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Some higher-end 486 boards[1] were made with PCI slots, so retrofitting them with an USB controller shouldn't be difficult? You'll still need a boot floppy to actually boot from an…

Even EU institutions use cookie banners. Also, if it was just malicious compliance, there would have been years of time to fix the regulations so that such shenaigans would not fly…

https://dumbermini.com/pages/faqs > We will also regularly publish security updates for as long as AOSP 14 is supported by Google. That won't be for very long. We are at AOSP 17 no…

I am getting somewhat confused about this. That website seems to be equating (semi-?)-reasonable measures with monstrosities such as banning or effectively banning e2ee.

I don't think there are any particularly reputable brands of featurephones anymore. Nokia/HMD certainly isn't one: they have obnoxious bugs, they drop calls, and lack basic modern-…

If that really is the case, why not stay on Windows?

The new "Terminal" app might eventually evolve into something like that.

Why would F-Droid be any or more less "absolved of responsibility" than Play Store?

He's not a hacktivist at all, just a common extortionist.

At least a while ago Element X broke bridging in a pretty annoying way, since all chats with more than 2 members were classified as groups, even if they were marked as DMs.

I think it's the conventional unemployment benefit system that should show measurable benefits, not other way around. All the tracking, surveillance, reporting and interviewing cos…

Looks nice. Reminds me of MessagEase[1] and clones, such as ThumbKey[2]. I use the latter for my mobile text input needs. However, that method is sometimes prone to typos, since on…

I think it is precisely because they are more distracting. When the most addictive thing in phones was the snake game, kids did not bother to insist in using their phones all the t…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ULOptq2vk&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5t... They seem to plan to rewrite the desktop client next.

Recently, Telnyx has locked up my account, demanding a biometric KYC procedure, outsourced to a company called Onfido. I contacted their customer service. They explained that they …

If that "disaster" was so "inevitable", it would have happened ages ago. It's not like it was somehow possible to accidentally sideload apps. You have to first find the correct opt…

What those "people-who-don't-understand-the-risks" will do then, with more money left? I think they will give their money to all sorts of political populists, who will cause danger…

One of my biggest grievances with typst is that it still does not natively support locale-aware decimal separator formatting[1], and thus requires various kludges to present decima…

Has a single website security incident ever brought an end to any software project, proprietary or otherwise?

It is an official flavor[1], that is, maintained as a community effort, but endorsed by Ubuntu. The related packages are hosted in Ubuntu's universe repository[2]. There is indeed …

Even if Typst was going to replace TeX everywhere right now, about half a century would still be a respectable lifespan for a software project.

I did use it some time ago, but I remember the user experience being somewhat confusing, since there are multiple similarly named tools around, which don't seem to be interoperable…

In addition to the issue of microchips being inherently difficult to tamper with, smartcards have various hardware and software based anti-tampering measures, that are designed to …

I primarily meant that I haven't really encountered the belief that it was somehow EU specific