xethos

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by xethos 4d ago
I get your point, and adore my Fiero, but most software updates to cellphones are required because they're networked. Cars don't have to be, nor (IMO) should be internet-connected. So if the CPU in the infotainment system was suff
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by xethos 4d ago
I haven't seen it spelled out, either here or in TFA: Is uBlock Origin, and thus Firefox, required? Or is uBlock Origin Lite, and therefore a Chromium-based browser, sufficient? Which one blocked the homebrew attack you mentioned? Beca
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by xethos 4d ago
"Everything" would include the microphone, both in the remote and the TV. They're claiming to split off the audio, with one path going to the speakers (and there to your ears), and the other path being hashed (and from there
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by xethos 7d ago
12 years, not 15, but there are currently BlackBerry Classic shipping with modern internals. I love mine, though I've flashed LineageOS for Android 16 https://zinwa.com/
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by xethos 9d ago
> But those consequences will have been arrived at honestly The problem with that is that Republican voters will not be the first, and certainly not the only, people to experience those consequences. Nor will they be the ones to suffer t
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by xethos 12d ago
I mean, flipping back and forth between Mollweide and Equal-Earth (what they went with), I see only minor differences, with distortion seemingly favouring Equal-Earth. What's the rationale for having such a strong preference, especiall
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by xethos 14d ago
Most tech companies didn't end up in a public relations fight with the FBI to defend the rights of a domestic terrorist. To do so was the right thing, as it meant standing up for everyone ; giving up on the rights of the unpopular mea
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by xethos 21d ago
Outside America, profit does not push every other motivation to the bottom of the pool to drown Though for the more terminally American founders here: reception filling in intake forms and charging one-time admission and diagnostic fees f
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by xethos 25d ago
Yes, you've made the right call trusting Apple with this, the company with famously-good backwards-compatibility and long-lived support for third-party software /s
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by xethos 1mo ago
I'd expect it to be cross-pollination from Instagram being tied to Threads
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by xethos 1mo ago
The courts, eventually-probably. What this does to the business environment and future endeavours regarding clean energy, however, is an exercise left to the reader
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by xethos 1mo ago
In this context? Being able to put your foot down and say fuck Google, I will no longer put up with the anti-user direction of their platform, and switch to something outside the duopoly
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by xethos 1mo ago
This actually depends on who has better SEO. Some scam numbers place higher than the help pages for actual businesses. Receiving physical bills and calling the number on the back of your credit or debit card are good suggestions. Or, as ano
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by xethos 1mo ago
I agree, but I'd also challenge you to find a cellphone that a normal person carries that doesn't just concatonate multiple messages and turn them into MMS. My Pinephone and Librem 5 did that, but that reinforces my point: this is
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by xethos 1mo ago
> API has absolutely no switching costs. Were that true, many embedded maps would have switched to OSM instead of Google Maps after Google massively increased costs. Adding your business to OSM is free, and API costs would fall pretty dr
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by xethos 2mo ago
Minor note, you forgot battery life. Pinging your location every other minute for traffic and crowd denisty for Google Maps, even using AGPS, isn't cheap. When you find battery life randomly tanks for a few days, despite not changing a
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by xethos 2mo ago
The phone app misses lots of data the car can collent and send. When, how frequently, and how long turn indicators are used. How aggressively the throttle and brake are applied, how frequently pre-tensioners and other safety features activa
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by xethos 2mo ago
But then you're right back where you started: When you need a clean number for a hospital or similarly important service to call (Wife's work, daycare, school office), it goes to the distrusted, silent-by-default line, or, just as
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by xethos 2mo ago
> My only solution that I could think of is to have a dedicated phone line just for friends/family/work, and a second line for banking/shopping/utilities/everything else. This fails the moment one of your &quot
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by xethos 2mo ago
I think the most surprising thing about this is trusting Google.
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by xethos 2mo ago
> security and legal restrictions The security of American hedgemony, and legal restrictions that are due to laws enacted by the American government You're using different words to describe the same thing, but trying to imply Americ
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by xethos 2mo ago
In 2008 Sergey Brin and Larry Page saw the limo waiting, and instead chose to rollerblade to the Android unveiling. Sergey Brin, during the presentation, threw his G1 in the air to show off how his homemade application leveraged the accel
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by xethos 2mo ago
Sounds like you're unironically describing a Tangara [0]. They most certainly hit their goal, though I can't verify if they get restocked or how often. Mine's lasted, and it works pretty well, though the touchwheel isn't
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by xethos 2mo ago
I mostly agree, but it's the lack of enforcement that's the Get out of Jail Free card, not the T&C
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by xethos 2mo ago
> the right to own firearms is very explicitly stated in our constitution The right to bear arms does not necessarily mean firearms. Arms doesn't necessarily even have to include firearms, and America is already pretty damn stri
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by xethos 2mo ago
You're gonna love finding out who was behind the founding of Comma.AI, which adds self-driving to cars that shipped without it
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by xethos 2mo ago
> and I’ve done all the searching in the world for the lyrics I remember and have never found the band Shoulda posted what you remember (and ideally male / female vocalist) as a post-script. The throwaway comment could be your way b
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by xethos 2mo ago
Regardless of whether we classify it as humanities or political science (as neither seems to be looked at as terribly useful in the states), a population without some grasp of civics does not lend itself to a healthy democracy Not everyon
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by xethos 2mo ago
Sure, that's why Smokey the Bear is such a bad idea. Ignore the fact that pushing propaganda starts young, (the population in general, but especially) children are impressionable, and (echoing sibling) that we should probably consider
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by xethos 3mo ago
I'm struggling not to be sarcastic here, as I'm not quite stoked about Canadian Tire owning most of what's left of Hudson's Bay Company. It's pretty undeniable proof that age and revenue will not make a company im

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