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by tredre3 7d ago
The hardware capability that GrapheneOS loves to use as a shield to deny support for other devices is the ability to use custom AVB keys. Without custom keys you can't relock the bootloader after installing a custom OS on most phones.
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by tredre3 7d ago
> Stop letting Microsoft design protocols and APIs. Unfortunately nobody else stepped up to do it. I'm glad that the code editors out there didn't wait for your theoretical better designed protocol and decided to adopt LSP. Oth
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by tredre3 8d ago
3D printed metal is now as strong as machined metal, assuming an identical alloy. The process has been pretty well perfected. The strength loss comes from the fact that not all alloys are 3d-printing friendly, so you often have to compromis
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by tredre3 8d ago
> it will no longer be in control of Android Who will step up to maintain it? Keep in mind that it has to be somebody that every other OEM trust. In other words it would likely have to be an alliance of manufacturers. And they'd ine
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by tredre3 8d ago
I think tonymet meant he didn't understand why cloudflare didn't allow using ssh -R instead of cloudflared to create the tunnel, not not using a tunnel at all.
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by tredre3 8d ago
> None of your files are ever sent to any server. Files are sent only between peers. Snapdrop doesn't even use a database. If you are curious have a look at the Server. Even if Snapdrop was able to view the files being transfered, W
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by tredre3 9d ago
Indeed their product is an app that is little more than a webview that only shows one website, with optional value-add features. They handle publishing for the client, hence the hundreds. https://webtoapp.design/
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by tredre3 9d ago
They're still very much a thing on desktop. You're not wrong that Windows got better at protecting itself, but I suspect the reason you don't hear about them is just that few people use desktops anymore (other than developers
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by tredre3 10d ago
I've been wearing them all my life all over North America. Very few industries require metal-free footwear. Composite toes (since we're getting carried away with various terms, that's the actual term and fabrication method, w
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by tredre3 11d ago
> lololol. Obviously you don't know any Ukranians. Please take a step back and remember that your original claim was "a massive percentage of the population accessed the internet (via starlink)" That's demonstrably fa
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by tredre3 12d ago
> I hate it too, but the alternative is even more consolidation, so unfortunately this is just the reality right now and you’ll have to get over it until when/if things improve. No, the actual alternative is learning to do it yourse
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by tredre3 12d ago
You have to deposit $75,000 to the DMV and if you get in an accident where you're at fault you will also be on the hook for damages beyond that. You can also get a surety bond for that amount, instead of doing a cash deposit. It used t
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by tredre3 12d ago
I'm sure you take advantage of a lot of modern conveniences that you didn't have as a lad, and you would prefer to not give those up.
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by tredre3 12d ago
I (and too many others) have left voynich ninja because of it. I appreciate that AI is helpful, but the low effort from the humans that wield it is very very annoying. If people at least: 1. read the solution they're about to propose a
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by tredre3 12d ago
Your reply only makes sense if we see the baby as property. If we see the baby as a full human who died because of another human's negligence, then suddenly the scenario becomes a lot more complicated. Not life in prison complicated, b
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by tredre3 13d ago
BE FAST should be taught to everybody. Because for most people living alone, the odds of a wellness check being done fast enough to rescue you are slim to none. So it's important to go unlock the front door and call 911 whilst you stil
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by tredre3 13d ago
Zoom also works on all browsers. Clearly you had a hot take, people corrected you, and now you're doubling down by suggesting, of all things, a Google product.
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by tredre3 13d ago
Enough with the knee jerk reactions. They have to record in some cases. You don't have to like those features, but plenty of people want those features. - The television has voice control. - The television has a manually triggered spee
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by tredre3 14d ago
I agree with you that accusations need to be backed by proofs and the kneejerk reactions on HN are embarrassing to read and unhelpful. Big bad evil corp, every single time. I mean those reactions are all over social media, but I just expect
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by tredre3 16d ago
I don't know why you emphasize rogue and non-state actors. It seems equally likely to me that it would be done by America. America is the only country who deployed nukes (Japan) and chemical weapons (Vietnam) on massive scales. I can a
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by tredre3 16d ago
> Gitea is protected against both of these issues. Is Gitea's immunity just incidental because it was written by a different person, or is it due to a deliberate defensive system that prevents such bug/mistake from occurring?
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by tredre3 16d ago
What you say is all well and good, but the reality is that most gas appliances do not work without electricity. Your stove is about the only thing that can work on gas alone. The furnace, the water heater, the dryer, they all need electrici
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by tredre3 16d ago
> or you'd need some additional metadata in the directory entry to store how many files there are, requiring additional storage accesses for adding and removing files. Most unix filesystems use inodes. inodes have the same format wh
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by tredre3 16d ago
> Why isn't the game industry moving to it then? Bc it just cannot compete at volubility with C++, among other things. I have no opinion regarding rust suitability as a game language, but your answer doesn't sound right. The ac
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by tredre3 16d ago
The things that unsafe enables are arbitrary pointers, FFI, and accessing union members in a C struct. It seems highly unlikely to me that unsafe would fix any beginner's problem. .clone() on the other hand is indeed an easy/quick
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by tredre3 16d ago
> Car insurance companies have their problems, but pricing risk is not one of them. If pricing risk was an exact science, you'd get the same quote from all providers (given similar coverage). Yet if you try that, you'll find th
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by tredre3 16d ago
I took banning alcohol to mean lowering driving BAC to 0%, not banning alcohol society-wide. It would be a lot easier for drivers to have the following thought process: "I drank tonight, I can't drive home" rather than "
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by tredre3 16d ago
> something around 20% of the site is from the bay area, where that is a somewhat middling salary, so yes. What the hell, 500k after tax in california is likely close to a million before taxes. This isn't middling, even in the bay a
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by tredre3 16d ago
It's not really fair to compare a used phone price to a brand new one. The SE 3 sold for almost 500 when it was released. Is this foldable 4x better than your SE 3? Almost definitely, by every metric, except size if you're into sm
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by tredre3 16d ago
> Videos are also obviously better on the inner screen. How? Most foldables I've seen have an inner screen with a ratio so bad that the full screen video results in mostly black bars and the image is barely bigger than watching it o

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