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They're just blocked from OTA updates, you can flash whatever you want on the sdcard and then unlock OTA. (I did this yesterday with an aliexpress version x4)

> The corollary is that there are no morals once the stakes are in the $ billions, let alone hundreds of billions. terrifying

Because this kind of behavior was rampant in the past - where one company owned everything and could leverage it's size and influence to crush competition across distinct market sp…

I don't know what happened to Kent Beck, a few of his recent articles seem to be devoid of substance.

This is super cool, I love the idea of just having a $5 wifi UART

It's wild to see so many advocates of "the inexperienced should have experience already". You're put in an awful situation but it's your own fault because you went through it, you …

it's all marketing wank, but how can they "supercharge the value delivered to customers" through company restructuring? whether they hire 50k more people or fire everyone, the valu…

wero is a european initiative set up by a consortium of banks that is built layered upon instant payments. it's not a private company like paypal or visa, its an attempt at making …

They are normal. They generally want to know if the ad spend resulted in an install. Health care data is radioactive and they would be fucking up very hard if sending this to an an…

This seems really quite confused in its message. > Yes, the original price of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tolkien’s Fellowship were just $3.95 and $5. But those are nominal values. W…

Sometimes I get inspired to write something publicly, but then the fact that I'm providing another point of data to ChatGPTs training corpus which helps the american Department of …

It's great for now https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=unhinged+elon+musk+ra...

I've found recent claude code to be surprisingly good at dispelling false assumptions and incorrect framing. I say this as someone who experimented with it last summer and found it…

> A Stack Overflow question matching my problem cleared that up for me. Perhaps if there was no question already available you'd have had a different experience. Getting clearly wr…

It's really jarring to see this wave of nostalgia for "the good old days" appear since ~2025. Suddenly these rose tinted glasses have dropped and everything before LLM usage became…

They're purposefully being vague, but this is Prince Andrew finally facing consequences in the face of the Epstein files (?)

Are you speaking on behalf of Microsoft?

not with that attitude

The idea that suffering will somehow make you noble is quite awful. Depression isn't some kind of cleansing fire that opens you to empathy. It affects good people and assholes and …

"Hello main office, I have seen a rumor on Instagram that a bridge has collapsed. Should I stop all traffic through this region due to this shitpost?" "Hi please don't - we've had …

> Network Rail said the railway line was fully reopened at around 02:00 GMT and it has urged people to "think about the serious impact it could have" before creating or sharing hoa…

It would be excellent to know who is pushing this and through what means. There is some unprecedented alignment across borders to restrict access and rights.

They are exactly the kind of mortgage broker mentioned in the parent comment.

I'm born and raised in Scotland, we're keeping it.

I don't think it matters. Whether it was a fault of incentives or some intrinsic nature of people given the environment, it was rarely a pleasant experience. And this is one of the…