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Wasn't he the one who famously said the iBook looked like a toilet seat?

LG webOS is not Android though, it's from the old Palm/HP devices of the early 2010s. And I'm pretty sure there are still tons of play store apps with these proxy SDKs in them, advertised/consented or not.

TIL 21 years is not enough time to notice confusing signs.

Two signs pointing at each other (I've seen way more of this but here is one example): https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSe-8IR...

In addition to signs pointing to each other, you also see several signs at once pointing to the same thing in opposite directions: https://skyticket.jp/guide/wp-content/uploads/pixta_46188735...

Or signs pointing the same direction for both East and West exits: https://basyauma.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IMG_5141-2-1...

and https://owl-eat-drink.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/tokyo/...

Same thing at Ikebukuro: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

There are many, many more examples of this.

Absolutely. People have already gotten in trouble with US immigration just for posting negative opinions on social media, or simply speech that the government doesn't like (see all the recent pro-Palestine protestors whose visas were cancelled). The state department/homeland/etc. can choose or not choose to let people in based on just about any criteria they want. If they find out I said something critical of the government, I could either be denied entry, or kicked out, and both have already been happening to people in the last year and a half.

Even if what they're doing isn't legal, that doesn't stop them from potentially ruining your life in the process, maybe even getting away with it.

I had no problems moving one tick at a time with my mouse wheel.

The signs are incredibly confusing and often will all point to each other from every direction.

For comparison, the best performing GPUs today can do FP32 at > 100 TFLOP/s

It is still the busiest train station in the world by far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_railway_statio...

pretty sure the state already has your information

Can we just have regular docker support microvm in addition to containers without the AI-related baggage?

I'd also really like an easy way to acquire the appropriate kernel(s), initrd and rootfs needed to bootstrap a microvm of whatever distro I'd like to try at the moment.

What happens when TURN is inevitably needed? Many people are behind something like CG or symmetrical NAT with no direct way to talk to each other.

There are no reliable, fast AND free TURN servers (IMO), and even semi-private relays can quickly become overwhelmed or too costly to operate.

Can you cast to a Roku device with this?

Another issue I've had with strict conformance in gcc/clang even with regular C is that it will always replace #include <stdint.h> with its own copy even when forcing a C standard that doesn't have it like C89, which also means it will try to use language features you don't (or shouldn't) have. And trying to include your own stdint.h under -std=c89 can fail as well due to it substituting the internal one, even if using -nostdinc or custom -isysroot/-isystem options.

GUID != GDID

Removing or rotating machine-id does not buy you any privacy against a malicious app.

It absolutely can if that's the only identifier an app is looking at.

You would think that people engaged in this type of activities would use throwaway devices running free operating systems and VMs, not personal devices logged into Snapchat and Facebook.

Well, the smart ones do that, which is why they don't make the news as they don't get caught.

Surely the sending of the GDID to MS can be blocked?

title is missing a (2020)

same for the windows GDID

https://github.com/gd03gd031/Windows-GDID-Changer

well documented and trivially rotatable

Yes, but almost nobody does that or complains about it at all, even though applications may have been silently phoning it home for many years now.

Linux has the same kind of identifier at /etc/machine-id... readable by default by basically any application on the system.

The article is misleading... the GDID is created even if you don't use a Microsoft account.

My flipper zero at least, does not have touch, and that was one of my requirements.

By programmable I mean "I can modify/flash my own firmware", which is also true for the flipper as it's all open source... and I had to do that anyway to fix their 14443B reader code to work for my application.

As for the ability to downvote comments, my understanding is that the only requirement is having at least 500 karma.

Similar discussion on the other site: https://lobste.rs/s/ktew3s/who_does_anubis_actually_stop#c_c...

Tor Browser straight up does not even modify navigator.platform at all, so it's incredibly easy to see when you're not using e.g. Windows.

For me the fact that it has NFC built-in makes it perfect for my usecase. I looked at the M5 and friends but having to add an extra add-on box with a cable was a nonstarter for me.

There can be other valid usecases than yours where the price is not an issue.

And surely you are aware of the challenges of supply+demand and the issue of using offshore labor... that means most products made ethically and at low volumes are inherently going to be expensive.

This has NFC built-in which is something I've been looking for for a long time, there are no other ready-made programmable devices on the market you can buy that have a screen, touch, NFC and a battery, that I know of, so it's perfect for me, and the price is not a concern.

Disagree, but regardless, both Theo and Linus have long, storied histories of prolonged habitual abuse without much remorse. Even after Linus "stepped back", it never really stopped after he came back.

We'll probably also disagree on what is abuse or not, but that's ok.

I wished more people would take issue with developers' bad attitudes.

I know this is an extremely unpopular take, but I refuse to use software where the main dev(s) are openly abusive to others. Sadly this includes the majority of open source operating systems and many other very popular applications... but it's my decision and you're welcome to disagree with me. I am not trying to prevent others from using said software, and I don't look down on them for it.

I think if everyone was always forced to separate the art from the artist, then boycotting wouldn't even be a thing, so there should probably be some kind of middle ground.

my program ran in eight kilobytes of memory

I suppose it depends on your perspective as to whether this is really a different world from today... I recently wrote the firmware for a USB NFC reader (in C) and it uses much less than 8KB of RAM, maybe half that. I know that's not a word processor, but people are in fact still coding within such tight restraints in $current_year.