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by i336_ 10y ago
I read a linked article on here recentlyish that made an interesting note about the impact of Google being an advertising company: Android is Google's effort to create a defense moat by blasting a 100-mile crater around their ad proper
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by i336_ 10y ago
>> they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds. > Note that this is not quite what I'm talking about. Good point. I think I forgot to fully qualify that statement - while initially composing my reply I g
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by i336_ 10y ago
Now I kinda understand why no URL yet; this is amazing , and I imagine you don't want to leak how you're doing it quite yet. (How ARE you doing it?) Is the homescreen part of your system, or is that a synthetic simulation? I wi
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by i336_ 10y ago
This is hilariously fun. If you drop search_term from the query it bombs out though. And when I searched for "KKz4xj0jON+5zfTrikgvIXiJLXE=" (head -c 20 /dev/urandom | base64) I got a 504.
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by i336_ 10y ago
> A pixel-perfect WebGL/JavaScript implementation of UIKit/QuartzCore that runs basic iOS apps in a web-based simulator at 60fps That sounds really interesting. Do you have a demo URL or (60fps :D) video of this in action?
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by i336_ 10y ago
Cool. Suggested secondary source: https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?&sort=-publicdate&pa... (spotty; sometimes the crawls are dark and can't be read) Also: when you get lucky with ACD: https:/&
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by i336_ 10y ago
I actually just learned about that. And I thought I'd I'd gone over the guidelines page a while back, too...
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by i336_ 10y ago
> Maybe because you called Android "a slightly less terrible Windows Mobile 6". Okay, that's entirely fair. I guess I've gotten too caught up in the fragmentation and vulnerability hype. I think I was underexaggerat
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by i336_ 10y ago
IANAL but I can't see any harm in releasing some demo samples of what your system can do. To be fair, an example of how the system breaks down it gets pushed too hard would probably be useful too. With that in hand, perhaps you might c
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by i336_ 10y ago
Nobody else has mentioned anything along these lines so I'll do so. If you haven't talked to the blind community about this sort of thing already I would strongly recommend doing so as they'll be able to rapidly point you a
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by i336_ 10y ago
Makes a lot of sense.
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by i336_ 10y ago
Long-term (1-2 years or so), keep an eye on Fuchsia. Nobody yet knows what Google's intentions are with this project relative to Android (which has a staggering installed base, btw, and is going to stubbornly stick around like a slight
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by i336_ 10y ago
Very glad to hear the talk will be presented elsewhere, hopefully somewhere with decent A/V equipment that will make the talk look good. Also, https://zeronet.io/ is easily the fastest website I've visited this we
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by i336_ 10y ago
> Apple had a lot of saying in the architectural and design decisions of Imagination's GPUs that ended up on their iPhones. A good part of the development actually happened at Apple's offices with Imagination people flying ove
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by i336_ 10y ago
Haaaaang on. When Apple started designing their unibody Macbooks, they needed to put a hole in the aluminium for the power LED. There was only one company in the world with the equipment to make those (multiple-of-nanometers-wide) holes. Si
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by i336_ 10y ago
> I can't say anything more on the subject today. Cool. When should people start poking around GCE's network blog for Interesting Updates™ then? (Keeping in mind that I acknowledge/note that the "6 months from now&q
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by i336_ 10y ago
What alternatives would you recommend to people leaning toward SR-IOV? I say this abstractly as I'm curious what your answer is and I think it might be very helpful to others considering your experience. (I just had to google "sr-
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by i336_ 10y ago
OK, I bit the bullet, scraped all the webpages, and tried all of them in a loop. -- None work. -- Sorry. However, it was interesting to observe that some of the domains do still actually resolve. -- Here's the general idea I used (I th
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by i336_ 10y ago
Thanks so much. People only talk about the faxing capabilities of software DSPs, not the "general purpose modem" capabilities.
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by i336_ 10y ago
Yep. First commit: https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily/commit/1e509cbdd56ef36... Commit list at oldest page: https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily/commits/master?after=9... (
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by i336_ 10y ago
Can I see a screenshot?
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Have you ever tried shouting at Microsoft about this? I know they have a bad track record of not listening, but I think things might be different now, they seem to be a bit more receptive to feedback, particularly with the beta updates. Or
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by i336_ 10y ago
Heh. Thanks for the info. I just checked, I read about this at http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/04/17/unprotected/ . I must admit that I am very curious why " git and 64 other files in /u
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by i336_ 10y ago
Ah, thanks. I'm assuming that quietly got added in after "we can't touch the filesystem at all " caused too many complaints...?
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by i336_ 10y ago
Just checked, sed isn't on that list. And lisp sounds a bit simpler than sedtris - tetris in sed ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430171 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2430171 ) - so that c
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by i336_ 10y ago
This was a KDE thing. I'm unsure if it still has the option now.
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Is it still possible to do this kind of thing on the most recent macOS? I recall the issue with the 'git' binary not being modifiable, even with sudo, unless you mounted the macOS filesystem under Linux and made the changes from t
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by i336_ 10y ago
That could viably work, but has one downside. If you shift all the way to the extreme of "super safe", when the inevitable bored trolls come along and figure out how to game the automated filter and get gore/porn/whateve
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by i336_ 10y ago
That sounds heartwarmingly difficult to police...
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by i336_ 10y ago
Well that took quite a number of "New Tor circuit for this site"! (You'll see what I mean.) Canada works.

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