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by AAAAaccountAAAA 2mo ago
Some higher-end 486 boards[1] were made with PCI slots, so retrofitting them with an USB controller shouldn't be difficult? You'll still need a boot floppy to actually boot from an USB drive, I think? 1. https://theretr
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 2mo ago
Even EU institutions use cookie banners. Also, if it was just malicious compliance, there would have been years of time to fix the regulations so that such shenaigans would not fly. I think the problem is that GDPR focuses on consent more t
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 2mo ago
https://dumbermini.com/pages/faqs > We will also regularly publish security updates for as long as AOSP 14 is supported by Google. That won't be for very long. We are at AOSP 17 now. It is sad that they design
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 3mo ago
I am getting somewhat confused about this. That website seems to be equating (semi-?)-reasonable measures with monstrosities such as banning or effectively banning e2ee.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 3mo ago
I don't think there are any particularly reputable brands of featurephones anymore. Nokia/HMD certainly isn't one: they have obnoxious bugs, they drop calls, and lack basic modern-day compatibility features like emoji in text
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 5mo ago
If that really is the case, why not stay on Windows?
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 7mo ago
The new "Terminal" app might eventually evolve into something like that.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 7mo ago
Why would F-Droid be any or more less "absolved of responsibility" than Play Store?
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 8mo ago
He's not a hacktivist at all, just a common extortionist.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 9mo ago
At least a while ago Element X broke bridging in a pretty annoying way, since all chats with more than 2 members were classified as groups, even if they were marked as DMs.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 9mo ago
I think it's the conventional unemployment benefit system that should show measurable benefits, not other way around. All the tracking, surveillance, reporting and interviewing costs money, and should not be done for the sake of it.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 9mo ago
Looks nice. Reminds me of MessagEase[1] and clones, such as ThumbKey[2]. I use the latter for my mobile text input needs. However, that method is sometimes prone to typos, since one key may have up to 9 different characters assigned to it,
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 10mo ago
I think it is precisely because they are more distracting. When the most addictive thing in phones was the snake game, kids did not bother to insist in using their phones all the time. Now, when you try to tell a pupil to put the phone away
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 10mo ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ULOptq2vk&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5t... They seem to plan to rewrite the desktop client next.
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What Is Going on with Telnyx?
1 points by AAAAaccountAAAA 10mo ago|1 comments
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 11mo ago
If that "disaster" was so "inevitable", it would have happened ages ago. It's not like it was somehow possible to accidentally sideload apps. You have to first find the correct option from the system settings to ena
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 11mo ago
What those "people-who-don't-understand-the-risks" will do then, with more money left? I think they will give their money to all sorts of political populists, who will cause danger not only to themselves, but everyone.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 11mo ago
One of my biggest grievances with typst is that it still does not natively support locale-aware decimal separator formatting[1], and thus requires various kludges to present decimal numbers properly in non-English languages. Not that LaTeX
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 11mo ago
Has a single website security incident ever brought an end to any software project, proprietary or otherwise?
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 11mo ago
It is an official flavor[1], that is, maintained as a community effort, but endorsed by Ubuntu. The related packages are hosted in Ubuntu's universe repository[2]. There is indeed a risk of reputation damage. 1. https://ubun
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 11mo ago
Even if Typst was going to replace TeX everywhere right now, about half a century would still be a respectable lifespan for a software project.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
I did use it some time ago, but I remember the user experience being somewhat confusing, since there are multiple similarly named tools around, which don't seem to be interoperable. Still, a cool concept.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
In addition to the issue of microchips being inherently difficult to tamper with, smartcards have various hardware and software based anti-tampering measures, that are designed to destroy the chip, if someone attempts to extract the keys fr
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
I primarily meant that I haven't really encountered the belief that it was somehow EU specific
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
I don't think those issues are necessarily interconnected. If I have understood it correctly, many Germans view both hateful propaganda and surveillance as tools of dictators. Surveillance of private communications obviously has a chil
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
It's definitely not an EU only thing. China, Russia and such have been doing this for years. There have been attempts to introduce it in US (EARN IT Act) as well, and the current regime there might very well end up doing that. Australi
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
All this word salad and smooth talk about the "middle ground" just worries me even more. We have been living in such an unusual period of peace, prosperity and freedom that the pampered, wealthy segment of the Western people is co
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
That was literally before the first production Android phone become available. Does not seem to be a particularly common occurance. Though due to the current world situation, supply chain attacks might admittedly become more common.
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
One can't rely on courts only to protect civil freedoms. If and when totalitarian measures become politically acceptable and desired, the politicians will simply amend the EU treaties and national constitutions to allow mass surveillan
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by AAAAaccountAAAA 1y ago
So far, they have implemented only cosmetic measures to address those issues, while seriously considering outrageous things like Chat Control.

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