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by theclaw 7y ago
Apps use undocumented APIs to track which apps you’re using and prevent you from opening certain apps, Apple realises this is a potential security/privacy problem, so builds screentime into the OS so it can plug the security hole. What
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by theclaw 7y ago
You might be interested in the Dark Reader extension: https://darkreader.org/ It’s able to make pretty much any website dark themed.
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by theclaw 7y ago
I think the fact that it's audio recordings makes it seem more emotive and intimate than plain text. It's like when you're on the phone to some robot booking service and a real person takes over you're suddenly embarrass
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by theclaw 7y ago
I think the Echo may be worth more to Amazon than it is to the people who buy them for use as glorified kitchen timers because it allows them to build a social graph which is very useful, when combined with purchase histories, for targeting
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by theclaw 7y ago
The MIT license appears to be on their client-side SDK. They are accusing Otonomo of cloning their API, not their SDK.
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by theclaw 7y ago
It was profits. Airbus did effectively same thing with the A320 Neo in 2010, and it became the fastest selling commercial aircraft in history [0]. Boeing clearly was unhappy with that and needed to do something to compete. [0] https:/
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by theclaw 7y ago
I don't work in this field. Do you have to publish the findings from this analysis? Is it possible that no such analysis was done because the MCAS system had to be kept quiet?
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by theclaw 7y ago
The article states that MCAS was implemented "on the hush-hush," which makes me wonder if it could even be subject to the same level of quality control as other features of the software. It might have had to bypass some of the mor
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by theclaw 8y ago
Why did this vanish from the front page?
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by theclaw 8y ago
I thought wine is not an emulator:)
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by theclaw 8y ago
If I recall correctly this is exactly what .net’s ‘Distinct()’ LINQ extension method does.
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by theclaw 8y ago
If you're in more than one workspace it can take literally 5-10 seconds to transition between them while showing some BS motivational message.
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by theclaw 8y ago
Because new diagnostics mean new pilot training, meaning the new plane is not economical to buy when compared to the competition, meaning no plane at all. Those other Boeing jets required costly new training. Boeing were trying to build an
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by theclaw 8y ago
There also exists possibilities for far more danger. As you increase compute, you can run more code, and build more complicated interdependent components that are more difficult to test, especially for the sort of unexpected scenarios that
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by theclaw 8y ago
It's a moot point anyway - the could not change the UI beyond converting physical dials to virtual ones, because that would have required retraining which they wanted to avoid. Even if they could have changed the UI they still needed t
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by theclaw 8y ago
> It's definitely a failure in the development process, for the software that is supposed to work in some bigger time frame, and not only shortly. This is why I've recently started abstracting time/date calls in all my wor
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One Alternative to Centralised Electronic Identities [video](youtube.com)
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by theclaw 8y ago
I very much enjoyed this. Got to level 17 before I ran out of enthusiasm. Level 14 was a sly puzzle, had me stumped for some time.
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by theclaw 8y ago
As a driver and infrequent cyclist I’d say the reason cyclists are irritating is because they’re not as predictable as cars or motorcycles, and they’re also way more fragile. When one is around I have to keep one eye on them the whole time
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by theclaw 8y ago
Seems a reasonable assumption to me. If someone is waiting to let someone else pull into a sideroad shouldn’t you wait as well? It’s dangerous to overtake on the passenger side regardless of what vehicle you’re using. You should overtake on
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by theclaw 8y ago
I spent some time looking into this and found I was wrong - CRTC does generate linear addresses but the beeb (and possibly the CPC) translates them to the character-based screen format in hardware.
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by theclaw 8y ago
I think both machines must use a Motorola 6845 CRT controller, which is intended for character-based screens. It does not scan the video RAM sequentially, but in the way described by the GP, (all first char rows, then all second char rows,
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by theclaw 8y ago
They do ignore the hosts file, it’s true - but they don’t ignore windows built-in firewall. I used it to blacklist a bunch of hosts when I had wireshark open to diagnose an unrelated problem and noticed all my keystrokes in the start menu s
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by theclaw 8y ago
Why? You are now paying a higher rate than the big guys. 20% across the board would have been the right move, not this.
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by theclaw 8y ago
DarkReader is great if you just want want dark-mode. It automates what used to take me ages overriding CSS in Stylish. I’m fairly confident it’s not spyware.
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by theclaw 8y ago
The youtube video[1] of his defcon talk is super interesting -although some of his concerns about serving malicious scripts from bitsquatted domains are thankfully mitigated by widespread adoption of TLS. [1] http://www.youtube.c
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by theclaw 8y ago
An eight-colour code does not seem smart for printed codes where most printers use only four inks. A colour code using cyan, magenta, yellow, white and black might be more reliable (although yellow could easily be confused with white). The
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by theclaw 8y ago
Yep, seems mostly broken for me.
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by theclaw 8y ago
If a pub or cafe had microphones on all the tables and a proprietor who knew the intimate details of every conversation that ever happened there I don’t think it would have a lot of customers. I think you’re suggesting that the free speech
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by theclaw 8y ago
The algorithm found out that people are most engaged when they’re arguing with one another about provocative nonsense, and worked to create as much of it as possible.

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