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.
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…
> 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…
> 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.
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Requiring me to upload my ID to invoke ssh with the -D flag should certainly be a top legislative priority of the United Kingdom
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 are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
I find Orion has similar power efficiency but avoids those papercuts: https://kagi.com/orion/
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…
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.
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…
> 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…
> 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.
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Requiring me to upload my ID to invoke ssh with the -D flag should certainly be a top legislative priority of the United Kingdom
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 are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
I find Orion has similar power efficiency but avoids those papercuts: https://kagi.com/orion/
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…