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Comment · 7 days ago
I'm not logged in to any google account and get apps through aurora. I read somewhere that could be the reason.
Comment · 7 days ago
Mine (KH bank) does perform a safetynet attestation that fails, as I don't even pass basicintegrity, then proceeds to completely ignore the result and still let me in on GOS.

I wonder if it's intentional.

Comment · 10 days ago
>yandex-station-lite

At last, russians got better at installing wiretaps. Reminds me of the old joke that goes "How do you know there is a soviet made bug installed in your home?

There is an extra wardrobe."

Comment · 13 days ago
>And they had to code on the VERY FIRST home computers and consoles, in assembly language, before many people could master that hardware and explain all its tricks in a consolidated knowledge base like we have on the internet now.

I find it unlikely that we will have another once-in-a-century opportunity to be there at the opening of a new frontier like the home computer boom was or the internet revolution that closely followed it.

Maybe it's my pessimism speaking, but the AI boom most definitely doesn't feel the same opportunity wise.

Comment · 1 month ago
It just looks like slop. Now, I wouldn't flag because of this, but someone else might.
Comment · 1 month ago
>Mapping out your own PID correction algorithm

I want to do this but I'm worried about stressing the compressor with extra start/stop cycles would shorten its lifespan. Maybe they are programmed to overshoot/undershoot the set temp to prolong lifespan?

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about how ACs work beyond the very basics.

Comment · 1 month ago
Feels like the only ones who'd benefit from this are AI companies that are afraid of tainting their post 2023 datasets with their own slop.

On the other hand if this becomes mandated by law I can see it become treacherous for endusers.

Comment · 1 month ago
>He hired real designers

This is indeed pretty obvious when you look at Unity era ubuntu screenshots. The typeface and text rendering is unmatched to this day. And to this day nobody pulled off purple-orange like they did.

But I always had the feeling that even at their peak, they were spread too thin to go through with their vision. The DE looks stunning but the rest of the system apps carry too much gnome-isms that would've gone through extra 1-2-3 design passes if they had the means.

Now I use KDE, it's extremely functional, and broadly looks like how I'd design a desktop. But when I select ubuntu as the typeface, a part of me longs for that purple-orange.

Comment · 2 months ago
>full of male tech nerds with a STEM background and a taste in SciFi/Fantasy culture.

Anything like this in 2026?

Comment · 3 months ago
Not doubting you but there are people with a quarter of a petabyte shared on slsk. I have a modest share of ~200GB, a good chunk of that from trigger happy record labels and never got banned. My client serves and average of 50-100 downloads a day no problem. So idk whats going wrong on your end.
Comment · 3 months ago
MS really hates minecraft's inherited self hosted server model. You can actually get a global ban for wrongthink commited on your own private server. (granted, someone needs to report you but still)

Also not really a censorship issue but I'm kinda bummed that the new version will default to having the server whitelist on. Going on an ip scanning site and joining random minecraft servers accindentally left on for years is an experience like no other. Some of the longer running ones are full of signs left by other explorers, or just griefed to shit. One of the few remaining wild wests on the internet.

Comment · 3 months ago
>Nokia could have dominated and we wouldn't be stuck with mostly proprietary phones.

In an alternative timeline with Nokia winning, linux would still have GPLv2 which has no answer for proprietary drivers and tivoization. Also, the desire to dominate enduser devices by corporations/governments would still be there.

Comment · 3 months ago
Severity score of 4.3 seems low considering the click2pwn in this thread. Though Firefox on Android is uniquely bad because of the lack of sandboxing.
Comment · 5 months ago
>biometrics booths that generate private keys from normalized biometric inputs

Isn't this basically worldcoin? Aside from the fact that worldcoin is run by people I wouldn't trust to watch my cats for an afternoon, the core principle with well thought out ZK crypto could work well.

Comment · 5 months ago
Oh yes, massively so. In the last few years we got quite a few cards/archetypes that can do so called "turn 0 plays", meaning you can perform a lot of actions even on your opponent's first turn.

This adds even more complexity with the upside of preventing players from playing solitaire on their own for 10 minutes before passing an unwinnable boardstate to you.

Also most floodgates that grind the game to a halt (Gozen,Vanity's emptyness etc) are either banned or limited.

I'd say the game overall is very fun nowadays, but the original "design space" is starting to hit a ceiling with absolutely bonkers effects being printed that literally cannot be one-upped with the current rules. Read the text of Forbidden Crown to get what I mean.

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