jdiez17

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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   > This decision, as I understand it, renders large swathes of tech service revenue models untenable. To be honest, good riddance. If it is no longer possible to offer users a "free" service in exchange for extremely invasive sp
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   See also the LumenPnP by Opulo [1]. It’s a fully open source (hardware and firmware) pick and place machine with optical tracking, basically a perfect match for the OpenPnP control software. [1] https://opulo.io/products&#x2
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   > Every time a service key is uploaded, it is encrypted using an ephemeral key bound to the web session that the user authorized, and a notification is displayed on the user’s device, showing the iCloud service whose data is temporarily
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/import-photos-an... ? Also, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201301 ?
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   So far Apple doesn't seem to be interested in breaking the law.
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   Okay... then use iTunes on Windows or Mac? (Not sure how those work, never used them, but I assume they provide the same functionality as imobiledevice)
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   > Also can't even copy files off device easily. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33898890 . > Can't put custom apps on devices easily. You will, from May, thanks to the EU Digital Markets act. > [.
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   by jdiez17 4y ago

   Yes, I have heard of the GDPR and in my opinion it has improved/consolidated my digital privacy rights and not affected the "web browsing experience" in any negative way. I believe you are referring to the ePrivacy Directive
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    What makes you think there will be such "mandated popups"?
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    Closed source applications like WhatsApp can be and in fact are reverse engineered by researchers who want to verify the end-to-end encryption claim. For example, see this BlackHat talk: https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/We
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    Starting in May next year, the Digital Markets Act [1] requires Apple to "allow the installation of third-party software applications [...] by means other than the relevant core platform services of that gatekeeper." [1] https:&#
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    You can access the data in an encrypted backup, which you can request from an iPhone from Linux using the open source libimobiledevice: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice Here's an overview of ho
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    To be honest, end to end encrypted cloud backups and the upcoming forced-by-EU opening of the platform to third party developers without going through the App Store are the two killer features I was hoping to see on iOS.
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    They don't make a profit on device sales. They want you to use their cloud services.
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    I don’t know what kind of toaster you have but mine doesn’t have thousands of parts. Maybe 20 or so.
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    I think competition in web search is desperately needed and Kagi is promising. I used it during the free public beta and the search results were comparable to Google - sometimes better, sometimes worse. I sincerely hope they continue improv
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    I have to give a shoutout to my friends literally down the street who do this: German Orbital Systems [1] + EXOLAUNCH [2]. Then there's also some other companies who make the satellite bus and other parts for CubeSats like GOMspace [3]
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    by jdiez17 4y ago

    > Isn't there a requirement for all cube-sats to pass radiation tests / shock tests or whatever for them to be accepted for launch? The launch provider usually doesn't care about radiation tests. For CubeSats they mostly o
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    > It baffles me that our markets are so inefficient that it’s 125% more effective for me to take time off my ‘highly skilled’ engineering job to do ‘low skilled’ renovation/repair work myself. I don’t think it’s particularly bafflin
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    > Are there actually (current, available, lineage-supported(1)) COTS phones, where you can add your own signing keys, and then re-lock the boot-loader? With mainline/non_ancient Linux kernel? You may want to check out https:/&
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    I think you did a great job designing and implementing this. However if you are in Germany unfortunately electric bikes and other personal electric vehicles with a top speed over 15 km/h (off the top of my head) need to be registered w
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    Hey, interesting question! I think using ground-based equipment to accurately measure the position of fast-moving drones in a large outdoor volume might be quite difficult. A pretty common way to do this indoors is to attach infrared retror
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    > and offers a paid solution that doesn't track you. Really? Never heard of that. Can you elaborate?
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    Yes, that is fairly concerning. The last news I had about this was that using Google Play Signing (their key escrow and app signing service) was only mandatory for new apps as of August 2021. Not sure if that has changed recently. But every
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    No, microG is a partial reimplementation of some of the functionality in the Google Mobile Services (GMS) app. Unfortunately, this approach has significant drawbacks. In order to install microG, your version of Android OS needs support fo
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    While I'm not sure if this change to Google Maps has been or will be widely rolled out, you may want to look into what GrapheneOS is working on with their Google Play compatibility layer [1]. It basically lets people use Google's
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    In that case (using the article's analogies), you are receiving a gift (GPL/FOSS software), and choosing to give them a gift as well (money). Both transactions are 100% no strings attached.
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    I have been curious about this service for a while but the landing page is very scant on technical details about how it actually works. - Is it an EC2 instance with an SDR attached? What’s the software setup? Is it compatible with GNUradio?
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    by jdiez17 5y ago

    That's interesting. I'm not quite sure how that works but I'll look into it. If you have some resources, I'd appreciate it!