jsiepkes

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by jsiepkes 8d ago
They backtracked on "ManBearPig" (climate change) a long time ago.
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by jsiepkes 8d ago
But not everything needs to be directly exposed to the internet. Framework had their data leaked because their metabase instance was hacked with a zero-day. Why was it directly exposed to the Internet? Why not require the use of a VPN like
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by jsiepkes 14d ago
It's in the article; They sold gold in NYC and with that money bought gold in London.
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by jsiepkes 15d ago
There are apps I cannot install via the Play Store in GrapheneOS, only via Aurora store.
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by jsiepkes 15d ago
> fear-mongering is not helping your cause So we started with an OS (when Google still needed to gain market share and goodwill) which was opensource. Now Google is no longer developing Android source code in the open and decreasing the
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by jsiepkes 20d ago
Well, ask yourself: "Why am I on Hacker News?". You could just "as easy" use free / opensource alternatives like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.
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by jsiepkes 23d ago
> and yet America voted for him a second time. Well, a lot of them didn't vote for him. Roughly a third of eligible voters stayed home (actually the largest group) while Trump and Harris each got a bit under a third, with Trump narr
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by jsiepkes 25d ago
There is literally a "Black Mirror" episode about this kind of thing.
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by jsiepkes 28d ago
> Everything else is essentially all the work of Google and (to some extent) Samsung. There is plenty in Android which isn't the work of Google. For starters the Kotlin implementation and the Java implementation (OpenJDK).
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by jsiepkes 1mo ago
I assume we are talking about DHH here? You're giving him too much credit. He is not a founder of 37 signals.
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by jsiepkes 1mo ago
If an agent fires up NPM, takes a boatload of memory, is that memory released back to the OS after NPM shuts down in the VM?
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by jsiepkes 1mo ago
Same here. I use this utility to make it easier on Linux to run Claude in Podman: https://github.com/mismosmi/ai-pod
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by jsiepkes 1mo ago
Since this is about energy; Power companies don't pay taxes on gas and diesel used in power plants.
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
> so backwards compatibility is neccessary. True, but from a technical perspective "necessity" might be a bit of a strong term. For example as far as I know there aren't any Windows versions left that don't have suppo
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
As the parent comment explains, the US can't produce all the oil it needs, because it's refinery capacity isn't aligned with the type of oil it pumps from the ground.
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
Depends how you look at it. iOS is loosing ground to Android. They might just eventually lose.
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
Don't forget about the soldiers who died at Waterloo who were turned in to fertilizer [1]. [1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/were-the-bones-of-soldiers...
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
France and Germany have a pretty good track record for developing things they want. Nuclear technology (including a weapon), GPS alternative, Airbus (arguably better then Boeing now), etc. So your statement is kind of a weird one to make.
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
Maybe, maybe not. But there are apparently plenty people who want to participate in it. Which says something.
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
I think you are reading way too much in those things. I made the JEP 533 joke in this thread, and I am definitely not implying progress is slow, nor am I frustrated. I think it's a good thing the developers take their time to flesh out
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
Dear diary, the year is 2094, 10 years since society collapsed. The neighbors went scavenging for food and I haven't seen them in 4 days. I fear the worst. Meanwhile, JEP 533 – Structured Concurrency still hasn't been declared sta
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
If this is a local privilege escalation to root, why can't I find anything on https://www.openbsd.org/security.html ?
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
> A rooted phone can have a modified runtime/kernel that can inject code into whatever processes it sees fit, including Google Pay. Which can expose information being sent to and read from the TEE by the app. You seem to have now re
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
> You also have the EUs Payment Services Directive (so a law) which require strong customer authentication, rooted devices can also fail up here. Plain wrong. PSD3 does not apply to "digital wallets" [1] ("This Directive a
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
Ok, that's some good news. Still leaves the attestation API though. Which makes using a non-Google sanctioned device a non-viable option. Also don't forget that the source code for Android is now, since 2026, only released twice a
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
> But you can still install whatever you want over ADB... ...if you wait 24 hours. And also thanks to the new Google Play attestation API a lot of apps won't even work on alternative Android OS'es. But that's all needed in
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by jsiepkes 2mo ago
If you think this port is related to tour point; The source code for Command and Conquer generals (and other C&C games) was released a while back. This port uses that source code. So this port is not based on reverse engineering. The po
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by jsiepkes 3mo ago
At this point, for Europe, it might not be such a bad idea to make a deal with China and give them full access to ASML again. And maybe, just maybe, review Intel's access to ASML?
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by jsiepkes 3mo ago
UPDATE 25-06-2026: The Kia app started working again on GrapheneOS.
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by jsiepkes 3mo ago
> Some drugs are available online / locally through compounding pharmacies as transdermal creams that you apply to the inner surface of the cat's ear. > Can confirm, transdermal maropitant (cerenia) worked very well for my c

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