josephcsible

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by josephcsible 9mo ago
If you break the government's rules, that should be between you and the government. I shouldn't have to front the cost of any fines or otherwise be in the middle of it.
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
I believe you that that way works today, but once knowledge of it starts to spread, I expect Microsoft to break it, just like they previously broke Shift+F10 "oobe\bypassnro" and "start ms-cxh:localonly".
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
This story is exactly the reason to insist that: cars can be driven by people other than their owners.
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
You've inadvertently completed both parts of a proof by cases. We don't want speeding laws enforced at all right now, because most speed limits are way too low, because they're set for reasons other than actual traffic safety
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
You can't avoid tickets from speed cameras just by not speeding. You can't even avoid them just by not driving ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY38N4vnhzI And besides, as other commenters pointed out, even if t
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
A constant cat-and-mouse game of Microsoft disabling every method to do so as soon as they become somewhat popular is not "relatively easy".
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
> Believing complainants uncritically isn't some sort of virtue you can reasonably expect people to adhere to. It is when the other side refuses to tell their side of the story. Compare it to a courtroom trial. If you sue someone,
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
100% agreed. Freedom of association should be exclusively a human right that corporations don't get. For them, I wish it were a privilege that scaled down with size and valuation, such that multibillion dollar companies wouldn't
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
Most regulations aren't like this one, though. E.g., when RoHS passed, the government didn't go through everyone's houses to confiscate and destroy all old electronics that were made with leaded solder. And even for things th
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
How is it "without evidence"? I can find plenty more articles about the same thing and no doubt whatsoever as to the veracity.
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
> it's not completely out of the blue, or as severe as the headline would lead you to believe. The part of this that makes it major news is that they're retroactively taking away a feature from a car that people already bought.
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
> Anyway, yeah, don't connect your car to the Internet. Including for remote starting. Don't modern cars all have SIM cards built in somewhere that's really difficult to remove?
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Germany Forces Lexus to Remotely Kill Car Heating in Dead of Winter(gadgetreview.com)
21 points by josephcsible 9mo ago|36 comments
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
Basically the same thing New York is trying to do < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655572 >, and terrible for all the same reasons.
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WA proposes 3D-printed gun controls with blocking features, blueprint detection(tomshardware.com)
3 points by josephcsible 9mo ago|1 comments
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
> APSW looked at “Net Rewards”, which is the rewards a credit card user gets minus the fees and interest they paid on the card. If you're paying interest on a credit card, you're using it wrong, and the rest of us shouldn'
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
This would effectively ban open source 3D printers. Anyone who cares about open source should vote out any and all politicians who support this.
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New York proposal requires 3D printer manufacturers to prevent printing guns(tomshardware.com)
5 points by josephcsible 9mo ago|4 comments
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
> The Archive has stuff from all of them, so there’s basically no place on Earth where it could work without tricks like the EDNS one. Isn't that true of archive.org as well? Why doesn't it need EDNS then?
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The pirate-based logic of Rust shared references(ais523.me.uk)
2 points by josephcsible 9mo ago|0 comments
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by josephcsible 9mo ago
What specific part of regional compliance actually needs this, and why does no other website seem to need it?
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by josephcsible 10mo ago
tl;dw: Some ESP32-C3 chips have no built-in flash memory, and so require external flash to work. Unscrupulous sellers offer ESP32-C3 Super Mini boards with such chips, without adding external flash, and without even breaking out the pins yo
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The ESP32-C3 Super Mini Scam [video](youtube.com)
2 points by josephcsible 10mo ago|1 comments
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by josephcsible 10mo ago
> Brands: JMDHKK, KAXYUYA, JAXTIN, HUYNL, NAVFALCON, SMHAWK, AORDERN, Abyliee, Obsitwy, Suntony, SEVENPARK, PolesNow, MGMCM were tested. Are there really zero reputable companies who make these products? I did some searching of my own to
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by josephcsible 10mo ago
You'll have to wait negative six years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoYBLn9hRqs
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by josephcsible 10mo ago
If that's good reason to remove Grok and X, then Chrome and Safari should be removed too, since they can be used to access the exact same content.
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iFixit: We Found the Worst Devices at CES 2026 [video](youtube.com)
8 points by josephcsible 10mo ago|0 comments
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HSBC blocks app users for having sideloaded password manager(theregister.com)
2 points by josephcsible 10mo ago|1 comments
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by josephcsible 10mo ago
How is this any better than just storing the value in a password manager, or in YubiKey's "Static Password" mode? Also, the "ECDSA Public Key Recovery" picture makes me suspect this is AI slop.
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by josephcsible 10mo ago
Which brings up another point: the total used disk space of a Windows install with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express used to be way smaller than Gmail alone is now.

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