hamburglar

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by hamburglar 3d ago
I think the long term solution to the privacy problem is going to be to switch to a vehicle marking system which can only be usefully used by law enforcement. Example, if instead of license plates you had a transponder that sends out encryp
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by hamburglar 5d ago
This is exactly why my reaction to this was “who has one box of cables? Doesn’t everyone have an array of 18 stackable bins of cables sorted by function and vaguely grouped by vintage?” Don’t ever let anyone take away your wildly overe
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by hamburglar 10d ago
> Hey HN! I wanted to see how far you can push modern JavaScript Proxies without all the heavy overhead of a traditional framework. The result is Mador: a tiny ~80-line reactive state tuple ([r, w]) that lets you make any DOM element rea
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by hamburglar 20d ago
I’d have a lot more sympathy for Twitter’s position wrt profit had they not explicitly told advertisers to go fuck themselves.
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by hamburglar 23d ago
Well I certainly hope. I have my suspicions that if you pre-wiped your key but left the data “intact” but unusable, you open yourself to the law declaring that as somehow withholding evidence. Actually wiping the entire phone and restoring
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by hamburglar 25d ago
Not a fair comparison at all. If you know your backup failed you can simply try again.
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by hamburglar 25d ago
That's not the scenario I'm talking about at all. I'm considering entering the duress code before you approach the border and before the border guard gets anywhere near it, on the assumption that you have a byte perfect
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by hamburglar 25d ago
One can’t help but wonder if a motivated DOJ could twist a “destruction of the evidence” charge out of someone dumping a kilo of cocaine just before traveling to the US.
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by hamburglar 25d ago
> Well, once you have been told to unlock the device, you're already in a legally binding process In none of my scenarios am I describing actions to be taken after you have been told to unlock the phone. I’m talking about before yo
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by hamburglar 26d ago
The interesting thing is that the "don't carry the data" scenario of wiping your phone and restoring it after you're across the border is not functionally different from the "just don't carry the keys across th
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by hamburglar 26d ago
I like the idea of a phone that automatically wipes itself if I don’t act to stop it. I wonder about the legality of that if the duress code is considered “destroying evidence.”
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
If all you want to do is host repositories, “just” is the appropriate word here. For lone wolf work, all I care about is having a remote that mirrors all the changes and branches I create locally. It’s just redundancy. A git bare repo and
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
Perhaps if you are prone to conspiracy thinking you should not be tracking your downvotes down to the minute.
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
> Never had a case where suddenly within a minute you get 4, 5 downvotes? Well, no, I never have, but if I did, my first reaction would be to think I struck a nerve and had a bunch of people react, not that there was a conspiracy.
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
People wanted them because mobile web sites sucked, and because it was difficult to build a decent mobile UX using early mobile web tech. That’s not true anymore but people still reach for apps by reflex even though it makes absolutely no
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
I sincerely hope not. That would not have the intended effect on me: I’d stop using bluesky. I’m just not that addicted to it.
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
I notice that the stat the article repeatedly quotes is MAU for usage of the mobile app, but one of the things I love about Bluesky is that you don’t need to use a mobile app to have a good UX. I use the mobile browser to access it, so I’m
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
The Lightning port is also incredibly physically robust. You can use it as a phone stand without worrying about damaging it. You can’t say that about USB-C.
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
I think I need to build “Hacker News Except All Arguments About Whether Or Not Something Is AI-Written Are Filtered Out”
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
This looks incredible but I’m skeptical you can actually produce it for $250 and maintain the level of quality and features that you claim. And it appears you’re offering $100 off of that (or is that the post discount price? It’s hard to t
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
I’m still trying to beat my dad at ping pong. He’s 75.
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by hamburglar 1mo ago
Even on fedramp high, it’s possible to just be mistaken about configurations and still pass. I have been in the situation where I’m the guy answering all sorts of questions to the best of my ability to get the certification, then later disc
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
I guess that makes introspection unlikely.
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
I would suggest you revisit this in a day or two and reevaluate whether your knee-jerk blaming of rust was appropriate here, then ask yourself what biases led you to do that.
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
To be frank, no. In order to make windows not suck, you must invest a lot of time into knowing what to disable on the various SKUs, and in my opinion, it stopped being worth it around the time of windows vista (2006-7ish). I worked for Mi
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
What are you trying to achieve with this comment? Does everything need to turn into a sniping contest about whether or not something is ai-produced? This is the world we live in now.
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
Dude. 80’s kids think of FAT32 as that new filesystem that supports more than 8.3.
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
I started my kid at 12 with an extremely locked down iPhone. She fights the restrictions at every turn and I have to make sure that she understands that finding loopholes is fun but also if I catch her violating the spirit of the restrictio
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
That seems like an odd distinction if it's clearly portraying a Cray. It's not like we have any proof that e.g. the Commodore 64 used in Mr. Robot was the real deal.
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by hamburglar 2mo ago
No Cray appearances? Surprising.

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