite direction... Why would anyone want a car app? Is being tracked by the car's telematics unit (cellular modem) not enough?
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Like others have said, it comes down to apps mostly. But there is also the fact that Google and others have spent more than a decade optimizing the OS for appliances. Android was built from the ground up for mobile devices and handles thing
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by drnick1 2mo ago
What is the point of apps for these things in particular? I understand that some banks require an app for 2FA, but I don't see why anyone would want some invasive healthcare app on their phone.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
"Many" is doing a lot of work here. A more accurate statement would be that some banks in some countries require invasive apps, but fortunately it isn't the case everywhere (yet).
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by drnick1 2mo ago
The Graphene devs can be a bit obsessive about security, but with a starting price above $600, I think the average user is probably better off with a Pixel 10a bought on sale closer to $300. The stock Fairphone OS seems to include Google se
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by drnick1 2mo ago
It became clear that the article isn't about OpenAI or technology, it's left-wing propaganda.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
I stopped reading when I saw "Social-Democracy" and Palestine in the article.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Blacklisting facebook.com at the DNS level has worked pretty well for me.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Absolutely, and it's even worse when you are asked to blindly download and run software like the Brave browser, which is open source but exclusively packaged and distributed by an adware company with a questionable history. The softwar
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Seems like an awful idea. I hope that that "watermark" will soon be discovered, reverse-engineered, and that tools to remove it will appear.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
> building homes next to jobs That already exists, it's called a city. But cities are inevitably dirty, noisy and dangerous because they concentrate people by design, and many people, especially families, don't want to live in
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by drnick1 2mo ago
The sad thing is that usability of computers has not improved. More RAM has bought us absolutely nothing when it comes to UI/UX.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
How? Linux developers don't live in Illinois or even in the USA for the most part.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
It's not, you're just watching CNN too much.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
HN readership and comments would greatly decline if people did not usr their phones in the can.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
This. The Internet was a better place when people hosted things they wanted to share at home or on their ISP's servers, without the expectation of making money.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
It's not awful, but if you are doing research or anything complex and don't want to spend hours fighting it, Sol is not an option.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Yes, but you can create multiple accounts. It has to be inconvenient enough or no one would pay for the higher tiers.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Considering that the comments in the original article shows he is using a Pixel 7, the solution is obvious: give Google and its spyware the cold shoulder and install GrapheneOS.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
> It's not enough that it's better? It's barely better, and barely cheaper, not really enough to challenge the status quo IMO. Half the price for basically the same performance would be a much stronger value proposition.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Why does an open weights model cost nearly the same as GPT5.6? $1.14 vs $1.23 on the cost index. Since you can't presumably run this on your own hardware given the model size and hence gain other things like privacy, I don't see a
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by drnick1 2mo ago
> Yea so mail, firstname, lastname, birthday, country, email Does anyone even provide real information? What is the point of even asking for a name?
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by drnick1 2mo ago
> Haskell is a very good language for writing this kind of application. I won't touch Pandoc with a ten foot pole because of the endless Haskell dependencies on Arch Linux. So no, Haskell is a pretty horrible choice.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
I just go back and ignore the website when that happens.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
> everything about the web is fine tuned to deliver ads to our eyeballs, browsers, operating systems and even protocols are being designed with ad delivery in mind. I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on Linux, and haven't seen an ad i
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by drnick1 2mo ago
No, those times are not fading. We are constantly opening up new revenue streams, like Venezuela, and maybe soon Iran too.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
Thank you for reminding us that electric mowers are garbage.
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by drnick1 2mo ago
If you want actual privacy (rather than promises from Apple or Google), what you need is a mini-PC running Linux with the Plasma Bigscreen DE. You then use a Web browser rather than invasive "apps" for your streaming. For Youtube,
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by drnick1 2mo ago
> That can be cameras, tv's, thermostats, tv sticks and anything else that might not only call home That is not enough. You need to air gap devices that have legitimately no business communicating with anyone or anything outside the
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by drnick1 3mo ago
It's rather similar to publishing a non-peer-reviewed preprint on arXiv.

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