karma_pharmer

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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Totaled means the insurance company buys the car from you. It's not your car anymore, so obviously you don't get to drive it.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
oh my god. what exactly were the rivian engineers thinking?
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
That's a feature not a bug. It's selective definancialization, and I love it. Same reason why buying tax foreclosures is such a great bargain: you don't have to compete with bank-financed buyers!
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Dangerous in automobile accidents. Most, possibly all states in the US will refuse to register a LNG conversion. Only the vehicles designed for that fuel from the start (like transit busses) are allowed.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Oh right that's why there are zero sociopaths at NGOs...
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Then why does kagi have the same artificially-massive github boost that google does and no other engine (bing, duckduckgo) does? They're just reselling google searches. With maybe 1% salted in from elsewhere for deniability.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
... and 99% of the results come from just one of those.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
I just want to say I love this comment and the way it's written, I wish more news articles had such creative verbiage! But could somebody please translate the following into something my helplessly-uncool brain can grok? > I’ve be
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
ads eat everything else Well duh. Because it's the only value you're allowed to collect from retail customers without having to deal with either chargebacks or kyc. We've deliberately made every other form of micropayment
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Kagi is simply reselling google search results.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
> I do not have reason to believe that This phrase has no place in security research.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
> Cleanroom reverse engineering for the purpose of publishing new driver code, to avoid legal/IP minefields, is super-expensive Project Ortega did it to an entire gigabit ethernet controller for the princely sum of zero dollars: ht
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
If it was that easy we'd have a cleanroom FOSS implementation by now. It's been more than two years! https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Project_Ortega
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
an open source implementation of 802.11 for wifi 6 cards For which baseband chip, specifically? I mean this would be great, but I have a very hard time believing any baseband vendor gave you enough documentation to achieve that -- especia
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
> OSS TF-A at EL3 + closed DDR training (RK3588) That should be "blob which does stuff, including DDR training, at EL3 ". That blob certainly does DDR training. Maybe it does other stuff. But all of it is done at EL3. >
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Because the orphanage refuses to use cloudflare.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Yeah but then millennials came along.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Like I said: blobs in EL3, the highest privilege level. We've been getting these "almost there" announcements quarterly for multiple years at this point.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Rockchip RK3399 and RK3588 SoCs Just so people don't get confused, there is a huge world of difference between these two chips. They are not in the same category. Rockchip RK3399 is 100% blobless. You even control the EL3 Trustzone
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Most wifi baseband firmware "helpfully" leaks the true eeprom-written MAC address in places like management frames and beacons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13839540 As of 2017 the authors of the paper abo
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
... which are also the same ten square yards where all the butt-in-the-air folded-in-half fent zombies hang out. Sorry but it's true.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
Russian and China Telecom constantly claim networks that aren't theirs to begin with. ... and coretx's "nobody wants to peer with an idiot" is clearly not working here. These networks are still being peered with. Mayb
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
With cryptography? I doubt it. Not the same thing as RPKI.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
And yet SS7 still has no cryptographic security measures.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
i think you mean to to say "has sunk"
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
you want to convert a file to Google Sheets, that likely requires several different microservices working in tandem to handle your request. Well there's your problem, right there.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
up your... nose, of course.
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
I don't see cellphones as general purpose computers either. For exactly the same reason why I don't see game consoles as general purpose computers: neither one will run arbitrary programs. They only run programs that are blessed
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
What makes you so sure there isn't one already? The FBI's whining? It's like that scene at the end of Sneakers : "they just don't want to share with the other children..."
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by karma_pharmer 2y ago
the ones that actually looked at it and ... noticed that it doesn't even define "indigenous"

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