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by jech 1y ago
LineageOS is just fine if you have a well-supported device. If you need to run proprietary apps, you'll need MicroG (which runs just fine as a user application) and the Aurora store. Unfortunately, now that CalyxOS has died, the other
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by jech 1y ago
> Old people cannot see small text. The old people you know need a better optometrist. (Hint: progressive lenses.)
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by jech 1y ago
> If you get a new phone, you cant just pop your physical sim in. You need to go through your provider to transfer Which, at least with my provider, you cannot do while roaming. So if I break my phone while travelling, I cannot access m
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by jech 1y ago
Yes, I mean explaining to your bank advisor that you cannot run their app, and asking whether they can recommend any solutions other than switching banks. They must have a number of elderly customers, and they most certainly have something
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by jech 1y ago
Have you tried calling your bank advisor to see what they can recommend? (You do have a phone number to call, right?)
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by jech 1y ago
> If you're in a 5-person peer-to-peer webrtc video call where you receive 4 streams of video, you also need to send 4 streams of video. This is scalable in a sense; the uplink and downlink requirements are equal. The issue is not w
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by jech 1y ago
Is WebRTC being blocked by China? I'm wondering whether it'd be worthwile to implement an VPN that uses WebRTC as a transport. With cover traffic, it could likely be made to look just like a video call.
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by jech 1y ago
> And then you cannot use your phone for payments. That's why you have a debit card. And if your bank won't give you a debit card, you find a better bank.
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by jech 1y ago
> what about EU? https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en
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by jech 1y ago
> "Pop up a permission prompt every single time an app links out to a browser" is not going to be a thing that users like. Calculator.apk wants to open the web page https://eviltracker.example.com . Allow this time?
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by jech 1y ago
> the same critical thinking skills as a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau I'm loving this expression. May I please adopt it?
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by jech 1y ago
> I feel that iOS and Android offer pretty all the features that I could ever want. Except privacy.
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by jech 1y ago
Nice. They're using the Xvesa server, which doesn't include any hardware drivers and instead runs the VESA BIOS in a 16-bit virtual machine. https://www.xfree86.org/current/Xvesa.1.html
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by jech 1y ago
So you can say: let r = await fetch(...); if(!r.ok) ... let len = response.headers.get("Content-Length"); if(!len || new Number(len) > 1000 * 1000) throw new Error("Eek!");
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by jech 1y ago
So you can write "delta = t1 - t0".
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by jech 1y ago
> We use Apple's location service, not beaconDB. I stand corrected. Do you have plans to switch to BeaconDB when the coverage in the USA improves?
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by jech 1y ago
>>The only technical limitation I have encountered using these ROMs is related to GPS: my position is often lost > Graphene's new network location feature I believe it uses https://beacondb.net/ , which is star
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by jech 1y ago
There are a number of providers that offer such a service with the SIP protocol. The upside is that you're not tied to a single provider; the downside is that most providers only offer unencrypted calls (using RTP, not SRTP). OVH, for
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Show HN: Sip Bridge for Galene(github.com)
1 points by jech 1y ago|0 comments
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by jech 1y ago
> Idris is strict, unlike Haskell. "The next Haskell will be strict." — Simon Peyton-Jones
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by jech 2y ago
> I would expect many conferences to have less and less international attendees in the coming years. It's starting: https://boycott-ietf127.org/
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by jech 2y ago
Don't. Learn something fun instead. If you're into classic languages, learn Common Lisp, or Scheme, or APL. If you're into more recent stuff, try Caml, or Haskell, or perhaps Idris. And don't worry too much about your
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by jech 2y ago
> the holy grail of a P2P service which would allow me to initiate a connection via CLI and get a simple URL to share with someone who could download the file from a web browser git clone https://github.com/jech&#x2F
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by jech 2y ago
> One tricky constraint is that a "simple URL" isn't big enough to hold a full-entropy encryption key. If you trust the server not to MITM you, then you don't need the encryption key in the URL. The URL only needs to
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by jech 2y ago
The Galene videoconferencing system < https://galene.org > includes peer-to-peer file transfer. The web client is built in, but there's also a command-line client at < https://github.com/jech/gal
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by jech 2y ago
> The DOM has been designed as a JS API My understanding is that it originated as a straight binding to Netscape Navigator's C++ API, so it's actually originally a C++ API.
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Show HN: Galene-stt: automatic captioning for the Galene videconferencing system(github.com)
2 points by jech 2y ago|0 comments
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by jech 2y ago
> OSMAnd is great I switched from OSMAnd to Organic Maps a few years ago. Organic Maps is way faster, and I actually understand what all the buttons do. It has some minor limitations, though: it cannot keep the GPS on when you switch to
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by jech 3y ago
> Do you happen to know of others by any chance. There's Galene, < https://galene.org >. It's easy to deploy, uses minimal server resources, and the server is pretty solid. The client interface is still a litt
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by jech 4y ago
> The Enlightenment lead developer for instance does not believe a programmatic way to make screenshots or listen to keypresses should ever exist. Rasterman is entitled to his opinion, but every production-ready Wayland server ("com

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