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schlauerfox··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
Bought a used iPhone 7 for a specific project requiring a supported OS (iOS15) and having a hardware security module and the phone worked fine for that but Microsoft Authenticator refused to install below iOS 16 for no obvious reason.
schlauerfox··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
I use 3CX VOIP app as a PWA daily, I'm just an IT worker.
schlauerfox··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
also selective exurban areas, for fire prevention, might be skewing the numbers. our datacenters in the city don't get these outages.
schlauerfox··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
That's one thing that will make blockchain trading interesting as it's discreet block by block, such as the ex-dividend date who holds a stock when the dividends are paid, might make fees for that block very competitive. The SEC is really struggling now with good regulation but it's coming end of the year to draw the line in the sand.
schlauerfox··on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
VSCodium is a de-microsoft'd version available. Still missing some of the features that aren't licensed the same.
schlauerfox··on The worrying kink in this job openings, unemployment curve
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/17/labor-stati... American policians are punishing the bureaucrats for bad news. This leads to unreliable data because they are replaced with yes-men.
schlauerfox··on How did Renaissance fairs begin?
Depends on the crowd at Irwindale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCThN5D3ICk
schlauerfox··on How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator
Or they're including AI as a buzzword in whatever they were already doing, and not exactly ignoring a new tool, but might be overselling how useful AI is to their thing?
schlauerfox··on After 50 years, The Magic Circle finally inducts Penn and Teller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2souL3UxLtg This is a pretty good example of their prime. They play in Vegas, so in person is always worthwhile.
schlauerfox··on A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
schlauerfox··on How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do
It seems more like he's using it as a platform for other producers under some narration bumpers. Probably smart way to build out the channel. I don't see a quality drop but there is the varying style from the differing 'producers'.
schlauerfox··on US backpedals as Hyundai factory ICE raid enrages South Korea
The 'beauty' of fascistic uneven enforcement is the law doesn't matter anymore, everything is in bad faith and corrupt and they can punish their enemies and reward their sycophants at their whim.
schlauerfox··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
I do wonder if there would be a workable law where companies are permanently responsible for what they produce, they must always accept back and responsibly recycle/break down to resources what they put out there, and do away with the shifting of responsibility of waste to society? Seems like a terrible engineering challenge but the right thing to do.
schlauerfox··on What Is the Fourier Transform?
The story I heard was he had a genetic hunchback, and never married out of fear of passing it on. It never seemed to stop him, he seemed to live a good life surrounded by friends.
schlauerfox··on Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
It's contested, in the USA the spectrum is allocated so the FCC regulations seem to allow an abridgement of first amendment freedoms in exchange for use of the regulated spectrum. Is that constitutional? Why are broadcast airwaves censorsed, but the cable companies that were built with public right of ways contracted to private companies because they're natural monopolies allowed to swear on cable channels? It's not clear to me this is just.
schlauerfox··on I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
My father worked on a Natural Gas exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles as an emergency substitute when a contractor flaked. There was an oven that had a handle, when you opened it the narration said "don't open the oven during cooking" to save energy. Kids hung off this and immediately broke it, they replaced it with steel and it was broken the next day, then ended up having to put a Triangular metal piece that couldn't be hung off of because children are wild animals. This museum prior to the rebuild into the California Science Center (which I love but is just different) and the Exploratorium were amazing experiences for this as a kid. I miss the big kinetic scuplture of rolling wood balls through the electricity exhibit, the plotter that would draw out your bicycle design, the next door room full of electronic interactives of the kind that he's complaining about but early 90s style. The weird chrome McDonalds left over from the 84 Olympics. The giant ceiling mounted helmet VR exhibit (crt, no doubt) I wish I could find better photos, there's so few.
schlauerfox··on How inaccurate are Nintendo's official emulators? [video]
This is why we ban advertising to children and copyright should expire after 30 years, there's nothing but rent-seeking going on and taking advantage of nostalgia. This isn't encouraging creative works which is why we as a country give the monopoly to artists in the first place. People should have the right to remix the culture they grew up with.
schlauerfox··on Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves
LAist went out of business and the local public radio station bought it and kept it going, it's a great public service. https://laist.com/shows/airtalk/kpcc-will-now-be-known-as-la...
schlauerfox··on What Is the Fourier Transform?
All these comments and no Steinmetz mention. The original papers he wrote applying the transforms to electrical engineering work are so genius and simplifying for the craft, and he's such a nicer person for one of the founders of the field of EE. Also the origin of that old story about $10 for hitting the machine with a hammer $9990 knowing where to hit it, from what I can gather.
schlauerfox··on What Is the Fourier Transform?
I just recently got my Computer Engineering degree which is the modern Electronics Engineering and we had a whole class on transforms. We had to do it on paper, but that professor at Cal State LA knew what the heck she was doing. We learned it good.
schlauerfox··on The hand-drawn hits that Hollywood isn't making
There is a thriving cult following of 2d animation on Youtube, but like many things this has a fractured audience, no longer a unified pop culture. Sparklehorse has Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. Glitch Productions has The Amazing Digital Circus which is retro-3d, but seems to also be producing the former Disney Owl House creator to make Knights of Guinevere.
schlauerfox··on How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi
that's a benefit of zfs, it doesn't trust the drives actually wrote the data to the drives, the so called RAID write hole, since most RAID doesn't actually do that checking and drives don't have the per block checksums in a long time. It checksums to ensure.
schlauerfox··on Typepad is shutting down
usually it's an asset in bankruptcy depending on the ToS contract with end users.
schlauerfox··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
From 2014 until it was, in effect, obliterated by DOGE actions this year there was the "United States Digital Service", a crack team of programmers, a sort of skunkworks who worked to improve U.S. government websites of departments that wanted the help. So it seems to be partisan to want good websites, but there are countless people involved in politics with many agendas.
schlauerfox··on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
The youtube channel of ADHD science researcher Russell Barkley gave me the push to get diagnosis in my last year of undergrad and It was like lightning to see all my symptoms laid out since childhood in context of the underlying brain science. He does a lot of debunking of bad research too. Great channel.
schlauerfox··on AI is propping up the US economy
alternately, they're too polite to say that to grow further they need to extract more value from labor and this is the biggest hope of that right now.
schlauerfox··on Why Doesn't the US Use 220V Like Everyone Else in the World? (2021)
anything over a certain voltage can be lethal. I can't find evidence it's linear like you're saying? I'll take it as a joke.
schlauerfox··on Rescuing two PDP-11s from a former British Telecom underground shelter (2023)
Don't let dreams be dreams. Try a little work on it over time.
schlauerfox··on Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
I'm not a mainframe programmer, but coming from x86 land I was very curious. I really learned a lot from the IBM Coursera "Intro to Mainframe" since none of my experience really applied it was tough. It had a real shell account to practice with though.

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-z-mai...

Also the MOSHIX mainframe YouTube channel has a lot of info, and helped me setup HERCULES emulator for my own little mainframe experience.

http://www.hercules-390.org/

schlauerfox··on Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal
Sooo where's the list?

I know of Keybase though stagnant after Zoom acquisition.

Matrix.org but it requires a trusted server I think?

Velidchat is new so I don't really know about it.

PGP signed email? Hard to setup and work with.

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