marderfarker2

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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I listened to 3 minutes of Joe Roegan out of boredom and now Joe roegan lives perpetually on the Spotify homescreen
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Unpopular opinion but I think we (as engineers) can start by reducing bloat in our software, optimise running processes, to reduce device churn so that we can use our devices for a much longer time. Avoid bloaty software and reward develope
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
> will initially roll out only in the US. Ok so they’re planning to eventually roll out this spyware worldwide. I do not know how Americans can think China is bad in this while allowing this to happen.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Today they say it’s for CP, tomorrow they will say it’s for pirated content, or anything deemed illegal by the government.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Why though? How are they worse than Google for example? Were there any recent examples where they failed in those?
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Viable alternatives were long gone. I really miss the days of Symbian and Meego, phones that are hackable yet intuitive to use (I.e. Nokia N900, N9). Realistically now we have Tizen and Jolla OS, which had backings from Samsung but nobody g
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I don’t think that’s his point. The point is Apple made a laptop that did away technologies that allow PC ecosystem/choices we see today. The M1 MacBook feels like an iPhone, but sized as a laptop.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Current generation of desktop/laptop processors are plenty powerful. I’m unconvinced they cannot fulfil today’s computing needs.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
In the Amnesty report there were multiple attack vectors, one of which is via network hijacking which involves data mangling by network operators. Now it begs the question whether the network operators were in cahoots or this Pegasus is als
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
They built it so high up nobody could tell what’s going on until you jailbreak the device.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
And here I thought iOS with its walled garden approach would make these kinds of attacks impossible.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I feel like a lot of frustration in the west are due to a lack of voice from within China, who can explain the context and give their point of view. Instead all you get are these disjointed news and headlines without any depth to it. People
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I think the reason why AirBnb in its early days was so cheap is that there were more hosts who let for fun and to socialise. Now that the novelty has fizzled out, the market is left with hosts that let for profit, with prices now reflecting
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
More people switch to Linux, gaining developer attention, in turn more developers support their software for Linux.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Why call it fsd when it can’t do fsd? Also if I need to watch my car driving, then why should I pay $199 a month for it rather than drive the car myself, or call an Uber. Too many Tesla apologists around.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I game casually and did not buy a switch, simply because I do not want to plonk $300 on a single-use device that does a marginal job at gaming (mediocre graphics, expensive games). Steam Deck is a slightly more expensive gaming device, but
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Or you can use nextdns and have DNS protection on any network you’re on. They have a paid option that gives you a higher query quota.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
nobody is going to mention the positive side of this? This is going to contribute to the gene data pool of Asians, which is relatively underrepresented compared to the West (due prevalent of DTC companies), and help a lot in mapping our roo
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Really? I’m outside of China, and signed up for WeChat (for work) but never had to do any of the KYC things. They only took my number to send an OTP. If they ask for KYC in the mainland I suppose it’s understandable since it serves a lot mo
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Cool, effort to get Windows RT on mobile has begun long before this. Had a Lumia 640XL that ran Windows 8 RT with GPU acceleration.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I think that’s a feature, not a vulnerability:
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Just recently my company’s HR forced us to download a payroll vendor’s app on our phones. The app was downloaded from the App Store.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Democracy, am I right?
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Windows 10 still respects the Group Policy on Windows Update . If you’re on Home edition, there’s a powershell script that can enable gpedit for you.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
I have since relegated to totally disabling Windows update due to this. As a bonus, my PC stays the same way, goes to sleep and stays asleep as expected without new unexpected features clogging my desktop every month.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
As a third party observer, I’m glad China does not use American hardware/software stacks in their infra.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
The flight servers are technically already in the cloud, when it’s up 35,000 feet in the air.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
More often than not I find modern software regress in terms of feature compared to “older” software. An obvious example is softwares that has win32 and their UWP counterpart. The UWP version usually is stripped down in features, buggy and m
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Ironic since your ex POTUS got banned from your own social media on grounds of causing civil unrest.
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by marderfarker2 5y ago
Because you cannot bet against irrational things. Would rather throw money into things with higher conviction, lower risks, albeit with much lower potential returns.

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