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by jlokier 11mo ago
Unfortunately, while Asahi Linux runs fine on M1 and M2 with some missing capabilities, it doesn't run at all on M3, M4 or M5. The M1 and M2 are still great laptops, so it's still a good experience if you're looking for a sec
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> In most cases, F-Droid couldn't know either. F-Droid is quite restrictive about what kinds of app they accept, they build the app from source code themselves, and the source code must be published under a FLOSS license. They ha
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> UK citizens are largely ok with that, as evidenced by them keeping to elect such governments I don't think that's true. I think plenty of UK citizens do want better privacy rights and data protection, as evidenced by the v
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by jlokier 11mo ago
From the article, I'm suprised at this unusual twist: > What about that second TCN? > On the 1st of October, the Home Office issued a second TCN against Apple for the same as before, but only for _British citizens’_ data. Wo
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by jlokier 11mo ago
Currently I don't use vibe coding or even code assistants, so I can't speak to how the battery fares when doing that sort of thing. I don't know how much or how intensively they need to run the underlying LLMs. For chatting
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by jlokier 11mo ago
Obviously not, Fil-C doesn't prevent or claim to prevent all security issues in modern code either. But the issues Fil-C prevents, it prevents in very old programs compiled with it , if they compile, just as much as current programs.
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by jlokier 1y ago
With Three UK, I have not 1 bar but 5 bars! Until about March this year, it was excellent and I used it as my home broadband. 60MB/s down, 20MB/s up on a good day. Much better than any ADSL I'm able to get. Since March, fro
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by jlokier 1y ago
One of the use-cases of Fil-C is to prevent security issues in old C code that's much older than Fil-C itself.
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by jlokier 1y ago
I use a Macbook Pro with 128GB RAM "unified memory" that's available to both CPU and GPU. It's slower than a rented Nvidia GPU, but usable for all the models I've tried (even gpt-oss-120b), and works well in a coffe
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by jlokier 1y ago
The original is 'lex', written in 1975 by Mike Lesk and Eric Schmidt. Yes, that Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. 1987 was the clone, 'flex' :-) It did "compiling the regex into regular code, which can then be optimized
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by jlokier 1y ago
Having written a small amount of SKI, long ago, I think you can avoid having to visualise the entire graph by reasonably modular approach: naming functions and then using those as building blocks. Names are very helpful. You get to design
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by jlokier 1y ago
I agree, and I've done similar to this for mobile banking successfully. This is the way :) However, I expect at some point they'll insist on biometric authentication. That'd exclude people who can't use the biometrics. B
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by jlokier 1y ago
No, with some banks you can't. I tried calling Starling Bank in the UK when my phone screen stopped working. I assumed they would have basic phone banking service. They told me no. The only service they could provide over the phone was
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by jlokier 1y ago
> You check your banking apps multiple times each day with the frequency and unpredictability expected from messaging apps? I almost do, yes. Life's complicated, I use several bank and credit card services a day. I'm not at h
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by jlokier 1y ago
I agree with you, and I can also easily imagine how this comes about with the software teams or contracted companies that do the infotainment system being completely different people from those who design the rest of the car. But it was sti
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by jlokier 1y ago
I recently did some testing of Bluetooth connecting an Android phone to a reasonably new Mercedes. Being a "luxury" brand, you'd think the Mercedes would have good infotainment software, but I found at least 5 bugs in the GU
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by jlokier 1y ago
Wikipedia has a section about this. They call it soft bricked vs hard bricked, according to the difficulty of restoring device function and how the broken state presents. Even hard bricked is usually recoverable with appropriate tools, so
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by jlokier 1y ago
> - You're basically at risk of your Jeep going limp (power loss, unable to safely make it to the shoulder) and being stranded on the highway, even as I write this. This seems extraordinary. I was going to ask: Are you really saying
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by jlokier 1y ago
For perspective, I pay USD $17.33 a month for unlimited 5G data - in the UK, in GBP, so really £13. Low quality home broadband costs more than that, and is slower, but with better latency. I've tested the unlimited claim, and they rea
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by jlokier 1y ago
For me the progression was Slashdot -> Kuro5hin -> HN.
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by jlokier 1y ago
Recent versions of macOS will provide either an OpenGL 2.1 context or OpenGL 4.1 context, depending on how you request the context. You have to request a 3.2+ core profile, and not use X11 or the glX* functions. From macOS 10.7 to 10.9, yo
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by jlokier 1y ago
Their point is that's a sad design choice, caused by firewalls forcing QUIC to take a first-class TCP-like internet protocol and wrap it with encrypted headers inside UDP for the sole purpose of preventing firewalls from blocking it
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by jlokier 1y ago
Among other things, some graph DBs are designed to perform the equivalent of "with recursive", filtering by attributes as you chase links and/or calculating statistics over subgraphs, more efficiently than SQL databases. If y
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by jlokier 1y ago
Last time I explored this, Firefox rendered thin lines in subtly bordered tables as thick lines, so I had to use Chromium. But back then Chrome did worse at pagination than Firefox. So I used Firefox for multi-page documents and Chromium f
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by jlokier 1y ago
I've just looked at the OpenSSH source, and I agree it should be configurable. That seems like an easy patch if you wanted to do it. Or, better but more difficult, it should track the dynamic TCP window size, from the OS when possible
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by jlokier 1y ago
> I think it's silly that this exists. They should just let TCP handle this. No, unfortunately it'snecessary so that the SSH proocol can multiplex streams independently over a single established connection. If one of the mu
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by jlokier 1y ago
> How on earth can it be that terrible [>20 minutes] compared to Deno? QuickJS uses a bytecode interpreter (like Python, famously slow), and is optimised for simplicity and correctness. Whereas Deno uses a JIT compiler (like Java, .
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by jlokier 1y ago
> Voters, in aggregate, want rents to fall and prices to rise, roughly divided by renters vs owners I assure you, a lot of people in the UK want house prices to fall too. There are too many renters who don't want to be renting, a
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by jlokier 1y ago
> In turn, every computable function on the real numbers is a continuous function That doesn't seem right. Consider the function f(x: ℝ) = 1 if x ≥ 0, 0 otherwise. That's computable but not continuous.
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by jlokier 1y ago
> you always need to access them via the embedded type's name, so there's nothing to conflict. The article talks about "opts.URL" in its example being accepted by the compiler, which accesses "opts.FooService.U

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