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> What diminished the day-to-day difficulty for you? Is it because the ecosystem became more mature, or did you "crack the code" for how to interface with everything you needed fro…

Taking photos is one of the things I got accustomed to not having. The picture quality on my Librem 5 is just too disappointing [0]. In the past I used Bluetooth for keyboard and m…

I've been daily driving a Linux phone for three years. The suffering was real. It's mostly gone now, I love it and will definitely never go back.

Aside from the fact that this would be a despicable crime, how would you even go about identifying where a given scammer operation has its office buildings?

The problem is that many scammers now groom your brain into trusting them before they even mention money. This is a psychological thing where you can’t necessarily just tell yourse…

No.

> When Mary had a little lamb, she was twice as old as Ann was when Ann was as old as Mary now claims to be. How old is the sheep? —James Barton Adams. I love this response so much…

> a package may be published as […] held for manual review Manual review by whom?

Sounds like confirmation bias to me.

Good point for parsing. However, the example is about serialization. What mapping ambiguity do you see there?

> Seize the means of computation Feels like they blatantly ripped that off the title of a Cory Doctorow book [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Con

I think that ship has sailed [0]. If Microsoft hasn’t managed to build a meaningful search index after 17 years of sinking billions in it, there’s a good chance that no one ever wi…

Many jurisdictions aren’t built around case law, and judges tend to focus on their own personal interpretation of written legislation instead of focusing on precedents. It can ther…

The terms in question don't even mention quality issues. The argument is about the unclear copyright status of generated code. Also malware risk.

What happens after a couple of players have obtained marketshare and the market has consolidated? I think there are diminishing returns to be had.

How is that sustainable? Are security researchers going to be doing free labor for you indefinitely for exposure?

> For a big enough production run, you'd likely ship an HSM to the factory I figure that the factory is exactly the adversary in the whole threat model? So why give them the keys t…

How is fulfillment not a nightmare?

This is the correct answer. `ic(foo(123))` can be written as `print(f'{foo(123)=}')` without depending on yet another third-party library which is not pulling its weight.

It’s still bogus and not a real file format. Just MP4 files renamed into MP5.

That loophole has become very difficult: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/...

> The seam is who’s on top. Of course there was going to be a seam somewhere. Albeit not the kind of seam I expected.

I wonder when they're finally going to one-up each other with the 18650 model number itself? Make it 18660, 19650 or 18650000! Anecdote: back in 2004, a friend brought home a cheap…

> An easy happiness formula is: > [list of eight things that may be extremely difficult for people with depression] .

> LPT: Please have a codeword or phrase that you use with your loved ones They keep refusing ideas like these on the grounds of them being “not stupid” and “able to see through suc…