pudgywalsh

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by pudgywalsh 23d ago
IMEI is needed to allow them to identify the device's capabilities, and know if it's been reported stolen.
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by pudgywalsh 23d ago
> surveillance state How do you suppose mobile phones are meant to work without subscriber info? > I haven't really gotten really into this Clearly.
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by pudgywalsh 24d ago
Allowing Silicon Valley dorks to redefine the established UIs of cars was one of the biggest mistakes of the last 10 years. Ultimately it's cost shaving, but it spread like a cancer to other manufacturers owing mostly to a TikTok-brain
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by pudgywalsh 24d ago
The key takeaway for me was he bought a $300 microphone and is acting indignant that he has full access to his own hardware via — gasp — a command shell. Do we live in a bizarro world now where we expect — no, demand — our hardware be locke
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by pudgywalsh 24d ago
> Should every Chinese and Indian visit Venice, even though it destroys the city little by little? Should we send things as futile as watermelons by plane Who are you to dictate where Chinese and Indians can and cannot visit or enjoy del
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by pudgywalsh 24d ago
> Is it not a bad thing to encourage poor people to continue doing the thing that has apparently made them poor? Right, we should tell the farmers to "learn to code"? Too bad you can't ask Claude to grow potatoes. Though i
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by pudgywalsh 25d ago
> Haven’t they actually done a relatively good job in this regard in many ways? No. Can't run current versions of any apps including Chrome, Edge, and Safari. Meanwhile the hardware is perfectly fine and could run a supported versio
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by pudgywalsh 25d ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers when they removed the Telnet client (and ntpd, and a half dozen other things) from the OS and didn't warn anyone.
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by pudgywalsh 26d ago
Yes, it's really bad, I see that scam ad constantly. Some even use celebrity deepfakes. Logged-out YouTube ads are 90% garbage like that. Consider yourself lucky you didn't get the outright pornographic ones for boner pills "
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by pudgywalsh 27d ago
Should have remained neutral
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Ask HN: Has Microsoft forgotten how to test software?
5 points by pudgywalsh 27d ago|4 comments
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State probes nonprofit We Heart Seattle over drug cleanup operations(thecentersquare.com)
2 points by pudgywalsh 27d ago|0 comments
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by pudgywalsh 27d ago
Reddit is NOT FINE. They throw up full page modals now telling you to continue in the app.
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by pudgywalsh 28d ago
> The "adults" came in and showed the kids how to make a grown-up operating system Oh please — it's easy when you have the luxury of starting from scratch with unlimited budget. DOS-based Windows had to both retain backwar
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Columbia House is shutting down after 71 years(nbclosangeles.com)
3 points by pudgywalsh 28d ago|0 comments
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by pudgywalsh 29d ago
I assume a similar article was penned in 1972 when Nixon visited China.
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by pudgywalsh 29d ago
For the amount of electricity wasted by the LLM in the data center it would have been more efficient to buy a new printer that works out of the box.
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Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?
6 points by pudgywalsh 29d ago|8 comments
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by pudgywalsh 29d ago
Apple solved this with a $1 internal flex-circuit vs a fist-sized external module.
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by pudgywalsh 29d ago
Everyone is familiar with Framework modules, Framework is a sacred cow on HN. It is a non-feature that results in a net loss of physical space for ports owing to their gargantuan size.
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by pudgywalsh 29d ago
> You've never moved your laptop without realizing it is still plugged in? No. This damage usually happens by tripping over the cord, which results in the laptop falling on the floor, so a USB-C port is the least of your worries. Th
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by pudgywalsh 29d ago
You mean the dongles? The actual USB-C port on a Framework is soldered to the motherboard. If you destroy the port electrically it is the same thing. If you are inserting/removing cables like a gorilla, then buy a 3" dongle (aka m
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by pudgywalsh 29d ago
> but does Dell allow you to change your laptop's mainboard for another mainboard with time Business laptops are swapped out every few years. Reusable chassis? Literally no one asked for this, it makes no sense outside of a very, ve
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Police Report 911 Service Number Is Non Operational(hawaiipolice.gov)
2 points by pudgywalsh 1mo ago|0 comments
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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Messaged White House Chief of Staff Impersonator(forbes.com)
2 points by pudgywalsh 1mo ago|0 comments
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by pudgywalsh 1mo ago
> chatgpt is confused too Stop talking to a computer and go see an ophthalmologist. You need an eye exam and tests.
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by pudgywalsh 1mo ago
You left out the part about how you use them as a reverse proxy, which is decoupled from DNS. One is coincidental; the other required. If they can inject script, they can also snoop on all your cleartext traffic without you knowing....
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by pudgywalsh 1mo ago
Start with the first complaint, the Senate seats being fixed, which blatantly ignores: 1. This was done intentionally, with great care, by people far smarter than a ragebait post on HN 2. There are two houses of Congress (the second of whic
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by pudgywalsh 1mo ago
I don't think you understand anything about how the American government works.
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by pudgywalsh 1mo ago
It's easy to build railroads when you have no safety rules or oversight and can force the Uyghurs to build the parts in slave camps.

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