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msh··on Query Apple's FindMy Network with Python
its not always on in that way. It will report your location when requested, and optionally just before shutting down.
msh··on Piccolo OS, a Small Multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico
A scheduler is part of a OS, but a scheduler alone does not make a OS.
msh··on They see your photos
I don’t think it suck but you are correct about android.
msh··on They see your photos
No, it also offers web access
msh··on We all took the DVD boom era for granted
People can easily do that if they purchase a bluray, so the difference is not very big.
msh··on Gordon Letwin OS/2 Usenet post (1995)
Well if OS2 had succeeded we would have PC's controlled by the OG evil tech monopoly which have had their business dealings in far worse things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) than microsoft ever did.
msh··on New Mac Mini with M4
The big problem is that there are lots of stuff that macOS won’t let you move to a external drive, like iCloud Drive.
msh··on Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
High performance and low power laptop and phone SoC’s, no way. There exists no competitive risc-v chip.
msh··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
I had a kindle that died. Amazon support was top notch
msh··on Happy Birthday to us KDE is 28 years old today
And remember, the KDE project was the source of both safari and chrome (khtml was the base for safari, which google later used for chrome).
msh··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
> This sort of thing could happen with any smartphone

The amount of intelligence services that could pull this off if you ordered iphones directly from apple is very very low.

msh··on They don't make readers like they used to
Old white men
msh··on Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
They are not rats and they are quite essential to the story so they would not be easy to remove.
msh··on Ask HN: Do you want a better OneDrive app for macOS?
It does real-time sync if you use the mount command
msh··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
GenAi is seen by some people as a very negative thing.
msh··on UN Cybercrime Convention to Overrule Bank Secrecy
A knife have legal purposes to be used. Does malware?
msh··on Ask HN: Why Are We Ignoring the Urgent Need for End-to-End Encrypted Emails?
There is a good technical essay (by experts) on why it's not possible in practice.

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypte...

msh··on Booting Linux off of Google Drive
I guess Chromebook’s is the resurrection of the idea
msh··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
Well there was no real mobile market 20 years ago, but for desktop software there was a huge industry of software you would download from websites.
msh··on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules
For retail software yes, but distributing for next to nothing over the internet was also common (depending on the target group) 20 years ago.
msh··on Backdoor in D-Link routers enables telnet access
I have a synology WRX560 router (yes, synology does routers). They have a decent security track record and provide long software support with official EOL/EOS statements. IPv6 works very well.

The two other options I can think of is ubiquity and mikrotik.

msh··on ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
If a device cant get play certified it cant realistically be sold anywhere in the world except china, so no phone manufacturer would choose a SoC for their phone that was not supported.
msh··on ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack
I would say it's both. Google could put support requirements in the gms certification
msh··on IEEE will no longer accept Lena image in submitted papers
The Lena image always reminds me of this very short horror story (written in the style of a Wikipedia article)inspired by it: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
msh··on Lisbon, a city dying from its own success
Or require that the owner lives in their apartment/house (and be taxliable in the place where they live).

For comercial rentals, require that they are registred as businesses and taxed as such.

msh··on Cloudflare took down our website
When you do custom enterprise agreements you can get a lot more than that.
msh··on Doom didn't kill the Amiga. Wolfenstein 3D did [video]
So much this! Put way better than in my comment.
msh··on Doom didn't kill the Amiga. Wolfenstein 3D did [video]
They failed to evolve their product while the competition was rapidly improving. The orginal amiga was leaps in front of anything thing else you could get at remotely the same price point, for many features that mattered to games.

But then they only made the smallest incremental improvements to the hardware until they launched the AGA chipset with the A1200 and A4000 which was too little too late. Had the amiga improved at the same rate as consoles or dos PC's they might have had a chance.

The OS (mostly workbench) also did not see any big improvements over its lifetime.

msh··on A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
Its says: The latest security features will be available to all Dropbox Advanced, Business Plus, and Enterprise customers starting today.

Is dropbox advanced a business plan?

msh··on A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
Sorry, I wrote it wrong. I meant offsite.
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