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Iirc they went broke because their first product was a huge hit, so they followed up with a bunch of useless crap that nobody bought.
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No I was thinking more like a web front end for command line media player programs, mplayer or whatever. There must be such scripts available.
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I'd just run a web server on it and operate it from a phone.
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Around here, Target (department store chain) will let you order stuff through their app and pick it up in the store parking lot. If you order through the web you have to wait around inside the store to get it. I still won't install the app but this issue annoys me.
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I don't really care about it that much. I can usually see enough of the NYT article to tell whether it's interesting, and then use a paywall bypass if i want to read it. Or in this case I just did a web search and found the Boston Globe article.
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Yeah the gift link doesn't work for me. it gives the first few paragraphs of the article and stops. I didn't feel like diagnosing it and in this case the headline was clickbait, so i went and pasted the spoiler from a web search.
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(Boston globe non-paywalled version)
Just how storms contribute to people's deaths after the immediate impact is something that needs further study, Hsiang said. But he theorized it includes the health effects of stress, changes in the environment including toxins, people not being able to afford health care and other necessities because of storm costs, infrastructure damage and government changes in spending.
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When you can speak and think in the new language without translating to your native language in your head, maybe? That can actually happen pretty fast. You don't have to become anywhere near fluent.
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Such people are sometimes called Grenzemensch (border person). They grow up speaking multiple languages and don't even realize til they're older that the languages are different. They just think you have to talk to Uncle Fritz one way and Grandma Mireille a different way.
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Direct link to the Quanta article is here. Articleis from 2019:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-universal-law-that-aims-times-arrow-20190801/
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There is a whole book about this, "Dogs Never Lie About Love", by Jeffrey Masson.
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There are 14 competing standards...
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Enough already, please.
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Jeez, we have surveillance hobbyists now.
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I thought this old antirez "mythical 10x programmer" post was pretty good:
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TBH I'd be happy with a 1AA (1.5 volt not 14500) Anduril light, so I could configure it myself. I have an SP10 Pro that is supposed to use AA's, but it only works on 14500.
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This was some years back but I think the multiple files were primarily because we took breaks in the interview and stopped the camera. I don't remember if any parts hit the file size limits. I still have the files on a server someplace, so might check.
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I'm old enough to remember when printers DIDN'T break. I'm sure lots of HP Laserjet II's from the 1990s are still cranking out hundreds of pages per day today. Same thing with Okidata dot matrix printers from the era, for those who still want to use them. It was later when printers became crap.
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I did the audio-only part with a separate audio recorder because the phone was full. The video is in a bunch of parts but I don't remember if any are larger than 2GB. It is FAT32 so maybe they must be smaller. I remember the phone ran out of battery power after maybe an hour, and I plugged in a power bank (10000 mah) and that was enough for the rest of the session.
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$3000, yowch, but I like the idea of a small-laptop sized screen that is pocket sized. It means being able to read or edit a reasonable amount of text. I don't need the phone or camera in it for that matter. Actually how about just a foldable HDMI monitor that size, and I can run it from another phone or computer.
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Blog post by crypto professor Matthew Green, discussing what Telegram does (I wasn't familiar with it) and criticizing its cryptography. He says Telegram by default is not end-to-end encrypted. It does have an end-to-end "secret chat" feature, but it's a nuisance to activate and only works for two-person chats (not groups) where both people are online when the chat starts. It still isn't clear to me why Telegram's founder was arrested. Green expresses some concern over that but doesn't give any details that weren't in the headlines.
electronupdate.blogspot.com
This is a good blog post, with die photos of the new RP2350 chip and a brief description of what they show. There is a link to a 12 minute youtube video that is also very good, that discusses the die shots in more detail and also goes over the rest of the Pico 2 circuit board, including die shots of the QSPI flash chip and the voltage regulator chip.
This is a technical but quite informative article, nominally about which elliptic curves have good security properties, but also discusses the intentions behind using EC instead of older systems like RSA (basically, EC is safer against some known classes of attacks). Posting partly because EC vs RSA came up here a few days ago.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18617290 > The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally published the world’s first three official post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, tools designed to protect key systems against future quantum computers powerful enough to crack any code generated by a modern computer.
Basically more everything. 2x Cortex M33 cores with floating point, 520KB ram, more PIOs, bunch of secure boot stuff (I have mixed feelings about this), and can boot to a mode with risc-v cores instead of the M33s.
I get spammed by them all the time but have so far resisted and stayed with my crappy, slow, and expensive ADSL provider out of principle. But the ADSL provider just raised prices on me AGAIN and it's ridiculous. What do I do? Is Google Fiber as invasive as other Google stuff? What if I just use it to tunnel a VPN to a non-Google endpoint? This is sure annoying. It occurs to me that Comcrap might be available here as an alternative, but that must be as evil as Google. At least the ADSL company is reasonable about privacy, as such companies go. Thanks for any thoughts.
It's a pain that search results on lemmy show by default ordered by some useless relevance ranking. I can't think of a single time I didn't want newest first. I couldn't find a preference to request that. It would be great if there was one. The suggestion on c/support on lemmy.world was to make this kind of request on github, but it seems anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I'm posting here and hoping for the best. Thanks for any consideration!
Example (spam post containing an amazon affiliate link, post hopefully deleted by now but I assume mods/admins can see it): https://lemmy.world/post/15846936 Also there are tons of links people post legitimately but have tracking parameters, gclid=this, fbclid=that, etc. Those can be cleaned up too. By editing out these parameters automatically when the link is posted, people's privacy can be protected and the incentive to post affiliate spam can be decreased. It could be a server config parameter and/or put into the posting UI: "your post contains [link] with flagged parameters, choose between a) post cleaned up version (shown), or b) post link without changes (may go into moderation queue depending on community settings)."
Voyager 2.3.1 on Android. I visit a community and select "hide read posts" and those posts disappear a they should. But there is no apparent way to undo this. The pulldown still has "hide read posts" instead of "unhide" them.
Sofirn confirmed by email that it is discontinued. No idea about other LT1 series models. A shame. I like the Mini and kind of wanted another one. Oh well.
www.aalto.fi
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
Any idea why? I've been using it for months. I probably had to grant permission when I first installed it, but haven't had to again since then, until just now. Also, some of the time, when F-droid updates an app, the update just goes through. But other times I get a dialogue asking "do you want to update this app?". It seems random. Any idea? Phone is a Moto G5 Stylus 2023 and it recently got a security update from Motorola, but I think I've done some F-droid updates since then. However, this may be related. The other possibility is that something might have happened to F-droid's code signing credentials, e.g. someone messed with them? That thought is basically why I'm asking here.
He passed on March 20. One of the greatest "hard" science fiction writers, author of *True Names*, *A Fire Upon The Deep*, and other cyberspace classics. Link is to his death notice in the old school fanzine File 770. Moment of silence please. RIP.
And, any idea how to use them? 3 pins is perplexing.
G Stylus 2023 - went from $119 to $199, no longer attractive since 5G stylus is still $249 5G Power went from $179(?) to $299, lolwut? The 5G Stylus is a higher model and still $249 G Play 2023 is still $99 and a good deal but quite limited with 32GB flash and Mediatek CPU G Play 2024 introduced at $149, a nice incremental upgrade to the 2023 model, has 64GB flash, but get this, they have dropped the SD slot. The last bit is disturbing since no other 2024 models are yet announced. I wonder if they will drop the SD slot in all of them. Not good. I got a 5G Stylus a couple months ago and still like it a lot. I had been thinking of getting one of the lower models for my brother since he doesn't care about 5G. The 2023 non-5G Stylus looked great at $119 but lame at $199. The 2023 and 2024 G Plays are both still of interest. https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-moto-g-family
Phone is Moto G Stylus with Android 13. Whenever I launch the built in photos app, it now gives me a nag screen to download a version upgrade. When I click "upgrade", nothing happens. It's conceivable that I have network permission disabled for the app. I better check. 1) Is this a familiar thing? How do I make it stop, either by installing the upgrade or by shutting off the nag screen? 2) Is there a FOSS photo viewer that anyone recommends instead, that I can install from F-droid? I'm reasonably satisfied with the UI of the Google one. It allows sharing photos, moving them into subfolders, seeing the metadata, and some minor editing, all of which are useful. I don't care in the slightest about cloud sync or google drive so it's ok if the replacement app doesn't have those. Thanks!
Thanks Moto, just 2.5 months behind. I think they will do a major version update sometime, then 1 more security patch and that's it? That's what they did with my previous phone. It wasn't ideal but tbh it didn't bother me that much. All this is pure FYI.
I don't have a google account and don't want one and really prefer to not upload my contacts to someone else's server as a matter of principle. I have a personal nextcloud server so could use that if it helps, but it's not clear that it does. I tried exporting the old contacts as a .vcf file and importing the .vcf to the new phone, and that MOSTLY worked, but it seems to have lost the labels on the phone numbers. E.g. my entry for XYZ Bank had separate phone numbers for payments, credit card, and so on. Those got transferred to the new phone as home, mobile, work. I.e. .vcf doesn't seem to handle custom labels. Is there some kind of workaround? The vcf scheme seems like about the best, except for the issue of losing the contact labels. To complicate matters a bit, I've been using the new phone for a couple weeks now, so I have added or edited some contacts on it. That means if I do another transfer, I'd prefer to not wipe out the contacts database on the new phone, though if that is unavoidable I guess I can survive. Old phone is Android 7 and new phone is Android 13 if that matters. I haven't examined the .vcf file in an editor but I guess I should try that. Thanks for any advice.