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> Apps get to choose what permissions are needed to access their intents, so under Android's security model, really it's Chrome's fault (or whatever browser the user has installed)…

> There's a reason smartphone screens use some special mystery glue not CA. AFAIK, smartphone glues tend to be acrylic adhesives, which are just as brittle as cyanoacrylate. They g…

> I don't understand how Anthropic or OpenAI can have overpriced models, yet losing money like there is no tomorrow. The marginal cost of inference (which is roughly what you're go…

> Unless you have evidence that they'd have prevented the industry from suggesting/agreeing on a better standard in that timeline, MicroUSB would have made the most sense at the ti…

> Eh, on the other hand the EU has now effectively forced usb-c for devices after apple refused to play it clean for years and they still got people who complained (how dare the re…

> “Since ethanol is the main component of hand sanitizer, we believe it is possible to de-bond and recycle the adhesive by using hand sanitizer as a substitute in certain real-worl…

> Pacific Contiguous 26.1 cents This is a bit misleading, because it's combining the 50 cents/kWh from California with 15ish cents/kWh in Oregon and Washington. Seattle City Light,…

This is nonsense, the vast majority of critical CVEs are trivial to fix once you spot them. It's very rare that you have something like spectre where the solution is non-obvious: m…

And also clearly not a GNOME user...

> 2. Why return an std::string for the label? The label() method should return an std::string_view This only works if it's always the same value. This doesn't work if the label is …

The Soviet Union built it in real life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

But what's the alternative for the trademarks that are truly universally known? Does it serve the public for me to be able to sell unauthorized Coca-Cola brand products, or more li…

> Refunding is one possible remediation, see section 32 (cancellation) and section 26 (The consumer's rights in the event of defects). That option cancels the purchase contract, me…

You're right, China should stop selling solar panels to Australia and deploy them internally.

I don't understand how this functions in practice: if business A sells a widget to reseller B who sells it to reseller C who sells it to the customer, there's multiple layers of ma…

Then why only have one human bookkeeper? Surely two would be better, since you can compare their results. But then, perhaps you should hire three, so you can figure out which one i…

Presumably your current book keeper is not your slave, and you have to pay them...

The board game has extensive rules on mech design, but for weapons, it's just wherever they'll fit. Some of the built-in hardware has fixed locations: cockpit, life support, sensor…

I'll do better than a second case, here's three: Barracuda Networks: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/backdoors-found-in-barra... Fortinet: https://community.spiceworks.com/t/ha…

Edge history syncing, presumably.

> Also, as the device is Japanese, it uses JIS screws rather than Philips (in addition to triwing), which could surprise some. My understanding is that Europeans also generally ten…

They passed a tax on basically just Amazon in 2018 and there were rumblings of Amazon leaving the city for Bellevue/Redmond. The city council repealed it within a month and things …

U+1F5FA does it in 4 bytes! https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F5FA