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notRobot··on RCS for Business
> never going to be able to get App Attest/Play Integrity verification without relying on a jailbreak/vulnerability.

Even with jailbreak/rooting, hardware attestation is nearly impossible to spoof.

notRobot··on Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
I use a Windows Metro inspired launcher on Android and it's the best phone UI experience I've ever had: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nfwebdev.l...
notRobot··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
Custom ROMs fail device integrity, which means you cannot use banking, financial, government, payments and telcom apps, not to mention all the games that refuse to work.
notRobot··on The scariest "user support" email I've received
Isn't analysing and writing bits of code one of the few things LLMs are actually good at and useful for (as opposed to creative writing or whatever).

Before LLMs if someone wasn't familiar with deobfuscation they would have no easy way to analyse the attack string as they were able to do here.

notRobot··on The Trinary Dream Endures
Genuine question: if we can go beyond two, why not go beyond three? What makes three appealing but not a larger number?
notRobot··on I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
This has disadvantages though! Often the threads on sites like HN/reddit get "archived" or lose traction and you cannot join the discussion if you don't happen to discover the article in the first few days of it getting published.

In blogs people can come along anytime and use comments to add additional information/context/perspectives, point out misunderstandings or outdated information, share updates, pose questions and start interesting conversations that do not have an expiration date on them.

The discussion for the article can be found on the same webpage by readers, they don't have to go looking on external sites, most of which have terrible searchability and now require logins just to view content and can delete threads and valuable discussions arbitrarily.

I just realised while writing this comment how much I miss web comment culture from the 00s.

notRobot··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
You can change the action for "shutting lid" in windows settings. Mapping it to hibernate can help. You might have to enable hibernation first if you haven't already.
notRobot··on FLX1s phone is launched
Product info: https://web.archive.org/web/20250920071806/https://furilabs....
notRobot··on Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms
So then shouldn't be a problem to stop it entirely, right?
notRobot··on Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
Thank you so much for running your service. I've used it for years, and LOVE how functional and useful it is!
notRobot··on Fediverse Donut Club
You make it happen. Someone has to.
notRobot··on A look at Firefox forks
> for example the Google workspace suite (docs, sheets etc) comes pre-bundled with Chrome

This is not true

notRobot··on Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump
> These are the early attempts to bias AI. They will get subtler.
notRobot··on Ask HN: Would you nowadays write a new web service in Perl?
I wouldn't, because I have a different language of choice, but you should use whichever stack you can best maintain and make work for the use case. If that's perl for you, go for it!
notRobot··on CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
> were suspecting something so bad that could, at least in their theory, kill the population or massively decrease it.

Yeah, a really bad virus.

notRobot··on A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial
The value is that it's cool.
notRobot··on Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)
"Fittest" is what we call those who happen to survive in their context. Systems that successfully replicate themselves in their context tend to stick around. Those who can't, go extinct. We obviously still study why they survived. That's what the article speculates about. So yes, in a sense, any organisms you see is the "fittest" in the sense that it was able to survive (replicate) in its context while countless others were not.
notRobot··on Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)
It was random, and it survived.

Every single part of an organism goes through a recombination/mutation process countless times, the stinger evolved to be what it is today over a very long time and it's cool to study why it ended up the way it did. Tells us about their environment and history and evolutionary pressures, survival is a result of the random traits being successful in their context in specific ways.

notRobot··on Why do bees die when they sting you?
Here's an explanation of how this works:

All creatures are very complicated. Thus reproduction doesn't produce perfect clones, "mutations" take place. This is largely because there are so many different ways to derive one individual out of two individuals' complex genitic material. This is all a feature. This is why individuals have unique characteristics. Think about how different humans are from each other, even though we're all humans. This same thing applies to all creatures. Every individual is different. Those who have "disabilities" (disadvantages in their context) are less likely to survive. So those with advantageous traits survive and pass their traits on through reproduction, making those specific traits more prevalent.

The answer to "why didn't x evolve to do y?" is usually just that that specific mutation might have never occurred or caught on randomly. This is also why different species do different things differently. It's all random mutations. Some were beneficial in their context and environment so those who had them were more likely to survive and pass those traits along.

It's not that "the objective of life is to survive" in a spiritual sense, it's that life randomly happens and some of it survives and it makes more life like itself. In some ways, I suppose the purpose of life is to create more life. Systems that replicate themselves successfully survive. We call these "life". It's really a linguistics thing.

Hope some of this makes sense. I enjoyed thinking about this.

notRobot··on Help! Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena
Who is your host? I'm looking for recommendations and they sound cool.
notRobot··on Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You
Such a fun playground! Thanks for this :)
notRobot··on uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension
What's so hilarious about it?
notRobot··on US shoots down two of its own Navy pilots over Red Sea
It is not genocidal to fight back against imperial forces that have destroyed your land and slaughtered your people. Not saying I agree with all of their actions but they do not exist as 'evil' in a vacuum. If you lived on a planet that was constantly bombed by an alien species would you not want to destroy them? Would the pain of only seeing constant suffering and death all around you not blind you with rage? It's just that but at a country scale.
notRobot··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
Humans can take the test here to see what the questions are like: https://arcprize.org/play
notRobot··on Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
The blog post is from 2022 and the sequel never arrived. So the idiom wins this one.
notRobot··on Defusing AGPL-3 with Batch Processing
Yeah the point of this long "incendiary" [sic] blog post seems to be "hang on to the output for a bit before passing it on to the user and you have success defeated AGPLv3" except I don't think a reasonable judge would agree with that at all. Also, the OP seems to think "receiving output from program" doesn't count as "interaction" and I don't agree with that.
notRobot··on Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite
"single file" terminology in the context of applications does not typically include the DB. It is common for single file executables to use external config files and DB files.
notRobot··on The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
> With which I mean to say that there is a lot of nonsensical projects being done out there, that still make a living for many people.

I don't know why this is a bad thing. I don't think projects that you believe are nonsensical shouldn't exist just because of your opinion, especially if they're helping people survive in this world. I'm sure the people working on them don't think they're nonsensical.

notRobot··on Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics
The dashboard demo isn't working :(
notRobot··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
Trees do pull carbon out of the atmosphere, which can be stored in the form of "wood", and it doesn't re-enter the atmosphere until burnt.
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