impure-aqua

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by impure-aqua 1mo ago
GrapheneOS already ships Seedvault, which extracts application data with no root at all, so what you describe is possible in at least some form, but I assume not with the ergonomics you want. Providing a good interface for that access is a
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by impure-aqua 1mo ago
The source code is right here, make your hardware follow whatever rules you wish with your derivative of it: https://grapheneos.org/source
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by impure-aqua 1mo ago
Software freedom is about freedom of choice, not philosophically mandated security holes. You are free to take the GrapheneOS code and introduce a huge vulnerability in the form of a privilege escalation path from sandboxed apps if you wish
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by impure-aqua 2mo ago
It may not record your ethnicity or religion, but ID documents certainly record your sex, and plenty of authoritarians seem interested in identifying individuals for whom this database column has been updated.
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by impure-aqua 2mo ago
Commoditizarion is a process, not a binary state. If I run an oil refinery, my fractional distillation system needs to be reworked depending on the exact mixture of crude I'm taking as input. So there are still switching costs even in
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by impure-aqua 2mo ago
> of course everyone, it's definitely the 200MB usage surplus that makes your phone feel heavy. It actually is though? My Pixel 9a has a perfectly serviceable CPU but I am often frustrated by its 8GB of RAM. Switching to the Revolut
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by impure-aqua 3mo ago
> Do most kids have the ability and motivation to build their own machines? I and pretty much everyone else in my childhood TeamSpeak server did at roughly 14 years of age.
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by impure-aqua 7mo ago
I don't know if that tracks, senior leadership was heavily influenced towards implementing the one child policy by the works of Song Jian, who came from a rocketry background and presented a model whereby the population would grow to a
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by impure-aqua 8mo ago
WhatsApp performs dynamic code loading from memory, GrapheneOS detects it when you open the app, and blocking this causes the app to crash during startup. So we know that static analysis of the APK is not giving us the whole picture of what
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by impure-aqua 8mo ago
On my Pixel 9a (also on GrapheneOS) the biggest limitation is it can't be set to higher than 1080p, and the upscaling algorithm with my 4K display (not sure where in the chain that happens, monitor or phone) was quite terrible to the p
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by impure-aqua 8mo ago
That is true of press, weld, and paint stages, which gives you a chassis and nothing else. It is absolutely not lights out for "final assembly" which despite the name is how massive amounts of the car comes together. Robots are gr
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by impure-aqua 9mo ago
I also am a programmer, and I care about all of these things on my laptop. I used my trackpad to click reply on this webpage, that's not a rare thing! If you ever have a meeting where multiple people huddle around a laptop, that uses s
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by impure-aqua 9mo ago
There are all sorts of other things that don't show up on a spec sheet so easily that Framework isn't competitive on. It has a diving board trackpad, significantly worse speakers, no zonal dimming on the display (comparing to MacB
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by impure-aqua 9mo ago
Requiring me to upload my ID to invoke ssh with the -D flag should certainly be a top legislative priority of the United Kingdom
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by impure-aqua 10mo ago
This is not really anything new, back in AIM and SMS messaging days, people would type "wuu2" or "whats up" to a friend, but to express the same idea in an email, you would probably be sending some variant of "What
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by impure-aqua 10mo ago
When I drive cars with old headlights, they are clearly inferior to the point of feeling nearly dangerous in some situations. I would also not call modern lights less reliable, although I am sure it is more expensive to repair modern lighti
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by impure-aqua 10mo ago
I feel like this problem is better in the UK than in North America. For starters, there is higher market penetration for better headlight technology, particularly ADB (adaptive driving beam). North American road safety regulations have made
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by impure-aqua 11mo ago
There are all manner of health conditions that can occur that have little to do with your own healthy living, and don't incapacitate you or make life not worth living, but will cripple you financially. You might end up with Crohn'
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by impure-aqua 11mo ago
The walled gardens got a lot more appealing. When we moved to Canada from the UK in 2010 there was no real way to access BBC content in a timely manner. My dad learned how to use a VPN and Handbrake to rip BBC iPlayer content and encode it
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
I don't see what advantage any company gets from choosing to build products that enable personal data ownership. I say this as someone working on a venture with these sorts of design aims, it feels like pushing a boulder uphill often.
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
I don't think Framework will be able to compete on efficiency with their design philosophy. The NVMe disk is swappable, which means it has its own controller which manages power management itself. I did my research to pick an efficient
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
The case is part of the utilitarianism. I need to attach my phone to a bike mount. I use a Peak Design case that has a locking attachment point in the centre to securely fasten the phone onto the handlebars. I would gladly ditch the case if
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
We could potentially see one-time-purchase model checkpoints, where users pay to get a particular version for offline use, and future development is gated behind paying again- but certainly the issue of “some level of AI is good enough for
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
In the UK it has become very common to need to scan a QR code on your table to order at a restaurant, which takes you to a website. Most certainly you can still order at the bar the old fashioned way, but since COVID, physical menus have be
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
Unless you need the GPIO pins it is likely a better choice to go with one of the many x86 mini PCs on Amazon, although you need to ensure it is not totally no-name. I got a GMKtec G5 which is about ~3"x3"x2", has an Intel N
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
I do not think determinism of behaviour is the only thing that matters for evaluating the value of an abstraction - exposure to the output is also a consideration. The behaviour of the = operator in Python is certainly deterministic and wel
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
I find Orion has similar power efficiency but avoids those papercuts: https://kagi.com/orion/
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
Of the prescription options, estradiol is probably the most common and easily available, between hormonal birth control and HRT. It is also likely the most easy to study, as we have 60-70 years of usage that is not correlated with prevalenc
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
Vyvanse is biochemically rate-limited rather than mechanically, so it is ideal for this; there is not really an alteration to the absorption properties no matter what you do.
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by impure-aqua 1y ago
Documentation on features your SQL dialect supports and key requirements for your query are very important for incentivizing it to generate the output you want. As a recent example, I am working on a Rust app with integrated DuckDB, and ask

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