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i've found a genuinely useful application of this that isn't just "talk secretively": I'm part of a community that has a chatroom on both discord and another platform. we have deve…

Famously for a long time, the best way to get a point of interest into PGO was to play ingress and request it's addition there

Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here and on Lemmy, the whole point of ingress was that it was made to sell Google mapping data and point of interest data, that's why the …

I don't know the specific mechanism used in the OP, but android has several mechanisms that can be used to start an app on reboot. Take a look around a Google search, I'm sure you'…

Things do not require to be useful or to increase revenue in order for them to be enjoyable. If the only reason you ever do something is because you get material wealth out of it, …

The user interface for a doorbell (smart or dumb) is a a single button that you press, with your finger. Compare that to take out my phone, find a way to scan a qr code, scan it, i…

It used to be a good browser, but nowadays it's just another chromium wrapper.

Some of these planes are constantly flying as long as they're not in maintenance. A plane not in the air is a plane the company bought that's not currently generating profit.

Do give KDE connect a try. It's great

Not really surprising. Vector embeddings are really not that great at conveying arbitrary "without"s. The words the model sees are "alligator", "tail", and "without", but without m…

It is not my intention to be contrarian, but honestly this might be the most incorrect comment I've ever read on hacker news, in several different ways. Sure, some of these might b…

Give this is already rolling off the production line, the toolchain they use must be certified iso 26262. More than actual engineering (though there still is some), the hard part i…

I think now this is correct due to European laws, but not that long ago, if you were not in your home country and someone called you, you could be billed for the international part…

This specifically is trivially defeated by ECC, though it wouldn't be that much harder to instead flip 3 bits and ECC would be unable to help. ECC has very poor penetration outside…

Most people paying for GCP are in need of much more than a VPS and also are quite probably not the decision makers

In my previous jobs we didn't have any business in china and banning all IP ranges was a cheap an easy strategy to remove 50% of unsuccessful login attempts.

Aren't these just IPCs disguised as normal function calls though? IIRC only the main node process does anything node, renderers can call "node functions" that really happen in the …

I like the idea but you can't ensure the battery supports the load and it's a matter of time before someone puts the shittiest of 18650s inside it and it explodes

The pinecil is $25.

I suspect the usb-PD standard doesn't allow for raising the voltage any more than they already do

My experience in soldering is a hobby one, but I've done hard enough things like install a Nintendo switch modchip without a microscope. I want to love this product, but I really t…

That's incredibly money-efficient wow

Rainbow 6 siege has "individual" builds (they really have 8 different builds, each tied to 1/8 accounts). Apparently it's not really effective at all.

BattlEye is generally broken even on windows (though it happens that it is actually working as intended right now). Cheaters generally use windows, and switching to Linux will only…

> The handle must have PROCESS_VM_READ access to the process. While the process still stays in user space, that's significantly different than "just being a user space program"