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by fmajid 11mo ago
No, but they used to publish the source code for the drivers as part of AOSP. Now they no longer publish the device trees. Check out GrapheneOS' other Mastodon posts for the gory details.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
They can because they essentially support Google chipsets, which are not blobby like MediaTek or Qualcomm because Google for all its faults is still relatively open (except their recent change in release schedules is why the Pixel 10 series
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Most ARM devices don't have UEFI or a standardized hardware abstraction layer as x86/x64 does, a prerequisite for having a choice of OSes.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Keep in mind Source graph has done an open-source bait-and-switch before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36584656
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by fmajid 11mo ago
You may have heard of the 1987 Michael Douglas film "Wall Street"? Nothing has meaningfully changed since then.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
And SMS should be retired completely for authentication, not simply deprecated as NIST did in SP 800-63B with companies like banks assuming full liability for losses to others if they continue with this unacceptably insecure mechanism.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Just another reminder we need a "Cloud and app free IoT" Good Housekeeping style label of quality.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
I associate “German engineering” mostly with Dieselgate nowadays. German-made tools are still excellent, but even there companies like Rösle or Vogel quietly moved production to China or India.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Yes. The only caveat is that since LocalSend isn't blessed by Apple, it isn't automatically invoked and you have to start it manually to receive.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
You would expect them to dogfood and have their own AI write the analytics service for themselves.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
China’s is even more stringent at 4 hours, down to 1 hour for high-severity incidents: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/china_1hour_cyber_rep... https://privacymatters.dlapiper.com/2025&
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by fmajid 11mo ago
A corollary is, don't buy "smart" devices that only work using an app. The app will eventually be discontinued and you will have a doorstop.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
I upgraded my home backup server a couple of months ago to a Minisforum N5 Pro, and am very happy with it. It only has 4 3.5” drive slots, but I only use two with 2x20TB drives mirrored, and two 14TB external drives for offsite backups. The
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by fmajid 11mo ago
iMessage escaped DMA because it has marginal market share anywhere outside the US. WhatsApp is the dominant messaging platform and is opening up: https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability...
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by fmajid 11mo ago
I've ditched AirDrop for LocalSend, which is universally cross-platform (iOS, macOS, Linux, Android) and works very well. It's not a complete substitute, it doesn't work in the case of completely casual sharing between device
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Hasn't MS removed the option to create a local-only account in Win11 and is forcing everyone to sign up for a Microsoft account?
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by fmajid 11mo ago
"We kill people based on metadata" General Michael Hayden, Director, NSA
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by fmajid 11mo ago
If you believe that, you also believe that shipping landfill or toxic chemicals to third-worlf countries absolves us for responsibility over them.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
JPEG-XL is recommended as the preferred format for HDR content for PDFs, so it’s more likely to be encountered: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/another_chance_for_jp...
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Sure, but most of that is from industrial production, and really should be debited on importing nations’ CO2 accounts. Whereas in the US transportation, heating and construction are the main consumers.
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Not really, the US bred several tons of U-233 from thorium in the 60s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
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by fmajid 11mo ago
Surprising they took so long. Most wealthy Chinese exfiltrate their children and as much of their capital as they can get away with from the clutches of the CCP. That's why there are so many Chinese twentysomethings driving Ferraris in
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by fmajid 1y ago
I wonder if research into magnesium alloys would be a more fruitful avenue for research.
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by fmajid 1y ago
https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_4835.jpeg
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by fmajid 1y ago
Gods, GrapheneOS’s predictive keyboard and spelling checker is so much worse than iOS’, it’s not even funny
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by fmajid 1y ago
Doesn’t give the option, perhaps because I am in London at the moment. The California e-driver’s license app didn’t have this nonsense restriction.
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by fmajid 1y ago
As opposed to the privatization of water utilities, which was such a resounding success?
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by fmajid 1y ago
It's moistly about being able to recognize your laptop from others when the company has standardized on as sdinglke model. I have an Epson ColorWorkjs C4000e label printer and design and print my own, but some my 13 year old daughter d
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by fmajid 1y ago
I still have mine from 1987. You can still buy the HP-15C Collector's Edition new, but it isn't as good as the originals with their perfect keyboards and the silicon on sapphire technology that gave them their incredible battery l
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by fmajid 1y ago
The UK imports half its food, and was almost starved into submission by Nazi U-boats during WW2,, so you’d think they would know this, but laissez-faire ideology is strong in the ruling class.

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