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by okanat 1y ago
Well not in Germany. Some banks accept their branded authenticators, some of them don't. ING in Germany forces you to either have a single Google approved smartphone or a single authenticator, not both. DKB requires a paid Girocard to
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by okanat 1y ago
Not in EU. Many banks mandate you either have an iPhone or Google approved Android as 2FA. Those fucking idiots have killed their own competition options.
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by okanat 1y ago
The previous projects were simply hobbies. This one has a full non-profit behind it. In the end though, there is always a risk. Then you need to hope that there is also enough development of secondary leaders who can carry the torch. It is
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by okanat 1y ago
Having granular access != no control. On the contrary, I want more control over the apps. There is no benefit to me if my banking app or any other app can also have access to GPS, while I am navigating with a map app. AOSP is much much bett
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by okanat 1y ago
Servo was a side-project. Mozilla laid off the Servo team. Its development then stopped. It eventually found a home in Linux Foundation but it lost the initial acceleration. It lost the ambition. Many key developers moved on. Whatever natur
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by okanat 1y ago
It can feel a bit different with the unified authoritarian regime in the US now, however, working democracies have a juidacial branch just for this reason. Purely elected sovereigns usually have corruption and populism problems, having an s
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by okanat 1y ago
It could be simply IMEI tracking. Turkey also has it. Without being registered in the country registry, the modem just stops getting answers from cell towers.
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by okanat 1y ago
Such things exist in GPU drivers, instead. Closed-source Nvidia ones probably have lots of it. Fixing the bad usage of graphics APIs in client binaries is the industry standard.
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by okanat 1y ago
It seems like the EU courts need to be involved in this case. Limiting internet to millions of people to make some people rich also flies too close to an human right violation in 2025 so maybe even ECHR can be involved.
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by okanat 1y ago
Do you behave internationally obtuse or do not really understand that "Linux" is often used for GNU/Linux systems and this is what meant by "Linux phone". What makes AOSP a better and more meaningful target for a tr
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by okanat 1y ago
Those programs and GNU userland are severely under-secured for a general purpose phone that has multiple privacy sensitive sensors. AOSP has better equivalents in all of performace, security and usability. It is Apache licensed. As I mentio
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by okanat 1y ago
MSVC is also proprietary. However LLVM is supported by Microsoft. The developer of Nonstop is apparently not doing that.
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by okanat 1y ago
AOSP is still the better OS. It is fully open source. It has a much better protection model. It is production ready and optimized. It has a working build system. It supports reliable updates. I find the idea of Linux phones pointless. Inste
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by okanat 1y ago
You have literally said this: > Windows cannot do custom dpi per monitor, only a single custom dpi that gets applied to all monitors. Here are all of my monitors at different DPIs: https://imgur.com/a/q3z2P1E . They
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by okanat 1y ago
Not uBlock Origin but Brave's own blocker is written in Rust and it is much more battery efficient than Firefox+uBO. It is equally powerful too (you can also add custom lists). Firefox is both slow and eats a lot of battery.
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by okanat 1y ago
My comment is more of an answer to this > You're gonna be dealing with issues involving "peaky" memory usage e.g. erroneously persistent references to objects I use Rust in a company in a team who made the C++ -> Rust s
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by okanat 1y ago
Nice thing about Rust is not that you cannot write such code, it is you know exactly where you used peaky memory or re-interpreted something as a unsigned integer or replaced your program stack with something else. All of such cases require
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by okanat 1y ago
This is quite the "I have never lived anywhere else other than North America" take. Rail and other public transport in pretty much everywhere in the world are designed to serve commute first, tourist stuff second or third. Public
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by okanat 1y ago
No. There is a totally local app called Everything. Thanks to Win32 API stability it will work "forever".
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by okanat 1y ago
> Windows cannot do custom dpi per monitor, only a single custom dpi that gets applied to all monitors. This is wrong. Windows supports per monitor DPI since Windows 8 and have an improved API since Windows 10. I find it the only good im
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by okanat 1y ago
UEFI doesn't help with hardware discovery. ACPI does. Commonly with non-PC systems the hardware addresses are hard-coded and they need to be known by the OS somehow. Device trees are that and there are nonofficial ways of exposing them
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by okanat 1y ago
Just leave DNS out, are there any POSIX standard async functionality for networking or even normal IO? All I know by reading some libraries is epoll or io_uring used on Linux, kevent on BSDs.
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by okanat 1y ago
If you are privileged and talented enough to make money purely out of free software, that's great! However in most cases that money ultimately comes from being able to sell proprietary software and software-enhanced services. Many empl
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by okanat 1y ago
People don't buy phones every year. People don't want to pay 95% price for 80% of performance / features. Smaller phones as an idea isn't the problem here. Companies just don't want to make equivalent smaller phones
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by okanat 1y ago
Things that we called "feature" phones nowadays and iPhone 3 worked alright with all sorts of people. Maybe phone manufacturers shouldn't opt for putting so much bullshit into the screens. Reading news, video calling people,
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by okanat 1y ago
The West can end the endless pain and legal hurdles to innovation by limiting the copyright. They can do it if there is will to open up the gates of information to everyone. The duration of 70 years after death of the author or 90 years for
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by okanat 1y ago
> Never worked for a company that sells something protected by copyright? I.e. never created software in exchange of money.
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by okanat 1y ago
The thing is: Where is the competition though? Considering that most IT departments don't want to spend an extra dime to do consumer-grade software engineering to do any extra integration there is no significant competition to Microsof
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by okanat 1y ago
> I like LibreOffice... but the people who think LibreOffice is even remotely a competitor to Office 365 have no clue what Office 365 does or why enterprises use it. I don't think it is even a good competitor if you're actually
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by okanat 1y ago
> Similar to Windows in a way, it wasn't the best at anything in particular, but had everything you needed, and could be made to do whatever with some effort with the benefit of integration into all of MS's enterprisey stuff by

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