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by ohazi 5y ago
The secret sauce may be in the software, but the software they sell you is a 1998 edition of Borland C++, and we're all screaming at them to please just make their hardware an LLVM target already.
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by ohazi 5y ago
> But if you can’t tell the difference, does it really matter? Firefox on Android supports add-ons, in particular uBlock origin. Firefox on iOS does not. That's a huge difference.
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by ohazi 5y ago
Something similar happened on early Bell X-1 flights before they realized they had to modify the tail. Supersonic airflow does weird things, and tends to separate from the horizontal stabilizer well ahead of the control surfaces on the trai
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by ohazi 5y ago
It's all coming true... https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by ohazi 5y ago
> Once Starlink launches its full 12,000-strong satellite network, it will be involved in 90 per cent of all close approaches, it is estimated. Bayes' Rule strikes again!
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by ohazi 5y ago
> Of course, a healthy non-toxic relationship needs years of hard work and maintenance. By all parties involved. You only have control over what you put in, but if the other side isn't interested in playing by the same rules there&#
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by ohazi 5y ago
Yes, money launderers and tax evaders would like to continue laundering and evading -- I think the real question is why are we making this easy for them? Buying property with ill-gotten gains is an extremely common method of money launderin
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by ohazi 5y ago
Why does anyone even assume that a bad actor would need to apply pressure? These databases are unauditable by design -- all they'd need to do is hand Apple their own database of "CSAM fingerprints collected by our own local law en
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by ohazi 5y ago
To everyone in this thread complaining that this is just Canada being Canada and trying to snuff out the upstarts... what the fuck are you going on about? I'm a US citizen and I want this screen scraping / credential sharing &#x2F
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by ohazi 5y ago
Firefox mobile allows you to use uBlock origin, which improves things tremendously. Every time I accidentally end up in mobile Chrome, it's like being transported back in time 15 years with popups and overlays and modals that are delib
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by ohazi 5y ago
> You imply that it is possible to clone NFC cards with other means. Is that really possible? I mean, sure, it's always possible, but probing a secure microcontroller with needles and an electron microscope isn't really what I
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by ohazi 5y ago
> So it’s best for everyone if I step away now instead of descending into outright sabotage. It's best for other members of the committee, and perhaps for the sanity of the author, but I think you could make the argument that effec
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by ohazi 5y ago
I said baseline standard. EMV contact is the baseline standard. EMV contactless is optional. If you want to issue a new card today, it must have a chip, but it doesn't need to have contactless. There are currently no (public) plans
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by ohazi 5y ago
You're correct that you can't easily clone an NFC card from RF interactions alone, but beyond that just about every other aspect of these cards is worse. Most contactless cards can be asked to transmit the cardholder's name,
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by ohazi 5y ago
From the card companies' perspective, the alternative to magstripe isn't contactless, it's contact (the smart card IC embedded in the physical card). In the US, the card companies convinced merchants to adopt the EMV contact
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by ohazi 5y ago
> That's almost exactly what my Honda does. Illegal (no signal) lane change results in a steering wheel shaker (and optional audio alert). And the car, when sensing an abrupt swerve which is interpreted as the vehicle leaving the ro
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by ohazi 5y ago
> I’m curious if anyone with insider information can speak to the possibility that this has happened in Boeing’s space division. s/in Boeing’s space division/at Boeing/ There's also the MCAS fiasco on the 737 MAX.
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by ohazi 5y ago
I see, so essentially this: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-devs-any-eta-on... Interesting. I've always had native resolution on this display in the console, so I never really looked into it. I guess
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by ohazi 5y ago
It's for a single axis curve, where the sensor is thinned and then bent over a form (presumably along the long axis), rather than a fully dished image plane. If the goal is reduced complexity / thinner optics, I guess this can mak
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by ohazi 5y ago
> For a long, long time, I felt like a whiny teenager, being pissed at my parents. As I get older (I'm 45 ish), the more I feel like my disgust at the folks who run these things is an actual ethical stance. Same. They say that you g
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by ohazi 5y ago
> If you are using their [Nvidia's] driver on any version of UNIX, then you will most likely not be able to switch back and forth between the console and your graphical environment. This is flatly untrue. I'm running Debian and
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by ohazi 5y ago
> It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours. Disappointing, sure, but not surprising
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by ohazi 5y ago
For now.
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by ohazi 5y ago
Consumer NAS boxes like the ones from Synology or QNAP have "we update your box at our whim" cloud software running on them and are effectively subject to the same risks, even if you try to turn off all of the cloud options. I pro
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by ohazi 5y ago
Is there a price level that would noticably reduce the prevalence of namesquatting? Maybe at $100 or $1000? Is there a price level at which the nerds say "fuck this" and create new domain roots without ICANN?
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by ohazi 5y ago
Catch-22: After he got the amendment ratified, there's a strong argument that the paper probably should have been given a higher grade. But had he been given that higher grade in the first place, he probably wouldn't have gone thr
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by ohazi 5y ago
Even if your worldview doesn't accommodate different ethical frameworks (i.e. I stand behind my own ethical principles, and believe that anyone who disagrees with me is unethical), surely you have to admit that some people will disagre
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by ohazi 5y ago
It's an M.2 key E connector, not a PCI connector, but it doesn't follow the M.2 standard -- they're just reusing a cheaply available connector. The microcontroller they're using doesn't support PCIe, so it's pr
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by ohazi 5y ago
I also used to religiously target C89 for "maximum compatibility" (`-ansi -pedantic`). But the problem with this approach is that it's 2021, and C89 doesn't have a concurrency model. FFS, use C11 or newer. Even if you&#x
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by ohazi 5y ago
Lightmatter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0I7jpwolg4

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