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Timshel··on Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Nothing "unsolicited" is suggested in the article ...
Timshel··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
> conversations aren’t saved on Mozilla’s servers by default, and partners like Mistral agree to zero data retention.

I don't read this as offline ...

Timshel··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
? Not conflating, just we want a phone with both goals ...
Timshel··on Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Not really hard to find example: License plate ALPR like Flock ?
Timshel··on $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf
You would think so but not the case for the construction of the controvsersial A69 highway in France. Infractions are fixed through authorization change ...

https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/tarn/albi/au...

Almost as if ecoologist are not listened to. What a surprise ...

Timshel··on RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues
Do you have more details on why ? I just found stuff like: https://cheri-alliance.org/discover-cheri/rust-and-cheri/ Or https://rust.cheriot.org/2026/02/15/status-update.html
Timshel··on Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas
The header looks not too bad until you realize that 2/3 of the industry revenue is Nvidia ... If you remove the shovel sellers (Micron/Nvidia/AMD) revenue is left at $183B.
Timshel··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Not really a solution at the moment if you do not want to give money to Google by buying a Pixel (hopefully the deal with Motorola will work).

Long term I would probably have more hopes in https://postmarketos.org/

Timshel··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
It does with reCaptcha: https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-google-apple-app...
Timshel··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Most visible is maintaining https://github.com/Timshel/OIDCWarden and contributing to Vaultwarden.

Merged minimal OIDC support in Vaultwarden last year (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/3899)

But still maintaining the fork with additional features :).

Timshel··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
Especially since it appears there is a solution if you truly need a fix.

> Or you get a support contract and we get to read about it earlier.

Timshel··on Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
Guessing too much potential for abuse if the same server was handling both match and spectating.
Timshel··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Not sure where you are in Europe, but in France, Macron would bend over backward.
Timshel··on You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account
Did it recently, took 3min to receive confirmation, the warning it might take longer than on the app is bollocks.
Timshel··on Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial
> Just like the average American who drinks 10 alcoholic beverages a week, every single week. They’re adults, they aren’t alcoholic, they just need a drink

Drinking every day and "needing" a drink look like good indication of alcoolism to me.

Timshel··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Did you check that all those issues were classified as "Good first issues" ? Otherwise like the LLM you are missing the point.
Timshel··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Issue was for first time contributor, It's kept open to onboard peoples not train agent ...
Timshel··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Seemed as closed as Discord ?
Timshel··on Where did all the starships go?
Like none of The Expanse books would appear...
Timshel··on Our approach to advertising
Paying YouTube means giving even more personnal information to an ad empire ...
Timshel··on Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges
? in the second video and others you can see the car never hit him ...
Timshel··on Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting
The current flag system is crap. You can't vouch for something until it's dead and has disappeared ...
Timshel··on Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024
You can if not every actor in your system is trying to gouge the others ...
Timshel··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
10TB external harddrives are relatively affordable.
Timshel··on Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
Anecdotal but running a server with multiple bridges for multiple years. Had such issues initially but none recently.
Timshel··on PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"
Yes but shit like this still means that if your hardware is in a minority category you will lose access to services.

For a time I couldn't access a number of website because Linux+Firefox was apparently too rare, with Linux+Chrome at least I could pass a captcha (was Akamai I believe).

Timshel··on Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
Not sure where you extract is supposed to come from, the paper argue that

> Many have blamed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the 2003 Global Settlement’s effects on analyst coverage for the decline in IPO activity. We find very little support for the conventional wisdom, and offer an alternative explanation

No wonder you got ignored ..

Edit: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1954788

Timshel··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
Not necessarily, cf: https://lammotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/YASA-400R.jp...

From https://lammotor.com/yasa-axial-flux-motor/

the shape is due to the change to the motor layout: https://www.thedrive.com/news/why-axial-flux-motors-are-a-bi...

Timshel··on NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
There is the "--ignore-scripts" option and had no issue using it for now.
Timshel··on Cheap DIY solar fence design
> but then you have freezing temperatures and snow covering the panels which makes them useless.

When vertical not much of an issue and the reflection from the snow appears to work well with bifacial.

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