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by pta2002 11mo ago
The location access is often needed for the app to be able to find the WiFi networks in the neighborhood. This is because that can be used to triangulate your location, so they bundle it in with the same permission (unfortunately, there isn
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by pta2002 11mo ago
The alternatives are all closed-source protocols. A ton of things are backed by Google. It doesn't mean that they have anything to do with it other than them being consulted in its design and providing some official support. And consid
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by pta2002 11mo ago
Thanks, I didn't know that this worked! I guess this is more of an informal standard that they ended up following Philips' lead on, but still, better to have this kind of thing be officially defined.
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by pta2002 11mo ago
I found the whole site a very interesting (and fairly quick) read. I don't really have anything else to add, but I'm glad the owner manages to be honest and take good lessons from the whole thing. It's interesting to me how f
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by pta2002 11mo ago
While you could do that, the hub needed to implement the logic to actually convert the different "APIs" that the products spoke. E.g. imagine an IKEA remote sends "button_on" to turn on the light, but the Philips remotes
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by pta2002 11mo ago
I guess because to most consumers, it doesn't actually matter. It uses matter and connects to a matter hub, the way it does it is an implementation detail unless you're making your own hub with homeassistant or something. Even iPh
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by pta2002 11mo ago
It’s a newer standard backed by multiple vendors (importantly, Apple, Google and Amazon, who make the devices that you ultimately want to use to control these things). Zigbee is great for communication instead of WiFi, but it’s just one par
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by pta2002 11mo ago
I learned to code by modding Minecraft, starting at ~1.6 a few years before the Microsoft acquisition. It was definitely already obfuscated by then, the Microsoft acquisition had nothing to do with it. If anything, looking back all the year
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by pta2002 1y ago
WatchOS is hardly embedded though. An Apple Watch is basically a small iPhone tied to your wrist in terms of architecture. That’s got a whole lot more in common with a full desktop computer than it does with a microcontrollers, where they o
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by pta2002 1y ago
You can also get all of that in a single node, which makes for a fairly beefy build server :)
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by pta2002 1y ago
In Portugal, our version can use the smartphone app, an (open source) desktop app that supports reading your ID with a smart card reader, and you can also get the codes via SMS. The smartphone app is purely a convenience if you don’t have y
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by pta2002 1y ago
I think it also matters for them, since they sell a ton of Apple Care+ subscriptions. That wouldn't be profitable if it was a PITA to replace the battery or the screen, so this ends up being a win-win.
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by pta2002 1y ago
Ripping the HDMI stream (which is usually still breaking DRM!) is going to force you to reencode the video which will inevitably lose quality. You might also end up with UI elements on the screen and won’t be able to get subtitles out.
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by pta2002 1y ago
This is completely bullshit. If you find a proper download, you’ll usually see something like “NFLX.WEB-DL” on the file name. That means it got ripped and downloaded from Netflix. The DRM decryption isn’t the hard bit - it’s actually mostl
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by pta2002 1y ago
Go to literally any private tracker and you’ll find that the vast, vast majority of pirates just do it for free, mostly because they like doing it. And I guarantee you’ll be able to find basically everything, including TV shows, and if you
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by pta2002 1y ago
I mean, old photoshop versions (CS3?) also used multiple windows, so if I were to take a guess that’s where Gimp got it from.
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by pta2002 1y ago
You can basically implement this right now already by using a systemd generator. It’s not even a particularly bad idea, kinda want to try doing it to hook it up to nginx or something, would make adding a reverse proxy route as simple as ad
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by pta2002 1y ago
Why would it be? Genuine question here, is there some specific legislation in India about satellite connectivity?
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by pta2002 1y ago
RTP (public TV network, which also produced Gloria and Turn of the Tide, the two Portuguese Netflix shows) is unfortunately the only network investing in this type of fiction television. The other two big networks unfortunately only seem to
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by pta2002 1y ago
I think you can get something a lot cheaper if that’s all you want, e.g. something in the Jetson Orin line. That’s more similar to the switch, also, since it’s a Tegra CPU.
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by pta2002 1y ago
This is weird to me because I so much prefer Firefox's per-tab containers to having to use separate windows for profiles. I wish chrome had something like it.
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by pta2002 1y ago
From my personal experience, mostly just in the car. Here in Portugal there was a rather well-timed rail strike today, so a lot of people who would've taken the train drove instead and had a way to get back and listen to the radio. Fro
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by pta2002 1y ago
Portugal has mandatory electronic receipts. By this I don't mean email receipts, I mean that all receipts have a code on them that is then also available to be looked up on the government's side (e-Fatura is the app for this) for
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by pta2002 2y ago
I've been trying for a few minutes to figure out what you mean by "it's in the name"... What about Internet Protocol implies that ports are not an inherent property of it? All I can think of is that an "IP address&q
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by pta2002 2y ago
A locale is a combination of several things, including a language, but not only. E.g. I'm from portugal. I'm visiting an american site, which does not have professional portuguese translations, but does have auto-generated ones. I
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by pta2002 2y ago
> none of the carriers here in Europe that do prepay offer eSIM anyway. Not true, e.g. in Portugal: https://www.nos.pt/movel/esim (though you need to go to a store to pick-up the QR code, I think to avoid people fro
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by pta2002 2y ago
This is like the fifth article I've read about the McDonald's app not having any sort of server-side validation. How do they keep getting this wrong???
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by pta2002 2y ago
If you go to https://1.1.1.1 it redirects you to https://one.one.one.one , I think that's what the author meant.
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by pta2002 2y ago
And that's fine, because you've _already crossed the line_ and therefore you can (and should) go through. You're no longer running a red light at this point, since it's behind you, you're just crossing the intersect
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by pta2002 2y ago
There's usually two - one suspended above the stop line, and one lower, on a pole on the side of the road, usually around eye level. This way both the driver in the front and drivers in the back get a clear view. This is not a hypothet

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