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Obligatory link to an interview with three of the Goldeneye developers about the development of the game. I found it very fascinating. https://youtube.com/watch?v=bNN9XhGZ3Yw (Also…

As usual for these posts. No certifications. No proper markings. Probably non compliant. Will probably go unpunished.

Modular Approval is an FCC thing only. CE doesn't have it.

It always seems wild to me how, in the US, something like the grid is just a wild west. "ERCOT said it is reviewing the test failures and drawing up plans to protect the grid from …

Any chance of having a finger print scanner on the back of the phone? I personally really dislike the screen ones. They're slower, less reliable and the location is unnatural.

So if I am a small open source developer or run small website, this could be added to my AI scraping defences? If something like Nepenthes added poisoned pages to it's tarpit then …

Network people: Do we even need MAC addresses anymore? Can we not just have a UUID that the device generates? They seem to get more abuse over time i.e. MACs are how a car is uniqu…

I've also had APN issues with physical SIMs, they are definitely not perfect. But I have never had an unusable "bricked" physical SIM. My eSIMs gripes are from being unable to use …

I did not know that. It's amazing how the usability and utility has taken such a big hit.

Calling it "eSIM" is BS marketing. Every time I've used them it's been painful. I don't know the details but it absolutely is not "SIM technology". "eSIM" is something completely d…

Well I can say that the update is not going 100% smoothly. I have a pending KEK update in Fedora but it's a test key (bug filed but no progress as of yet).

Why would I use this over PlugShare?

The limitation is both ISS scheduling (it's very busy now and has been for a while) and number of available docking ports. It's part of why the next crew dragon mission is being de…

I would add PFASs to the suspect list.

100% agree. IMO, these days it seems like FPTP is more actually a source of instability (than stability it is often claimed is one of it's benefits).

Just want to add some nuance: STV is used for the Australian Federal Senate. The federal lower chamber (House of Representatives) uses optional preferential voting for candidates i…

Excellent additions. Sadly for Canada, some companies I worked with didn't bother because of these differences. "US market is big enough for launching. Maybe we'll come back to Can…

One company I have worked with had an internal rule for "radiated emissions": You had to be 10dB (1 order of magnitude) underneath the limits before going for a formal cert. Non-ne…

There used to be. But they've been almost completely stripped away because of rampant abuse.

Hard agree that pricing for standards is generally insane. IMO if the law requires it, it should be free + maybe a $10 admin. Anything else is BS. Standards bodies already make a k…

As someone who has built relationships with labs to the point where I had "special privileges" the most important thing you can do is: Make your test setup as easy as possible. To …

Ethics approval for a medical device is a completely different thing from EMC regulations (which is what normally people mean when talking about FCC and CE for a device). "I can't …

See my response to a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926103