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>Hardware security very often relies on “security through obscurity”, and it is much more difficult to reverse-engineer than software, but this is a flawed approach, because sooner…

I restarted my phone because I thought my network was down blindly believing HN can never be down. Then I opened another website and realised this is one of those times that the we…

A lot of 4G modems connected via pcie still are USB interfaces internally. So the usb 2.0 limits on these are still there (though that is not much of a problem in general as 4G spe…

Almost nobody cares about saving batteries. Those are replaceable and cheap to replace every couple of years. Innovating more battery life and leaving 20% battery life on the table…

I have always felt there has been a learning curve for Go and Rust when it comes to syntax for me. I have used C C++ Java and Python and PHP for a long time but whenever I start Go…

Not true. I live in India and have traveled to smaller villages in the south and some in the north. People have started to avoid cash altogether because of few reasons. They do hav…

this is a very common chip that’s sold everywhere for as low as 4$ for that entire dongle at retail. If you touch the controller, at full speed it gets crazy hot on this one. The p…

Agreed. I think just like everyone in this world, they hired aggressively when money and contracts were there and firing now that it's slowed down. Majority of their networking has…

A lot of 5G deployments shifted to Nokia after Huawei ban and Nokia also dominates a lot of GPON FTTH deployments for end to end solutions.

I am not saying they shouldn't retain data. I am saying they should allow me to delete the account which they did until some time ago. I checked the laws linked and it doesn't say …

I thought so too. I was able to delete a Square Cash account a few years ago when I was in US and they gave the same explanation that we are required by law to maintain records for…

They did allow it previously. They no longer do. I wanted to close it because I don’t want people to find me on GPay and make payments or ask to. It’s become inconvenient as I use …

Can confirm the hardware vendor that I work for does the same. root password is given and customers are asked to change. No one wants to. Heck I would prefer if they disabled root …

Google has removed the option to close your GPay account in India on iOS devices. Customer support confirmed that you cannot delete a GPay account anymore. All your transaction his…

The intel stack is more mature right now as someone pointed out in the comments above. Down the road AMD will get better with better drivers and newer chips. If wifi speeds matter …

> To prove that IPv6 is ready for production use No one is debating it's not ready for production use. It's just that it's a lot easier to configure clients in dual stack than do a…

Positive or negative ? Positive comments don’t generate interaction. If a comment was positive I’d like and move on not comment. Negative comments in the other had generate a lot o…

Anonymity plays a key role here.

A while back I stumbled upon google chromes privacy settings and found things like serial port on your computer to be accessed by websites. Turns out google has thrown everything i…

My thoughts too. A bug existed, the maintainer looked at a contribution and as the maintainer picked the best solution which happened to be his own solution. That’s how the kernel …

FaceID data is stored in the front module. Can’t swap it else anyone can unlock your phone with a swapped FaceID module. LiDAR not sure what’s happening.

Wow ifixit editors really messed this up. ‘Broadcom’ is not the company that makes Snapdragon.

Not an extreme case. There are times when I can barely get above 100kbps in spotty areas in some buildings. Loading the gmail web page is painful. HTML button appears immediately a…

Out of those million email clients, probably less than 50 are regularly maintained with good support. And I am probably exaggerating the number 50. Could be single digits.