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by shawnz 1y ago
Would Wireguard function in this pre-unlock environment?
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by shawnz 1y ago
Perhaps this technique could be defeated by scrolling the background in the opposite direction as the text
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by shawnz 1y ago
Postgres always stores date/time values in UTC (if they are timezone-aware)
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by shawnz 1y ago
If you are looking for a vertical mouse with USB-C charging, a high-DPI sensor, robust switches, high polling rate, etc., consider this mouse that recently launched on Kickstarter: https://www.hansker.design/ I got one rece
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by shawnz 1y ago
You might already know this, but the busy beaver function grows faster than any computable function. So although the best known lower bound of BB(6) can be expressed with just pentation, generally speaking the BB function is certainly beyon
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by shawnz 1y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44406171
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by shawnz 1y ago
Android 16 will have this (at least for a single external display): https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...
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by shawnz 1y ago
What's the threshold by which a phone isn't considered reliable enough to make emergency calls? I've never personally had an emergency call fail on a Pixel device, and I don't know the broader statistics of how often the
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by shawnz 1y ago
That's nothing specific to LLM-enhanced search features though, right? Any search feature will have that side channel risk
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by shawnz 1y ago
> But the types and structures of electric car and mobile phone batteries are not the same. Car batteries are designed to last far longer. What prevents the same advancements from being applied to phone batteries?
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by shawnz 1y ago
Regarding point 9, there is an audio device switcher in the pop-up panel you get when you click the speaker icon
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by shawnz 1y ago
What makes you say that? I can think of several examples of those kinds of situations in society at large, like climate change for example.
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by shawnz 1y ago
> Empathy biases reasoning toward in-group cohesion, overriding dispassionate reasoning that could threaten group unity. Because that provides better outcomes for everyone in a prisoner's dilemma style scenario
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by shawnz 1y ago
Interesting, thanks for the correction.
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by shawnz 1y ago
Ad blockers on Safari effectively have the same weaknesses as ad blockers on Chrome now have since the deprecation of the blocking webRequest API (which Safari never supported). See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock&#x2
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by shawnz 1y ago
You might be right that this isn't a particularly good example, but I'm not convinced that finding this to be inappropriate is an opinion that's just limited to technologists. I would be interested to see the reader comments
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by shawnz 1y ago
And if social media users in general broadly disagree with you about that (which seems to be the case, given the confusion), who's to say who is right about this totally subjective standard by which we judge appropriateness? Isn't
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by shawnz 1y ago
I think you're still answering a different question than I'm asking. We certainly agree that social media and in-person conversations in public spaces have the same expectation of privacy, but that's not the point I'm ge
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by shawnz 1y ago
Sure, but my question isn't whether you can expect perfect privacy in a public place or not. Obviously you can not, but we live in a trust-based society. My question is whether you think it is socially acceptable to abuse that trust. I
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by shawnz 1y ago
If you talk to your friends in person in a public space, would you be comfortable with restauranteurs stealthily following you around and analyzing your conversations? Why is social media any different? There are clearly different degrees t
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by shawnz 1y ago
Wouldn't that be a drugstore? That's not exactly the same thing as a convenience store
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by shawnz 1y ago
Is 12 vacuums abstract?
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by shawnz 1y ago
Sure, but consider the costs of consuming your space with junk. Now you have less room for things you care about, there's a maintenance burden, and there's a mental burden as well
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by shawnz 1y ago
The Phintage Collector also recently did some videos on Sun Ray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_TktVOrtQ
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by shawnz 1y ago
See this recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971620 And less recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20318947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13732598
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by shawnz 1y ago
WSL1 didn't use the existing support for personalities in NT
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by shawnz 1y ago
Android supports third party dialer apps and the article notes that this is one way you can overcome the problem (but they didn't want to take that route because entirely replacing the dialer is out of scope for their app)
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by shawnz 1y ago
It seems totally reasonable to me that arbitrary apps can't insert sounds into my call audio, am I wrong here? And this app is most certainly an accessibility app so it makes sense that it would have to take advantage of the accessibil
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by shawnz 1y ago
No problem, thank you for reading it. I'm not sure I have much else constructive to add beyond that. Thank you for your work on this and good luck.
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by shawnz 1y ago
I totally agree and I beg you to consider this feedback if you are reading @pamelafox. The biggest problem with the usability of Microsoft products today is short-sighted thinking. New features, platforms, frameworks etc are launched and th

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