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by pbasista 2y ago
If that is the case, then there seems to be a place in the market for someone else who can sell these devices for cheaper. However, as you have pointed out, since it is also a market where people have few choices, there is no incentive for
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by pbasista 2y ago
I am unsure if the analogy you have offered is relevant here. The major difference is that the ISPs in this particular case do not need to offer any support apart from listing standardized protocols which are supported. If someone brings in
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by pbasista 2y ago
> If customers bring their own stuff then you're stuck Why? There is nothing preventing an ISP from saying that from date X, only protocols A, B and C are supported. If you want to use your own device, make sure it supports these pr
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by pbasista 2y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I did not read the post in detail but I was wondering how could a monitoring library cause the entire application to go down. At worst, I thought, it should have failed to process the monitoring events, assu
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by pbasista 2y ago
Why the asymmetry? And what do you have in mind when you refer to "two-step sign up"?
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by pbasista 2y ago
But then, if what you say is true and their software is indeed mandatory in some context, they also have no incentive or motivation to care about the quality of their product, about it bringing actual value or even about it being reliable.
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by pbasista 3y ago
Why would you think that? If I enable some personal assistant at some point in time, I absolutely do expect it to start with no memory.
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by pbasista 3y ago
> huge benefits to the employee in terms of separation of work time and personal time While I agree that separate work and personal computers might help in this regard, in my opinion it only helps a little. I believe that behavior relate
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by pbasista 3y ago
I believe that Tesla does not need ships to transport Tesla Model Ys from Giga Berlin to Sweden. They can use railroad. Or trucks.
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by pbasista 3y ago
> calling it open source when it is not At first please define "open source". 1. Do you use this term as an alias for "The Open Source Definition" [0] as presented by the Open Source Initiative? In such case, the Gray
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by pbasista 3y ago
I would assume that network traffic and server costs are negligible to Google. In my opinion, what they are looking for is not to cut down the costs but to increase the revenue. Either by more people watching ads or by more people using the
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by pbasista 3y ago
I am looking for a job in some creative industry which ideally has a positive impact on the society. Not interested in adtech, fintech or cryptotech, I am sorry. Location: Slovakia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technol
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by pbasista 3y ago
Hi, I am currently looking for a job in some creative industry which has a positive impact on the society. Not interested in adtech, fintech or cryptotech, I am sorry. Location: Slovakia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly T
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by pbasista 3y ago
> No one uses latex anymore That is a very broad statement. Do you have any data to back it up? Do you suggest that it was used in the past but that has changed? If so, why?
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by pbasista 3y ago
It seems to me that some people have no regard for the law, the ethics, the morals, etc.. If it benefits them to break it, they will do it, as long as they know they will face no or minimal consequences if caught. They would even feel good
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by pbasista 3y ago
> Just noopener, which is of course included on every link. I can see no `rel` attribute on other submitted links. Are you perhaps using some privacy-enhancing browser extension which adds the `rel=noopener` attribute to every link?
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by pbasista 3y ago
"rel" is an attribute of several HTML tags, including the anchor tag <a> [0]. It is not something that would be visible in the URL. The presence of this attribute instructs the client to not send the HTTP header "Refe
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by pbasista 3y ago
I also appreciate the detail in which the Asahi team presents the progress they have made. I do not follow Apple's release notes so I cannot compare.
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by pbasista 3y ago
Do you have some references supporting that claim? If unlocking the bootloader on e.g. Pixel phones sold by Verizon would be as simple as asking Verizon to do it, I do not understand why there would be multiple long threads on XDA developer
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by pbasista 3y ago
> They are still letting you use the software you choose. At the moment, yes. My point was primarily about the fact that giving the customer an option to use Android software of their choice on recent Pixel phones is currently fully up
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by pbasista 3y ago
I think that it is something anyone can do, provided that they know how. I would assume that it is as simple as putting the phone into some kind of low-level programming mode, perhaps EDL or similar, and overwriting a few bytes of data. T
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by pbasista 3y ago
I am unaware of any current law that would require devices which can run software to be able to run arbitrary software. That being said, Google's Pixel phones have widely been known for their ability to unlock the bootloader and instal
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by pbasista 3y ago
> connect the device to the Internet before they are allowed to install the operating system they want Phoning home before undertaking such an activity takes away the ownership rights from the customers. They do not actually own these de
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by pbasista 3y ago
> breach the warranty when you unlock the bootloader Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act in the USA, activities such as unlocking the bootloader, launching a service menu, removing a sticker or opening a case cannot by themselves void a
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by pbasista 4y ago
> The fiasco of id3 Could you explain what specifically you refer to?
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by pbasista 4y ago
> there wont even be a vetted application I do not understand your reasoning. Any app store or in general any source from where an application could be installed implicitly provides a trust model. Whether it is Google's Play Store,
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by pbasista 4y ago
> "giving the option" is as good as forcing the users From what perspective? > third party devs ... will, given the option, force users to install unvetted apps It is up to the users to allow e.g. Facebook application to ins
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by pbasista 4y ago
> The restrictions are a feature and not a bug. The point of open OS is not to force its users to use unvetted apps. It is to give them an option to do so. The argument that someone might want to use a restricted OS because they want t
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by pbasista 4y ago
> Tbh this is totally reasonable. From whose point of view? > You can't have an alternative client which is ad free competing with your own service That consideration is irrelevant for the end user. It is up to Twitter to design
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by pbasista 4y ago
> ad blocking is unethical It is as ethical as: 1. politely declining a marketing leaflet 2. switching to a different TV channel when there is a commercial 3. looking away from the newspaper ads or roadside billboards etc.

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