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by pedroaraujo 3y ago
It might be worth to switch to GrapheneOS if you have Pixel phones: https://grapheneos.org/ It is a more serious project than LineageOS in the sense that they take security very seriously and they take their development mor
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by pedroaraujo 5y ago
Not to mention that they keep investing in things that people don't necessarily care about (like the crypto currency embedded in the app). It is kind of beyond me why people would submit to monthly donations to a company which only car
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by pedroaraujo 5y ago
I don't understand these kind of posts. Can't people just use a regular smartphone phone and _not_ install Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.?
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by pedroaraujo 5y ago
There was a point in time (10 to 15 years ago) in which HN was actually a good forum to check out, you could learn a lot from the discussions here. But then it grew massively. Nowadays, it is no better than classic Facebook comments or r&#x
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by pedroaraujo 5y ago
I don't know why people just keep comparing the core protocol to the client. They can both be developed independently, in fact, you don't even need to use the official client, there are many open source alternatives. If you think
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by pedroaraujo 5y ago
At this point, we are talking about a really high education of a certain language on a thread about a tool to help people going from zero to say basic sentences on another language. They are two different things. I mean, I am sure that ther
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by pedroaraujo 5y ago
A 16 month course of 6 to 7 hours per day with a lot of exercise and you didn't learn the language at all? I don't think Duolingo is a good solution but in your case you had all the opportunity to become fully fluent with that kin
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
Absolutely, there has been a dramatic shift in the type of people who visit HN in the past years. I used to think that Reddit was bad in this regard but to be honest it mostly affects the big subreddits, the niche and small ones still have
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
I know this is completely unrelated to the discussion but why is this not a blog post on their actual blog ( https://en.cdprojektred.com/news/ ) instead of a print screen of a bunch of text?
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
But this doesn't grant remote access to your system, and it's not like Microsoft will start shipping replacements of core packages over this repo.
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
This feels like a huge overreaction. "(...) every time an install of Raspberry Pi OS is updated it will ping a Microsoft server. Microsoft will know you're using Raspberry Pi OS/likely Raspberry Pi owner and your IP address.&
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
The upvoted answer didn't really answer the OP. I get that level 3 means that the device is able to detect physical tampering. But why would I need this if anyone can just plug the USB stick into any PC?
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
The amount of FUD that goes on HN related to hardware never ceases to amaze me. Sometimes I find myself double checking if I am really on HN and not on Facebook.
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
This is slightly disappointing, I was expecting it to be some kind of case for the the Compute Module (or at least for the RPi4. I don't know if it's unrealistic, but it would be nice to have some sort of upgrade or repair possibi
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
Not to mention it is terrible for searching.
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
Honestly, I wouldn't trust the numbers reported by the Portugal, in particular the reported number of daily COVID-19 deaths, I feel the numbers are being misreported. I have been closely following the progress of the situation in the c
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by pedroaraujo 6y ago
DDG results are okay until you need to look up something non computer science related, like results for your local country.
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by pedroaraujo 7y ago
Let me just leave this here before the headline-readers start to scrutinize a "phantom decision". - https://newsnowfinland.fi/politics/how-finlands-fake-four-da...
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by pedroaraujo 7y ago
I know that people will frown at this for being Chinese but I really recommend Seafile: - https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ It's pretty much an open-source version of Dropbox. It works incredibly well, you can
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by pedroaraujo 7y ago
I have the same problem, DDG seems to be sufficient but only for a niche of search results: mostly related to technology or technical searches or searches related to the US/websites in English. As soon as you try to search something no
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by pedroaraujo 7y ago
> This stated intention and rpi.org's actions are simply not isomorphic. If they want to make Raspberry Pi more open, firstly, why do they publish only abridged (read: fake) schematics? Why do people tend to dismiss the openness of
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by pedroaraujo 7y ago
Seafile is a wonderful Dropbox replacement: - https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ Open-source and all. :)
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
The Tesla batteries installed in South Australia are not used for keeping the city running just with solar, they are there to optimize the load and routing of energy through the entire region, to avoid outages when during sudden spikes of e
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
It's kind of ridiculous that Google is very active in shutting down legitimate apps like KDE Connect but paid clones of open source apps, or apps that promise to upgrade Android the version [1], are still happily up for download. [1]
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
Why are people so attached to XMPP? There was no entity preventing XMPP from thriving, if the community really wanted XMPP, we would have had XMPP everywhere. But honestly, as someone who ran and tried to use XMPP for many years, the entire
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
But hosting full games is a different story than hosting apps. Not to mention that Steam offers more features, such as cloud saves and an entire social network.
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
> There are significant costs associated with the app store, no? Part of the reason users gravitate towards the iPhone is because you can download high quality apps without malware, viruses, etc. That should be covered by the one time fe
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
A 30% cut is something that Spotify needs to pay to Apple for every user that subscribes to Spotify through Apple devices. This cost doesn't doesn't exist for PC users, for example. They probably could live with it but I can under
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
Well, Skype works quite well nowadays, it's one of the most reliable voice services I use and the best part, it doesn't need a binary, it works out-of-the-box through the webpage.
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by pedroaraujo 8y ago
1. Verilog requires semicolons almost everywhere. Can you point to a specific example? 2. Are we talking about Verilog or SystemVerilog? Verilog is not suitable for functional verification, people usually use SystemVerilog and methodologies

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