ozymandias117

@ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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Yeah, just the American version

It affects where you can rent housing, what houses you can buy, whether you can get a car, etc

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Do people ever avoid hospital visits

At least in my experience, we’ll generally be able to go to the hospital

Do hospitals put people on a payment plan

Generally, I’ve just seen the debt transferred to a debt collection agency afterwards, since there’s no money for them to take. They’ll harass you, and it affects your credit score, but they can’t send you to jail

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App-based is also unacceptable if it’s a proprietary implementation

TOTP/HOTP are the best standards right now

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Tape will be around until something better for archival purposes comes around

It lasts significantly longer sitting on the shelf than HDD or SSD by far

I doubt it’s being used for anything other than backups and archiving though

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Any idea how this demand is different from the current state of Android?

Under Epic's terms, any app downloaded from anywhere would operate identically to apps downloaded from Google Play, without Google imposing any unnecessary distribution fees.

Last time I used it, I downloaded all my apps through F-Droid, and I didn’t think they were paying Google anything?

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The comment over on hackaday pointing to it being bricked possibly being down to font licensing is funny if true

Wow! I didn’t expect sched_ext to be accepted based off historical precedent of not allowing multiple schedulers

I thought the focus would be on optimizing EEVDF now

Professional players should all be using the same hardware and software configuration

VAC is to keep the game fun for more casual players

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It seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though

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One of the big complaints of systemd detractors I read is that it’s “monolithic” and “taking over everything” and this “shouldn’t all be part of init”

You might want to point out that all the features outside of systemd-as-init are optional and can be replaced or ignored if you don’t want them. They also don’t run as PID 1

You do have to use systemd-journald, but you can also just forward it to syslog if you want

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And they’re allowed to start doing it again in 5 years

block third-party cookies within Incognito mode for five years

The push towards large vehicles was due to the fact that they used a truck chassis, and were exempt from safety and emissions requirements of a “car”

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HRBlock is the same.

I refused to use them ever again after they tried to charge me $300 when it was listed as “free”

If it increases in pressure every time, I’m now curious how many times you need to close the trunk to cut a finger off

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I’d go even father - the private sector isn’t even that good at UX/UI or design

Its main benefit is figuring out the minimum viable product and shipping it at low costs compared to the ideal perfect product from public and open design

The private sector is way better at “we won’t spend anymore time at this. It’s good enough, just deliver the product” than the research sector

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I mean, it’s still a somewhat useful headline, though.

It tells us “a person who isn’t good with technology can’t use this feature”

So, we need to make the feature simpler, or not bother with it

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It’s also funny to use “giga” in the marketing when everyone else is dealing with petabytes

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They also stated

While the company added subscribers, it said average revenue per member fell 3% from a year earlier. That was partly because many of the new sign-ups came in countries where Netflix charges lower prices.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/netflix-tops-wall-street-forecasts-with-password-limits-ad-option-2023-07-19/

The fun part is that websites that do this are illegal in the EU

They need to start flexing that 4% revenue / year fines

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Qualcomm has, so far, been extremely against upstreaming drivers. Google has told them they can’t touch the kernel anymore over it

If that’s actually changing, it could be huge for a real alternative

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System on a chip. Think like a Qualcomm or Samsung processor, or the new M line from Apple

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It was collected as part of a dragnet - they weren’t surveilling them specifically. The FBI just attempts to illegally surveil US citizens, breaking the Fourth Amendment.

This time, it just happened to hit a senator

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I mean… professionals always have to spend dramatically more on hardware…

There are rules around the engines and bodies f1 and nascar drivers can use, there are rules around what shoes runners can use…

A slimmed down operating system on a specific hardware configuration isn’t unreasonable

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It’s pretty simple… removing apps a country doesn’t want people to have access to doesn’t meaningfully affect Apple’s revenue

Allowing you to install things outside of their control does affect their revenue

Of course the first is less difficult for them

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fast.com is pretty good, too. No nonsense, and run by a company renowned for server throughput optimization, so it should rarely be on their end if it’s a slow result

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Yeah, I can’t stop laughing at

If you can't parse tabs, you can't have page sizes.

It’s like how I’d admonish my pet

It’s difficult to trust them when they’re also the largest adtech business

No third party cookies is a good thing. It’s very unclear whether this new tracking technology should exist at all

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The design/manufacturing of a chip is separate from the lithography machine itself

This is the first lithography machine Russia has built. They’d be getting the 90nm ones probably from ASML

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Looks like it’s behind an about:config setting, media.webrtc.camera.allow-pipewire

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/1215#issuecomment-1669374232

“Bricking,” “hard bricking,” and “soft bricking” became inexorably intertwined during the early days of flashing custom Android ROMs

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Depends on the severity of the issue.

For a life threatening emergency, no

For like pain relief, yes

Tbf, I kind of want to know how much zebraforce my car gets now, though

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To take it to another level - that’s why he’s saying “HDMI” - it’s a question

If he was right, he’d have said “HD, I am”

Yeah, Yubikey fits - it implements TOTP/HOTP, and bitwarden is great

Just “app-based” worried me about apps rolling their own implementations instead of using standards

pack our plans with value and build out the industry's best 5G network

I’ve generally needed to disable 5G on their network because it was slower than LTE. 5G has only been useful in places they didn’t have coverage before in my experience

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This isn’t new. It’s been around since at least 2006 in the Gnome 2 days when everyone seemed to prefer Gnome

Dconf was a continuation of Gconf

For real, if that game was Sundberg with his arms tied behind his back, I really want to see the original vision

Which makes Meta’s entire business illegal in the EU, thus the lawsuits and bans

If this is what you’re talking about, it already has the APK built on GitHub:

https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid

The quote of “removing RISC-V from generic kernel images” makes a lot of sense

It only kind of works on arm64 right now, trying to add a whole new ISA seems rushed

If they make exceptions for customized kernels for other architectures for now, that seems fine